Part of what I love about this game is the Everquest style world map.
I was reading through race lore and couldn't find on the map where Dwarves would hail. It says in the southern tundra, yet I don't see a Tundra-esq place in the south. I only see six crowns, which I can narrow down as starting areas for...
Thronefast - Humans
Faerthal - Elves
Wilds End - Halflings
Skargol - Skar
The Broken Maw - Ogre
Syrnoai's Rest - Dark Myr
So my question is... where do Archai, Gnomes and Dwarves fit in?
The continent those three races reside on is called Whitethaw, and is not depicted in the map on this site.1 I am pretty sure the reason for this is that it is an old conceptual map, which will be updated at some point in the future. There is a line from the telling of the Age of Chaos iirc that says "Avendyr (important human king) was mourned on no less than half a dozen continents" when he died, which implies to me a much more fleshed out world. I wouldn't take too much stock in the map for now. Incidentally, Khaldassa is merely a region on Whitethaw, not a continent in and of itself.
edit: I sincerely apologize, the Archai do not in fact reside on Whitethaw proper; they live in particular on the island of Su'Roa. I believe my mistake was precipitated by the description of their alliance of convenience with the Dwarves, who do in fact live on Whitethaw, and of the description of their hiding in the Frozen Sanctum which also lies near that continent in what is known as the "Tenebrous Tundra".
1. To avoid pedantry I'll just add here that Gnomes technically live in what is basically a spaceship that just so happens to be located "on" Whitethaw.
I don’t know where the in game locations will be for the races, but I hope there is no world map in game. That kind of cheapens the experience of adventure and exploration. It’s enough that we can see this map and get an idea of where everything is before even playing the game.
Well, if EQ is anything to go by we'll probably be using our memorization of landmarks and the Pantheon compass at the top as our primary means of orienteering. Add reasonable topological maps in places like local inns and you're good to go. GPS systems are one of the worst things to happen to the genre, I'm over the moon they won't be present.
You have some Lore, speculations, deductions and maps here : https://www.pantheonmmo.com/content/forums/topic/4563/race-locations-and-speculations
I just hope they change it up more, so that all the good races are not on one continent and all the bad races on the other.
The races were supposed to in conflict at times. That is much harder and less natural when they are separated by oceans.
Usually city-states go to war with their neighbors, not travel to another continent to fight.
Getting enough trips to another continent for a real invasion force is very difficult, especially while leaving your home relatively undefended, unless you complete outnumbered and overpower the opponent.
Same reason why the US has been relatively safe from wars on our soil.
Beefcake said:I just hope they change it up more, so that all the good races are not on one continent and all the bad races on the other.
The races were supposed to in conflict at times. That is much harder and less natural when they are separated by oceans.
Usually city-states go to war with their neighbors, not travel to another continent to fight.
Getting enough trips to another continent for a real invasion force is very difficult, especially while leaving your home relatively undefended, unless you complete outnumbered and overpower the opponent.
Same reason why the US has been relatively safe from wars on our soil.
Agree, mix them up. Make it interesting. :)
CanadinaXegony said:Beefcake said:I just hope they change it up more, so that all the good races are not on one continent and all the bad races on the other.
The races were supposed to in conflict at times. That is much harder and less natural when they are separated by oceans.
Usually city-states go to war with their neighbors, not travel to another continent to fight.
Getting enough trips to another continent for a real invasion force is very difficult, especially while leaving your home relatively undefended, unless you complete outnumbered and overpower the opponent.
Same reason why the US has been relatively safe from wars on our soil.
Agree, mix them up. Make it interesting. :)
Yes, please do this. It won't feel as real to me if all the good races are together in one place and the bad races are together in another.
EDIT: Had my comment inside the quote...fail.
Love the world map, can't wait to see it updated! But PLEASE no GPS map! Compass and landmarks ftw!
If we have a compass, we should have sense heading. I loved it when the compass would keep changing because my skill was not good enough.
