January Entry: Gwaelydd Peninsular

[Valarian]

The forests of the peninsular are made up of mixed forestry (pine only on the hills and mountains). The climate is cool temperate. I'm trying to give the impression that the entire peninsular is forested with only some areas cleared along road, riverbank and settled areas (for farmland). The forests of the peninsular give way to the scrublands of the Tribelands and the open plains of the Outlands. Further to the south, there are the great Elven forests of Eltharion and Alarion (warm temperate region). Far to the East is another Elven forest called Kintharion, the original one and the homelands of the Elves.

The setting of the Gwaelydd Peninsular is low magic and Celtic Dark Ages in flavour. Other lands have more magic on public display, but the World of Belmyr is never as high fantasy as Forgotten Realms. There again, it's not just a sword and sorcery setting (like Conan Hyborian Age). In games I've run in the world, I think I've found a happy balance in the high and low fantasy elements. Magic is rare and generally feared. In the Peninsular, it's hidden and distrusted. In the old Hanrathic empire region, it's controlled by the Mage's Guild and the Guild must police it's own (Psi Corps for the fantasy genre, with rogue mages and the requirement for all mages to register with the guild). Only in Al-Haquim (Moorish in flavour and loosely based on the Emirate of Cordoba) is magic taught and openly used.

[Valarian]

Now have done the regions of Cerigion and Arvan, completing the map of the peninsula. For this map, I'll be leaving the rivers off.

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[Ascension]

Dang, that's a lot of labeling...lookin good tho.