Chult

Chult was located at the westernmost end of the Chultan peninsula, in the southern part of the Trackless Sea, off the coast of Calimshan. As a result of the Spellplague, Chult was cut off from the mainland, becoming an island during much of the 15th century DR, but following the Second Sundering it was reunited with the mainland. Regardless, Chult had always been remote and isolated owing to its tall mountains and dense jungles full of savage beasts, massive dinosaurs, and debilitating disease. Nevertheless, Chult was also a land of great riches that never failed to draw adventurers.

The humans of Chult lived in tribal communities, consisting of a dozen or so families, which moved from one area to the next when the poor soil of the largely jungle covered peninsula becomes depleted. For hunting and defense they relied on non-metallic weapons like clubs, bows and shortspears. Harder metals like iron and steel were unavailable to them, and the few brought in by outsiders were nowhere near enough to sufficiently arm any significant number of people.

The people revered the god Ubtao almost exclusively. The divine powers of Faerûn had awarded Chult to Ubtao as his sole dominion in exchange for the deity's vigilance over the threat of Dendar the Night Serpent, who lay imprisoned under the Peaks of Flame.

Magic was generally feared, and each tribal-family generally had only one wielder of arcane magic, who performed hunting ceremonies and brewed potions to aid the hunters. Despite this restriction on arcane spellcasters, the number of people with an aptitude for magic was the same as anywhere else in Faerûn. Subsequently, the Chultan attitude towards the arcane caused some arcanists to flee into the jungle to practice their art alone. Many also traveled to study in Mezro.

Aside from humans, wild dwarves, goblins, aldani, pterafolk, bullywugs, and lizardfolk also inhabited the land. Exotic creatures as chuuls, hydras, nagas, troglodytes, trolls, and wyverns existed in smaller numbers. The dominant predators of the land were the dinosaurs, who were worshiped by many of the natives as aspects of Ubtao.

"Slimes" were a present danger for travelers in Chult, namely zygoms, green slimes and yellow molds. The jungles were also home to other carnivorous vegetations, such as Chultan Throttler.

Chult was the prime destination for people who liked to hunt or collect monster skulls. These safari hunters paid good coin for exotic creatures to claim as trophies without actually having to risk their own lives.

Chult was famous for its diseases, whether fatal and merely debilitating. Disease was notably contracted from insect bites, such as shivering sickness, jungle mists, such as blue mist fever, and parasites, such as brain flukes or throat leeches.