03-11-2011, 10:36 AM
Thanks first to Marv for posting about Blackmoor and Quag Keep here:
http://odd74.proboards.com/index.cgi?bo ... hread=3984
In the back of me head I've been thinking of looking in to this a bit more and I realized it provides a solution I've been looking for in my SWA Campaign map musings here:
viewtopic.php?f=22&t=328&start=20
As I choose to see it
Quag Keep merges 2nd hand reports of Gygax's Greyhawk with some 2nd hand (from Supp II) and 3rd hand (from Gygax and company) of Arnesons Blackmoor.
So, basically the world of Quag Keep is Greyhawk in south and center and Blackmoor to the north - the two worlds merged together.
Thus geographical features and places that are not part of official Greyhawk are "up for grabs" for Blackmoor and can be used to fill in some blanks. Here's what I got so far:
okay, so the short list is:
island Duchy of Maritiz
Yerocunby
Faraaz
Nomad Raiders of the dry steppes of Lar
So,
Lar I take to be another name for the eastern Karsh. Kalastro is "southern" but will probably make it onto my map anyhow, perhaps as home to Havards jungles of Tangor...
http://odd74.proboards.com/index.cgi?bo ... hread=3984
In the back of me head I've been thinking of looking in to this a bit more and I realized it provides a solution I've been looking for in my SWA Campaign map musings here:
viewtopic.php?f=22&t=328&start=20
As I choose to see it
Quag Keep merges 2nd hand reports of Gygax's Greyhawk with some 2nd hand (from Supp II) and 3rd hand (from Gygax and company) of Arnesons Blackmoor.So, basically the world of Quag Keep is Greyhawk in south and center and Blackmoor to the north - the two worlds merged together.
Thus geographical features and places that are not part of official Greyhawk are "up for grabs" for Blackmoor and can be used to fill in some blanks. Here's what I got so far:
Quote:"We can change the line of march by this much-upriver to the main stream. We shall have Yerocunby and Faraaz facing us at the border. But the river then will lead us straight into the mountains.
To the left, or west, were mountains scattered in broken chains, dividing smaller kingdoms one from the other. Rivers, fed by
tributaries, formed boundaries for many of these. This cluster of nations ended in such unknown territories as the Dry Steppes which only the Nomad Raiders of Lar dared venture out upon (the few watering places therein being hereditary possessions of those clans).
the lands of the Holy Lords of Faraaz.
Lord Fon-du-Ling of Faraaz. He would have in his out-garden the rarest of beasts. Already”-now he waved towards the line of cages -“I have managed to find a griff-cat, a prim lizard, even
a white sand serpent. Warrior.” Now he addressed Naile directly. “To my Lord, money is nothing. A year ago he found the hidden Temple of Tung and all its once-locked treasures are under his hand.
cross-shaped trading tokens from the Land of the Holy Lords
struck out in copper but still well able to pass freely in Greyhawk where so many kinds of men, dwarves, elves, and others traveled. In addition he saw a dozen of those silver, half-moon circles coined in Faraaz, and two of the mother-of-pearl disks incised with the fierce head of a sea-serpent which came from the island Duchy of Maritiz.
What do we know of those who built the Five Cities in the Great Kingdom?
The empire of Kalastro, destroyed by a volcanic eruption “plague of fire” from the Southern Mountains.
okay, so the short list is:
island Duchy of Maritiz
Yerocunby
Faraaz
Nomad Raiders of the dry steppes of Lar
So,
Lar I take to be another name for the eastern Karsh. Kalastro is "southern" but will probably make it onto my map anyhow, perhaps as home to Havards jungles of Tangor...