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Turmish is somewhat North African in the sense it is home to dark-skinned people, but it doesn't seem to have Africa-specific analogues. It's the only pure democracy in Faerun, which was interesting but under-explored. The general idea is that the Shaar and the Shining South in general are...

A small group of people had a talk with Chris Cox this week and he confirms he's a roleplayer and is currently playing in a campaign set in Kara-Tur. He's keen on updating Kara-Tur for modern D&D but did not announce any firm plans. He listened politely to ideas for expanding coverage of the...

The map of Malatra confirms its size (~1000 miles across), and that the placement of Malatra on the FRIA map is impossible (it would only be ~150 miles across), so it was then a case of trying to fit in such a large area in the space available. I believe the final conclusion came from Markus...

I globified my 1372-ish era map here. The FRIA also featured the first globes of Toril, and they show the 1E/2E maps of Faerûn look absolutely fine when put on the globe (so that excuse for the 3E retcon went out the window).

I've been creating quite lengthy new map series for both the Nations and the History of Forgotten Realms, so this is a topic I've delved into quite a lot over many years. The OG map is Ed Greenwood's, that he had created in the 1970s and redrew circa 1986 to send to Jeff Grubb at TSR. This is...