The Lands of Erak

[Havard]

Yeah, Arneson's original map from '71 is unlabeled but the town that gets called Bramwald on later maps is on it, and the letter to Kuntz that accompanied the map mentions (oddly) the "land of the Eraks" to the east.

I just wrote a bit on Bramwald here.

The term Land of the Eraks is very curious. I recall Greg (or Bob?) talking about how they used to launch raids into Erak in the original campaign. This would have been before Blackmoor breaks with the Empire. This always lead me to believe Erak to be a rogue state of bandits and raiders. Perhaps Erak claimed a larger part of that region in the past? It doesn't really make sense to have it have been too large though given its location.

-Havard