If you’ve ever heard of Baldur’s Gate, of Neverwinter or Waterdeep, then you are familiar with the continent of Faerûn, or as it is sometimes known, the Forgotten Realms. It is the setting for most standard D&D adventures. The world that Faerûn sits on is known as Toril. Our campaign concerns another continent on Toril, however; one which until recently was completely unknown to the denizens of Faerûn, or indeed any other land on Toril.
This mysterious continent is known by its denizens as Kantas, or the Kantas Expanse. It has remained hidden from all others by virtue of a few strange features of the land. Firstly, the barriers between planes seem unusually thin here—portals and gateways to other planes and locations are a regular occurrence.
Secondly, a great storm system, presumably stirred up by all the multi-planar activity, has encircled the continent, making ship travel ill-advised (though safer passages through
have since been found).
Finally, and most controversially to cartographers, no one seems to quite be able to pin down the actual size of the continent. Some feel it is clearly vast—a third of the size of
Faerûn at least. Others swear that when trying to place it on a map, it seems to take up only a tiny amount of space.
It has been well inhabited the whole time, great civilisations rising and falling seemingly oblivious to the rest of Toril. More research needs to be done, but suffice to say it is one of the great mysteries of the continent—just what is it and how did it come to exist?
Kantas is a continent on Toril, new to the people of Faerûn.
It is planarly-unstable and portals are common. The reason is a mystery.