Nua

"This world has many names across her many lands, but my favorite is simply Nua."

Nua is the world on which Hieronymous Wiggenstaff's School for Heroism and Villainy is located, and the story of The Adventure Zone: Graduation is primarily set.

History & Society
Nua's society has undergone dramatic changes within the past few centuries, within the lifetimes of elves such as Higglemas Wiggenstaff. At one time, heroes like Hieronymous Wiggenstaff fought villains and saved kingdoms not because they were being hired to do so, but because they believed it was right. Over time, the world changed, and heroes and villains morphed into professional entertainers who were hired the profile of kingdoms, their "heroic" and "villainous" actions mostly divorced from any sort of morality.

According to Bartholomeus, this hero/villain system arose in response to the Golden Age of Accounting. As accounting brought responsible spending to kingdoms across the lands and stability to their politics, the inhabitants of Nua felt that life had grown monotonous—albeit safer—so kingdoms began to hire heroes and villains who staged elaborate battles. In modern times, the Heroic Oversight Guild exists to keep heroes and villains in line (as well as oversee placement for sidekicks and henchpeople), designating heroes or villains as "evil" in extreme cases and barring them from further hero/villain work. Heroes and villains are viewed as celebrities, and their exploits raise the profiles of the kingdoms that employ them.

All that said, modern Nua is far from a utopia. Sir Fitzroy Maplecourt cites "almost hysterical amounts of inequality" in a conversation with Higglemas, and Fitzroy was scorned by the more privileged students at Clyde Nite's Night Knight School because of his less wealthy background. Sidekicks and henchpeople are often treated unfairly—their Annex at Hieronymous Wiggenstaff's School for Heroism and Villainy is still underdeveloped after 250 years, they aren't guaranteed the same rewards for real world assignments that heroes and villains receive, and some graduated sidekicks like Calhain struggle to find work without exaggerating their credentials (though Calhain is a dubiously credible source).

Hieronymous Wiggenstaff's School for Heroism and Villainy
Hieronymous Wiggenstaff's School for Heroism and Villainy is a school founded by Hieronymous Wiggenstaff. To teach the arts of heroism and villainy. Its enrollment is around 50 heroes and villains and 100 sidekicks and henchpeople.

The Unknown Forest
The Unknown Forest is a forest that is widely considered the most dangerous place on the planet and deadly to all who enter. It takes up a large part of the continent.

Godscar Chasm
Godscar Chasm is a chasm on the outskirts of Hope, this is considered one of the most dangerous places in the world. It is only fifty years old.

Hope
Hope (known by locals as Last Hope) is an isolated town near Hieronymous Wiggenstaff's School for Heroism and Villainy.

Clyde Nite's Night Knight School
Clyde Nite's Night Knight School is a school focusing on training students to become knights.

Barns and Nobles
Barns and Nobles is a store selling adventuring grear.

Rifts to other worlds
In Episode 5, “What’s Yours is Mined,” the Thundermen discovered a rift to the elemental plane of earth at the bottom of a crystal mine, and helped a lost, hungry Xorn return to the plane of earth through that rift. The portal didn't appear to have been intentionally created, and was described as the most frayed part of a worn fabric, which might tear "simply in the act of existing."

In Ep. 15, “Out of Order,” Fitzroy awakens from his coma and finds himself in an opulently decorated room. He which he cannot see out the windows, but he distinctly feels that he is no longer in Nua. Chaos explains that this world is their home, but doesn't elaborate on the nature of this world or how Fitzroy was brought there from his fever dreams.

Noted planewalker Clint McElroy, The Loser Janitor has appeared in Nua (specifically outside a Barns and Nobles) alongside his son Justin McElroy.