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Geography of Nehwon
« Thread Started on Jul 4, 2012, 10:30am »

Originally taken from the "Scrolls of Lankhmar" blog, now apparently defunct. Feel free to add to this list and I can update this post to make it more accurate.

Bones of the Old Ones
Claws, The
Cold Waste
Curtain Wall
Dragon Rocks
Eastern Lands
Eastern Sea
Godsland
Gran Hanack
Great d**e
Great Rift Valley
Great Salt Marsh
Great Steppes
Hint, The
Inner Sea
Jungles of Klesh
Lakes of Pleea
Land of Lankhmar
Land of the Eight Cities
Lankhmar Deep
Mangrishik River
Mountains of Darkness
Mountains of Hunger
Mountains of the Elder Ones
Mountains of the Giants
Obelisk Polaris
Outer Sea
Parched Mountains
Poisoned Desert
Rampart Mountains
Rime Isle
Ripsaw
River Hlal
River Tilth
Sea King’s Lair
Sea of Monsters
Sea of Stars
Shadowland
Simorgya
Sinking Lands
Stardock
Trollstep Canyon
Trollstep Mountains
Tusk
Western Continent, The
White Fang

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Re: Geography of Nehwon
« Reply #1 on Jul 4, 2012, 11:15am »

Fin,
there is a wiki on Nehwon (you may know this already), but it lacks any real detail. It has a similiar list of content.

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Re: Geography of Nehwon
« Reply #2 on Jul 4, 2012, 4:30pm »

Do you have a link? It may be from the same guy, since he said in his blog that he was moving things to a wiki. I just never found it.

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« Reply #3 on Jul 4, 2012, 4:52pm »

I just found it by searching for "Nehwon wiki". I thought it would be easy to find. But I did bring it up because of your discussion in the Scrolls of Lankhmar thread. so, here it is

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehwon

The links and references may be of use or interest in any event. For instance, there was mention that Sheelba of the Eyeless Face's hut may have come from the Russian legend of Baba Yaga.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Yaga

I only mentioned the wiki because, in my experience, the obvious or mundane sources are often overlooked.

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Re: Geography of Nehwon
« Reply #4 on Jul 5, 2012, 7:27am »

Oh, Wikipedia I already found. I thought you meant a wiki devoted just to Nehwon. There are links to one from the guy who did the Scrolls, but they are dead links. I had hoped you had found a better link than I did.

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Re: Geography of Nehwon
« Reply #5 on Jul 5, 2012, 11:45am »

That is one hecuba of an evocative list...

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Re: Geography of Nehwon
« Reply #6 on Jul 6, 2012, 9:22pm »

this site had some decent maps. http://www.quest-bird.com/nehwon/nehw-maps.html

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Re: Geography of Nehwon
« Reply #7 on Jul 7, 2012, 5:56am »

Those are nice maps. What I'd really like, however, is a good hex-map. The old LANKHMAR board game has a hex-map, but (1) it's not electronic, and (2) the hexes are kind of large.

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« Reply #8 on Jul 7, 2012, 1:04pm »

Would this work for you? Obviously, it needs labeling of key landmarks and cities.

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Re: Geography of Nehwon
« Reply #9 on Jul 7, 2012, 1:14pm »

Cool! Where did you find it, or did you make it?

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« Reply #10 on Jul 7, 2012, 4:02pm »

I made the map by drawing from a couple sources. I also tried hexographer, but I'm not completely happy with it because I don't know how to get the colors to stay in the lines. Back to Kindergarten for me

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Re: Geography of Nehwon
« Reply #11 on Jul 7, 2012, 8:30pm »

Very nice. Well, I have an idea and will try to get back to you in a day or so. (It involves a lot of eye-strain on my part, but should be worth it.

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Re: Geography of Nehwon
« Reply #12 on Jul 7, 2012, 11:21pm »

You can 'hexify' the original TSR Dave LaForce map by placing the Forgotten Realms hex transparency over top. I remember doing that to fudge some overland terrain travel. It creates a scale of 1 hex = 16.6 miles, so probably not ideal. I agree though, Nehwon deserves a nice hex map!

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