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I've mostly concerned myself with lore about the Baklunish peoples. Unless you're looking into NW Zahind, I doubt I'd be much help. Sorry. :(

http://www.koboldquarterly.com/images/kq3c.jpgKobold QuarterlyArbeyach, Lord of the Locusts by Ari Marmell
Buzzzz! The master of famine, decay, and bureaucracy strikes down his foes like a plague. Or ...

If you have an area / geographic feature in particular you want to know more about, just ask and I'll see what I can do.

Along with Sarresh, Balmund is one of Reyhu's two traditional strongholds. After the wars, the village was strengthened and walled. It is an important outpost supporting the keep at Sheerwatch to the ...

The Yellowflow River originates in the heated geysers and burbling hot springs of White Plume Mountain. While most of the volcano's sulfurous water flows into the Great Swamp to the northwest, a porti ...

OK, you asked for it....

I haven't tried to put my notes into your time-frame, so you'll have to adjust as you see fit. Let me know if you want any more.

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Ringland (Village): Nonst ...

I wish I could help, but I don't know much about the Shield Lands, west of the Ritensa. Most of my stuff is to the east, in that box formed by the Ritensa and Artonsamay, the Nyr Dyv and the Rift/Tang ...

If only Mulder and Scully were on Oerth...

This could be a very interesting chapter in the expansion of Grey-lore. I'm anxious to see what you can do with it.

I think the idea is cool. Have you got any thoughts on what nazca do?

I haven't had a chance to read the whole thing yet, but had a couple notes on my article.

- If it's not too late, please remove the word "equestrian" from the quote at the beginning of the article ...

Lum the Mad [NPC]
DRG#82 - 58
DRG#167 - 13
DRG#294 - 96
DRG#299 - 101,103
Eldritch Wizardry - 46
Ivid the Undying
Living Onnwal Gazetteer - 5

Lum the Mad, Machine ...

Not sure what Lo Nakar is. I didn't see a reference to it in this thread.

BTW, I have tentatively placed an ancient (ca 3000 years ago, perhaps) Oeridian nation in the same region. Consider the Ens ...

I don't have any other maps yet. I'd only been concerned with these areas, so I never went much farther south. Sorry.

Kushmur is ok, I guess. But you'll immediately get people comparing it to Cashm ...

The next batch will be Chainmail references, unless you have them handy already, ephealy?

Some. Various articles on The Sundered Empire ran in Dragon Magazine. I'm not sure if the following list is ...

Since whatever is decided about the Sea of Nippon will directly effect at least two regions (Zahind and Nippon), it's important that those areas' managers come to a consensus about it before too much ...

There are two points in time when great upheavals shifted the various populations of eastern Oerik around.
- The struggle between Light and Darkness, which precipitated the Baklunish Hegira. I tie t ...

MAP OF NORTHERN KUSHMUR

You'll note that I included the "red dot" from the map I posted above on this map as well. It should give an adequate point of reference.

http://www.ephealy.com/gh/northe ...

I'd really be interested in seeing your 'High History', even if incomplete. Post what you have, even in snippets, and lets see if we can help you finish it.

That area north of the Celestial Imperiu ...

Below is a summary of discussions that relate to Paizo's new product lines. I haven't had time to compile the other material.

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Very early in the evening, there was a lengthy discussio ...

I've come to favor the Blackmoor Bay location for Sfirta and Berhodt, leaving the islands of Fireland relatively unknown (and ready for development).

I'm sure Wolfsire will be on point as far as the Zahindi are concerned, but I thought I'd start things off with some little snippets from my current projects.

http://www.ephealy.com/gh/southsahanar ...

Using the legend underpinning your eye of the kraken sounds intriguing. In essence, then , you'd be tying the ruling class of the Nipponei to a malenti bloodline, one that can be traced back to a roya ...

VELISCOUS

c.1904-c.1991 BH

Nipponei historian, author of an important Histroica that describes the rise of the Suel Imperium.

Veliscous was born at the moment when the Suloise had defeated RI ...

Note, this is for Old High Oeridian. It does not include variations based on the myriad Oeridian tribal tongues.

Sample Lexicon

azal’lan
Meaning: wizard ruler/king

Note:
- assumed that aza ...

NEW RISARI DEITY

http://www.ephealy.com/gh/shedu.jpg

No proper name, as of yet.

(Enforcer of the Law), LG intermediate god of the sun, law and justice.

Associated with shedim.

Domains: ...

ANCIENT BAKLUNISH LANGUAGE

Sample Lexicon

da'shon
Meaning: falling hail
Note: related to a martial arts style

edel
Meaning: gift of fate
Note: psionics

orem
Meaning: one set apart

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I haven't done much with Nippon, but since someone will likely be taking over that area soon, I figured I'd put what I do have here. My notes are scattered all over, so don't expect a very consolidate ...

The following is an excerpt from Histroica, by the Nipponei historian Veliscous. It ties in with my blurb on Ensaed, above.

Histroica VII

21 Baena is the most notable principality in Yawak, both ...

Ensaed
Old Komali Ekasâda, ‘meeting place’

In the western Sulhauts, near the headwaters of the Rumikadath River, lie the ruins of an ancient citadel. Discovered in the late fourth century CY, they ...

I don't have much on this proposal, other than an adventure site and some ties to the surrounding regions. I place it here for discussion.

UNOGONDURI

Unogonduri (Hungodisya): royal dynasty of ancient Komal, named after its legendary founder Unogondur (Hungodis).

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Note: The term 'Unogonduri' will be appearing in the ar ...

OLD KOMALI SAMPLE LEXICON

Common: Ensaed (adventure location in Ancient Oerid kingdom of Baena)
Old Komali: Ekasâda
Meaning: meeting place

Old Komali: shada
Meaning: place (root)
Pronounciat ...

None of my Komali notes are in a presentable format, so I'll just going to add them here piece-meal. At some point I may/will give them a better treatment, but until then please feel free to comment o ...

ANCIENT RISARI LANGUAGE

Spoken in: Risari Empire (extinct)
Region: Risay
Language Extinction: SOME DATE (TBD)
Language Family: possible language isolate, but some suggest ties to Murian

Ancie ...

As some of you may know, I started a Greyhawk Dictionary Project http://www.ephealy.com/gh/languagetreetn.jpg
Language Tree
Created by Me

I'll have to do some research about the Celestial Imperium, as well as the geography (political and otherwise) of western Oerik before the Twin Cats. To be honest, I am new to this section of the worl ...

Woesinger writes: "If there were indigenous horsemen, how could the Bakhoury Coast have been originally settled by Baklunish refugees?"

Mur is not on the Bakhoury Coast. It is across the gulf to th ...

Other than small references in the LGG, most of the information I can find on Mur is from the LG Player's Guide to Zeif. As far as I can tell:

The coastal Player's Guide to Zeif goes into a little ...

There are two thread in the "World of Greyhawk Discussion" forum that pertain to any discussion of Mur:
- The one where I put most of my original thoughts REFERNCES
- Living Greyhawk Gazetteer; 20 ...

I thought I'd delve into Risari culture a little - something to get my mind off the map for a while and a chance to exercise the creative juices. Again, until I figure out just how much influence Bakl ...

Note: I haven't settled on a decent name for the capital of Risay. However, I've been toying with some elements of their government structure (below). When you see 'CAPITAL," pretend a cool name is th ...

I had assumed that perhaps the Celestial Imperium, while not actively populating ancient Risay, may have had political control. The rise of the Baklunish Empire would have stifted this control eastwar ...

SUMMARY

Risay is on the Gulf of Ghayar, south of Barakhat. I would place the Sharifate at the tip of the Gulf, perhaps hugging a river flowing north out of the Sulhaut Mountains. Risay has never be ...

THE SHARIFATE OF RISAY

What do we know about the Sharifate of Risay? To answer this question, I've looked at three areas.

I. Published Sources

There are two primary sources for information ab ...

Before I post information on Risay, I want to point out I have done so in the "World of Greyhawk Discussion" forum already. [[url=http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic ...

OUM AL-GHAYAR
Bakhoury Coast

The old families of Beit Castan still have many ties to the other coastal settlements, and traders from Oum al-Ghayar and points south are frequent visitors to its por ...

BEIT CASTAN
Sultanate of Zeif

The seaside town of Beit Castan is the southernmost port within the borders of Zeif. Its low walls and narrow towers give little evidence of having faced any assai ...

In the upcoming issue of the Oerth Journal, there is an article on the Baklunish Army. I included some information in there that ties to the Baklhoury Coast, and so I'm posting that information here f ...

THE BAKHOURY COAST

This thin strip of coastal plains hugs the south-eastern corner of the Gulf of Ghayar, separating the Plains of the Paynims from the warm waters of the Dramidj Ocean. During the ...

Then you are all warned... all discussion of my Baklore stuff is now moving to the OJ forums.

You want to move this whole discussion over to the OJ writer's forum?

Up side: Centralized location and the OJ forum gets more traffic.

Down side: The OJ forum gets less traffic.

Perhaps we c ...

Very cool stuff.

You know, I've never read all of the old AOL stuff. I started, but much of it was "TSR sucks! I hate TSR!" and so I stopped.

A big part of the OW-DP will be figuring out what to ...

Very cool. Looking forward to it.

Sure, why not?

I say "Go for it!"

In another thread, Anced_Math posted the following:

I have some pre-existing work that was for a homebrew campaign that would be excellent for Fireland. I cannot find much in the way of canon. Is t ...

RE Fireland: I'll start a new thread and respond to your question. I don't want to hijack this one if I don't have to.

There were a few threads on Paizo's message boards about the Wind Dukes. If you seach the Age of Worms archive, you should be able to find them under the titles: "Wind Dukes Of Aaqa," "Wind Dukes In T ...

OJ 22 will have an article on the Baklunish Army. I'm ramping up to start work on another Baklore article, for OJ 23. If you have any requests, please let me know.

We're kindof "in the middle of it" here, so a summary might take a bit. I'll upload the log and post a link here...

...as soon as I can get my ftp client to work.

I'm having trouble reading the text on your map, but it looks very interesting.

My changes would be:

Make Kestrel obsw, a true melting pot where no one culture dominated at all.

If you wanted ...

Sure, mtg.

Al-Akbar is post ID, so I ignored him. I'm dealing only with ancient (pre-ID) Baklunish deities. Azor'alq is a paladin (or at least devoted follower) of Pelor (Al-Asran to many on these ...

If you have the Chatzilla plug-in for Firefox, just type irc://chat.psionics.net:6667/greytalk into your browser and it takes you there.

No dice for me, though I think it's b/c I'm using a proxy.
...

heh - nope

I suppose I need to stress that I'd prefer a castle / keep / stronghold that was used at some time by a powerful magician of some sort. If this person had "questionable ethics," all the better. If FRC ...

Heh. I don't have a choice. I'm supposed to run a short arc in the FRCS and all I know is WOG.

I'd thought about using the area east of Waterdeep, specifically the area due north of Secomber, en ro ...

Please forgive the FRCS question.. I've got some GH locations I'd like to place in the FRCS (long story). I'm hoping someone here can help me out:

- White Plume Mountain
- Lost Caverns of Tsocja ...

I've been toying with a wider Baklunish pantheon. I've got various ideas, which I hope to share over time. Right now I'm asking for help with some brainstorming, as I have an idea for a new addition t ...

I'm just wondering whether it will be mortellen or ephealy who jumps the gun and does those Baklunish imprisonment items that I annoyingly cannot recall the name of (though I’m sure they know of what ...

Cebrion, the happens to be similar to the approach I've been taking with my Baklore and Western Reaches projects. For the Western Reaches, at least, I've taken Unapproachable East and used it as a tem ...

Heh, it's just something that irks me, Ceb. I realized that you weren't author, but thought I'd take the opportunity to sound off on the apostrophe subject anyway :)

Cebrion, I agree. There should be more deities. I've been looking into expanding the pantheon for some time. I can't comment on your post just yet - it needs to rumble around in my empty skull for a w ...

I guess I need to do my homework before writing in the forums. There is no "War god" per se, but three of the Baklunish deities have the war domain: Azor'alq, Xan Yae, and Zuoken.

It's true, there may be. I'm of the mind that there is no Baklunish war god, though. There was some #greytalk discussion of this the other night, and the most promising answers to me were:

(1) As d ...

cosmosemeritus, you could use the school/dojo model as found in the d20 L5R material to update these schools if you feel up to it. I haven't looked into the article to see if any of the organizations ...

I'd agree with those stating that the racial groups were not "unified." I have taken to narrowing my definitions for what "Baklunish," "Flan," "Oeridian," "Suloise," et al mean.

For instance, when ...

I noted the "2600 years ago refererence" but didn't think it contradicted any canon. I'm assuming the author(s) meant the Flan came to the region around Exag some 2600 years ago.

I'm sure there wer ...

Derfelca, there really isn't that much. While researching the Baklunish Empire, I came across some hints as to the structure of the Suel Imperium. However, they weren't my focus so I didn't... well, f ...

It doesn't like you, Cebrion.

While reading through GDQ 1-7 Queen of the Spiders (TSR 9179) I noted the following quote from page 125-6; "Appendix 3: Further Adventures in the Depths":

An empty city with a huge wall that rings ...

It works.

I would very much like to get my hands on 1-30 when / if they are available.

... and any other archives one may have out there Wink

Thanks. I've already got the "Best of"s. I was hoping for more :)

Is there an archive of the old AOL material somewhere?

Been checking some of that art out. Some of it is REALLY good!

"Ill-Made Graves," Dungeon Magazine 133.
By Kevin Carter

The mighty dragon Oroshar lies dead, as does the barbarian king who slew him. Yet the dragon’s spirit does not rest quietly. His wrath ling ...

I could mirror those files on my server, if you like.

As for web design... I've been known to dabble. If you want to see what I can do, drop me an email and I'll upload some tasty tidbits for you t ...

I've been pounding away at the western reaches (Komal, Mur and Risay) for a while now. With all the work I'm doing, the one thing I wish I had was some concept art that portayed the look and feel of t ...

I've been playing around with Oeridian etymology. Tell me what y'all think of this little bit.

Assumption 1: de; root meaning "he / man (person)"; appears at the beginning of the word

Assumption ...

Shame on you!

I was playing with the Google Earth program today. Man, did I have fun. Check out these images, and tell me we don't need a Google Oerth initiative. From what I can tell, you can add layers, overlays, ...

According to the GreyChrondex, Thrommel disappeared in 573 CY.

It's also stated in "The Path of History," Living Greyhawk Gazetteer.

I'm thinking of using a derivative of Aramaic for the Ancient Baklunish script, with some ideograms or logograms thrown in to represent words borrowed from other languages. Something like this:

htt ...

Below is a diagram describing my initial thoughts on the Risari language, and how it has grown over time. Comments?

http://www.ephealy.com/stap/images/risarilangtree.jpg

I thought I'd delve into Risari culture a little - something to get my mind off the map for a while and a chance to exercise the creative juices. Again, until I figure out just how much influence Bakl ...

This is a bit off-topic, but I thought I'd post it for comments anyway:

My Initial Thoughts on Risari

http://www.ephealy.com/stap/images/risarilangtree.jpg

Again, the above is my rough first ...

Note: I haven't settled on a decent name for the capital of Risay. However, I've been toying with some elements of their government structure (below). When you see 'CAPITAL," pretend a cool name is th ...

thrideen - "third-eye" was presumably the nickname of the Emperor Ubrond of the house of Neheli.

Interestingly, TSB gives thri=three and deen=eye. I'm not a linguist, but it would seem odd that thr ...

Right now, I'm starting to look at the linguistic characteristics of the English language; the phonetics (the possible sounds in English) and phonology (how sounds are actually used in English).

En ...

I've been thinking about the linguistics of some of GH's languages. In trying to draw any conclusions from what we know about them, I've resorted to reading linguistics websites and such. Either way, ...

I've posted a recent list at [url=http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1741]this location.