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Map from grand history of the realms

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#1
JohnLynch
Jan 04, 2011 15:10:24 On page 6 there's an old map. It's about 6500 miles across. Is this just a map of faerun (which is only 3500 miles across?) os is it a map of Maratha and shalwar as well?
#2
iakhovas
Jan 04, 2011 16:16:03 The map shows a super-continent (named Merrouroboros by the Sarrukh) which once dominated Toril before the Sundering. After that cataclysmic event, this landmass would splinter into the later-day continents of Faerûn, Maztica, Katashaka, and Zakhara.
#3
iakhovas
Jan 04, 2011 16:18:46 Incidently, this map is likely what the twin world of Abeir looks like today, unless it too suffered a world-shacking cataclysm similar in scale to the Sundering.
#4
JohnLynch
Jan 04, 2011 17:11:28 Thanks Brian. I realise my post wasn't exactly the clearest. I quickly wrote it on the iPad before I had to go.

I wanted to know what that map was exactly because I wanted to know what Abeir probably looked like.

I'm thinking of running a campaign on Returned Abeir, and so I want to get a clear understanding of what Abeir would be like so I can appropriately fluff it (I won't be telling the PCs that the campaign is set in Toril, but will instead be telling them its set in Laerakond. I'll be writing up a "Player's Guide to Laerakrond" so they can make appropriately themed natives).

Incidently, that means either Laerakrond existed at the time of Merrouroboros, or part of Merrouroboros split apart sometime in the past and travelled across Abeir to its current position. If it co-existed with Merrouroboros before the Abeir-Toril split then it must have been either moved or smashed to pieces when Maztica travelled across to its present location.
#5
gomeztoo
Jan 05, 2011 0:54:09
Laerakond may be the island that is labeled 'Aeraee Enclaves' on the map (I think it is roughly in the same position).

It is a bit different, but thousands of years of erosions, a few floods and transposition back to Toril may have caused that.

Gomez
#6
JohnLynch
Jan 05, 2011 2:05:31
Laerakond may be the island that is labeled 'Aeraee Enclaves' on the map (I think it is roughly in the same position).
It is a bit different, but thousands of years of erosions, a few floods and transposition back to Toril may have caused that.

Gomez

That certainly works. Although after a bit more reading I discovered an "unknown continent to the west" co-existed with Merrouroboros due to the fact that Merrouroboros wasn't sundered until -17,600 DR while couatl inhabited "an unknown continent to the west" in -24,000 DR.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 JohnLynch Jan 04, 2011 15:10:24	On page 6 there's an old map. It's about 6500 miles across. Is this just a map of faerun (which is only 3500 miles across?) os is it a map of Maratha and shalwar as well?
#2 iakhovas Jan 04, 2011 16:16:03	The map shows a super-continent (named Merrouroboros by the Sarrukh) which once dominated Toril before the Sundering. After that cataclysmic event, this landmass would splinter into the later-day continents of Faerûn, Maztica, Katashaka, and Zakhara.
#3 iakhovas Jan 04, 2011 16:18:46	Incidently, this map is likely what the twin world of Abeir looks like today, unless it too suffered a world-shacking cataclysm similar in scale to the Sundering.
#4 JohnLynch Jan 04, 2011 17:11:28	Thanks Brian. I realise my post wasn't exactly the clearest. I quickly wrote it on the iPad before I had to go. I wanted to know what that map was exactly because I wanted to know what Abeir probably looked like. I'm thinking of running a campaign on Returned Abeir, and so I want to get a clear understanding of what Abeir would be like so I can appropriately fluff it (I won't be telling the PCs that the campaign is set in Toril, but will instead be telling them its set in Laerakond. I'll be writing up a "Player's Guide to Laerakrond" so they can make appropriately themed natives). Incidently, that means either Laerakrond existed at the time of Merrouroboros, or part of Merrouroboros split apart sometime in the past and travelled across Abeir to its current position. If it co-existed with Merrouroboros before the Abeir-Toril split then it must have been either moved or smashed to pieces when Maztica travelled across to its present location.
#5 gomeztoo Jan 05, 2011 0:54:09	Laerakond may be the island that is labeled 'Aeraee Enclaves' on the map (I think it is roughly in the same position). It is a bit different, but thousands of years of erosions, a few floods and transposition back to Toril may have caused that. Gomez
#6 JohnLynch Jan 05, 2011 2:05:31	Laerakond may be the island that is labeled 'Aeraee Enclaves' on the map (I think it is roughly in the same position). It is a bit different, but thousands of years of erosions, a few floods and transposition back to Toril may have caused that. Gomez That certainly works. Although after a bit more reading I discovered an "unknown continent to the west" co-existed with Merrouroboros due to the fact that Merrouroboros wasn't sundered until -17,600 DR while couatl inhabited "an unknown continent to the west" in -24,000 DR.