Judging from its name and the beta map's accompanying globe, the region appears to have been related to Palaedra. Oddly, though, Palaedra is a kingdom in Axeoth, not Ashan, suggesting that the cataclysm that created the Doom Sea may have provoked the world's renaming. It also seems likely that Palaedra was the tentative name for the continent of Thallan.