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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 49828" data-attributes="member: 2020">IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ!I have found another URL.  It delivers the goods!  Check out THIS map!  <a href="http://members.aol.com/cathbhadhx/tsroerth.gif" target="_blank">http://members.aol.com/cathbhadhx/tsroerth.gif</a>  Hyperborea is another name for Telchuria.  I would place the Wind Dukes of Aaqa as being north of Orcreich.  Basically, the nation of Aaqa has conquered the northern third of Orcreich, and the Wind Dukes rule Aaqa.  The hold everything west of the mountains, and the mountains themselves, right up to the wind swept and cold northern coast.  In addition, the Wind Dukes of Aaqa have conquered and hold all the land east of the mountains (east clear to that bay that dips deep down into the continent) down to a point in latitude equal to their holdings west of the mountains.   Esmerin lies entirely in the high mountains east and east-northeast of the Celestial Imperium, far to the south of Aaqa, west and west-southwest of the Baklunish Empire (which, as you know in our IR is broken into many nations, of which Garnak is the strongest), and west of the Suel Imperium.  If the Wind Dukes of Aaqa hold the northern part of the mountain range that adjuts Orcreich on the east, the halflings and titans of Esmerin hold the same range much further south (with a very long unclaimed area of mountains between the two nations.)  Esmerin holds the whole mountain region where the mountains break up into many chains, one heading for Zingia, one for the Suel Empire, one for the Baklunish Empire, etc.  The Storm Riders of Telchuria live in the mountains and coastlands of what is marked Hyperborea on the map, north and northeast of the Sea of Hyperborea.  They are a very warlike, very hard people, reflecting the climate of their land and their adaptation to it.  They are very powerful magically, and their lords and knights travel around, not on horses, but on minature tornadoes that whisk them in comfort from one place to another.  (Please remember that Telchuria is a polar continent.  Therefore, seeing it as being in the extreme northwest is a mistake.  Basically, it looks south in all directions, as do it's people.)  The Celestial Empire is well marked (but in our IR it doesn't stretch quite so far west, because in the far west Ishtarland has conquered the area.)  There is Erypt, south of the Celestial Empire and separated from it by the Celestial Sea.  There is Ishtarland, way over on the southwestern coast of Oerik.  There is Lyrn (they call it Lynn, but it is Lyrn in this IR.)  Lyrn is huge!  Varnaith is in the land and ocean south of the Suel Imperium.  Except it isn't ocean - think of an area with 3 mountain ranges running east to west, with tropical valleys between them, from Zindia in the west, to the Pearl Sea on the east.  That would be Varnaith.  In this IR, Zindia is smaller, and separated from Varnaith by Varna Bay, which is not on the map - it is a narrow bay that stretches north clear to the mountains that are the southern edge of the Suel Imperium.  The Empire of the Yuan-Ti occupies the whole central part of the continent of Hempmonaland (not named - that piece of land in the southeast part of the map.)  It extends to both coasts, east and west.  It faces off against Varnaith's east coast across the Pearl Sea.  The Isle of Nippon is further south in our IR (it has to be, to make room for Varnaith.)  There is the Domain of Nippon, and Zindia.  Both unclaimed, and undefined.</blockquote>

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