Forgotten Realms Lake of Steam

[soulforge]

I'm going to run an FR campaign based around the Lake of Steam region.. most notably the mountain area to the left. Are there any sourcebooks that delve into that area in depth. It doesn't need to be 3rd edition as I mainly want it for the background info and flavor of the area.

Any of your FR sages know of anything that'll help me out. Any books, volo's guides, or anything else that'll give me some good info on the area.

 

[Vascant]

A google search for "Lake of Steam" comes up with some interesting results you may find helpfull

 

[soulforge]

From the lack of replies I guess that there is either no really relevant book, or Forgoteen Realms-fu is weak today. I did try the google, but didn't seem to really get terribly much other than some messageboard discussion about bane coming into the area.

 

[BobROE]

Empires of the Shining Sea detail the Lake of Steam area, whether it details that mountain range, I don't know.

 

[howandwhy99]

Empires of the Shining Sea is what you want. It is 100's of pages long and in an 8 pt font. The first section details Calimshan and the second the entire area around the Lake of Steam. It was written by Steven Schend IIRC. It was rather dry reading to me though and far too much information.

I picked this up originally as I was preparing for a FR Border Kingdoms campaign. Only later did I realize Ed Greenwood had fleshed them out for the most part in old Polyhedron magazines. These were too much of an investment to track all down, so the campaign stopped before it started.

I'm still convinced all the RED placenames on the FRCS map are "live" in terms of description. In other words, these are places he was allowed to develop and grow.