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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Otello" data-source="post: 8275268" data-attributes="member: 7030805">I really liked your post and how you supported it with actual numbers and even if I can understand your disliking of the Revised Campaign Setting, Prism Pentad and sequent expansions, I think some of them can, and should, be incorporated. Even if this is something were we would not probably be able to agree, I would like to add some parts of them, as I think they help to support some of your points.That would make a lot of sense to me. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkSun/comments/ll0cwf/beyond_athas_known_geography/" target="_blank">I've already speculated</a> with the possibility that the Tyr region is located on the southern hemisphere of Athas. This would also explain the region isolation: North you have the equatorial area, which as you explained would be too hot to support any big society, and East the Silt Sea, which would be a natural barrier. West I think you need to have some kind of large body of water to explain the rains over the Ringing Mountains, but you also have the Hinterlands and the Kreen Empire to block further exploration/expansion. And finally, South, were you would have the pole and therefore a colder area more suitable to support other civilizarions, the Dead Lands.Another point on which <a href="http://arena.athas.org/t/dark-sun-heresy/2347/49?u=otello" target="_blank">we have reached similar conclusions</a>. The inmigration option is the only one that helps to explain how so many different cultures can be found in a so small area. My headcanon is that the different Sorcerer Kings moved the remains of the different societies that survived the Cleansing Wars to the most habitable area: the Tablelands. I also like to think that the real origin of those societies was that their original inhabitants were "taken" from the real Earth, but that's something more controversial and that I can understand will not be of everyone's taste <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />. Even if I think it's something that the original designers had in mind when they wrote the original Campaign Setting.</blockquote>

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