Loom Island
Loom Island is a small isle floating high above Sapience on which adventurers once started their journey in Achaea. In the past, adventurers could choose to take a tour offered by Lothariel and Demetrius here, during which they completed three quests and learned much about the realms. The tour was briefly superseded by the Trial of Rebirth in the reimagined realm of Ceylon, but in modern times Achaean teens only enter the world of adventuring by escaping murder by pygmies, now firmly a rite of passage tacitly accepted by every city-state from Ashtan to Targossas.
Loom remains relevant solely in its capacity as a sometime travel hub consisting of a Ring of Portals from which newbies can reach many landmarks. After leaving newbiehood, this island becomes inaccessible to them.