Distant Shores
The Boreal Wind: This is an odd meterological phenomen that exists at high altitudes - a permanent storm that constantly circles around the world in an East-West direction. On the surface, the wind is barely noticeable, but at an altitude of several miles up, the winds become strong enough so that few beings can withstand them for long without magical protection. Lighting constantly criss-crosses the sky, and elemental beings and strange floating plants seem to make their home in it. Recently, a team of researchers from Grüngarten have started to explore this strange ecology.
The Boreal Wind is usually confined to northern latitudes, but can occassionally be seen as far south as the Siebenbund. Many people consider its appearance in the sky to be an ill omen, signalling sudden change.
The Far Coast: A hot and humid continent far to the southwest of the Flannish Cities. Ancient pyramids dot the jungle, with inscriptions that seem to point at human inhabitants, but no trace of living human natives have been found to this day. The predominant sapient life forms seem to be chuuls, who live in gigantic, semi-organic cities built in rivers and coastal marshes.
A few colonies and trading outposts have been founded by explorers from the Flannish Cities, the Parginian Rim, and Malundi. These hardy people search for gold and silver, which are common in the mountainous regions, or exploit the natural resources of the jungle, as many plants and animal pelts fetch high prices back home.
Island Turtles: It is a well known fact that turtles continue to grow throughout their lives. A certain species of ocean dwelling turtle takes this to its logical extreme - they do not die of old age, but just continue to get bigger until they reach colossal sizes, with the largest known specimens having a length of several miles. Gas bladders develop within their bodies that simultaneously keep them afloat and prevent them from diving. Instead they swim around on the surface and simply eat anything that floats into their mouths.
Entire ecologies develop on the back of these turtles, and it is not uncommon for groups of humans or other thinking beings to live on one. Some of these groups have learned to communicate with the turtle and even steer it, and they use this to travel along the coast and across the oceans, and to trade with many coastal cities in turn.
Nardhome: A small continent far to the northwest of the Flannish Cities. The habitable southern shores were colonized by settlers from the Norfjell Wastes centuries ago, but the frozen interior is largely unexplored, though there are reports of pre-human ruins enclosed by the eternal ice. There are a large number of active volcanoes, and some scholars have speculated that their heat might have created stable temperate micro-climates in the interior.
The Pillars of the World: To the far west, if one sails beyond both Nardhome and the Far Coast, there are two titanic pillars raging out of the deepest ocean which are made out of an unknown material. They are half a mile apart one hundred yards in diameter, and rage ten miles into the sky. They radiate an intensely strong magical aura and are covered with runes that correspond to no known human form of writing.
Recently, a group of wizards from Judario (in the Parginian Rim) have discovered that these pillars are, in fact, a gigantic magical gate, and developed an incantaion to open a portal to the world of Magrith, where similar pillars are located. A floating platform has been erected near the base of the pillars for the researchers, who speculate that the gate might also open to other worlds. Some brave explorers have also used the gate to research the world of Magrith.
Ranya: A large realm east of the Gawaris desert where a multitude of sapient beings live together in a complex caste system. Each race represents a distinct caste with different rights, obligations, and professions, with elves at the top of the social hierarchy. The people there are taught that if they obey the customs and taboos of their caste and generally live a pious life, they will be reborn as members of a higher caste. On the other hand, if they live sinful lives, they will be reborn as members of a lower caste, or even as animals!
The Steel Archipelagos: A few scholars versed in oceanography know that there are active volcanoes in the middle of the ocean, in places where the very continents clash and hot magma wells up from the planet's core. There is a strange type of colossal mollusk that feeds on the metals and minerals ejected from these volcanoes. The larva of these species migrate until they find a suitable volcano, and then affix themselves to it. They grow a metallic shell around them that keeps getting larger, and eventually breaks the surface. The net result is that there is a chain of metallic islands growing out of the water wherever these underwater volcanos exist, with a living creature of immeasurable size at their core. These islands are sometimes inhabited by thinking beings - often by miners, who can easily extract metals from the ground.
The discovery of similar creatures on the world of Magrith led some scholars to speculate that these beings were imported to this world by an unknown agency in eons past.