03-12-2014, 11:24 AM
Havard Wrote:Aldarron Wrote:I'll take a look, and I'm not so sure I like where I put the OS map now either. A closer look at the FFC maps shows the wurm river petering out before going very far south. The Misauga might be a much better fit and the scale should prolly be smaller.
I actually think your placement of the OS is close to perfect. Its your placement of the City of the Gods that I disagree with.
Also, Eastern Hak south west of Blackmoor sure seems off...
-Havard
Well, yes, they are definitely off by the 1977 + maps, I agree, but those were recast to mesh with JG's Wilderlands. I'm trying to retrofit to the C&C map and figure rough equivalents to features from Blackmoor, so a bit of rearranging of things is prolly necessary.
The original 1971 Blackmoor map shows "desert" southwest of the Dragon Hills and some unnamed mountains south of Ten (what are these mountains I wonder). I'd assume this "desert" is the home of the desert nomad, maybe the ben hassock, etc. precursers of the Peshwa. So I'm thinking desert = plains.
That also lines up with Robilars Journey where they had to "cross the nearby plains" to get to the CoG. The city itself lies "on the other side of blackmoor" which means Blackmoor must somehow be between their location in the Great Kingdom and the location of the CoG. Note that neither of these facts can be reconciled with the post 1977 maps.
So I dunno, it's not an ideal locaction prolly, but it seemed to be about the only spot on the
C&C map that would work with Robilar's tale and the original map. If you notice on the C&C map on the other side of the mountain southwest of Blackmoor are the "Dry Steppes" - prolly the same as the "plains of Lar" from quag keep but a pretty obvious analog for the western Hak in any case, so it followed that if the Eastern Hak is the "desert" on the original map the Valley of the ancients must be the valley that lies between these two areas on the C&C map.