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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fieari" data-source="post: 1378572" data-attributes="member: 16221">Ah, here we go.  The map: <a href="http://mywebpages.comcast.net/Fieari/Roleplay/Eigmas_Island.jpg" target="_blank">Click Here!</a>Map Description (to accompany map linked above)The island can be thought of as being divided into three peices.Western ThirdThe western third consists almost exclusively of the NAVAN FOREST, whom rational people are more or less afraid of. The Forest swallows travellers. People are superstitious about the forest, and most fear to even speak it's name. Recently, a cult has begun to spring up around the worship of the forest, and this cult is slowly gaining considerable political influence. The Navan Cult (Church of Navan) is based from a temple just east of the forest, across the Navan River which seperates the forest from the rest of the island.The Navan Forest has one known bridge, made of wood, located not far from the Navan Temple. This is known as the Merchant's Bridge, even though no merchant would dream of crossing it (no sane merchant, at least). More bridges are rumored to exist, but why would anyone ever want to find them?Some children are forbidden to go anywhere near the forest. Most children are of the type that don't need forbidding... the forest is just not a place people go.Neva Town is a tiny, insignificant village on the southwest edge of the Navan Forest. Since no one dares travel through the forest, the only access is by sea. The population is slight, and about a fourth of the town is infected by a strange plague for which there is apparently no cure.Middle ThirdThe central thrid of the island (extending from the south shore of the island to the north shore) is the most populated. On the north shore, there is the thriving port town of Erdafel, surrounded by a wooden stockade. This town consists mostly of the middle class.Near Erdafel is Blackswan Lake, and to the south of the lake is Elevendeep Forest (yes, eleven not elven) which is a bright and airy and mostly friendly forest, rumored to be the home of an elven population (it is, and as such you may choose to have an elven character).On the south shore of the island is the human capital city Samis, which is not only a port town, but also built up onto the side of the nearby Argathorian Mountain Range, which extends here to the sea. Samis is a very wealthy city, made almost exclusively of stone (the REALLY rich areas are made of polished marble or obsidian). It is a walled city.Where there isn't forest or lake or town, there are small farming homesteads scattered here and there.The central third of the island is bordered to the west by the Navan River (and forest) and to the east by the Arganothian Range, which may have at one time been the home of dwarves. Nowadays, however, it is the home to a terrible and wicked Black Dragon, bound beneath the earth by a powerful sorcerer's gias. As such, any dwarven characters must be immigrants from the mainland to live in one of the human controlled towns.Samis and Erdafel both are walled to protect themselves from raids by monsters sent by the Black Dragon. Individual farms are usually ignored by these monsters, are as as such, safe.The monsters themselves are believed to come from the Valley of Shadows, a small area between the mountains and the Tears River.  The valley contains only sparse vegetation and is covered with iron filings, making the landscape appear entirely black until viewed up close.  This iron is no more harvested than the mountains are mined... although while nothing is mined for fear of a SPECIFIC monster (the dragon), the iron is not collected for fear of monsters in general.East ThirdTo the east of the mountain range is mostly uninhabited, aside from the rare and occasional hermit. Through this area runs the Tears River, which used to be the home of a powerful human city, but was destroyed hundreds or thousands of years ago. Now not even the ruins can be found. The far eastern tip of the island is home to a solitary Ivory Tower. Although a window is visible near the top of the tower, no one has ever been seen at the window, nor any lights. There is no door to this tower.</blockquote>

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