Ferkathas

The Prime Plane

Geography

World of Ferkathas

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Ferkathas is not a traditional planet, but instead is on the inner surface of a hollow sphere, with the "sky" composed of the space in the interior of the sphere. Almost half of the "sky" is filled with a hemispherical mist of darkness called the Nightshroud. Near the center of the sphere is the Sun. The surface rotates around the sun, making the cycles of day and night not all that different from what we experience on the outside of our planet.
The "horizon" is more an effect of the air's opacity and less of an effect of the surface of the planet curving "down" as it gets further away from you. If you can fly through the sky's dangers unscathed, you can take a shortcut to the opposite side of the world compared to sailing around it. Perhaps the most important implication of the nontraditional planet arrangement is that climate isn't a function of latitude; rather, warmer and colder regions are a result of planar leylines.
According to Ferkathan scientists, less than half of the sphere's interior has been explored. There could be other continents out there, more remote even than Damaset, that the creatures of Ferkathas just don't have the technology to reach yet.

History

Alternative Name(s)

The Prime Plane

Type

Planet

Included Locations

• Damaset
• Elmengoth
• Liassang
• Rakia
• The Deeps
• Timir
• Whisper Isles

Areas

Rakia is the most densely-populated continent, with a number of firmly-established nations with political intrigue between them. Humans are the dominant race.
Liassang is the biggest continent, but most of its regions are sparsely populated—good for "frontier" adventuring. Humans are the most numerous race, but they are challenged in this role by orcs, who rule the largest empire in the world here.
Timir is somewhere in between the previous two in population density, and has perhaps the richest history of the three, with ruins of a vast nonhuman empire dominating its western half. Humans dominate what is left of the population.
Elmengoth, the smallest continent, is also the oldest: the ancestral land of the dragons. To this day, very few humanoids other than dragonborn live there.
Damaset is a recently-discovered "new world," only accessible by ships with the latest technologies. Akhorans abound there, and were unknown to other races until ships began to cross the Veric Ocean.
The Whisper Isles are an exotic tropical land that has very little of civilized races, except maybe aquatic races. Seemingly untouched by time, they are filled with strange creatures such as dinosaurs.