Lore and Information on Blackmoor D20 Map Locations?

[Greg]

Most of these are described in DA1, but can be sort of hard to find.

I found many details about various map locations on pp. 42-45 of DA1. But the locations I listed above were not included in those pages. I have not read the entire adventure sections of the module, though. Are there references to these locations in other parts of DA1, or were you thinking of the pages I mentioned?

I am resurrecting this thread because I've recently discovered some canonical information about several locations that I was researching. John Bullough's Blackmoor Index was very helpful in helping me find references for two of these locations. But, if anyone is aware of official sources and information for any of the places that are still remaining, I would love to get your help. I'm working on finishing a Blackmoor Glossography that I began several years ago.


Bramford Abbey. The abbey was a monastery located in the Barony of Bramwald, but it was destroyed by persons unknown, and its monks disappeared. Bram Tagus, the Baron of Bramwald, suspected that the Regency Council may have engineered the affair, in order to weaken his people's loyalty to him. This nearly brought him into open conflict with the Council, which steadfastly denied any complicity in the attack. However, Garamond Bolitho, the Bishop of Blackmoor, performed an even-handed personal investigation of the affair, and he refused to condemn the Regency Council for the affair, which helped defuse the potentially dangerous situation (DA1, pp. 15, 48, 50).

The Crab Coast. This series of island land lasses forms the northeastern coastal boundary of Blackmoor. The town of Archlis is located at its southern end (BFC, p. 159).

The Gremlin Forest. "Before the Shallows sunk, the elven Redwood Forest used to span the isthmus. Now, most of
its majestic trees are either underwater or rotting away in the Glades [sic]. What remains of the northern Redwood has been subject to intense and irresponsible logging for the pirates of Bartertown. Recently, the northerners have stopped logging; now they shun the northern Redwood as the “Gremlin Forest.” The human population of Blackmoor has no clue if any elven settlements have survived, nor what a “gremlin” might be. They also wonder if the Egg is behind the strange sorceries to be found therein." (The Blackmoor Gazetteer - The North, citing JG p. 12. However, the JG page contains only a map and no other references to The Gremlin Forest. So, this information cannot yet be confirmed as canonical.)

Sinking Lands. When the Egg of Coot's magically created peninsula and dominion rose from the sea, the shifting of land masses caused major geographical changes, including the creation of The Shallows, where the neck of land north of the City of Maus sank into the sea. The areas submerged beneath the waves by the uplift of the Realm of the Egg are now known as the Sinking Lands (DA1, p. 42).


Here is the updated list of northeastern Blackmoor locations where I still do not have any information:

• Buccaneer Bay
  
• Crofter's Fen
  
• Elkhorn Island
  
• The East Channel
  
• The Glanes
  
• Ning's Channel
  
• The River of Sighs
  
• The Shoals