Enkratis

Facts about Enkratis

 * Enkratis is approx. 3,690 miles long, from the northernmost mountains to the southern islands at the delta of the River.
 * Enkratis is approx. 2,950 miles wide, from the eastern coast to the western coast, not including The Bells Islands.
 * Enkratis has approx. 90.7 million people on the continent.

The continent of Enkratis is a torn place. Eons ago, when monsters still roamed the world, the Kingdom of Asphodel ruled the continent of Enkratis, on the world of Chὀma. The Kingdom was filled with beings that have become legends, a race known once as humans. The kingdom was made up of great engineers and mages, often called the originator races, who experimented on themselves and other sentient races.

Then calamity struck, overnight the kingdom disappeared, leaving behind a gigantic chasm, known as Varathro.

Left behind were the multitude of half and engineered races. They split themselves into two, the Kingdom of Thiria, on the western portion of the continent, home to the Beastfolk, whose parentage was engineered by the greatest mages, by combining Awakened beasts and humans. And on the eastern portion, the Kingdom of Annwyn, the home of those whose ancestry mixed with the humans and other sentient races, such as elves, giants and Nagas. Then there is the Bone Watcher Clan, a nomadic people who travel the northern part of the continent.

Trade between the two remaining kingdoms is robust, but can be strange, since the only way to traverse the Chasm of Varathro is by large teleportation circles in 3 major cities on either side of the edge of the chasm. The chasm has become a separate biome, where a huge river, the Potámi, runs, and strange beasts and monsters roam. Gigantic waterfalls cascade down into the valley, and many an adventuring group has gone in and never been seen again.

The main religion of the continent is a pantheon of seven gods, each representing a virtue, except for the last which represents the unknown. The Gods of Enkratis are Justice, Mercy, Purity, Wisdom, Strength, Creation, and the Unknown. Other religions of the continent are the worship of the spirits of nature or the Path of the Ancestors.

To the south and east of Annwyn is the large island chain, The Bells. Most well known of those islands, is the infamous Qara. No less famous, however, is the Horn of the Bells, where the Lapria Prison resides.

Odd Facts about Enkratis

 * Fashion is primarily the equivalent of late 19th and early 20th century, (late Victorian and early Edwardian).
 * Slavery is banned in both kingdoms, and slave runners are executed promptly by local governments.
 * Uteran humans are occasionally seen in the pirate city of Thirteen, and though their travel on the continent is not banned, most of them prefer not to be on a continent that once lost its entire population of humans in a single night.