Hydaelyn

Hydaelyn is a distant crystal sphere located within a separate dimension. It consists of multiple, separate, and distinct planar realms referred to as 'shards'. Most adventurers who end up in Hydaelyn explore a realm referred to as the 'Source', as other shards of Hydaelyn are either destroyed or nearly impossible to access without the Dream of the Blue Veil spell or darker magicks, which requires one to already possess a piece of the shard itself to visit. As of late, the boundary between the Source shard and the First, a world known as Norvrandt, has been pierced, but otherwise, accessing the other shards of Hydaelyn is nearly impossible, and little is known about them.

Traveling to Hydaelyn is not done via typical planar portals. Due to its status as a separate planar sphere entirely, specialized portals that utilize crystals attuned to Hydaelyn must be utilized in order to travel there, though once a person is attuned to said crystals, travel to Hydaelyn can be achieved via other means, such as the Dream of the Blue Veil spell. In either case, a trip to Hydaelyn takes what feels like an hour or more, and involves feelings of being dragged across a vast distance, through a void of endless cold until one arrives at the connective 'aetheryte' on the other side of the connection.

The Headquarters of the Chosen of Hydaelyn are located within the Source shard, in a region known as Mor Dhona.

A World of Heroes
Hydaelyn is a world embraced by heroes referred to as adventurers, much like many of the other realms in the multiverse. Due to its distance from the rest of the multiverse, life here evolved differently, and there are distinct racial differences for those born to Hydaelyn compared to the rest of the multiverse. The following races can be found in Hydaelyn and its shards:


 * Hyur, which are similar to humans in most of the multiverse.
 * Elezen, which are physically similar to elves, though they lack the typical sylvan connection common to the rest of the elves in the multiverse
 * Roegadyn, which are physically most similar to Goliaths
 * Miqo'te, which appear physically similar to humans with tabaxi features
 * Lalafell, which are similar to gnomes
 * Au Ra, which appear to be humanoids with dragon-like features and scales
 * Viera, which are tall humanoids with rabbit-like features
 * Hrothgar, which appear to be similar to Leonin

These races are found throughout the world, and all are engaged in a constant struggle for survival against a world that seems to fight against it.