The World of Twilight Valley
Twilight Valley exists on the mainland of an oceanic continent in a corner of contemporary-era Toril in the Forgotten Realms universe.
Being so far inland, nestled near the head of the Twilight River (its earliest tributaries draining from the great interior mountain plains East of the Elf-Lands), Twilight and Glimmerfall Valleys are somewhat socially isolated from the rest of Aenor (as the Men of the Western lowlands call the drowned coast of the continent and its satellite archipelago).
Relative to the rest of Toril, Aenor is located somewhere in the Southern Ocean. Its existence is all but unknown to the denizens of Toril proper — veiled by a prehistoric barrier of a curious nature. Seafarers are met with oppressive currents and deadly weather if they venture too far from the coast of Aenor (or too close, from the other side). While skeptics insist the barrier is of natural origin — simply a rough sea frothed up from strong intercontinental ocean currents — many a superstitious sailor claims to have felt the ever-looming eldritch malice in the far reaches of the sea, and those marooned for too long on lonely islands too close to the fringe, when they've rarely been recovered at all, have to a one utterly lost their sanity.
Being an archipelago comprised of one massive island (the mainland or "Ico"), a handful of large satellite islands (the "Pentaculum"), and hundreds of smaller ancillary isles (the "Millum"), sea travel dominates the culture and economy of Aenor overall; even despite their separation from Toril proper.
While few born in Twilight Valley venture West to the seas (most opting instead to enlist in the Orc War or seek treasure and adventure beyond the Eastern Elf-Lands), maritime trade is nonetheless the cornerstone of the valley's economy in the present age.
In the first age, riches poured from the Glimmer Mine — its precious gems and metals fueling trade and building the cities of Glimmerdale and Veritas City — but with the Fall of Glimmerdale and the transformation of the Glimmer Mine into the Hellish Maw, the present-day center of regional Trade and Industry is Eventide City.
Shipwrights from the West settled Duskport and Eventide and felled the vast forests that once blanketed the entire valley; producing lumber to build great warships and merchant vessels constructed at the docks of these cities and launched down river upon completion.
