>[!example] Details >##### Population >100'000'000. Primarily dwarves, elves, humans. >##### Nations >[[Lassyrian Kingdom]], [[Grimorz Kingdom]], [[Ulathien Kingdom]], [[Kielen Kingdom]], [[Siromar Kingdom]] ![[Map_The_Ring_WorldMap_Terra.png]] The Ring is composed of a large circular landmass with a tremendous inner sea and a longer island to its west, positioned in the northern hemisphere of planet Ostium. Far beyond the horizons of its shores it is surrounded by an impassable barrier referred to as the "Stormwall" which is believed to be fatally dangerous to any who approach as no explorers leaving the Ring in search of other lands have ever returned. That belief however was shaken when a tremendous city-ship arrived at the southern shores of the Ring, bringing explorers and citizens of another continent to their shores. ![[Art_The_Ring_Kielen_1.jpg]] ### Geography The continent is host to a diverse set of biomes and geographical features due to its size and positioning on the planet. It is however a mountainous continent be it its deserts, forests, or islands. The ringed landmass has a magically potent and supernatural interior sea, host to a collection of islands. The main body of the continent is home to bountiful mountains and thick forests. The frozen lands to the north are traversable, though they are terribly treacherous and attempts to leave the Ring and avoid the Stormwall through the north pole have all failed. ![[Art_The_Ring_Grimor_1 (Fantasy desert landscape by Maxim Boldyrev).jpg]] >*Art: Fantasy desert landscape by Maxim Boldyrev* ### Notable Locations and Features ##### Dagon's Spine A jagged triangular island in the Inner Sea, and is home the infamous pirates of the inner sea. Its location is never consistent and it is said that the only secret to finding it is held by the pirates. ##### Northern Wastes The frozen wasteland to the north of Siromar and Lassyrian kingdoms may appear mild at its edges with its soft tundra and rolling hills, but soon they give way to a brutally cold wasteland with extreme weather, vicious inhabitants, and unstable magic. Few who travel north return unharmed. ##### Inner Sea An extremely magically potent sea within the Ring. Its most significant magical attribute is referred to as "Distance Distortion" which manifests as inconsistent distances between various points across the inner sea, and is observed by the fact that a journey between two points will take different amounts of time by different vessels. The sea's second most well known phenomena is its unpredictable weather, as only a dozen or so miles from shore the weather no longer follows commonly predictable patterns, meaning that besides some general seasonal averages and estimates, predicting the weather for longer than a day becomes impossible.