Where All Wars Are Fought
LEGEND:
[#] = Major City [*] = Ruins/Destroyed
[@] = Fortress [+] = Sacred Site
[o] = Town [^] = Mountains
[~] = Forest [...] = Wasteland
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LOCATION MAP (North to South)
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THE FROZEN CROWN (Far North)
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Eternal ice sheets, -40 degrees
No life for 1000 years
[*] The Buried Empire
Ancient civilization under 2km ice
[+] Ice Cathedral
Where gods froze, 500m tall spires
[o] Fort Lastwatch - 500 people
Northernmost human post
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DRAGONFALL MOUNTAINS (North)
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[^] Throne Peak - 3,500m
Dragon bones still visible
[^] Mt. Dragonfall - 3,200m
Where Pyrrhus fell burning
[*] THE SCAR
50-mile canyon, reality torn
[@] IRONHOLD - 120,000 people
Never fallen fortress
Capital of human resistance
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THE ASHLANDS (Center)
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[*] CRYSILLIA - DESTROYED
The Harmonic Graveyard
Crystal towers singing death
Ground Zero of apocalypse
[#] CENERE - 200,000 people
City of Ash, built on ruins
Where Ora rules from void throne
[@] Millhaven - 40,000 people
Surviving trade hub
[o] Dusthold - 15,000 people
Mining settlement
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SYLVAN REALM (East)
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[#] VERDANT THRONE - 150,000 people
Living tree capital
Moves 1km per year
[~] THE WEAVE
Sentient forest network
100,000 sq km territory
[o] Roothold - 25,000 people
Underground warren city
[+] Heart Tree
Forest consciousness core
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MUSHROOM CAVERNS (Underground)
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[@] BOLETO - 80,000 people
Dwarf capital, 500m deep
Ferromycelial defenses
[o] Pietrafungo - 30,000 people
Mining city
[+] The Matron Spore
Sacred fungal consciousness
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THE DESOLATION (South)
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Expanding wasteland
Nothing grows here
[*] Ashfall Plains
300km of dead earth
[o] Last Stand - 5,000 people
Final southern settlement
[*] The Void Gardens
Perfect circles of nothing
Where Ora consumed souls
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KEY DISTANCES:
- Crysillia to Cenere: 0km (same location)
- Cenere to Ironhold: 400km north
- Cenere to Verdant Throne: 300km east
- Cenere to Boleto: 200km down
- Width of continent: 700km
- Length north-south: 850km
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POPULATION SUMMARY:
- Total humans: ~400,000
- Total dwarves: ~150,000
- Total sylvani: ~200,000
- Total survivors: ~750,000
STATUS (Year 1 After Shattering):
- Crysillia destroyed
- Dragons retreated to sky
- Ora spreading corruption
- Temperature dropping globally
- Wars beginning
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