The wider world

Painted map of the wider world, with the two realms in the middle, ocean and fog to the west, snow to the north, grassland to the east and islands and jungle to the south

Meridia is bigger than Aldoria and Kaelen. Around the two realms lies a ring of lands that mostly profit from, fear, or ignore their quarrel.

Locked Tone stays grounded: trade, politics and people first. The farther from the centre, the more room for legend, and stranger things belong only at the edges of the map.

                    THE WHITE NORTH
                 (dwarves, snow and tundra)
                           |
GREY WALL - DROWNED ISLES - WESTERN OCEAN - TIDE CITIES - ALDORIA = mountains = KAELEN - THE GRASS SEA
                                       (Westhaven)                                  (nomad clans)
                           |
               SOUTHERN SEA - THE SUNWARD ISLES
                           |
               beyond the Burning Straits: THE OLD SOUTH

Place	What it is
The Tide Cities	Free merchant city-states west of Aldoria. Under Kaelen rule
Westhaven	The westernmost port of Meridia, where the Farrow expedition sailed from and came back to
The Grey Wall	The fog wall far off the western coast: the end of the world
The Drowned Isles	An eerie line of sunken coral and shipwrecks just this side of the Wall, with a dead lighthouse
The Sunward Isles	Tropical islands to the south: once pirates and slavers, now the refugees' hope
The Old South	An unexplored jungle continent beyond the Sunward Isles
The Grass Sea	Dry savannah east of Kaelen, roamed by nomad clans
The White North	Snow and tundra in the north: the home of the dwarves

Beyond the Grey Wall lies Farrow.

A real-world comparison

Think of the Mediterranean around 1500. The big powers fought in the middle, while Venice and Genoa lent to both sides, North African corsairs raided the sea lanes, and the edges of the map still said "here be dragons".

Sources

• The Aldorian Codex: Lands Beyond, "The wider world"
• Owner's notes of 6 November 2026