Faerûn

From the bitter, windswept steppes of the Endless Waste to the storm-lashed cliffs of the The Sword Coast stretches a wide, wild land of shining kingdoms and primal wilderness, Faerûn is only one continent of the world known as Toril. Other lands lie in distant corners of the world, but Faerun is the center of it all, the crossroads and crux upon which all else turns. Dozens of nations, hundreds of citystates, and countless tribes, villages, and settlements dot its expanse.
The continent of Faerûn is a landmass of approximately nine and a half million square miles, located mainly in the northern hemisphere of the world of Toril. Sub-arctic extremes chill its northern reaches, where ice sheets like the Great Glacier dominate the landscape in blinding white. To the south are the equatorial jungles of Chult and the tropical coasts of Halruaa. It’s bordered on the west by the Trackless Sea and on the east by the Endless Wastes and the Hordelands that separate it from Kara-Tur.
Faerûn is an open land full of kingdoms and empires, large and small, and scattered city-states and villages struggling to make their way in a landscape that can be unforgiving wilderness one mile and cosmopolitan city the next.
Countless millions of humans, elves, dwarves, halflings, and other sentient beings call Faerûn home. It is a land of magic and intrigue, cruel violence and divine compassion, where gods have ascended and died, and millennia of warfare and conquests have shaped dozens of unique cultures.

Regions of the Realms

Just as The Sword Coast describes an area that includes a number of nations and governments, a number of collective terms exist for other regions across Faerûn. Not all such names are used universally, and opinions vary as to which lands qualify in which groups. Here are some currently recognized regional groupings:
The Cold Lands: Damara, Narfell, Sossal, and Vaasa
The Heartlands: Cormyr, the Dalelands, the Moonsea, and Sembia
The Lands of Intrigue: Amn, Calimshan, and Tethyr, also known as the Empires of the Sands
The Old Empires: Chessenta, Mulhorand, and Unther

Maps

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  Faerun

  Map of the continent of Faerun.
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  Territories Map

  A map of Faerûn divided into it's various territories.

Type

Continent

Location under

Toril

Included Locations

• Amn
• Chessenta
• Cormyr
• Sea of Fallen Stars
• The Sword Coast
• The Western Heartlands
• Unther

Related Historical Events

• circa -24,000 DR
  Flowering of the Elves
• circa -31,500 DR
  War between the Batrachi and the Giants
• circa -33,000 DR
  Rise of the Batrachi Empire
• circa -33,500 DR
  Fall of the Sarrukh Empires
• circa -34,200 DR
  The Advent of Writing
• circa-34,800 DR
  Founding of Mhairshaulk
• circa -35,000 DR
  Rise of the Sarrukh Empires