Raila Deliean - Section II - Location of the Isle of Winds

Isle of Winds, or Isle of Four Winds

From the Personal Files of Raila Deliean, Scholar

Section II:  Location of the Isle of Winds

One of the mysteries of Isle of Winds is that it has never been reached via any normal means of travel*.  The Chronomages were the first to document a discovery of the island, and yet they have never made public where it is located.  Historical records of geography point to several possibilities for the location of the isle, and the events surrounding the areas support the current "hidden" status of the isle.  The prevailing theories as to the true location of the island are as follows:

(1)  (-15,180 to -5000) Isle of Winds was a part of the Eilya Islands, a small string of volcanic islands once located in the sea far southeast of where Ta'Ashrim was built.  There are accounts of such islands in some records, but there is no current evidence that they actually existed or continue to exist.  It is said that the volcanic activity in the chain became powerful enough to disrupt the natural elemental balance of the area.  This forced the island into the center of what can only be described as a strong elemental barrier -- which accounts for its sudden disappearance.  Documentation does support that there was violent volcanic activity during this period of history, but exact locales are not accurately provided.

(2)  (-15,185) Isle of Winds was originally one of several small, uninhabited islands that lay off the coast of Rhoska-Tor that were wiped from the map at some point during the great battle at Maelshyve.  It claims that their perceived disappearance was a result of some of the magic being used, and that that is why, from time to time, there are tales of reaching the Isle through means not of the Chronomages.

(3)  (-15,180 to -5000) Isle of Winds is one of the islands off of the western coast of the Southron Wastes that was once used by an order of magicians and sorcerers during the darker periods of the Age of Chaos for practice and testing before the demise of their order.  There were several islands in the vicinity that they placed magical barriers around to keep their practices private, effectively eliminating outside intervention and detection.  It is believed that Isle of Winds was one of those islands, and if the Chronomages had not been interested in the stories about a mysterious island, it would likely have remained hidden for a much longer period of time.