Floating continents and giant monsters!

[Dave (***Dave Hill)]

@garrett

are the city ruins in the lowlands (and hence actively dangerous for some folk to visit), or higher up (and their people brought the mist upwards?)

Or a combination thereof – most of the city in the Midlands, but the great Tower of Nelres extending up from a hole to the Lowlands (with bridges to the upper floors of the tower from the Midlands, and the throne room / conjuration chambers / cool stuff down on the ground floor where the Mist and its magic are greatest, and from which the Mist could be raised up to the rest of the city.

[Dave (***Dave Hill)]

@garrett

Lowlands are lands closest to sea level. They are typically dangerous due to the presence of the Mist … In the Lowlands, the concentration of magic draws out water in the atmosphere, creating an effect called the Mist.

This suggests to me that the sea itself – at the Lowlands level or deeper, and, um, a big source of water, would be … hazardous as well.

That, and the need to go to the Lowlands to actually get to the ocean, further implies that sea travel is not likely.

Great and terrible things lurk in the vasty deep.

[garrett (Bill Garrett)]

Note that all the stuff I presented here isn’t final. Let it be fuel for your own ideas, and if you redefine these ideas in coming up with your stuff, good! Do what makes your story happen.