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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sanglorian" data-source="post: 5867825" data-attributes="member: 83822">I've created one more variation on the hex map: a map of where I think the mountains, seas/oceans and the Kingswood start and end (<a href="http://imageshack.us/f/840/shroudedlandsborders.jpg/" target="_blank">Imageshack - shroudedlandsborders.jpg</a>). Obviously, it's not canonical: people can fill in hexes however they like. But I was getting pretty confused trying to imagine the Keening Sea and this has helped me out there.There are two shades of green - that's because I'm not sure if the Kingswood is meant to extend to the very top of the map.I think it's good we're talking about introductions and getting more people involved and stuff. I think quoting bits from some entries is a good idea - I think a great candidate is "The ostrlich does not have the ageless cunning of a true lich. It is still an ostrich, after all.I think the sheer amount of content is definitely a deterrent to others contributing. I have a big idea about how we could change that, but it'll have to wait until I finish my essay. Other than that, I think having the shortest region as a target for entries is a good idea, as well as emphasising that you only need to link to one or two existing hexes.This is what I came up with in class yesterday, if you'd like to use it:CONTRIBUTING TO THE SHROUDED LANDSThe Shrouded Lands are a strange and varied fantasy setting. They have silly monsters like an ostrich lich (the ostrlich) and creepy cults like the Creche of a Million Young. They have twisted romances like the wereshark storm giant who mourns his dead lover and unsolved mysteries like that of the contract between the Prince of Man and the Bloodied King. In short, any contribution will fit into these Lands.   The one special feature of these hex entries is that they are connected to one another. But they don’t need to be connected to more than one hex. My suggestion is to find a hex that interests you, and write another hex entry linked to that one. You don’t need to read tens of thousands of words to join in!  Also, don’t worry about your entry making too much sense! If there’s a seeming inconsistency, just add a hook: ‘Why does X happen?’ Someone else can come along with an entry which clears up the inconsistency. TOUR OF THE SHROUDED LANDS   You’ve heard of the incredible firebirds, but this is the first one you’ve ever seen. It shimmers like the hearth in your home, like the hair of a beautiful woman, like the sun itself, and the sky and the water and the distant mountains seem to brighten in its presence.    A flying viper latches on to its head and tries to swallow it whole. The two plummet to the ground, where an ibis pecks at them and defecates freely.    There is a weird and sometimes funny melancholy to the Shrouded Lands, an island that overlooks the edge of the world. The gods – for all the praise of priests – are strange and inhuman. The animals – like mongrel dogs birthed in whole packs by a giant bitch – are twisted reflections of what you might expect to find. The people – and note, I do not say ‘the humans’ … well, one quivers in a lonely hut, one sits motionless prophesying for her chimerical goddess and one fuses the heads of those he kills to his body, making a screaming, arguing, genius mess.    Let me be your guide to the Shrouded Lands. We shall start at the Pool of the Firebirds. To the west, the endless Ocean of Bitter Regrets. Winging east over the Draugmere Peaks, passing the relentless Grey Mountains to the north, we come to the Kingswood. Jealously guarded by the elves, it is death to walk among its trees but humans have cut a path beneath it – the Welt Road.   The Welt Road surfaces at the Lands of the Night Cattle, where they graze their cattle under the moon so as to keep their hide pure white and untouched by sun. The Welt Road continues north to Titan’s Skull, the great fastness of the dwarves. If we continue our passage east, we pass through the Withered Moors and come to the World’s Edge: a great cliff which stretches north and south for many miles. We return now to the Lands of the Night Cattle and take the Welt Road back, this time heading south along the White Road to the City of Shuttered Windows. Its walls stand tall and unmoving, but the city itself is sinking into the ground. The Shuttered City is on the shore of the Keening Sea, and as we head south-east we come to the gnoll-ridden Burning Lands. Of these lands we will say little, except that beyond them still are the Twelve Nations, or what remains of them. These are the great sites of the Shrouded Lands – unless you have others that you wish to tell me of?---And another hex:Laughing Sam (01.05)                                A rocky peninsula juts into the Ocean of Bitter Regrets. At its very end is a small and twisted willow leaning well over the Ocean. At its base rests a boy with a battered straw hat tugged over his eyes.  Laughing Sam – when he is awake – is a cheerful dryad who invites other to sport with him along the peninsula. If a brave soul follows him all the way out to the willows, Sam showers them with ‘trifles’: pearls, fish that shed their scales and cough out their bones when asked politely and the courie-shell currency of Naros. He does not yet know of that nation’s fall.  Sam cannot move beyond the peninsula, and his selkie friends will ask him to pass on requests for brave surface dwellers. Recent problems include the King of Salt and Brine swallowing a selkie shield maiden’s helm and the Pirate Kings making underwater raids.  Hooks What connection does Laughing Sam have to fallen Naros?      Happy birthday!Linux Biolinium O, which you can get from the Open Fonts Project: <a href="http://www.linuxlibertine.org/" target="_blank">LinuxLibertine.org | Public domain Fonts: Biolinum and Libertine</a> That makes sense.Hurrah!Thanks! I had the Sorrowful Men in mind as well; I haven't heard of the Faceless Men.Monster update:Dopplegangers (43.27)Dryads (01.05, 30.12)Dwarves (30.12)Grey Revenants (43.27)Hags (46.15) Heget, see HagsOrcs (30.12)Selkies (01.05)Minor corrections:                                The Ziggurat refers to ‘greenschis’. Should read ‘greenschist’.  The Ocean of Bitter Regrets says ‘their their mothers’. Should read ‘their mothers’.</blockquote>

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