Geography:
The monarchy only known as “The Kingdom” is situated on a large peninsula. Three sides to the west, south, and east are surrounded by vast ocean too dangerous to traverse beyond the shallow regions. Two large cities exist within the Kingdom. The larger of the two, Corlon, came to prominence on the southern shore where the ocean, while dangerous, was accessible and host to a plethora of natural resources. The other large city, to the north serves as the Kingdom’s capitol, Carlen.
At the northern tip of the peninsula beyond Carlen, mountains enclose most of the peninsula to the northeast and northwest preventing most monster incursions. Between the mountains sits a great wall with but a single large gate. To the north, beyond the gate, through the highly dangerous mountain pass lies the continent at large. Many have tried their luck in the wilderness beyond elven society. Few have returned safely. None have encountered intelligent life and returned to tell the tale. Still, people believe, almost religiously, that others must be out there!
Magics:
Within the Kingdom, everyone is taught magic and everyone outside of a few unfortunate individuals can learn magic. This makes life within the kingdom prosperous, yet dangerous. For this reason, the future king and queen are always chosen from amongst the strongest magic practitioners in the country. They have the power to protect society and maintain order. However, while many can use magic, only a select few truly have talent. Only a few can advance its study and bring new magic into the world.
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One such person was Doctor Elizabeth Markus. She discovered a previously thought impossible magical ability, teleportation. While exciting at first, teleportation proved to be truly dangerous. On a small scale, one could easily die teleporting into solid matter. To fix this problem, Markus came up with the idea of having fixed points to teleport to. Soon enough, she could be anywhere in the kingdom in the blink of an eye.
In light of her success, she began experimenting with large scale teleportation. She set up a teleportation array in Carlen and a connecting array in Corlon. This is where it all went south. During the first test, a large portion of Corlon, far beyond what the array was supposed to effect, was teleported away. This included buildings, streets, and most importantly, people. Worse still, they did not reappear in Carlen. In fact, no one knows what happened to them.
It was at this point that the royalty at the time, to Markus’s dismay, put a prohibition on all research into teleportation making it the seventh forbidden magic. All current research was to be destroyed. Afterwards, Markus seemingly disappeared from history never to be heard from again.