Editing Talislanta (section)

==The Unknown Lands==
Other continents / planets / [[planes]] are associated with this mainland. The windship (read: airship) explorer Nauticus, a good fwend of Biggus Dickus, "circumnavigated" the Archaeus world back when the Tarteran side of The Darkness was still Thanatus and when the Neurians were still a thing in Simbar. He visited Celadon and Altarus as well.

There's even a map, in the 1990(!) Talislanta Worldbook. It's a sketch and a very early one, so not to be taken as full canon anymore; but it does imply that all these continents are island continents, approximately Talislanta's size. That cannot be true of Altarus, under its own rules (see below).

===Alcedon===
In the 1990 book it's a land of eternal warfare associated with mythic Alhambra. Nowadays, ''Hotan's History'' says it's the flying island uprooted from the Sinking Lands of Talislanta. Castle Sanctum is on it.

===Altarus===
Another continent lies past the Azure Ocean, mentioned in old Talislantian legendry. Per ''Hotan's History'' this hosts Kharistan and Randun, who fight wars against each other (or maybe just tournaments). ''Chronicles'' (2005) associates it with mythic Alhambra. The 1990 book said Altarus was uprooted from Talislanta's Sinking Lands; but the canon now insists no, that's Alcedon.

===Draknar===
The world used to be ruled by reptile giants; those giants only have this continent now.

===Celadon, Temesia, Simbar===
Morrigan promised a Celadon gazetteer in ''Hotan's History'' but that didn't happen. The fandom has found Douglas Bramlett's manuscript for it since then, and made it available - printed May 2021! This MS includes / explains Temesia as well so we'll discuss it all here.

'''Celadon''' is a green paradise. The dendrads are plants by day, humanoids by night.

In earlier editions '''Temesia''' was another island continent beyond the Sea of Madness - or in it. This was known for a brass mountain with liquid mercury rivers. (Probably why that sea drives people nuts.) In present canon "Temesia" is a civilisation on Celadon proper. Panic demons live here.

'''Simbar''' is another island likely past Celadtemesion, so isn't often visited. This has, or had, a rich civilisation.

===The Darkness===
Across the Midnight Sea, is the Darkness alias the Midnight Realm. This is by far the best-documented external realm. Morrigan Press, who had the Talislanta licence in 2005, published a whole thing on that. Which also has much to report on the Lower Planes ''en passant''.

The Darkness is a hellish demiplane, and yes Morrigan was not above floating the word "grim" in this context. Its land is in two masses, a larger northeastern one and a smaller southwestern one, connected by a narrow isthmus.

The big sub-island used to be the civilisation of Thanatus. Now it is the Fallen Lands - so called because there's a massive rift to the <strike>Abyss</strike>Demonrealms there, which wasn't plugged in time. This place has gone full [[Iuz]], even [[Pathfinder|Worldwound]]. Rivers of molten iron, that sort of thing.

To the extent the Darkness has civilisation, that would be in the southwestern sub-island. Here are the Nine Princedoms. This is run by Tarterans, Talislantese for "tieflings". Tarterans have a caste society, as Lawful Evils do, so it's not exactly rainbows and puppies here either.

===The Silver Republic===
The opposite to the The Darkness above, being a harmonious place, where [[elemental]]s and archons live alongside enlightened folks. That's all that ever got written up, since it never made it past having only the base outlines written.