What's beyond Thedas as we know it?

Credit where credit is due, they've dangled quite a number of interesting mysteries in DA.

Pouring over their lore, I've had the same questions. I'm sure we'll touch on at least some of those mysteries. For example, I'd be surprised if we didn't see the Scaled Ones at some point, as well as learning more about the Executers. But as there's still so much to explore on the map, I'd say the odds of actually exploring beyond it (in a realistic sense) are... pretty low. I'd love to see the franchise carry on to to the point where it would make sense to venture out beyond the map though. Never say never!

There are no Fex. They only exist as part of a madman’s riddle.

The Scaled Ones were krogan. It was an elaborate joke.

It's in the southern hemisphere... that's how things work in that half of the world.

Our planet happens to be top heavy as far as land goes.  Doesnt have to be that way for every planet. I dont know what the climate is like in Argentina, but it seems to be further north than, say, Canada is south. Also oceans tend to make the coasts of continents warmer. There isnt as much 'inland' in the southern tip of South America.
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I'd like to know whether the other off map land masses have blights and so on, or is that phenomenon concentrated on our mapped region. There would probably be no deep roads under the entire planet. The Dwarven empire wasnt that big.

The cynic in me says the writers only planned out the story as if the mapped part is the only part that exists.

Assuming Thedas is earth like, then yeah I would guess the planet is probably much bigger, with whole other continents out there with civilizations...Thedas is just one continent in the southern hemisphere...but technology is limited enough for our local Thedosians that they haven't explored it, don't have adequate maps, etc.

It'll be interesting to find out how much the ancient elves and Tevinter explored and knew about the world though, since they seemed to have some knowledge of astronomy, and the elves had the Eluvian network. I thought that was one of the big hints in the introduction of the Astrariums. So I think there would be a high probability of elves living on other continents, or remote parts of Thedas, at the the very least. If they were able to sail to other regions, they would have had a means to travel back and forth relatively easily, with the Eluvians. They would have lost contact when the Empire fell, and the Eluvians went dormant. With the Eluvian network restored, it's possible we could end up on some really remote parts of Thedas as early as DA4.

Of course it is, otherwise the people would fall into the space!

Thus, only the dwarves are in big danger to falling into the sky.

*dons tin foil hat* The Krogan drove the Qunari from their original homeland. The qunari are trying to conquer Thedas because they know it'll take an army the size of a continent to defeat the Krogan.

I wonder about that, too. If lyrium is alive, if it's the blood of the Titans and the blood of the world, does that mean there have been other Blights that sprung up far away? Do the Titans only exist in this corner of the world, and the rest of the earth is just... earth?

I don't doubt that the writers conceived Thedas as it is, but I'm willing to bet they've given some thought to what else is out there and what that means for their cosmology.

Nothing interesting.

You are just overthinking because you are bored and you want to discuss about something, plain and simple. And that, my friend it's pretty licit to do.

Sorry for quoting you again, but I remembered this codex entry. Given that it's ancient elven writing, it probably has to do with elves. But it made me think of your theory here.

"His crime is high treason. He took on a form reserved for the gods and their chosen, and dared to fly in the shape of the divine."

There were a lot of codices which then made it into WoT2 about the lands beyond the map as we know Thedas. In each case it would seem there is a land beyond the sea and the reason we don't know more about them is that ships exploring there tended not to return.

To the east of the Amaranthine Ocean is said to be the "untouched verdant land" dubbed Amaranth. It is said to be uninhabited by any civilised race or even any creature larger than a bird. After the initial "discovery" though further expeditions to explore it did not return.

To the west of the Volca Sea were traders called the Voshai, who seemed obsessed with obtaining lyrium by trade and whose most important members seemed to be dwarves. Then they stopped coming so some Tevinter merchants mounted expedition to try and re-establish contact but they didn't return. Finally the Voshai resumed trade after many years, reporting a massive cataclysm in their homeland.

To the north of Seheron and Par Vollen within the Boeric Ocean are the rest of the Boeric Islands, including the mystical Par Ladi, whose residents appear fabulously wealthy but are uninterested in the outside world and reject any approaches, often with violence. It is believed they may protect their sanctuary with magic.

Finally to the south is a sea of ice and then the "sunless lands" which approximate to Antarctica.

So there is potential for extensive exploration in any direction in the future if the franchise lasts that long. At the very least I think they should eventually reveal exactly where the Neromenians and Qunari came from since both groups came from "over the sea" and initially landed in the north of Thedas.

However, the information contained in Trespasser raises an interesting point. Did Solas raising the Veil only affect the area that we know as Thedas or the entire world? If the former, why was this? If the latter, did it have the same catastrophic outcome for the people in those places?