Summary
The known world is centered around a vast main continent, whose inhabitants refer to as The Navel of the Earth or simply as The Navel. It is so called because of its circular shape and due to the large lake in its midst, The Inner Sea. At the centre of this lake, there is an island that houses the most important temple of the land, The Oracle, seat of the realm's main religion, which can be surmised as a cult of the sun (whom they refer to as The Bright One) and His children (the gods).
To the north of The Navel, lies The Frozen Continent, an inhospitable place, the domain of the gods as most believe.
To the south, The Corsair's Lair, an archipelago of small islands that is home to pirates and scoundrels alike. Beyond those islands, the mainlanders had long established a few colonies on a different land, The Wild Continent. Contact with those settlers, however, has been lost for three hundred years, since the pirates grew too numerous to be fought. It is feared that, without the mainlanders' assistance, the settlers' fate has been a cruel one at the hand of the indigenous savages.
To the west, The Claw, a continent with roughly a quarter the size of The Navel. The island is surrounded by deadly reefs and steep rocks, which make it virtually impregnable. Long ago, the clawmen sailed out from their island and conquered the mainland with their superior iron weaponry, to which mainlanders' bronze was no match. The only people that did not fall at the time were those of the East, the ashlanders, that since then have become the most influential kingdom of the realm.
To the east, The Gods' Furnace, a group of vulcanic islands that block the seas and constantly blow their gray ash over the mainland's easternmost side, thus giving it is name, Ashland.
Ashland is but one of the mainland's kingdoms, the easternmost one, as mentioned.
The southern kingdom is known as Seaside, due to the seafaring nature of its inhabitants and its excellent harbors.
Whitestone is the name of the western kingdom, a land rich in pearly white marble and home to a good-natured people that are still blamed by the others for having received the clawmen so well when they first landed on The Navel.
Lastly, the ever cautious northerners call their kingdom Highguard, a temperate land, crowned by grassy fields and ancient rock formations.