Editing Exandria (section)

===Tal'Dorei===
Tal'Dorei (or Gwessar, as the elves call it) is your basic high fantasy Big Island with no clear real-world basis. Size-wise, it was Madagascar in the original. Its scale has since got "corrected". To roughly 1500 miles long and 1000 miles wide. So slightly larger than... Greenland. "Continent" is stretching the definition, but then - we've gotten used to that from [[Dragonlance]]'s undersized sandboxes.

It's mostly frozen mountains in the north, your standard plains and forests in the middle, and jungles in the south. Since this is impossible given the size of the place, fans have proposed that the north is elevated relative to the south. Or maybe it's MAGIC.

Politically the surface-area is governed largely by the Republic (formerly kingdom) of Tal'Dorei, though various other societies exist - the dwarf city of Kraghammer (which sits atop an entrance to the Underdark), the forested elf realm of Syngorn (which can shift into the Feywild in times of crisis), the druidic tribes of the Ashari (who guard portals to the Elemental Planes), the city-state of Whitestone (an aristocratic and technologically developed society), the militaristic hobgoblin federation of the Iron Authority, and even invisible flying cities of cloud giants. There are also organizations such as the Clasp (your token organized crime) and the Golden Grin (a very decentralized, [[Harpers]]-type secret society with an emphasis on freedom of expression and making people smile).

The ''Campaign Setting'' takes place just as Tal'dorei is recovering from the ravages of the Chroma Conclave, an unlikely alliance of ancient chromatic dragons that attempted to conquer the place before Vox Machina defeated them.