Vikressia

Vikressia is the Xth largest continent on the planet of Mundis, located entirely in the Western and Northern Hemispheres. It shares the contiguous landmass of the World Island with the continents of Austrecia, Boreacia, Insulessia, Stericia, and Viameria. By the TRIMIRDI's and most academic definitions in Vikressia, the continent is defined broadly as being bounded by the Cascadic Ocean to the west, Conduit Ocean to the south, and nearly surrounding the Viridian Sea. Overland, Vikressia borders Boreacia to its north, Stericia to its east, and Viameria to its south. Vikressia is commonly considered to be separated from Boreacia by the Thosuric Depths and the Brumian River; from Stericia by the watershed of the Great Dividing Ridge; and from Viameria by the watershed of the Great Infernal Ridge.

The continent has been home to some of the world's first civilizations to emerge from the Eminent Age Cataclysm, all of which have conferred a deep societal connection with the arcane to all of its successors. Vikressia is the root of Vikressian culture, which can be further split into western and eastern traditions which trace their origins to the Madiyyan Empire and Sarvadian Empire respectively. The collapse of both empires would lead to the ascendance of the religion of Knadianism across the entire continent, which would cement itself as a hallmark of Vikressian culture. The rise of Humanism through the First, Second, and Third Renaissances in the late 2000s hæ would lead to radical economic, social, and cultural changes which would contrast the older Knadian tradition. Since the wars of the Vermilion Decade and their ending at the Treaty of Keldary, the two clerical and humanist forces have existed in balance, their adherent countries respectively dominating the western and eastern halves of the continent.