The Floating Isles

-Located West of The Frosthead Kingdom and slightly North of The Nation of Xylotile, The Floating Isles sits as an archipelago of the clouds, severed from the rest of the world for millennia.

-The Floating Isles sit several kilometres above where they were once seated in the ground. According to local legend: the isles were ripped up from the ground by an Arcanist under the guidance of one of the members of The Nine Divines as punishment for the islanders' sins. On ground-level, gargantuan craters, pits, and valleys are wide-spread; their dark and treacherous appearance being a cruel reminder to not cross the Gods.

-The Nation of Xylotile has recently sent a few scouting expeditions into the archipelago to see if they can find out what makes it float so they may steal it for themselves and their war machines. One such scouting party seemingly found the source of the isles' "power", and upon trying to capture it, unleashed a terrible storm upon the region that made it impossible to escape on their airships, dooming the party and all future parties to be stranded within the isles' domain.

-In the center of the archipelago lays a monstrous volcano. Outside of this one island, however, the other islands are seemingly split into four quadrants, each with their own season cycle, of which each is offset from each other. This means that one quadrant is always in summer, one autumn, one winter, and the other in spring. According to the few researchers who managed to study the isles' nature before the storm trapped all subsequent parties: each of the seasons lasts the same as they would on the ground.

-The people of these isles are nomadic, preferring to stay within the spring, summer, and fall quadrants; and much to the surprise of one researcher, the animals seem to have adapted to stay within their own quadrants and move with the seasonal shifts as well!