Akados is the largest of the known continents of the Lost Lands. Through its center runs the greatest of the world’s mountain ranges, the Stonehearts, from the icebound far north to the heart of the continent in the south. In the southwest, the Crescent Sea divides the western lands of the
Green Realm and the
Xha’en Hegemony from the former lands of the
Hyperborean Empire of the
Foerdewaith. And in the far northeast is the Irkainian Peninsula, which reaches out to the shores of Libynos, separated only by the narrow
Mulstabhin Passage and
Krivcycek Island.
The climates within Akados are vast. In the northwest are the trackless plains of
The Haunted Steppes; to the north, the forests and icy rivers of the Northlands and the taiga and tundra beyond; in the northeast, the Vast and
Irkainian Deserts; and in the southwest, the mighty forests of the
Green Realm.
Akados was the first land conquered by the Hyperboreans when they marched forth from their homeland in Boros to the north. As a result, many of the human kingdoms and realms of Akados can trace their origins to provinces of that empire and look back to the
Hyperborean era as a golden age of peace and prosperity. Only the far western portion of the continent, beyond the Crescent Sea — where can be found the
Green Realm of the
wild elves, the
Xha’en Hegemony,
Gtsang Prefecture, and
Anaros Island — never felt the rule of the imperators.
Akados is also home to the largest groups of non-humans in the world, including the
wild elves of the
Green Realm, the high elves of the forests of eastern Akados, and the clans of the
mountain dwarves in the Stonehearts and other mountain ranges of the continent.
Overview
Peoples
Akados
Libynos
Adventure
