When Nomads become Peshwah

[aldarron]

Thanks! Are these mentioned in any particular context, such as involved in a specific battle etc?
Havard

No, it is just an entry in the monster list.

It seems to me that the Blackmoor map must have been revised at least X times in the 1970s:

1. Blackmoor expands from the Dungeon. Coot Invasions etc (1972)
2. Adventures in Lake Gloomy (1973)
3. When the PCs began getting their own holdings. Map expanded to the south to include the New Lands. (1974?)
4. Redrawing the map in preparation for the FFC. "I have decided that it would be advantageous to make some minor changes along the south and west borders to link it with the Judges Guild's Known World area...". Valley of the Ancients added.

The question is what happens to the Desert during these revisions:

a) It becomes squeezed into the middle, becoming effectively the Valley of the Ancients? Probably the Southern Desert was the location of the City of the Gods, originally.
b) Turned into the Plains of Hak
c) Shifted further away to the southwest, assumed to be somewhere beyond the map?
Havard

Yeah, the map grew with the game. Since the VOA is a desert, I assume "Desert" on the original map and VOA are one and the same.

As to the Eastern Hak, it may very well be that these lands were once controlled by the Great Kingdom, but that they Peshwah have later been pushed into those lands. Grasslands would be less attractive to the Thonians anyway so it could have been sparesly populated except for along the coastal areas, and the Thonian Rand.
Havard

I do think this is the best solution to the changes in the maps , and it makes for a good story.