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Werthead
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TaeghenAmalith
Acolyte
Italy
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 Posted - 13 Sep 2022 : 11:55:43
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| I'd like to find a way to easy transform your maps in a more eye candy version but it takes a loooong time. Just in case do you agree with this editing be published for free? |
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Werthead
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
191 Posts |
Posted - 14 Sep 2022 : 15:54:19
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Werthead
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
191 Posts |
Posted - 16 Sep 2022 : 14:41:57
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HARTSVALE!
Small and relatively obscure, not to mention possibly the map I had to improvise the most with (as the original maps of the region, the maps in Giantcraft and the maps in the Twilight Giants trilogy don't really gel together very well). |
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PattPlays
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 17 Sep 2022 : 03:50:50
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Originally posted by Werthead
HARTSVALE!
Small and relatively obscure, not to mention possibly the map I had to improvise the most with (as the original maps of the region, the maps in Giantcraft and the maps in the Twilight Giants trilogy don't really gel together very well).
Hartsvale is a tricky thing indeed. If you incorporate it incorrectly, it pushes the entire sword coast southward and you end up with that dndcombat toril map where Novularond is north of the spine of the world in alignment. Seeing Novularond line up with the silver marches, the evermoors, and Mt Hotentow is just so satisfying. Thanks for the maps! |
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Werthead
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
191 Posts |
Posted - 17 Sep 2022 : 14:06:52
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Hartsvale is a tricky thing indeed. If you incorporate it incorrectly, it pushes the entire sword coast southward and you end up with that dndcombat toril map where Novularond is north of the spine of the world in alignment. Seeing Novularond line up with the silver marches, the evermoors, and Mt Hotentow is just so satisfying. Thanks for the maps!
Ah, Handsome Rob's map. A fine map, but based on 3E so ergo using the flawed layout of Faerun from that edition, and I think his version of Hartsvale looks quite a bit bigger than it should. |
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Brimstone
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 19 Sep 2022 : 14:06:05
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Great maps! Keep them coming! Please... |
"These things also I have observed: that knowledge of our world is
to be nurtured like a precious flower, for it is the most precious
thing we have. Wherefore guard the word written and heed
words unwritten and set them down ere they fade . . . Learn
then, well, the arts of reading, writing, and listening true, and they
will lead you to the greatest art of all: understanding."
Alaundo of Candlekeep |
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Werthead
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
191 Posts |
Posted - 19 Sep 2022 : 15:24:27
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IMPILTUR!
This was a lot of fun, teasing out various information from various resources.
Onto Lantan, which is the first major "there really is almost no available lore on this place," problem I'm finding. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 19 Sep 2022 : 23:12:55
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Originally posted by Werthead
IMPILTUR!
This was a lot of fun, teasing out various information from various resources.
Onto Lantan, which is the first major "there really is almost no available lore on this place," problem I'm finding.
There was a Portals of Lantan series as part of the Perilous Gateways articles.
You should be able to get to them from the below link, if you don't already have them handy.
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Perilous_Gateways
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Werthead
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
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Posted - 19 Sep 2022 : 23:14:46
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Yeah, I've found those. Not a huge amount of data but some interesting things there I can tie in.
Anyone know where "Myth Iiscar" came from? It's on the map of Lantan in the Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas but I can't find any other mention of it.
ETA: Ah, found it. It's a nonelven mythal of unknown origin that's just hanging around and nobody knows anything about it. Excellent! |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 20 Sep 2022 : 02:49:28
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Originally posted by Werthead
Yeah, I've found those. Not a huge amount of data but some interesting things there I can tie in.
Anyone know where "Myth Iiscar" came from? It's on the map of Lantan in the Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas but I can't find any other mention of it.
ETA: Ah, found it. It's a nonelven mythal of unknown origin that's just hanging around and nobody knows anything about it. Excellent!
Magic of Faerûn, page 47:
"Myth Iiscar: Little is known about this mythal city except that it was built on the isle of Lantan, allowed its inhabitants to fly, and was destroyed at some point. The Lantanese don’t reveal any hints about its location, so they either don’t know or are good at keeping secrets."
Page 45 of Lost Empires of Faerûn says
"Mythals such as those at Shoonach’s Imperial Mount, Myth Iiscar, and Myth Lharast have also been crafted by non-elves using epic spells."
Maybe it's just me, but those two sources seem to contradict each other. The first doesn't state but strongly implies that the location of Myth Iiscar is unknown, while the second gives a pretty definitive fact that seems unlikely to be known without also knowing the location.
Looking at the maps of Lantan, I'd locate Myth Iiscar on the west side of the main island, where that large bay is. You've got mountains right there -- reason for flight! -- and it's kinda odd that such a large protected bay, on an island, wouldn't have a city. |
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PattPlays
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 20 Sep 2022 : 02:54:02
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Originally posted by Werthead
Yeah, I've found those. Not a huge amount of data but some interesting things there I can tie in.
Anyone know where "Myth Iiscar" came from? It's on the map of Lantan in the Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas but I can't find any other mention of it.
ETA: Ah, found it. It's a nonelven mythal of unknown origin that's just hanging around and nobody knows anything about it. Excellent!
When every mystery has been answered (I'm looking at you, unicorn.) there will be no shadows left unexposed to the light... save for a long list of "I left some stuff unexplained for DMs to make up something" locations. |
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Werthead
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
191 Posts |
Posted - 20 Sep 2022 : 12:09:13
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
Magic of Faerûn, page 47:
"Myth Iiscar: Little is known about this mythal city except that it was built on the isle of Lantan, allowed its inhabitants to fly, and was destroyed at some point. The Lantanese don’t reveal any hints about its location, so they either don’t know or are good at keeping secrets."
Page 45 of Lost Empires of Faerûn says
"Mythals such as those at Shoonach’s Imperial Mount, Myth Iiscar, and Myth Lharast have also been crafted by non-elves using epic spells."
Maybe it's just me, but those two sources seem to contradict each other. The first doesn't state but strongly implies that the location of Myth Iiscar is unknown, while the second gives a pretty definitive fact that seems unlikely to be known without also knowing the location.
Looking at the maps of Lantan, I'd locate Myth Iiscar on the west side of the main island, where that large bay is. You've got mountains right there -- reason for flight! -- and it's kinda odd that such a large protected bay, on an island, wouldn't have a city.
The FRIA places it in the north-central area of the main island.
Intriguingly, the FRIA was created in 1997-99, whilst the two sourcebooks it is mentioned in both came out quite a few years later, so clearly it was already in the extra pile of Realmslore they were given (fun and random coincidence: my friend's brother co-ran the company that produced the FRIA). |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 20 Sep 2022 : 23:15:55
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Originally posted by Werthead
The FRIA places it in the north-central area of the main island.
Intriguingly, the FRIA was created in 1997-99, whilst the two sourcebooks it is mentioned in both came out quite a few years later, so clearly it was already in the extra pile of Realmslore they were given (fun and random coincidence: my friend's brother co-ran the company that produced the FRIA).
I was looking at the online maps, and I was thinking about where the FRIA shows Lethtar. I didn't even think about the FRIA; I had it installed, but I had to poke around on my NAS to find the updates, just now -- Myth Iiscar wasn't on the non-updated version. (Thank Lurue that I remain a digital packrat! Used to be a packrat IRL, too, but I've been working on that, and the fire helped)
I got my copies of the FRIA and the Dragon Magazine Archive for half-price, when the TSR Mail Order Hobby Shop was dumping them. I truly believe that both programs were ahead of their time. Not in terms of what they did or how they did it; I think the software was ready for a market that wasn't there yet. I think if they'd waited until 2000ish, maybe a few years later, there would have been more of a market and the software would have sold much better. |
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Werthead
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
191 Posts |
Posted - 21 Sep 2022 : 13:17:11
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| LANTAN! Home of the sentient wombat. |
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Werthead
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
191 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2022 : 12:30:37
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Welcome to the Lapal League and Tharsult, great powers of the Shining Sea about which relatively little has been written.
This map required a judgement call, since the shape and outline of Tharsult was even more significantly changed between the 2E and 3E maps than the changes seen elsewhere. After some deliberation, and the fact that every other 5E map we've seen has reverted to the 2E configuration of Faerun, I decided to follow suit and revert Tharsult to its appearance in the 1E/2E maps rather than the 3E ones. |
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Werthead
Learned Scribe
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Werthead
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
191 Posts |
Posted - 29 Sep 2022 : 20:22:22
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| Luruar, home of Mithral Hall, Silverymoon and that weird miles-wide fungus in the Underdark. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 29 Sep 2022 : 20:33:23
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Originally posted by Werthead
Luruar, home of Mithral Hall, Silverymoon and that weird miles-wide fungus in the Underdark.
One of my favorite regions! (And part of why my personal Realms stays in the 1370s era) |
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Zeromaru X
Great Reader
Colombia
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Posted - 29 Sep 2022 : 23:28:26
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| Likewise. And one of the reasons my Realms deviate from 5e lore. |
Instead of seeking change, you prefer a void, merciless abyss of a world... |
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Werthead
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PattPlays
Senior Scribe
469 Posts |
Posted - 01 Oct 2022 : 02:35:32
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The sword coast is so mysterious. An artificial coastline sheared clean off, and flat fields that were supposedly the largest mountain ranges in Faerun and Sharn Phaerimm wars 'wore down the peaks' here.
So weird to imagine living on the 'coast' in a past time where it would have been far inland- or completely covered in rocks scraping the sky. And now it's just water and flat land... |
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Werthead
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
191 Posts |
Posted - 02 Oct 2022 : 19:17:39
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Originally posted by PattPlays
The sword coast is so mysterious. An artificial coastline sheared clean off, and flat fields that were supposedly the largest mountain ranges in Faerun and Sharn Phaerimm wars 'wore down the peaks' here.
So weird to imagine living on the 'coast' in a past time where it would have been far inland- or completely covered in rocks scraping the sky. And now it's just water and flat land...
If you look at the pre-Sundering maps of Faerun, when it was Merrouroboros, you can see how the coastlines dramatically changed. Although ironically that particular area is shown as not actually being that different (with the Sword Coast still being the coast, but of the "Black Sea" before Maztica and Katashaka were sheared off to form the Trackless Sea). |
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Werthead
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
191 Posts |
Posted - 04 Oct 2022 : 21:59:22
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| Next up is Moonshae which ended up being far more detailed and time-consuming than originally planned. Huge amount of detail to fit on there. |
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Werthead
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Brimstone
Great Reader
USA
3287 Posts |
Posted - 07 Oct 2022 : 18:58:44
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| Again, many thanks for these lovely maps. |
"These things also I have observed: that knowledge of our world is
to be nurtured like a precious flower, for it is the most precious
thing we have. Wherefore guard the word written and heed
words unwritten and set them down ere they fade . . . Learn
then, well, the arts of reading, writing, and listening true, and they
will lead you to the greatest art of all: understanding."
Alaundo of Candlekeep |
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Werthead
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
191 Posts |
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Werthead
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
191 Posts |
Posted - 10 Oct 2022 : 18:36:29
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Murghôm & Semphar.
This was a fun one. I didn't think there was too much lore on these lands but some reading and research revealed a fair bit more than I initially expected. |
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Bracho Bugental
Acolyte
Poland
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Posted - 11 Oct 2022 : 10:44:56
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Mintarn & Orlumbor.
Not a lot of info here, so had to dig deep.
There was, and maybe c. 1371 still is, a halfling settlement on Orlumbor: in 310 DR (Year of the Amber Hulk) "The halfling community of Marrduin on the island of Orlumbor is decimated by a six-legged horror from the Lower Planes named Gorathil." (Brian R. James, Grand History of the Realms: The Moonshaes, Dragon 362 - web.archive.org). |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36804 Posts |
Posted - 11 Oct 2022 : 11:29:00
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| I just want to say these are some beautiful, well-done maps, and I'm saving every single one of them to their own dedicated folder in my gaming drive. |
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Nations & History of the Forgotten Realms (Maps)
