Beyond the Flanaess

[Schmoe]

On the fold-out map that comes with the Greyhawk Gazeteer, there is a small inset in the bottom left (southwest) corner that shows the entire Oerth and highlights the area covered by the fold-out map. This area is the Flanaess, and it is a vast area that has been fairly richly detailed. In fact, as far as I can tell, the entire Greyhawk history has taken place within the confines of this map.

My question, then, is this: has anything been written about the areas beyond the Flanaess? I'm extremely curious, as the Flanaess, large as it is, is still only a very small fraction of the entire Oerth. Are there maps? Stories? Histories? Adventures? And where could I go to learn more?

 

[kenobi65]

IIRC, the factions in WotC's "Chainmail" minis game from a few years back were supposed to be based in another section of Oerth, but I don't think I ever read any particular details (I never followed that game).

 

[Alzrius]

An extremely brief description of the rest of Oerik was given in one of the earlier Dragon Annual issues, IIRC.

Later, the Chainmail game updated things as western Oerik plunged into a war when the god Stratis died, saying that whoever reassembled his panoply would become the new god of war.

 

[Hawklord]

My question, then, is this: has anything been written about the areas beyond the Flanaess? I'm extremely curious, as the Flanaess, large as it is, is still only a very small fraction of the entire Oerth. Are there maps? Stories? Histories? Adventures? And where could I go to learn more?

There's some basic stuff on Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oerth

There's a few refrences there to other sources. The link there to the Oerth Journal also provides some basic info.

It's also worth searching around on Cannonfire http://www.canonfire.com/

Cheers

 

[Schmoe]

Thanks everyone. Wow, I'm really surprised no one has done much to flesh out what is an enormous, uncharted area. Hawklord, I'll look at those links. I'm the type of person who sees a map and is immediately drawn to the unexplored areas. I go hiking and am drawn to the valley that the trails skirt around. I guess I'm probably the kind of player DMs hate

 

[D'karr]

Thanks everyone. Wow, I'm really surprised no one has done much to flesh out what is an enormous, uncharted area. Hawklord, I'll look at those links. I'm the type of person who sees a map and is immediately drawn to the unexplored areas. I go hiking and am drawn to the valley that the trails skirt around. I guess I'm probably the kind of player DMs hate

I think one of the reasons for this is that Greyhawk was originally intended to be expanded by the DM. You'd get the Flanaess, as part of the published work, but everything else was yours to explore in whatever manner you saw fit.

Frank Mentzer's Aquaria campaign, as a matter of fact, takes place on one of the continents to the west, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Schmoe]

In case anyone's interested, I did manage to find an interesting map here: http://www.sodabob.com/roleplay/dnd/Maps/files/tsroerth.gif

It gives kingdom and area names to most of the large landmass of Oerth.

 

[Ripzerai]

In case anyone's interested, I did manage to find an interesting map here: http://www.sodabob.com/roleplay/dnd/Maps/files/tsroerth.gif

It gives kingdom and area names to most of the large landmass of Oerth.

That's the map from the Dragon Magazine Annual #1. The names aren't official, but the shape of the continent (Oerik) is canonical.

Here's a map I made combining the Chainmail map with some of the other maps:

 

[Ripzerai]

Here's a version I made with names from an old, old unofficial article Erik Mona wrote about nations described or mentioned in Gary Gygax's Gord the Rogue and Sagard books.

 

[qstor]

IIRC Erik Mona mentioned that parts of that map from Dragon aren't really canon as far as the LGG team was concerned. The mention of Fireland in Greyhawk: the adventure begins and that addition of the Ataphad Islands were attempts at some discussions of lands beyond the Flanness that were ok from a "canon" prespective.

Mike