Here there be Dragons

Argonnessen

The Dragon Continent

"Some say that if you seek proof of the existence of the gods, you need look no farther than a dragon. What natural design could produce such a glorious being? And if the dragons are the testimony of the divine... what secrets must lie hidden in Argonnessen?" — Kessler, poet of Sharn

Argonnessen is not undiscovered. The blank spaces on mortal maps are not the result of insufficient cartography—they are the result of sufficient warning. The dragons know exactly what their continent looks like. They have simply declined to share.

East and south of everywhere else, Argonnessen is a continent the size of Khorvaire, with the same diversity of environments—temperate jungles, volcanic chains, bitter tundra, sky peaks—but without airships, lightning rails, or roads. No inns cater to the hungry adventurer. Instead, the land is filled with dragons and every manner of creature they have collected from across the world over a hundred thousand years, set loose along the borders as a living security system and as sparring partners for young wyrms honing their combat skills. Over fifty thousand dragons are believed to roam the interior. The continent's inner territories are shielded from divination and teleportation by draconic magic of staggering scope; scrying attempts return silence, or fire. To date, no envoy or explorer from Khorvaire has breached the Great Barrier and returned to speak of it.

"In 750 YK, the famed arcane cartographer Jolian Dan Jessel promised to present the Library of Korranberg with the first true map of Argonnessen. Before the work was completed, Jolian's workshop was burned to the ground, and the gnome himself taken with a soul trapping spell. Few events escape the Eyes of Chronepsis, and the wise leave Argonnessen be." — Dragons of Eberron