Awesome!!

When do you think these fine maps can be posted at Lythia.com?

Anborn

The map of Keron is already available and the map of Delwn will probably be up in a few days. I have decided that I will not wait until my article is finished before I make it available to you my fellow Harniacs.


Ogier

Both of these excellent maps are now available from Lýthia.com's download area and I have removed the maps from the forum. I did this because Oddgeir originally posted the maps without a copyright notice, which is not a great thing for anybody, least of all Oddgeir himself. I have included the prior download count into the normal Lýthia.com download counter.

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Just a question....is there a reason several people here call Ogier Oddgier?

Does he wear strange clothes....

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Plots and schemes are the same thing..

When reducing the scale of the map of Keron in Adobe so as to see the whole map at a glance, for a brief moment I see the map Ogier made of Delwn. I hadn't opened the Delwn Map, but there it was, and very quickly gone again.

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That's his real name.
I can't comment on his wardrobe.

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Heroes should be uncommon. They just happen to be the PCs.

Oddgeir means spearpoint in Old Norse

But It could also mean that someone is skilled in throwing spears.


So be careful with those funny remarks....

Beautiful maps!

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www.stridshest.no

very misterious and visionary version of Adobe

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everybodyTHINKShimselfSOwellSUPPLIEDwithCOMMONsenseTHATevenTHOSEmostDIFFICULTto PLEASEneverDESIREmoreOFitTHANtheyALREADYhave. RENEdescartes.

thank you for creation and hosting of these maps!
i pant for the western and southern continuation of the delwn hundred map *broad hint*

edith: two questions:
Delwn or Delwyn hundred ?
Gernera, Lakera, Narhir, Edemar, Illon etc. - are ruined manors - what happened to them? What is the story behind the ruined manors? - edith2: Rape of Thay, i guess.

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We have a lot of names like that in Norway: Torgeir=thunderspear or Geirmund=speargift just to mention a few.

Ogier is a french version of Oddgeir first used in Chanson de Roland. Ogier le Danois=Oddgeir Danske was one of the heroes that fought for Charlemagne. Today The Danes call him Holger Danske.

Oddgeir

I have decided to be totally selfish as regards where I will make my next map.
The reason for this is simple. When I make maps I want to make I am more creative, I make better maps and I make more maps.
That doesn't mean that I completely disregard wishes. I might have several directions I want to pursue and if someone want
something that is in the pipeline I might reschedule it.

Neither do I want to offend CGI or John S.
So I ask them politely before I draw a single line.


To answer your questions:

1) In the Melderyn module it is called Delwyn hundred, but on the map Robin made it is called Delwn.

2) Most of the ruined manors are found on Robin's map of Melderyn too. All these manors were destroyed in The Rape of Thay. Illon, Gernera and Lakera will be described in the Delwn article. They were destroyed earlier by Gargun or Ivinian raiders.

Oddgeir

I just started a player group yesterday, after a decade or so of RPG dormancy, and by happenstance in - of all places - Thay.

Thanks a lot for that map!

Finally I have made the map into an article. Alun Rees has provided me with excellent advise and helped me with the spelling. Matt Roegner is responsible for the excellent coat of arms.I might make more articles like this. It was fun and I don't have to ask other people to make maps for me. Comments and ideas will be appreciated.

The article is excellent. I like the dynamics of the hundred, the Tamarins and especially the Sadaral. It clearly is a very good place for some adventures. Good thing is that my campaign isn't all that far away and I might be able to work some of this into my game.

It might have been interesting to highlight also some prominent mercantyler or commoner clan in the hundred. It would also be interesting to get some insight on the traffic on the river or is that mostly to do with the other bank.

I would certainly like to see more articles like this! Might you be inclined to do also a manor article on one of the manors in the hundred?

Thank you for kind words. If there is a mercantyler in the area it would probably be someone operating out of Menio. Or it could be someone working closely with the Tamarins working out of their land.

Yes I am planning to do some of the manors but not in the near future.

I am however working on Menio Keep. I will do the text and the maps and Richard Luschek will do some illustrations for me. Don't expect any finished product this year .

I might do more Melderyni hundreds too, but where and when I don't know.

Very good article to compliment the map. Any intention to flesh out the histories of the ruined manors...Ilon looks most interesting to me

Also, Mateka Orsin Hemel's plan becomes clear when you give his guest his full tribal name of EliSyr Doolittle... 'The rain in melderyn falls mainly on the plain'

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Illion is definitely the most interesting place. A large ruined fishing village. I had thought about doing a 2 pager on some the ruins. The problem is that I would have to make a map and unfortunately I like my maps
to be of high quality. And quality takes time.

But never say never.

Agreed - it will definitely find use in my campaign. In a couple years the Solori crusade will be winding down in my pHarn, and the Lady of Paladins will be building needing something new to do. I'd already planned to move most of them to Delwyn and have them build a series of fortified manors to protect Thay from Orbaalese raiders. When bored, they'll also be fighting gargun.



Interestingly enough, I have clan Telza (Telza manor, Holosi hundred) coming from this general area. The clan were merchants specializing in moving items along the river between Thay and Harden. They were equal parts teamsters, riverboat captains, and merchants, hauling goods on request and trading on the side. They were successful enough that when the Nuem settlements were planned, they were offered the chance to start their own manor and jump up to the nobility. Well, most of them were happy where they were at, and had no wish to move to the wildness and have crazed barbarians as neighbors, so said thanks, but no thanks. However, the clanhead's oldest son was a soldier, and got a battlefield commission to knighthood fighting gargun in 624. He decided it wouldn't be such a bad idea, took a few of the more adventurous with him, and moved south with Dad's blessing (and money).

The northern clan is still happily moving goods in carts and boats in the area. They dominate the riverboat traffic, but are just one of many teamsters. The more mercantile of them specialize in buying furs in the outlying manors and selling them in Thay, and are known to trade with Bujoc on occasion, although they don't go out of their way to do this. I've never detailed exactly which settlement the clanhead lives at, although I assume they have some shop and/or warehouse in Thay. The two branches don't have a lot of contact, but the southern branch does use the northern branch for any business deals in Thay when possible, and the northern branch has been known to use the noble status of their southern kin to get out of a tight fix more than once. The daughter of the current Telza manor lord has married a minor noble from the Horka valley, and he's just gotten notice that he'll be the new bailiff on an as yet unspecified river manor in the Menio area. This is sure to bring the two branches of the clan a little closer together in the future.

I've never detailed the northern branch any more than this. If someone else wants to take the idea and run with it, I'd happily steal their work and thank them for it.