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[bedir than]

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Silk and sand, wishes and wars—in Calimshan, every bargain comes with a price.

 

[Parmandur]

From Icewind Dale to Calimport: A Sandbox of Adventure in the Forgotten Realms

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Myth Drannor fully back to being Elf Moria, it seems.

Interesting that they highlight seafarijg swashbuckling for the Moonshae Isles...it fits.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

Am I mad or does Calimshan actually acknowledge that 4th edition happened?

Making it into some sort of post apocalyptic wasteland ruled by genies with small, high tech human compounds seems a lot cooler than "everything Edward Said said not to do". That being said, has Calimshan ever been described as having steppe before?

 

[bedir than]

Am I mad or does Calimshan actually acknowledge that 4th edition happened?

Making it into some sort of post apocalyptic wasteland ruled by genies with small, high tech human compounds seems a lot cooler than "everything Edward Said said not to do". That being said, has Calimshan ever been described as having steppe before?

Kochar is a Kurdish word for nomad.
There's a few different horse cultures in the regions inspiring Calimsham, but none that I would consider "steppes"

 

[Parmandur]

Am I mad or does Calimshan actually acknowledge that 4th edition happened?

Making it into some sort of post apocalyptic wasteland ruled by genies with small, high tech human compounds seems a lot cooler than "everything Edward Said said not to do". That being said, has Calimshan ever been described as having steppe before?

Looking into it, yes, the Coram Steppes, named after an ancient nomads king of ghe region named Coram the Warrior.

Might be more developed here, and almost certainly better developed, than prior, but stepped in the East of the desert are named established thing, even by the word Steppe.

There are a lot of stepped in Faerûn, like The Ride to the North of the Moonsea, or Narfell.

 

[Parmandur]

Kochar is a Kurdish word for nomad.
There's a few different horse cultures in the regions inspiring Calimsham, but none that I would consider "steppes"

I mean...Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran all have Steppe...like in Kjrdistan, or the historic homeland of the Turks.

Middle East steppe - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Central Anatolian steppe - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Eastern Anatolian montane steppe - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[bedir than]

historic homeland of the Turks.

Yes, that's central Asia, the area most famous for its steppe nomads

 

[Parmandur]

Yes, that's central Asia, the area most famous for its steppe nomads

Right, but the Steppes are also in modern Turkey, hence the maps. About as close to Istanbul (Not Constantinople) or Baghdad as the Coram Stepows are to Calimport.

 

[Parmandur]

Interestingly, going back to the Grey Box and other early FR material, the Anauroch gets called out as including a lot of steppeland within it's borders, not just straight desert.

Wonder if the Backgroujd associated with the Anauroch will be a "Steppe Nomad" sort of deal, that can also apply in areas like The Ride near the Moonsea, Calimshan, or Narfell...

 

[Zardnaar]

I thought it was Myth Drannor! It didn't make sense for the phaerimm to be there, so I second guessed myself.

Also, there's a reference to phaerimm in a 5e adventure: Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden.

Wiki says they still exist. Reduced to a single prison.