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#1 nyluenatha Jun 05, 2009 9:40:49	So there's a couple of continents of Faerun that have been mentioned a few times here and there that I find I know nothing about, nor can I find anything on them except the mentions in a couple of threads. Katashaka and Osse? Where can I find resource information on these guys? From what I gather, it looks like these are pretty undeveloped material-wise. Maps, sourcebooks with any scraps of info would be awesome. Thanks in advance guys!
#2 yakman Jun 05, 2009 11:29:40	there is virtually no hard information on Osse, and even less on Katashaka. the only map showing them is the World Map in the 3E Campaign Book: http://www.geocities.com/zhentar2003/toril_2.jpg Osse is the large landmass to the south and east of Kara Tur. Katashaka (i believe) is the continent south of Maztica. The continent north of Maztica is called Anchorome and is rumored to be the refuge of the ancient progenitor race of Aaracokra.
#3 lord_karsus Jun 05, 2009 11:49:29	-Osse, plug, plug. Even if you aren't interested with the homebrew stuff we are creating, in the first two pages, I made about three posts or so that collect all of the information that exists about Osse, which mainly stems from the novel Lady of Poison, and the Class Chronicles article for Spirit Shaman. -On Katashaka, the little that exists about it will be found in AGHotR.
#4 nyluenatha Jun 05, 2009 11:56:27	there is virtually no hard information on Osse, and even less on Katashaka. the only map showing them is the World Map in the 3E Campaign Book: http://www.geocities.com/zhentar2003/toril_2.jpg Osse is the large landmass to the south and east of Kara Tur. Katashaka (i believe) is the continent south of Maztica. The continent north of Maztica is called Anchorome and is rumored to be the refuge of the ancient progenitor race of Aaracokra. Thanks for the link there, good stuff that map! I've been looking for that map for ages and couldn't remember where I'd seen it before!!! Much appreciation. LK, the stuff you've been working on for Osse is very nice. I likey what I see. I'll have to pick up Lady of Poison and check out the info in there. I think that might have been the single Priests novel I didn't read. Figures.
#5 Stigger Jun 05, 2009 13:42:12	Just as a FYI, the Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas program from 2e has the worldview as well... as did some other earlier source I'm sure, since it had to come from somewhere. Unless of course it was unique to the FRIA, which is possible I guess.
#6 ody_saraph_of_karsus Jun 05, 2009 13:59:27	FRIA = Freakin round Intercontinntal Assosiation ? (Funny fact fria means "cold one" in spanish and back in PR is used as a slang for beer i.e. "bartender,give me a "cold one") :P
#7 lord_karsus Jun 05, 2009 15:36:00	-Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas, a really cool mapping program.
#8 Stigger Jun 05, 2009 17:03:24	Which should have been obvious given that I italicized it in the post... :P Damned bulletcatchers...
#9 lord_karsus Jun 05, 2009 22:03:38	(Funny fact fria means "cold one" in spanish and back in PR is used as a slang for beer i.e. "bartender,give me a "cold one") :P -Necesitamos frias para todos, porque la Gripa de Encantas.
#10 markustay63 Jun 06, 2009 0:21:18	The only map showing them is the World Map in the 3E Campaign Book: http://www.geocities.com/zhentar2003/toril_2.jpg I should really 'prettify' that for everyone. Edit: Here's a pic from the FRIA - if it's not okay to post that, I can always take it back down. Show
#11 fillow Jun 06, 2009 3:17:16	I should really 'prettify' that for everyone. [b] Hi Mark, what do you mean with 'prettify'
#12 Stigger Jun 06, 2009 8:43:16	Work his magic on the maps I'd guess, and turn it into something other than a sepia outline of continents.
#13 markustay63 Jun 06, 2009 13:01:26	Correct. Hi Mark, what do you mean with 'prettify' Something like this - Show
#14 fillow Jun 06, 2009 15:09:11	Hi Mark, what do you mean with 'prettify' Thanks to both of you for these explanations. Mark, you're a craazy mapper you know?
#15 fillow Jun 06, 2009 15:10:15	Hi Mark, what do you mean with 'prettify' Thanks to both of you for these explanations. Mark, you're a crazy mapper you know?
#16 lord_karsus Jun 06, 2009 16:34:06	Mark, you're a crazy mapper you know? -That's not all he is. ;)
#17 markustay63 Jun 06, 2009 17:50:15	I've been called many things in my life... I can live with 'Crazy Mapper'. :D
#18 ody_saraph_of_karsus Jun 08, 2009 9:01:03	-Necesitamos frias para todos, porque la Gripa de Encantas. Oh trust me, with the baby girl on the way, I'll be needing LOTS of "cold ones"
#19 lord_karsus Jun 09, 2009 22:00:35	-How is that "entire world map" coming, anyway? A distant dream in the distance?
#20 markustay63 Jun 10, 2009 2:53:36	Well, every time I make some headway, my skills increase and I start over. I'm hoping my artistic abilites reach a ceiling eventually and level off (so I can get some godam work done!) Anyhow, I'm nearly done with Faerûn 4.0 (which is not to be confused with 4eFR) - I just need to tidy things up in the east and south, and then I'll present the entire continent as a 'blank' map, and then I'll start filing it in with all the locales from all the other maps I've put together. The piece-meal way I was working before was very counter-productive. I spent the better part of today tweaking the hell out of the Shar. I know it isn't really an important place, but the 3e changes reaked havoc on that region and I've been trying to fix it with each 'edition' of maps I make. I finally got Shaareach looking more like it's old self, but we don't have as much space between things like we used to. I could have 'shrunk-up' terrain features (thats how I corrected other areas, like the latest iteration of Erlkazar), but in the case of the Shaar, perhaps losing some of that emptiness wasn't such a bad thing. My favorite thing so far is the Shining lands - they are much further north, as they were originally, and I'm really loving how that whole 'connecting region' (the Wastes, Raurin, Shining Lands, and Utter East) is coming along this time out. My big mistake was going by the small bits of Gbor Nor and the Great Ice sea that show on the official map - those sizes were WAY off and totally hosed the Hordelands on me. This time out, I'm doing everything from scratch, and not worrying about conforming to the 3e map's distortions.
#21 lord_karsus Jun 10, 2009 10:25:12	-You should make all locations and such on a different layer of the map, so you can make both those empty maps, and normal maps at the same time.
#22 markustay63 Jun 10, 2009 15:16:13	Geeeeeeee.... I've only been saying exactly that for the past three months. :P I've also developed much better research habits - the alternative was to rip all of my hair out of my head eventually... :embarrass Which means in the back of the atlas, EVERY name on the map will have an entry in the glossary of where it is from (including listings for each edition, where applicable). Quite possibly THE most useful thing anyone has ever created for DMs for use in their games. :D Everything will have seperate layers, which means that locale names will be seperate from terrain names, and generally-known locales will be seperate from 'secret' locales (like dungeons). DMS will be able to print-out precisely what they want for player handouts.
#23 Stigger Jun 10, 2009 16:03:51	Easy to do with Campaign Cartographer... has been for years. Sadly, I've been a bit wary of that program lately for some reason I don't quite get... just have this massive block in my head when it comes to mapping, which is bad for me, since I love mapping...
#24 lord_karsus Jun 10, 2009 22:23:43	Geeeeeeee.... I've only been saying exactly that for the past three months. :P -I'm ahead of the trend, then. Normally it's more than three. ;)
#25 old_sage Jun 11, 2009 2:14:11	I've also developed much better research habits... Hmmm. Such as?
#26 markustay63 Jun 11, 2009 8:00:46	Well, I write down everything now, as soon as I come across it. I used to depend on memory a lot (which was perfect in my youth), and I also had a bad habit of placing locales on a map directly from a source... and then forgetting where it was from a month later (and having to go back through EVERYTHING to try and find it). Now I record each and every find WHEN I find it, along with source and a single descriptive sentence. I also created a folder on my HD with seperate Word documents for each source (even if a certain source only had one piece of info). Ergo, every single novel and sourcebook gets it's own document. For instance, yesterday I created a page for Realms of Infamy, because I came across the town of Rysheos, which is only mentioned in that novel, AFAIK. Nothing high-tech, just a more organized way of doing things. I had to learn the hard way that my memory ain't what it used to be. I will also be calling upon your vast storehouse of knowledge, Sage, when I get around to the more commonly known locales. ;)
#27 old_sage Jun 11, 2009 9:07:31	I will also be calling upon your vast storehouse of knowledge, Sage, when I get around to the more commonly known locales. ;) I'll be here. Or at Candlekeep. You know. :P