Apresdas
Apresdas lies far to the west in the Boiling Ocean, removed from the rest of the world. Despite its small size, it has a large reputation for its warring royal families, dangerous natural landscapes, and hidden treasures. Many adventurers long to make a visit in order to seek their fortune and experience the unique cultures developed in relative isolation, while some set off from the western shore to seek the end of the world itself.
Apresdas is an unmoored island, floating in the Boiling Ocean and difficult to navigate to. Much speculation surrounds the creation of its landmass, but most rumors insist upon elements of wild magic. A prevailing theory suggests that vents deep in the Boiling Ocean belch wild magic, heating the water with arcane energy and fueling the development of natural phenomena such as the White Waste (in Pique) and the Aswell Woods (in Trefles). Another theory, popular in more studious arcane circles, proclaims that Apresdas was once a floating island that crashed into the Boiling Sea, after an event that was not unlike Karsus' Folly and the fall of Netheril. They claim that falout from a ninth-level spell is responsible for the strange magical mutations of the landscape.
Finally, a fringe theory posited by a small sect of divination wizards proposes that the origins of the Fracture itself are linked to Apresdas. There are stories of a powerful caster born there who grew obsessed with a wrongness in the fabric of the world. In his efforts to tear away the veil, his magic instead tore Apresdas, along with the other continents, away from the rest of the world.
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