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<blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 4704782" data-attributes="member: 2012"><p><strong>Moved here from my World of Kulan Maps thread</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>ISHAMARK REGION</strong></p><p>On the other side of the <strong>World of Kulan</strong>, as far away from the <strong>Lands of Harqual</strong> as can be, are <strong>The Ancient Lands</strong> of the continent of <strong>Kanpur</strong>. It is from here that civilization first grew, and even Harqual owes its current history in part to Kanpur.</p><p></p><p>By far the most detailed area of this massive continent in my mind is the <strong>Ishamark Region</strong>. If that name seems familiar to you and you're not sure why then go into your d20 system collection of books and find your copy of Bluffside: City on the Edge. Ishamark is the name of the Sea beyond Bluffside, and I use that same name for my campaign world. I have also included the region known as the <strong>Burning Sands</strong>, which is also part of the Bluffside campaign setting. (Dry Lands: Empires of the Dragon Sands.)</p><p></p><p>However, the Ishamark Region takes into account a lot more than just Bluffside. It also includes the <strong>City of Parma</strong>, which is detailed in the d20 reference Streets of Silver. I only use that reference from the Twin Crowns Campaign Setting so only the cities noted in that book made it onto my map; although, the whole area northeast of Parma is, basically, an altered version of <strong>Novarum</strong> (with the serial numbers filed off, so to speak). It will be very different than <em>Living Imagination's</em> creation.</p><p></p><p>The cities of <strong>Ciudad Talan</strong> and <strong>Ciudad Fal</strong> are the major cities of a power known as the <strong>Talangrán Empire</strong>. This empire is based on the adventure "<em>The Lady Rose</em>," by Steven Kurtz, in DUNGEON Magazine #34. That adventure doesn't describe a lot about Talangrán, but it gave me just enough of an overview to become fascinated with the Castillian way of life.</p><p></p><p>There is a lot more on the map (see next post) than I can describe here as most of it is brand new, designed to flesh out the region in more detail. Many of the city names are based on real world cities, but I've tried to use the more obscure spellings or ancient names. I've also simply modified some names to be more unique. For example, <strong>Alekandra</strong> is based on the city of Alexandria in the Teleorman County of Romania. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> has become a great resouce in finding appropriate names for cities, fortresses, towns, characters, and the like.)</p><p></p><p>The city named <strong>Barcino</strong> comes from a legend of the founding of the city of Barcelona. The city named <strong>Scopula</strong> is from an issue of the old Ethos e-zine. The city named <strong>Tânger</strong> is the Portuguese spelling of the city of Tangier, in northern Morocco. The city named <strong>Thaurus</strong> comes from the Zodiac sign named Taurus. The city named <strong>Wolfach</strong> is an homage to the city of the same name, which is in the Black Forest in Germany.</p><p></p><p>The city named <strong>Casteiz</strong> is an homage to the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz in northern Spain. (Vitoria-Gasteiz is the capitial city of the province of Álava and of the autonomous region of the Basque Country.) The city named <strong>Jurral</strong> is an homage to to Jura, a department in the east of France. (Departments are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to English counties.)</p><p></p><p>Also of note on this map are the non-CC2 symbols that I used on it. The base map was done in CC2, but I added everything else using Photoshop. The symbols were part of the map provided for the online OGL Tempest Campaign Setting. I felt like doing something a little different for this map, so I modified some of the symbols for use on this map. (I had to shrink them.)</p><p><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>____</strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></p><p></p><p>Up next... a closer look at the Bluffside Region... Kulan style!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Knightfall, post: 4704782, member: 2012"] [B]Moved here from my World of Kulan Maps thread ISHAMARK REGION[/B] On the other side of the [B]World of Kulan[/B], as far away from the [B]Lands of Harqual[/B] as can be, are [B]The Ancient Lands[/B] of the continent of [B]Kanpur[/B]. It is from here that civilization first grew, and even Harqual owes its current history in part to Kanpur. By far the most detailed area of this massive continent in my mind is the [B]Ishamark Region[/B]. If that name seems familiar to you and you're not sure why then go into your d20 system collection of books and find your copy of Bluffside: City on the Edge. Ishamark is the name of the Sea beyond Bluffside, and I use that same name for my campaign world. I have also included the region known as the [B]Burning Sands[/B], which is also part of the Bluffside campaign setting. (Dry Lands: Empires of the Dragon Sands.) However, the Ishamark Region takes into account a lot more than just Bluffside. It also includes the [B]City of Parma[/B], which is detailed in the d20 reference Streets of Silver. I only use that reference from the Twin Crowns Campaign Setting so only the cities noted in that book made it onto my map; although, the whole area northeast of Parma is, basically, an altered version of [B]Novarum[/B] (with the serial numbers filed off, so to speak). It will be very different than [I]Living Imagination's[/I] creation. The cities of [B]Ciudad Talan[/B] and [B]Ciudad Fal[/B] are the major cities of a power known as the [B]Talangrán Empire[/B]. This empire is based on the adventure "[I]The Lady Rose[/I]," by Steven Kurtz, in DUNGEON Magazine #34. That adventure doesn't describe a lot about Talangrán, but it gave me just enough of an overview to become fascinated with the Castillian way of life. There is a lot more on the map (see next post) than I can describe here as most of it is brand new, designed to flesh out the region in more detail. Many of the city names are based on real world cities, but I've tried to use the more obscure spellings or ancient names. I've also simply modified some names to be more unique. For example, [B]Alekandra[/B] is based on the city of Alexandria in the Teleorman County of Romania. ([URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page']Wikipedia[/URL] has become a great resouce in finding appropriate names for cities, fortresses, towns, characters, and the like.) The city named [B]Barcino[/B] comes from a legend of the founding of the city of Barcelona. The city named [B]Scopula[/B] is from an issue of the old Ethos e-zine. The city named [B]Tânger[/B] is the Portuguese spelling of the city of Tangier, in northern Morocco. The city named [B]Thaurus[/B] comes from the Zodiac sign named Taurus. The city named [B]Wolfach[/B] is an homage to the city of the same name, which is in the Black Forest in Germany. The city named [B]Casteiz[/B] is an homage to the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz in northern Spain. (Vitoria-Gasteiz is the capitial city of the province of Álava and of the autonomous region of the Basque Country.) The city named [B]Jurral[/B] is an homage to to Jura, a department in the east of France. (Departments are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to English counties.) Also of note on this map are the non-CC2 symbols that I used on it. The base map was done in CC2, but I added everything else using Photoshop. The symbols were part of the map provided for the online OGL Tempest Campaign Setting. I felt like doing something a little different for this map, so I modified some of the symbols for use on this map. (I had to shrink them.) [B][B][B][B][B][B][B][B][B][B][B]____[/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B] Up next... a closer look at the Bluffside Region... Kulan style! [/QUOTE]
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