A map of Sunderwyl and its Provinces. The white dotted lines are Region boundaries within each Province.
Sundland is either a large island or a small continent, depending on which geographer you ask, located about five days’ sail off the coast of the Faen’miir Queendom. Its coastal regions are scrubby grasslands, dry forests, and sandy deserts, except for a few port towns built up around oases that spring up and send a trickle of water to the sea.
The great defining features of Sundland, however, the things that make it so unique, are the three Labyrinths that take up much of its interior. These regions are vast extradimensional spaces, easily quintupling the size of the island in terms of landmass once their internal geography is added on. Each can be reached by simply passing across an invisible threshold stretching around the interior of the island, which has been carefully marked across their expanse by the Sunderwyl authorities to prevent any hapless wanderers from stumbling through on accident.
Each Labyrinth has its own unique biomes, and each is fiendishly dangerous to the unprepared and unwary. However, the natural resources available inside are also well worth the effort to extract them, and the native dwarven Sundalfolk had refined the practice of delving into the Worldtooth Mountains to an art-form before the first wave of Wylding refugees from Faen’miir arrived a millennia ago.
One problem that plagues anyone inside a Labyrinth is that mortal-made objects such as tools, clothing, tents, and buildings break down and decay with unnatural speed while inside it, and so most expeditions into the Labyrinth only last for a month or two before those inside must leave to restock on tools, containers, and shelter. The Sundalfolk have discovered, however, that crafting an object or structure out of materials extracted wholly from within a Labyrinth, which have never left that Labyrinth, extends the functional lifespan of that object to something closer to a year or two, instead of months.
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