Locations of Eldurae

The world is Eldurae, currently in the year 843 A.I., the Age of Illumination. Six great powers shape the continent: Aurelia, the Shining Bastion of Purity; Arcanthys, the floating empire of magic; Velkris, the Veiled Gate that taxes every river passage; Umbrafall, the City Beneath the Dead Sun; Vhal’Zarim, the Bastion of the Platinum Flame; and Sablemar, the lawless Dustbound Bazaar. The dwarven hold of Khaldun Forgehold, carved into the Emberpeak Mountains, is the seventh regional power.

The party has visited only a fraction of these. Most of the campaign so far has unfolded in Wyrmbough Grove, Umbrafall, and Eldwythe. After landing on the Aurelian coast in session 18, the party abandoned its plans for Aurelia ^[1] and turned back north, crossing out of Aurelian territory at the Eldwythe Bridge in session 20 ^[2]. In session 21 it was on the road to Umbrafall again, guarding a merchant caravan, and stopped at Greysmere, a village a day’s ride short of the city ^[3][4]. Sessions 22 to 24 were spent at the ridge temple forty minutes north of Greysmere, which the DM called the Temple of Vecna in sessions 22 and 23 ^[5][6][7] and “the temple” in session 24 ^[8]; session 24 never left it either and paused with the party fighting a knight of smoke inside ^[9].

s17 geography notes (no new locations promoted to articles; the Aurelian-sunk shipwreck, Nessa’s fishing boat, and the cold-water reef line where the Rimeclaw Skulker encounter begins are all transient sea-points without their own articles):

• Sapphire Sea = Velkris choke-point for sea-to-ocean access. Session 17’s open-water travel confirmed the Sapphire Sea is the named coastal corridor between the Eldwythe outflow and the southward approach to Aurelia; further-south stretches turn cold and host fauna unlike anything in the northern Sapphire Sea proper (the Rimeclaw Skulker + water wolves encounter at the cold-water reef line, ^[10]).
• White Lantern Shrine is on Aurelia’s north entrance. Hugo: “the White Lantern Shrine, which is the outskirts of Aurelia on the north entrance of it” ^[11]; Terry: “It’s on the freight road approaching Aurelia” ^[12]. Direction now confirmed; earlier articles had this as “direction not explicitly named on-screen”. The Shrine is the freight-road waystation on the city’s northern approach.

s18 to s24 geography notes:

• The Aurelian coast. After the skiff was lost, the party swam ashore at an unnamed stretch of coast, “wet rock uh pale sand and low grass bending in the wind” ^[13]: the Aurelian coast landfall (s18). On the road inland, an Aurelian patrol pointed the party to The Bright Gate ^[14][15].
• Out of Aurelia. Crossing the Eldwythe Bridge checkpoint northbound, the party “left Aurelia” ^[2].
• Greysmere is off the map. The s20 mill-pond settlement is Greysmere, a village the DM calls “too insignificant to actually bother putting on the map” ^[16], roughly a day’s ride short of Umbrafall ^[3].
• A temple to the north. About forty minutes on foot north of Greysmere, through pine woods, a temple is cut into a low ridge beneath the carved symbol of Vecna ^[17][18][19]. In session 22 the DM confirmed “it’s a 40 minute walk back to Greysmere” ^[5] and called the building “the Temple of Vecna” ^[6]; whether that is its name is unconfirmed, and in session 24 he said only “the temple” ^[8].
• Inside the temple. Session 23 brought the first compass statements since session 21. A wall that a cultist opened with a pendant leads to what the DM calls “the very south room”, “a secret entrance” ^[20][21], and the passage behind it “slopes down to the west” ^[22]. The misty hall seen in session 21 was described again with the same directions ^[23][24]. In the session’s second fight the DM said “something opens in the south” and then placed the enemy “to your west” ^[25][26]; the temple’s page lists every statement and leaves the disagreement unresolved.
• Inside the temple, session 24. The party stayed in the temple on the same night. It walked the passage with the uphill stream to a room of six stone figures and, through hidden doors behind statues, to a root room and a knight chamber; it opened the vampire-lord chamber and found a third hidden passage, with a Dracolich statue, off the statue room ^{[27][28][29][30][31][32]}. The mist of the misty hall turned hostile and was not crossed ^[33][34]. The DM’s only compass word was said of the others, as Hugo heard them: “everyone just kind of hightailed it to north” ^[35]. The temple’s page lists the rooms.
• Arcanthys and Aurelia. The DM described the two powers as long in “open confrontation” and now in “kind of a Cold War, sort of” ^[36]. Neither city has been visited.

Cities of Eldurae

Towns and villages

Districts and inner-city locations

Inns and taverns

Shops and other buildings

Dungeons and lairs

Roads, outdoors, and wayshrines

Geographic features

Unvisited (world-brief or one-mention)

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