Geography
Seanchan is a large continent, stretching from the northern ice cap nearly all the way to the southern cap (World, 146). Though much longer than the eastern (or "main") continent on which most of the action of The Wheel of Time takes place, it is narrower and is split by many fissures and fjords; consequently, its landmass is less than one and a half times that of the eastern continent. It is divided into two landmasses separated by a wide dividing channel, and is approximately four thousand leagues north-to-south and sixteen hundred east-to-west at the widest point.
The Great Blight and the Mountains of Dhoom separate the Seanchan continent from the northern ice caps, though it is unknown if the Seanchan know these areas by the names used in the Westlands. Although the Blight exists in Seanchan, there are no Shadowspawn living in it, as most Seanchan dismiss tales of Trollocs and Myrddraal as being nothing more than superstition.
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