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Post by nunix on Jul 11, 2004 22:14:23 GMT
To the world, that is!
We know it's a sphere (mentioned in the creation myth stuff.. somewhere?) but all we've got so far is Northern and Southern Magnamund. Are there antipodes? Other continents? Has anyone read anything that explicitely states one way or the other?
I'm running some LW OGL games, and I know at some point we're going to get the characters an airship of some variety (a Brotherhood skyship, maybe some other design). So this'll come up. Just kinda curious if anything canon has been said about the rest of our favourite planet.
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Post by Black Cat on Jul 11, 2004 23:25:12 GMT
Never heard of other continents in Magnamund in the gamebooks. I saw the maps from the Magnamund Companion on the net and they don't show any other land outside the North and South continents, except Kalte, which could be considered as the North Pole of our world. But, on the map at the beginning of book 3, The Caverns Of Kalte, the east, west and north sides of that land are described as unexplored voids, so maybe the oceans bordering the two continents of the Magnamund are also unexplored and might be keeping at least some small uncharted islands?
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Post by Relenoir on Jul 12, 2004 2:30:43 GMT
Somewhere in the LW Club Newsletters, it says something about a vast archipeligo of islands where the Sommlending originally came from in the Northern Void, but that's the only other thing I can offer. . .
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Post by Ronan yes its me on Jul 12, 2004 2:36:07 GMT
Yes I'm too lazy to sign in....anyways.
What exactly is the northern void?
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Post by outspaced on Jul 12, 2004 7:56:07 GMT
An except from Newsletter New Year's Special 1987:
The flipside of Magnamund is apparently, therefore, a vast ocean dotted with many, many islands that no one (i.e. Joe Dever) has bothered to chart or map. So feel free to do it yourself! ;D
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Post by Black Cat on Jul 12, 2004 19:09:08 GMT
If there's a Vassagonian word for the islands in the voids, that means that some people actually saw them and came back to the continent to tell the others. So, it is possible that some evil creatures went to hide on these islands after the death of Agarash and are waiting to launch an invasion on the Magnamund when the people are less expecting it! Yip!
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Post by Relenoir on Jul 13, 2004 2:11:47 GMT
An except from Newsletter New Year's Special 1987: The flipside of Magnamund is apparently, therefore, a vast ocean dotted with many, many islands that no one (i.e. Joe Dever) has bothered to chart or map. So feel free to do it yourself! ;D Ha! I knew I wasn't hallucinating! Haven't done that since I shook that case of Malaria. . . Thanks Outspaced! ;D
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Post by outspaced on Jul 13, 2004 8:09:28 GMT
If there's a Vassagonian word for the islands in the voids, that means that some people actually saw them and came back to the continent to tell the others. Well, according to the information in the Magnamund Companion, all the human races on Magnamund apparently originated on the flipside of the planet anyway, since they all seem to have migrated to the continents of Magnamund from elsewhere. The only major races indiginous to the continents of Magnamund seem to be the Elder Magi and the Drodarin (i.e. Dwarves). Hey! Cool! What a great idea! ;D ;D ;D I like that idea very much since a DM could throw literally anything at his players and they couldn't complain by pointing to the rulebook!
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Post by The Tagazin Poodle on Jul 13, 2004 12:46:28 GMT
Since Kalte has stone buildings, mountains, etc., I think it's safe to assume that there's a continent (or at least a huge island) under all that ice.
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Post by Relenoir on Jul 13, 2004 13:08:49 GMT
So, it is possible that some evil creatures went to hide on these islands after the death of Agarash and are waiting to launch an invasion on the Magnamund when the people are less expecting it! Yip! To cite what Outspaced already said, any time that a GM can drag in an army of outlanders to mess with the party without rules-lawyers being able to do anything about it is a great opportunity!
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Post by nunix on Jul 13, 2004 17:42:44 GMT
Thanks for the info, guys; I'd only managed to get through about half the newsletters so far, so this certainly saved me some time. ;)
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Post by Black Cat on Jul 13, 2004 22:02:09 GMT
Since Kalte has stone buildings, mountains, etc., I think it's safe to assume that there's a continent (or at least a huge island) under all that ice. Yes, I think Kalte is something that can be compare to Antartica, wich is considered as a continent, but nobody remembers it because there's almost nobody living there, except penguins...a lot of penguins...an army of penguins...
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Post by The Tagazin Poodle on Jul 14, 2004 13:20:39 GMT
Billy, there's no penguin there, you just got too much sun again!
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Post by Black Cat on Jul 14, 2004 21:41:27 GMT
There's surely penguins in Antartica, but maybe not in Kalte...still, there's Ice Barbarians living in Kalte but not in Antartica.
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Post by Shadow on Jul 15, 2004 10:34:56 GMT
Are you sure the Ice Barbarians don't have fully trained Penguin Death Squads, just because Lone Wolf didn't meet them doesn't mean they don't exist.
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