Abeir-Toril

Abeir-Toril is the name of the planet on which the Forgotten Realms is set and of which Faerûn is a continent.

The name is archaic, meaning "cradle of life." It consists of various continents and islands, including Faerûn, Kara-Tur, Zakhara, Maztica, and Anchorome (an unknown sub-Saharan-like continent is located south of Maztica ).

There are several other continents on Toril, some of which are analogous to those of Earth (Anchorome, Zakhara, Maztica, Kara-Tur, and Osse) and also several (7) other supposedly unexplored areas of the planet (FRCS Page 231). Faerûn has trade links with Shou-Lung in Kara-Tur, a sea route between some areas of the south and northern Zakhara and a colony in Maztica where local resources are taken to be sent back to Amn and Waterdeep.

Toril was the name of Jeff Grubb's campaign world, and it was adopted as the name of the planet with the continent Faerûn when he and Ed Greenwood were designing the original Forgotten Realms Boxed Set in 1987. Abeir- was added as a prefix so that the world's name was placed at the beginning of an alphabetical encyclopedia.

It is orbited by one moon named Selûne, and by a cluster of asteroids, known as the Tears of Selûne.