World map and brief Judly distillations of it's locales

The World, as your characters probably don't know it, unless they're lore monkeys:



Quick and dirty descriptions of the lands above:

• The Western Empire: Oldest human nation, basically the East Roman Empire
• The Eastern Territory: Newest Human area of expansion, frontier-sy, loosely organized... think HRE only with Russia levels of population density/development
• The Timiro Kingdom: France... so France... France with trolls and ogres for slaves... and totally no chance of a crippling slave revolt 
• The Baalgor Wastelands: Formerly a beautiful Elven kingdom... then Dwarven nuke magic happened, now very desert and home to lizardy peoples, lizardy things and non-lizardy rocks
• Mt. Nimro & Mt. Nimrod: Volcanoes! Fire Giants! Other Giants taking orders from fire giants! Not a safe place to be short.
• Yin Sloth Jungles: Hell, well... at least lots of bugs, poisonous things, poisonous people, minimal presence of political organization and lots of bugs. 
  
• Land of the South Winds: Barely detailed in any of the books... I like to pretend it's the love child of medieval Spain and India, with Spain's level of not-wealthy. Of the few detailed things, it's described as the "Land of a thousand cults" which means I have an inquisition running around forcing atheists to worship something godsdammit
• Great Northern Wilderness: Home of trees, and the Wolfen Empire. To describe the Wolfen empire in brief: Imagine nine foot tall wolf people who just transitioned their political structure from warring, raiding viking tribes into republican era Rome. Roman Wolf-men in longboats... that's about right, with voting! (also an impressive collection of client states/hordes).
• Island Kingdom of Bizantium: The name sounds Byzantine, but the culture is British. Sea-faring traders par excellence complete with restless colonies on the mainland! If only anyone knew where the tea was!
• Floenry Islands: I'm pretty sure "Floenry" was the author trying to find a Gaelic-sounding way to say Caribbean, because it's basically the Caribbean, Complete with mysterious pyramids, and Timiro and South-Windian sugar colonies 
• The Old Kingdom: Formerly part Elven kingdom, formerly part dwarven kingdom... then a cataclysmic war... presently populated by monster races, occasional civilized holdfasts, and all sorts of left-overs from said aforementioned cataclysmic war, mostly sorrow and death, but surely something powerful is buried among the ashes of what was once the pinnacle of this world's civilization
• Ophid's Grasslands: Think Mongolia, with centaurs, uncivilized humans and canine-folk alike, killer winters, and maybe an unstable dimensional nexus or two... or it just really sucks to live here, or both.
• Phi & Lopan: Also poorly detailed by the books, sometimes I think of them as Venice and Genoa... Human/Elf dominated and navally proficient is about all the books have yet managed to say
• Y-Oda & Zy: One of these islands has a giant library on it... the other one is mostly there... but I forget which and the book is upstairs
• The Land of the Damned: End Game Content? or 100,000 year old prison region for the forces of evil that were deemed evil enough to be condemned (along with all their innocent(?) descendants) to prison land eternally but not be killed by the gods and other forces that won some great battle for the world itself 100,000 years ago? I'm going with: End Game Content :-p