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Mon Nov 13, 2006 4:41 pm
Map of Courwood
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I'm looking for a map of Courwood. Anyone know if one exists?
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Tue Nov 14, 2006 8:33 am
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Ephealy,
I have looked for some time for just such a map, but I believe that you are just going to have to create your own. Courwood is in the County of Ulek but probably has numerous elven influences to its appearance due to its proximity with Celene. My personal take is that the city of about 5000 folks is mostly set up on piers and rests atop the river much like Tolkien's Laketown. Rankin/Bass cartoon version of the Hobbit has many interesting visuals for Laketown which could be screen-captured from the DVD for a fair isometric map and then used for Courwood. I think Courwood has this appearance due to its need to survive orcish incursions from the Pomarj... just cut the bridges and your isolated. I also imagine a well developed river trade with the elves which could fascilitate this idea. A well-used barge route bridging the river probably exists there as well. Surrounding the town would be a wide agricultural area which supplies Courwood. Lastly, I would envision the area to have numerous miners looking for minerals and gems while hoping to find the riches of Esmerin as per Greyhawk Adventures hardcover.
I know this isn't a simple answer, but at least it's something.
Cheers
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GreySage
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Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:18 am
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Skech wrote: |
Rankin/Bass cartoon version of the Hobbit has many interesting visuals for Laketown |
You could just Google Image Search "laketown" and "hobbit," which brought me this picture, among others.
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Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:25 am
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Skech, thanks for the input. It's too bad one doesn't exist, but I suppose that means I get to do my own thing - something I don't mind. I'll consider the Laketown angle (rasgon, thanks for the linky) and let you know where I land.
Ed
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Tue Nov 14, 2006 1:31 pm
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It isn't any kind of 'official' solution (and I didn't go for the Laketown thing), but if you take as the assumption that Courwood was built primarily on the western (non-Celene) side of the Handmaiden, the city map of Brindol from 'Red Hand of Doom' makes a decent stand-in.
Regards,
Darrell King
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