Northwest Zakhara

Northwest Zakhara consisted of a number of islands on beautiful shallow part of the Great Sea off the northern coast of the continent.

The two larger archipelagos of the Genie's Turban and the Desert's Virtues made up the Corsair Domains, with the one major settlement, Hawa, serving as a makeshift capital to those raiders of the sea. Closer towards the coast of the Free Cities, authority over the Wizard's Reach toward the north and the group of three islands, the Bird, the Dancer and the Fortress, to the south were disputed between the corsairs and the mainland cities.

The vast open stretch of the Great Sea separated northwest Zakhara from Faerûn in the north and Maztica in the west. The islands of Lahib and Dahab marked the southern border toward west Zakhara.

Corsair Domains
The Corsair Domains were a number of islands under the control of these loosely organized buccaneers of Zakhara - efforts of Qudra to the contrary notwithstanding. Piracy, trade, shipbuilding and power-struggles between local would-be rulers shaped daily life there, all helped by the fragmented shape of the islands' terrain.