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Message: <blockquote data-quote="grodog" data-source="post: 7793052" data-attributes="member: 1613">It depends on your definition of and acceptance of canon, truthfully, but there is some very nice content about Western Oerik and other continents in these sources:Western Oerik:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Gygax set some of his Gord the Rogue short stories in lands west of the the Flanaess in "Night Arrant" and much of "Sea of Death" is set in the Sea of Dust; see Chris Siren's Gord's Greyhawk site for summaries of these:  <a href="https://greyhawkonline.com/gordmain/" target="_blank">Gord’s Greyhawk – Greyhawk Online</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dragon Magazine Annual #1 featured a map of the rest of western Oerik and a very high-level description of each nation</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">François Marcela-Froideval's "Black Moon Chronicles" graphic novels are set in the western lands of Oerik, but in a different form than what TSR published in the Dragon Annual map; see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Moon_Chronicles" target="_blank">Black Moon Chronicles - Wikipedia</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The WotC Chainmail game was set in Western Oerik's "The Sundered Empire" and they published several sourcebooks on the lands/armies of its peoples; these were written by Chris Pramas and did leverage existing Greyhawk lore competently (unlike many of the 2e-era RGPA and Greyhawk modules)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Erik Mona wrote several pieces about the western lands of Oerik that were cut from the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer due to space constraints; these were published on Canonfire! @ <a href="http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=iquander" target="_blank">Canonfire!</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Several fans have similarly written "Beyond the Flanaess" articles on Canonfire! @ <a href="http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=56" target="_blank">Canonfire!</a> including (among my favorites) Tal Meta's Sunelan Coast articles on Canonfire! @ <a href="http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=TalMeta" target="_blank">Canonfire!</a> (and map also @ <a href="http://www.talmeta.net/maps/wog.htm" target="_blank">Tal's Maps</a> too) and Joe "Greyhawk Grognard" Bloch's series  @ <a href="http://www.greyhawkgrognard.com/?s=%22beyond+the+flanaess%22" target="_blank">Search Results for “"beyond the flanaess"” – Greyhawk Grognard</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There's some work in the Oerth Journal on these areas too, IIRC:  <a href="https://greyhawkonline.com/oerthjournal/" target="_blank">Oerth Journal – Greyhawk Online</a></li> </ul>Other Continents:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The map in the Greyhawk folio on page 7 clearly shows two other continental landmasses; see <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153917262154832&set=a.10153917262099832&type=3&theater" target="_blank">Allan T. Grohe Jr.</a> for the picture</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Rob Kuntz also mentions the "legendary land of Lynn, somewhere across the eastern ocean and many thousands of miles away" in his entry about the Dragonmasters of Lynn, found in his Maure Castle "Chambers of Antiquities" adventure in Dragon #124</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Frank Mentzer's Aquaria continent is mentioned as set across the Solnor Ocean, and has some light-weight ties to the Great Kingdom</li> </ul>Gygax's second Greyhawk novel, Artifact of Evil, focuses quite a bit on the machinations of the Scarlet Brotherhood and is worth digging into, either directly or indirectly via Chris Siren's site I mentioned above.Allan.</blockquote>

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