Extant

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Taaturou (taa-tu’-rou) is the name of the area in general, and means “The Enduring” - the surviving, extant, in Mala-u, the language of Malla

Though the peoples of Taaturou were in a large part abandoned by the gods during the struggles of the planar war, some locations still maintain a close relationship with them and worship is devout and widespread. This is primarily because the areas all contain some portion of elemental genasi, who are essentially remnant offshoots of the deities formed by their respective planes forming sentience, and then physical bodies to contain that sentience.

Those triton who stayed behind after the planar war took advantage of the sunken cities of the area, and to a lesser extent those of Lerke. Their peoples travel frequently between the two areas, and have waypoints that either float or sit on the ocean floor between them. Their isolation has largely allowed them to maintain their traditional culture, although it is coloured by their duties on the material plane and peppered throughout by those of a few sentient races (including merpeople, locathah, tortles, and fish-based shifters who also came from the water plane). They have a VERY devout and influential dependence on Mesai.

Malla - peoples of the remaining island, the language and culture of which originates as a mix of the indigenous humanity and water and air genasi who populated the islands. These islands were formed when the sea level rose (in appx PW 900) and decimated the majority of the continent which now resides beneath the waves. What remains is the tops of mountains formed by the crashing of tectonic plates, a loosely organised but heavily populated group of islands. It is here that the first flight technologies are being invented, with a mix of physics and magic (primarily provided and researched by wizards, engineers, and air genasi).

The Cold - which is actually called this, in general - is populated by a peoples who are culturally a mix of Northeastern Inuit culture (whale hunting) and Icelandic culture. They are primarily gnomes and humans, and half-gnomes, and a separate but similarly respected collective of hobgoblins (who, tbf, are basically exactly as stated in the sourcebook). A small population of life&death genasi have intermingled with these races to create six hundred years of Runechildren (see http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/sorcerer:runechild ). The continent was one of the first to be abandoned by the gods, and as such worship non-traditional deities and spirits of the land. They were basically entirely isolated by the rising of the ocean and the little ice age that quickly followed, in appx 950 PW.