Algea is a stone’s throw away from The Frozen Abyss, with only a narrow strait separating the two.  That’s strange indeed, considering most of Algea is temperate, but it could likely be attributed to the magic that abounds in both locations.  To be fair, the northernmost parts of The Frozen Abyss aren’t exactly all that frozen anyway, at least for some parts of the year.  Algea is also home to a lot of forest and mountains, with both nearly filling up the continent alongside some hills.

Beyond the gods, we know that Algea also is home to at least dwarves and gnomes, and we’ve seen at least one of them as she appears in the Quantum Quest tabletop game.  We’ll have a bit more to explore in the future, I’m sure, as we expand in all directions.  For right now, Gnoemi Barnes will be our closest look into the continent.

Well, that about does it.  With this final parchment version, we are pretty much officially done looking at the maps that the very talented Kaelon Fullmer created for us, and we’ve got the entirety of the world in play.  But, that’s not to say that there isn’t more to see—both on Tellest, and beyond.  In the weeks to come, we’re going to be taking deeper dives into the world, adding a little more color, and seeing some of the things that are going on there.  Keep your eyes peeled!

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Aeratul also has a fairly varied geography, from floating islands, to archipelagos, to forests and mountains.  It’s also the southernmost continent with the exception of the Frozen Abyss, so there’s some strange happenstances in the country of Firth from time to time.  Once I get a chance to play in Astranus, I have a feeling I’ll be spending a lot of time in it.

There’s a lot to explore in Aeratul, and there is one story—well, two actually—that I’ve left out just because I don’t think I know the details all too concretely, mostly because the stories that took place there were not mine, but Rhianna’s.  You might recall the story Weather Here or There, or On Spectral Tides?  I’m fairly certain that Edmond and Cassandra hailed from one of the islands int he northeastern archipelago.  I’ll have to do some research to confirm!

So, now that we’re at the parchment version, is there something you’re noticing that changed a bit?  Yes, Aeratul is the latest and greatest name changed place in the Tellest universe.  Rhianna wasn’t too keen on having a name that sounded like it had two butts.  Anyway, I feel like Aeratul rolls off the tongue a lot better than Astranus (or my originally proposed name change of Astranaar, before realizing it was a town in Warcraft) does anyway.

We’re down to the final two maps, I believe, with the next one dropping late next month.  Stay tuned, because after that, we loop back in some pretty fun ways!

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