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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Werthead" data-source="post: 9356161" data-attributes="member: 7045643">Turmish is somewhat North African in the sense it is home to dark-skinned people, but it doesn't seem to have Africa-specific analogues. It's the only pure democracy in Faerun, which was interesting but under-explored. The general idea is that the Shaar and the Shining South in general are somewhat Africa-like shading to India-like (there being no direct Africa-like continent, although Katashaka has elements of Africa and South America, but has never gotten its own sourcebook, and Zakhara's massive deserts at least a nod to the Sahara).Mulhorand, famously, is Egypt with the serial numbers filed off.It was meant to be on Oerth, west of the Flanaess, but when Gygax was kicked out of TSR there was a decision to stop using Greyhawk. Gygax's departure did Not Go Down Well with the hardcore fans and people trying to carry on Greyhawk without Gygax would have likely elicited comments (they eventually did start doing stuff again with Greyhawk, but a few years later). When that happened, they needed another "mostly standard" D&D setting, as Dragonlance was both too small (literally, Ansalon is tiny) and too off-core (no orcs, no halflings etc) to fit the bell, and just happened to have Ed Greenwood contributing his Dragon magazine articles for a decade set in his own world that they could handily just buy off him (for $5K and an Apple II!). And away they went.In the meantime Kara-Tur was briefly detailed in Oriental Adventures, but without any maps or firm info (as they weren't sure what was happening with it) and it just being its own setting. Then it got retro-bolted onto the Forgotten Realms when it came out (over Greenwood's mild objections).</blockquote>

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