Unknown Land

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The Unknown Land is a mysterious land-mass in the far south of Titan, beyond the remote islands of Marpesia and Mishna in the Black Ocean.

As its name suggests, little is known of this land or its inhabitants (if there are any), but, given its extreme southerly location, it may be that it is Titan's equivalent of Antarctica. The far south of the Southern Sea is bitterly cold, and icebergs have been sighted there. Given the Unknown Land is at the same latitude as this region of the Sea, it is possible it shares its frigid climate. The Unknown Land has been suggested as one of the possible locations for the land of Gundobad.

Further Notes

• The article "Here Be Dragons...Or Worse" by Terry D'Orleans, in The Warlock Returns Issue 5 discusses using the Unknown Land in Advanced Fighting Fantasy – The Roleplaying Game. The article suggests that the Unknown Land be used as a tabula rasa by AFF Directors for their campaigns, inhabited by creatures and locations of the Director's own design. The article also suggests various different ideas about why the Unknown Land is unexplored (i.e. the Land has only recently risen from the seabed, or that the Land can "only be reached by mystical means").

• In 1989, Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson submitted a proposed Gamebook to Puffin called Curse of the God Kings that would have been set in the Unknown Land.  Curse of the God Kings would have been influenced by the Empire of the Petal Throne role-playing game by M. A. R. Barker.   The plot would have involved the player meeting an old friend, Aramanthis the Wizard. Aramanthis would have been dying, and would have told the player that he and his friend, Chargan the Golden, had voyaged to the "unknown land beyond Marpesia" and found many strange sights: "ice jungles the like of which I have never seen in any part of the known world, three eyed savages who chased us with weapons of living liquid, pinnacles that rose a thousand feet sheer out of bleached salt marsh..." Finally the two adventurers located the ruins of the lost empire of Kamada Varrentis. The rulers of Kamada Varrentis drew their power from a group of Magic words, the Language of the Gods, which gave them the power to control reality itself. Chargan the Golden began reading the books containing the Language of the Gods, and was driven insane. He tried to harm Aramanthis, but Aramanathis managed to escape. Aramanthis would then warn the player that Chargan would have to be stopped before he warps Titan's reality with his new powers.

See Also

• Location of Gundobad