WORLD MAP OF BALDGARTH

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WORLD MAP KEY

**1—Jotunheim**:  land of giants and frost

**2—Drakkhar:**  Northron kingdom, original home of Northrons

**3—Trollheim:**  Fallen Northron kingdom, land of trolls

**4—Frost Island:**  Isolated island, scouted by Northron sailors

**5—Drell:** Bare, rocky kindgom of the Neanderthals

**6—The Great Eastern Plains**:  home of countless Easterling Nomads

**7—Aster:**  Westerling Island, heart of the Druid cult on earth, original homeland of Westerlings

**8—Ulban:**  Westerling Island, once an Ardean province, now battleground between Westerling natives and Northron Invaders

**9—The Haunted Islands:**  a series of mysterious islands filled with danger, magic and treasure?

**10—Seamark:**  a kingdom of sea-faring Northrons.

**11—Rucconia:**  a heavily forested kingdom of Easterlings who have given up nomadism

**12—Hallia:** originally a Westerling region, but conquered by Ardeans centuries ago.  Now it is a shattered, disordered land of independent provinces and regions.  The Old Ones have several city-states across the land.

**13—Gautland:**  confederation of forest-dwelling Northron tribes.

**14—Ost-Gaut:**  second confederation of forest and mountain Northron tribes.

**15—Bastarnae:**  series of petty chiefdoms of a mixed Northron-Easterling tribes

**16—Hiron:**  remote and misty magical island, Westerling and Elvish population.

**17—Vesperos:** once an Ardean province, now a weak kingdom ruled by a Northron dynasty.  Nobility are of Northron descent, but Ardean is the language of all population.

**18—Aetia:** once a key Ardean mainland province, now an independent Ardean kingdom.

**19—Roricon:**  mountainous collection of petty fiefdoms and towns, Ardean in language and culture.

**20—Provere:**  once the eastern frontier of the Ardean Empire, now the king of this domain claims to be the Ardean Emperor, a claim occasionally honored by other Ardean regions, but mostly ignored.

**21—The Great Easterling Kingdom:**  most ancient civilized realm on earth,wealthy and decadent.

**22—Lipon:**  independent island kingdom of Easterlings, known for warlike isolationism.

**23—Hydaspes:**  rival Easterling kingdom known for seafaring

**24—Ardean Islands:**  once heart of Ardean Empire, now a series if independent island duchies, one of which is an Old Ones city state, another is the home of the Lawful Patriarch of the West.

**25—Gendis:**  a mixed Westerling-Southron kingdom that has become an extreme Lawful religious state since the fall of the Ardean empire.

**26- Rudrun:**  ancient Southron kingdom, now has a mixed Southron and Ardean and Old Ones population divided into a host of duchies engaged in constant bloody war.

**27—Desh:**  original home of the Zaharan people, now divided into a series of small emirates, several of which are in the hands of the Old Ones.

**28—The Zahara Desert:**  a vast desert full of mystery and death.

**29—Ur-mutoz:**  an Easterling colony across the sea.  The coastal cities are still in Easterling hands, but the Old Ones and Orcs have seized the inland regions.

**30—Island of Shebar:**  mysterious Southron Kingdom of great wealth and legend.

**31—Southern Jungle:** filled with savage Southron tribes, lizardmen and who knows what else.

**32—The Kingdom of the South:**  original homeland of the Southrons, an ancient and legendary land.