Returned Abeir "Continent"

[El Mahdi]

Well, I just checked the Abeir map, it is about 800 miles across, but I can't remember how far across mainland Toril is (and any listed distance is probably from Waterdeep to Thay). I've got my old FR interactive atlas at home and that map of Toril looks like it is from that set. Campaign Cartographer has a method where you can measure from point to point, so I'll double-check the distances on the map when I get home.

Make sure to calculate it as Great Circle Distance!

 

[Stormonu]

Gah! Abeir is Greenland!

 

[jimmifett]

Urgh. I haven't followed anything about the Realms since 2E days. What's on this 'returned' continent? Personally, one of the things I liked about FR was it's multicultural aspect, which included Maztica...

Places from the twin world of aebir got ripped and dumped on toril (and vice versa) when REDACTED got REDACTED, causing the REDACTED to be REDACTED, bringing down seperations between the worlds while the REDACTED was occuring.

The new continent is, i believe, home to some very nasty dragons and thier dragonborn slaves from aebir. There should be a missing part that landed on top of Unther and crushed everything udnerneath. This area is occupied by freedom fighting, bacon loving dragoborn that were fighting the dragons back on aebir and carved out a nation for themselves.

 

[TarionzCousin]

It could have been worse; it could have come back as "Returned Abeir Incontinent."

 

[El Mahdi]

It could have been worse; it could have come back as "Returned Abeir Incontinent."

OMG! Why is it everyone wants to poop on the Realms???!!!

 

[Set]

I always liked Io's Blood Isles, from the Council of Wyrms setting. Plotzing that map down somewhere in Faerun (I kinda want to put it where Evermeet is, because I never really liked that place...) and using it as the launching point for the Dragonborn might have been an interesting option.

 

[Achan hiArusa]

The map was more for comparison. I used the scale on the lower right side to scale the returned Aberir continent. The scale is 1000 miles in length. The map for returned Aberir is 800 miles square. So it is big enough to fit into the trackless sea and definitely much smaller than the Maztican continent it was supposed to displace, not that I would do that anyway, but more land is always a plus.

 

[Achan hiArusa]

Sorry about the double post, but here is Toril with Io's blood in the corner. The map is 1530 miles across so there may be a little distortion since I did the resizing by hand, but it's pretty close.

 

[Dragonhelm]

The map was more for comparison. I used the scale on the lower right side to scale the returned Aberir continent. The scale is 1000 miles in length. The map for returned Aberir is 800 miles square. So it is big enough to fit into the trackless sea and definitely much smaller than the Maztican continent it was supposed to displace, not that I would do that anyway, but more land is always a plus.

What I don't understand is why they didn't just drop Returned Abeir between the Maztican continent and Faerun.

Maztica probably isn't the most popular of the Realms' subsettings, but why get rid of it completely?

 

[Achan hiArusa]

I don't know either (I have my theory, but I am going to be quiet about that, I had my rant). If you had a few Maztican bound adventurers they could end up crashing on the Aberiran continent and finding out more of the place. You can even put it closer to Evermeet, I just put it down there because it wouldn't cover up any words.