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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8762560" data-attributes="member: 58172">Nice.So, Perkins describes how he develops his hombrew Iomandra setting, as he himself shifts from 3e to 4e. He incorporates "as many core world" ideas as possible.• Arkhosia: dragonborn empire• Bael Turath: tiefling kingdom• Nareth: human Bael Nareth parallels tiefling Bael Turath• Cendriane: fey eladrin refuge• Gar Morra: dwarf strongholeThese are 4e core locations.Notably, where Arkhosia is a long-gone extinct empire in 4e, Iomandra takes place during an earlier period when this dragonborn empire is still flourishing before its extinction. In the same time frame, Bael Nareth is an ancestor to the later Nareth Empire.Iomandra functions as the 4e core setting during a very ancient historical period.There is uncertainty about locations. Altho everyone in 4e knows that tieflings come from the ancient kingdom of Bael Turath, it isnt clear to me where exactly the land of this kingdom is now in relationship to the large Mortal map. Similarly, where is the land of the dragonborn empire of Arkhosia? Meanwhile, ancient Bael Nareth and its later Nareth Empire need not be the same place. (Compare how Turkmenistan is located elsewhere from Turkey. Syria is elsewhere from Tyre in Lebanon. Etcetera.)The point is, nothing precludes further development of the Iomandra setting that actually makes it on the same planet as the 4e Mortal map. Notably, the location of Nentir Vale which is central to Nareth, is absent from Bael Nareth and the region of islands. This suggests that Nareth itself is elsewhere in Iomandra, not shown on the regional map of islands.The reason for the speculation is, 5e is now dropping hints about a draconic "First World" that seems to somehow relate with the "Dawn War". Hypothetically, the 5e designers are planning to make the 4e core setting the First World setting, from which all other settings radiate. There is new interest in what the planet of the First World looks like. The 4e Mortal map, and possibly ideas from Iomandra and maybe even the islands themselves that specify the locations of Arkhosia and Bael Turath, might both become part of a future First World setting.</blockquote>

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