Realms of Gods and Mortals - Mythic Odysseys of Theros

Realms of Gods and Mortals. What is the farthest explored point on the known world?" Elspeth asked. "In the east, beyond the leonin lands, there's another forest," Daxos told her. "Larger even than the Nessian Forest. No one knows how far it goes." "What's to the west beyond the sea?" Elspeth asked. "The world ends at the waterfall where Kruphix's Tree grows," he explained. "The sea falls off the edge and into the void below." "My home was beyond your infinite forest," she said. Soaring above the polis of Meletis in their flying chariot, heroes of the Reverent Army send off the unrivaled Meletian fleet The world of Theros, as its inhabitants understand, includes three realms: the mortal world, the divine realm of Nyx, and the Underworld. They are three distinct planes of existence, tucked into their own pocket of the multiverse and shielded from the rest of the cosmos by the power of the gods. This chapter discusses each of these realms in turn, with a focus on the mortal realm where the schemes of the gods intersect with mortal lives. The Mortal Realm Compared to most worlds of the Material Plane, the mortal realm of Theros is small. The known world is barely two hundred miles across, with unexplored wilderness beyond. And some unknown distance beyond that is the edge of the world, where the sea flows off the disk of the world and into the starry void. The known world of Theros consists of a long stretch of coastline forming the eastern edge of the vast Siren Sea. Eastward from the sea, the land rises up to two ridges of mountains. The lofty peaks of the second ridge form a barrier that few mortals have passed, so only rumors of a vast forest describe the land beyond. To the north, the coastal lands become a barren region of badlands crossed by a labyrinth of arid canyons, with minotaur lands beyond. The minotaurs speak of impenetrable mountains rising amid a dark forest to the north. The Siren Sea is studded with islands large and small. The largest cluster nea...