The before Thonia world of Blackmoor

[aldarron]

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with Dan! Is there a map of Khalibrun available (Lord Robilar are you reading this?) anywhere? I have also toyed with incorporating large chunks of the GH setting, including a certain Free City. More details on that in my discussions about the EagleDark Setting...

Havard

Haven't found any Khalibrun maps yet. Will have to pick up the Maze of Zayene and see what info might be useful there. Meanwhile I've been playing with Havard's map. Basically, I wanted to get a kind of first Blackmoor world, based of Dave's handdrawn original and the notes he left in FFC. To which I would add details that were clearly favorites of Arnesons from later materials - Afridhi, Hak, Bleakwood, etc. and tie in information from Rob Kuntz's great kingdom and early Greyhawk (Greyhock on my map :wink: ) Wilderlands, I diecided doesn't fit with the earliest Blackmoor and anyway Havards map has that version already. I moved so much around so many times I prolly should have started from scratch. Anyway, this is just a dirty sketch of how I'm thinking thigs might look. Ideas and suggestions are very welcome and changes can be expected as new info turns up.

Some of the rational for why I moved things where is probably self evident. The greak kingdom is very roughly based on the Greyhawk map. There seemed to be too many countires in the north already so I removed Ritchies "Frisia" (a real place in europe anyway) and made it the land of Thralls; Moved Cirkhosia to a more mediterainian clime as I envision them to be a phonecian/japanese like trading peoples; Made the plains of Hak a lot bigger; moved Rhun to the continent as it is a kingdom with kingdoms on either side of it in the FFC, not an island. Put in Salik (as in Gin of); redrew blackmoor to match Arnesons original map; made Skhandaharia more like norse Greenland. There's still lots of blanks and provinces and such to work out so lets hear some ideas and critiques!



Edit: Added Q for Quasqeton and moved the vales as per Quasqeton discussion.