We gotta invent a really sneaky sounding way to defeat "fatigue" and pretend we've gotten to those "uber cool islands" near the maelstrom - that you see on the map...
...taming aquatic mammals and using Eyes of the Beast?
...there's a bug where if you drown at the deepest possible level of the ocean, you somehow get "under the world" there - and can then walk to where you see the islands ... and then ... somehow you get up ... through the volcano pipe - yeah - the game lets you somehow "swim up" the magma stream ... but you need serious fire resistance gear....
...or, you time jumping off the zepplin just right, and you hit an "invisible walkway" that the developers accidentally left for "realm inspection" (you see, to make sure the world looked right "from the inside," the developers actually spent a lot of time walking around in it - this is sort of like accidentally leftover scaffolding - anyway, it leads near those islands - you use a parachute cloak and jump off, naturally...)
I like those. Maybe one of you will come up with a better one. Here's hoping!