Vaalbara

Now regarded as a lost continent, Tara's southern pole was its oldest (and smallest) landmass, nowhere near as large as Yavanna or Ur. Very little is known about it, other than it was by turns once the home of the Chiron, Pan, and Siorai. The Chiron fled Vaalbara during the Old Dawn because they foresaw the coming of the Rift; when it appeared it brought the Siorai, immortal beings from another dimension. They are the ancestors of modern Elves and founded the Dominion-in-Vaalbara. Their empire collapsed under a 1000 year Culture War, geological instability, and a dwindling population. Ultimately Vaalbara became uninhabited; adventurers who return from this place speak of fogs that cover the land like a death shroud, seas that boil away into steam, and floating mountains. Strange lights (and stranger stars) play in its skies, and the leaves of its forests shift from black to white. Warm rain fall upwards, compasses lose their bearings, and the wind blows through perplexing geometries in a land with no true surface. Wyverns make their nests high in the floating eyries and the land is home to peculiar life not otherwise seen anywhere else (silt-walkers, for instance).

Now regarded as a lost continent, Tara's southern pole was its oldest and smallest landmass and nowhere near as large as Yavanna or Ur. Very little is known about it other than it was once the first home of the elves (who abandoned it after a long and terrible war). Naturally there are many conflicting accounts of this place. Many of its peculiarities are attributed to the Rift, which (though impossible to locate exactly) lies near the continent. Sailors speak of fogs that cover the land like a shroud, hiding terrible things better left to the imagination than the light of day. Some stories tell of seas boiling away to steam, dead forests, and floating mountains. The mad adventurer Bazarro Realis even described the island as having driven him sane. But all accounts share the same thread, a common detail - even on the clearest nights...there are no stars in its skies.

, lasting less than a year because no captain would agree to deliver supplies to the island.

His diary - the only surviving record of the colony - goes into more detail about the island's peculiarities. For instance he states there was no clear distinction between night and day and that there were no stars in the sky; he discovered dead forests where nothing grew and empty lakes and seas; rain fell upwards towards the sky; and the wind breathed through unseen geoemetries, sometimes sounding like whisper in his ear. Evil things hid in the fog, luring men to their doom.

Influences
Galapagos Islands, Antarctica, The Lost World.