“The map remains legible, even as the land beneath it has learned new rules.”

The world’s present geography is the enduring legacy of The Meteor. When it struck, continents fractured, seas rose, and coastlines were rewritten in a matter of hours. Mountains split, basins collapsed, and climates inverted. Yet despite this devastation, the great landmasses remain recognizable in lineage to the Old World.

The names used to describe the world today are inherited labels applied to lands that no longer match their ancient borders. They are echoes of the old, mapped onto terrain that has been fundamentally reshaped.

Modern maps reflect a world that is scarred, altered, and often hostile, but navigable. While sailors’ tales and pilgrim lore speak of shifting coasts, vanishing islands, and impossible routes, such phenomena are considered regional anomalies, miracles, or local distortions rather than evidence of a globally unstable world. Trade routes, shipping lanes, and borders endure, even if they are hard-won.

This section describes the physical and political geography of the world as it is commonly understood in the modern era. Detailed mechanics for travel hazards, environmental corruption, Shardisite logistics, and region-specific threats are documented elsewhere.

What follows is not a catalog of myths, nor an exhaustive accounting of anomalies. It is the lay of the land as charted, traded upon, fought over, and survived within. From here, each region stands on its own.

• Atlantis
• Amazonia
• Arabia
• Arctica
• Bengal Isles
• Cascadia
• Congo
• Cordoba
• Dixie
• Europa
• Guinea
• Hawaii
• Lemuria
• Manchuria
• Nepal
• Oceana
• Quebec
• Straya

Each major region of the world is treated as a distinct geographic and political entity. Regional pages focus on the realities of travel, settlement, and power rather than speculative cosmology or folklore.

Many great cities of the old world survived the catastrophe in altered form. Some were partially destroyed and rebuilt. Others were buried, flooded, or reshaped by Shard magic. Names may have changed, borders may have shifted, but recognizability is intentional. The past is never fully gone in Apocalyptica Arcanum; it lingers in stone, street plans, and inherited memory.

This continuity allows travelers to orient themselves using fragments of old knowledge, even as the world resists being fully understood through pre-Meteor logic.