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[LD]

I seem to be having trouble uploading the file, which is 2MB. (Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 20112 bytes) in /home/thecbg/public_html/e107_handlers/resize_handler.php on line 117)

I have a version that is only 750 KB, however, and I will attempt to upload that.

Assuming that it uploads, here were my accompanying comments
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Here is my conception

Complications
-Asperdene and the Trade Way were difficult to place.
-The northern cities of Ulfgast Bay, next to the Peat Kingdoms could potentially go on the other side of Edhazia. I strongly considered this.
-I had no idea where to place Westin
-Maybe Cemir should be closer to Westin than Moros is located to the city.
-Avak Kraw seemed like it was NOT a sea-port. I don't quite see how it can be a center of trade though, given its location, despite its description. I figure that Asperdene trades to it and Avak Kraw is the center of trade in Outer Mere. All Outer Mere goods flow along the trade way to it, and Outer Mere isolates Asperdene from trading with anyone else.

Further Thoughts?
-Abarion, which is now gone, should maybe be closer to Tindarious- maybe it was destroyed by the volcano's eruptions? No one knows.

-We have too many cities by 'bays'.

[LD]

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[Kaptn'Lath]

anyone wanna comment on the general location of their posts in the above maps, i can take the maps, with adenddums from the locations creator to create a map. If no one has anything to add or change to the maps posted i will use them and start on the map. It can take some time to do a good one. ;)

[Kaptn'Lath]

ok unless some says stop, i am going to start this over this weekend.

[LD]

...Somehow I'm the first D article. http://www.thecbg.org/wiki/index.php/Dispatches
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Lath, 2 additions for you:

1. Isfahan is mentioned in my article.
2. I think I also omitted Corusca's sister city Urcis on my map.

Good luck.

[Weave]

...And I'm the second, with the Dontorian Jungles!

I've added the Dontorian Jungle to be placed on the map... somewhere, Lath.

[LD]

It's an amusing entry. :)

And I just built off it... Here are... Emberskates http://www.thecbg.org/wiki/index.php/Emberskates

[Ghostman]

...Somehow I'm the first D article. http://www.thecbg.org/wiki/index.php/Dispatches

It published irregularly for its first ten volumes until an intrepid editor, Dr. Darwin Livingstone, made his first excursion to the ruins of deadly Lumaria and escaped into the jungles of Khel, where he disappeared and his "Dispatches" ceased.

I spot a problem here. Khel is supposed to be situated by a desert, on the eastern shores of the Ankhelarian. Lumaria is supposed to be somewhere in the south. Sending the intrepid dr. from Lumaria to (supposedly) nearby jungles, they would be better named either Dontorian or Nim.

[Ghostman]

Posted an article on the Devi.

[LD]

Ghostman, thank you for the correction; however, if you look at my map above, Khel could feasibly work since I placed it east of (and next to Nim).

Still, whether it works depends on if Khel has jungles or not. Assuming that it does not, given your comments and given that a transition from jungle to desert would be a little strange (although not unheard of if the desert was due to deforestation IE Brazil), I'll change the description to Nim... but in my map above I placed the two next to each other and that still seems feasible unless they absolutely need to be on different landmasses.

[Kaptn'Lath]

ok wtf is going on with Westin, no real idea where it is, and its suffered what three different calamities? this is harder than i thought....

[LD]

Well... I placed it on my map. There may be a better place for it, but my placing was a bit arbitrary since Westin is never described in space relative to anything else, so I put it on a trade route area.

The design concept in my map was to have Cemir at the center of trade. Any map that makes Cemir and Moros the best two sea-trade destinations will probably be good.

[Kaptn'Lath]

hows this for the overall land mass shape? I know its not perfect for everyone but hopefully good enough for most?

http://lathorien.deviantart.com/art/Lexicon-step1-198223925

[Kaptn'Lath]

ok, so here are some of the contradictions i need sorted out.

Urfu coast, Avak Kraw and Outermere are listed as west in Ankhelarian Sea artical. In the Asperdene artical, asperdene is the most east place in the known world, just to the north-east of (near) Avak Kraw, Outermere, Urfu. Trade now goes through there because Asperden fell.

The rest of the areas are ok... but i need to know where to put this group of places?

[LD]

I think it looks good.
One suggestion though...Perhaps Edhazia should link up with the polar ice caps- otherwise it's too easy to get to the AbCess. Eustace had to cross through mountains and go out of his way to get to the AbCess,skirting the Edhazian empire.

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And a possibility: I sort of imagined Asperdene at the precipice of a vast western desert that just went on and on... IT needs to be inaccessible b/c the trade routes to it apparently broke down and few reach it these days.

I would vote for making Asperdene in the West rather than the East if it needs to be near the Urfu Coast... since the Urfu Coast can't easily be placed on the continent with Moros.