Western Unknown

The Western Unknown was, prior to the events of the rise of the Great Man, an unknown region of Doma, or perhaps another landmass connected to the continent via the land bridge known as the Ardean Plains (also called the Plains of Ardea, or the Ardean Killing Fields).

Attempts to explore the region were in vain. None who ventured that way overland ever returned, and were presumed to have died in their attempt. The waters around the region also proved impossible to sail, wrecking any and all exploratory ships. So unmanageable was that sea, that even the fír suthr, master sailors of the south, did not venture near. Eventually, most folk ceased trying for adventure and settled for simple, but safe, ignorance.

It is generally believed now that the wraith who had taken residence in that region made it so, in order to prevent discovery while it recovered from its defeat many thousands of years prior at the conclusion of the Battle for the Dawn and made preparations for a new war.

What form the western unknown took has never been recorded. Following the rise of the Great Man, and the final confrontation between he and the dark, formless entity of the western unknown, much of the land bridge and whatever was attached to it were swallowed by the sea.

It is, at the time of this writing, a coastal cliff, the western-most edge of the continent, atop which sits the sacred burial site that was once the Ardean Killing Fields where the Great Man and the wraith clashed.