Shadowlands
Placeholder page for later development.
Maelia
Placeholder anchor for the pre-asteroid world.
- This section should establish Maelia as the name of the southern continent before the Destroyer's strike transformed it into the Shadowlands.
- It matters because the Age of Empires belongs to Maelia's high-fantasy, high-magic civilizational order, not yet the necromantic wasteland remembered later.
- It should also explain the break between pre-catastrophe Maelia and post-catastrophe Shadowlands so migration-era history does not flatten the two into the same thing.
Why This Mention Matters
- This region is important because it defines the pre-Ardentis world the migrant peoples fled from, making it foundational to human and dwarven memory.
- It should explain the environmental and supernatural pressures that made departure necessary, especially after the Destroyer's catastrophe.
- It also matters as an origin-space for later threats, migrations, corrupted peoples, and returning pressure on Ardentis.
Development Direction
- Define the Shadowlands as both a geography and a civilizational trauma site, not just a hostile continent on the map.
- Clarify what was lost there, what survived there, and what continued evolving after the departures north.
- Identify the routes, coastal zones, or ports that matter most for migration-era history.