Ghyll:WhereIsWhere

This Where's Where article is an attempt at establishing geographical facts about Ghyll; it does not record other facts. For example, it records that the Evesque Valley is well-irrigated (and therefore must have plenty of streams), but it does not record that it used to play host to Aelfants.

Ghyll Map

                                '      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
             ____              /        ^^^^^^^^^^^ Sarfelogian Mountain Range ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^   ,
           /'    ``,        _/'          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  ;
          '''`"\    `.._ _,'                  ^^^^^^^^^^ Po Mountain ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^    ;
                `..     '                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^_.------- Baleman ---^^^^^^^^^^^^  ,'
      Primus       \                   +------''\^^^^^^,--''                      `^^^^^^^^   ;
            ___     \               --'          :--+-'                             |^^^^  ,';
           ,'  ''''''              |                |    Seven Lakes of Midevesque ,|^^^  ;
            `.._                   |    Alezan &    ;                             -/ *  ;'
                `---......         ;  Twin Spires  /     Evesque Valley  ,--------'  |   ';,
      Segundus       _,-'          -----.          :                    / '          |     .
                 .--'                    `----------+----------:-------'  :     Elminster  :
             ,-'                                                :         :        Mire    ;
           -:._    ___                                          :         ;               ;:
               `'-'   `-._                                       :,        `.              :,
 Dagger Seas            ,'                                         :        :               ;
  & Peninsulas         /                                             :      ;               |
                     ,'                                              :    :'         Andelphracian
          Tertius   |                                            Cataract Road       River & Valley
                    |          _,....__                                :                   ,:.
                   /    _.....:' Iganefta                             :                  ,'   \.
                  |,,.-'       *. on-the-Sea                          :                  |     `.
                  "'           | :     |                              :                  |      \
                               |  ':   |                              :                  |       |
                Marty          |   :   |                              :                  '       |
                               |  :    ;                              *.Cranee            |     _/
                              /   :  ,'                               : `-.                \.--'
                        ....,-'   :  |                                :    `--.
      ___----.       ,'            : |                         Sejfeld *       `-.
--''''|       `'-..o-'             : |                               :`:          `* Egron
      |                            : |                       Marsh *'   :
      |                             :|                        Gibbon    :
      ';                             :                                  :
        \                            |:                                 ;:
         |     Plain of Brahang      | :              ._  Vale of      ; :
         |                          .|  ;               `.  Serdoch   :  * Folktown
         |                          |    '..              `-.         ;  :,
`.       \                          |       `-.              `       :    ;
  \     ,'`--                     ,'           `-._                  ;   ;
   `..-'     `''''`--......,-"'-:'                 `-.              ;   :
          Yerplat Ridge          ""`-.            * Battle of      :    ;
           (now Cataract Road)        "`--.          Barnum Stones ;,-''
                                           "`-..         :.      ,-'
                         Road to Mount Yurch    "`-.       :  ,-'
                         (60 more leles west)       "``-.   .* Iganefta
                                                         "`-* Azura Mines








        Cartographer Notes:
         * This map is still in-progress.
         * Contentions are still possible.
         * Massive overhauls, however, are not.
         * Problems won't happen in Round 2.

We also have the old map, which is not being maintained.

The Facts

• Alezan (land)
  • Is heavily forested (Alezan)
  • Uninhabited, thus no other towns (Alezan)
  • Situated to the west of the Evesque Valley (Alezan)
  • Most prominent feature: ruins with a twin-spire structure (Alezan)
  • @@ Situated close to the Vale of Serdoch (Bordingbras his hatt!)

• Andelphracian River Valley (valley)
  • Is not in the Evesque Valley or Sarfelogian Mountains (Carsokian)

• Arbuckle Hill (hill)
  • Situated in Folktown (Cadaver, The)
  • Host to the Cadaver public house (Cadaver, The)

• Avazian Ruins (building)
  • Possibly in a wasteland (Avazian Box)

• Avaz Minor (city)
  • Suspected to be located at the center of the Shallow Gulf (Dagger Seas)
  • Ancient city; detonation point of Justice Device during the Third Avazian War (Dagger Seas)

• Azura Mines (mines)
  • Situated by the city of Iganefta (Altoxian Bulb)

• Baleman (building)
  • Ruined in an earthquake (Baleman)
  • Situated on the northern edge of the Evesque Valley (Baleman)

• Bute (university/town)
  • The Timperton Clocktower is on campus (Bute University)
  • Contains three lakes, a forest, and blasted moorland (Bute University)

• Cactus Forests
  • A rarely travelled land (Cactus forests)
  • Located in the deserts of the southern end of Ghyll (Cactus forests)

• Cake (building)
  • Situated on the side of a valley by the hamlet of Odlucia (Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge)

• Cataract Road (road)
  • Has waterfalls alongside it (Burnflies)
  • Starts in the north of the Evesque Valley (Cataract Road)
  • Runs through Cranee and Folktown (Cataract Road)
  • Ends in the southern town of Iganefta (Cataract Road)
  • In the foothills of Mount Yurch it is built on the Yérplat Ridge. (Plain of Brahang)
  • At the Plain of Brahang it follows an old road that has been there as early as -400 EC (Plain of Brahang)

• Charterhouse Estate (estate)
  • On the outskirts of Folktown (Charterhouse Collection)

• Cranee (hamlet)
  • Situated to the north of the Vale of Serdoch (Battle of Barnum Stones)
  • The Battle of Barnum Stones probably took place 25 lele south (Battle of Barnum Stones)
  • Directly between the Evesque Valley and Folktown (Cranee Historical Society)
  • 25 sugro-nanits from the Evesque Valley (Cranee Historical Society)
  • 18 sugro-nanits from Folktown (Cranee Historical Society)
  • Has a village green (Cranee Historical Society)

• Dagger Peninsulas (peninsulas)
  • Creates the dagger-like freshwater points of the Dagger Seas (Dagger Seas)

• Dagger Seas (seas)
  • A haunt of the well-known Captain Riquiras (Captain Riquiras)
  • Four massive estuaries: Primus, Segundus, Tertius, and Marty (Dagger Seas)
  • Broad mouths at the gulf tapering to dagger-like freshwater points (Dagger Seas)
  • The freshwater points are where the Dagger Peninsulas join the mainland (Dagger Seas)
  • The seas are calm, though they are affected by the tides (Dagger Seas)
  • The Marty Sea contains Kebro-shepenor, a small island (Kebro-shepenor)

• Dŵplat (stream)
  • The name of a stream, and of a meeting house on the stream (Dŵplat)
  • Located in one of many unnamed villages in the high green valleys of the north (Dŵplat)

• Eastern Province of the Dulalian Empire (region)
  • Home to the Brothers of the Lantern (Brothers of the Lantern)

• Elminster Mire (mire)
  • Known to exist at the time of Quezlar 6 (Andelphracian Lights)
  • Ghyll-wide environmental crisis: ongoing stillicide in the Mire (Doc Rockett)
  • Located east of the Evesque Valley and northwest of the Andelphracian River Valley (Elminster Mire)

• Egron (town)
  • Situated close to Folktown (Bindlet Ball)
  • Located northeast of Folktown, east of the town of Sejfeld (Egron)

• Evesque Valley (valley)
  • Is picturesque (Bavarian Creame)
  • Is well-irrigated (Adlorst Vinifera)
  • Contains quayres (Andelphracian Lights)
  • Is situated in the north of Ghyll (Cataract Road)
  • Situated to the east of the land of Alezan (Alezan)
  • A fault-line runs under the northern edge (Baleman)
  • The northen edge has a relatively unpopulated area (Baleman)
  • Fluyr may be the name of something in the north (Baleman)
  • Divided into three sections, upper, mid, and lower ((Evesque Valley)
  • 25 sugro-nanits from the hamlet of Cranee (Cranee Historical Society)
  • Contains plantations (Adlorst Vinifera), e.g. of Sphoxolis Trees (Besq Boats)
  • Contains the Seven Lakes of Midevesque (Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge & Evesque Valley)

• Folktown (city)
  • Is a city (Amphitheatre aristocracy)
  • Contains Arbuckle Hill (Cadaver, The)
  • Contains the Laureat House (Calends Gala)
  • Situated close to the town of Egron (Bindlet Ball)
  • Has a town square (Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge)
  • Contains an amphitheatre (Amphitheatre aristocracy)
  • Ten sugro-nanits south-east of Marsh Gibbon (Bavarian Creame)
  • 18 sugro-nanits from the hamlet of Cranee (Cranee Historical Society)
  • Contains the Folktown Hyperbolic Bindlet Ball Arena (Day of Champions)
  • The outskirts are home to the Charterhouse Estate (Charterhouse Collection)
  • Has a Grand Mall 'twixt the Folktown Council Hall and Folktown Amphitheatre (Bavarian Creame)

• Fundzherit Peninsula (peninsula)
  • Had some theoalchemical incident (inferred) (Doc Rockett)

• Fylesgate (town)
  • Possibly in the Evesque Valley (Andelphracian Lights)

• Glossfordshire (town)
  • Involved heavily in Bindlet Ball (Bindlet Ball)

• Iganefta (city)
  • Situated by the Azura Mines (Altoxian Bulb)
  • Is situated in the south of Ghyll (Cataract Road)
  • A city comprised of many smaller settlements (Altoxian Bulb)
  • Is divided into upper and lower class sections (Altoxian Bulb)
  • Two leles away from the Azura Mines (Iganefta)
  • 120 leles away from Mount Yurch (Iganefta)
  • Iganefta-on-the-Sea is 30 leles away (Iganefta)
  • Contains Memorial Garden and Brothers monastery (NeoAlezanians)

• Iganefta-on-the-Sea (city)
  • 30 leles away from Iganefta (Iganefta)
  • Was once the fishing village of Thunderbarg (Lord Glosfordshier)

• Jorvyll (region)
  • Moutainous region north of the Evesque Valley (Keglacians)

• Kebro-shepenor (island)
  • Located in Marty, one of the four Dagger Seas (Kebro-shepenor)
  • At low tide, connected to Shepenor by a sandbar (Kebro-shepenor)

• Marsh Gibbon (town)
  • Situated near the town of Sejfeld (Bavarian Creame)
  • Ten sugro-nanits north-west of Folktown (Bavarian Creame)

• Mount Rotyg (mountain)
  • About 4,000 nanits smaller than Mount Yurch (Mount Yurch)
  • Is the second tallest mountain in Ghyll (Mount Yurch)

• Mount Yurch (mountain)
  • About 120 lele west of Iganefta (Grommies)
  • Is 18,764 nanits tall (Mount Yurch)
  • Is the tallest mountain in Ghyll (Mount Yurch)

• Odlucia (hamlet)
  • Situated in a valley (Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge)
  • Is surrounded by many farmsteads (Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge)
  • Contains the Odlucian Library and the Bureau's Cake (Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge)

• Odlucian Library (building)
  • Is an active library (Anaximancer)
  • Situated on the side of a valley by Odlucia (Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge)

• Palace of Lost Souls (building)
  • Building of a location not yet recorded (Alarius)

• Pinky and Perky (astrological)
  • The moons of Ghyll (Cranee Historical Society)

• Plain of Brahang (plain)
  • Location of the Brahang Turnpike Inn (Plain of Brahang)
  • Formerly the location of a turnpike.
  • 1250 square sugro-nanits in size (Plain of Brahang)
  • 800 lele northwest of Iganefta (Plain of Brahang)
  • Bordered to the north by the Qestarius River (Plain of Brahang)
  • Bordered to the south by the Yérplat Ridge which is now the Cataract Road (Plain of Brahang)
  • The battle of the Aelfant coprolith took place here (Conflict That Is Not Happening)

• Principality of Jurra (town; maybe more)
  • The Harrabloon Bank mints coins for them (Harrabloon Bank)
  • Presumably nearby Folktown, as its press affects them (Harrabloon Bank)

• River Ocean (ocean)
  • The Dagger Seas and Shallow Gulf empty into it (Opoudelian Starker)

• Qestarius River (river)
  • Borders the north edge of the Plain of Brahang (Plain of Brahang)
  • The major tributary to the Dagger Sea (Plain of Brahang)

• Sarfelogian Mountains (mountains)
  • Its foothills have plantations (Adlorst Vinifera)
  • Ghyll-wide environmental crisis: destruction of the mountain meadows (Doc Rockett)
  • Po Mountain is located within this range (Heh-blammo balance)

• Sayaziha or City of Spheres (city)
  • Said to have been seen by Ibaan Malmiz (Grimporke Grimoire)

• Sejfeld (town)
  • Situated near the town of Marsh Gibbon (Bavarian Creame)

• Shallow Gulf (gulf)
  • The four Dagger Seas empty into it (Dagger Seas)
  • Dominates the western edge of our continent (Dagger Seas)
  • The Gulf is calm, though is affected by the tides (Dagger Seas)
  • Center of the Gulf is likely to have been site of ancient city of Avaz Minor (Dagger Seas)

• Shepenor (fishing village)
  • Near, or on, the coast of Marty, one of the Dagger Seas (Kebro-shepenor)
  • Kebro-shepenor is within sight of Shepenor, but too far to swim (Kebro-shepenor)
  • At low tide, connected to Kebro-shepenor by a sandbar (Kebro-shepenor)

• Spacial Clocktower, The (clocktower)
  • Unfindable (Cartographer's Nerves)

• Stindersgrough (town)
  • Home of the Barnum Stones (Battle of Barnum Stones)

• Threel (town?)
  • Location unknown, circa -249 EC (Extraordinarily Bloodless Revolution)
  • Probably near the Palace of Lost Souls, also location unknown (Extraordinarily Bloodless Revolution)

• Thungerbarg (village)
  • Former name of Iganefta-on-the-Sea; still in use among some residents.

• Umbo Moor (moor)
  • @@ In-between or nearby (?) Egron and Marsh Gibbon (Edvard von Craghelm)

• Undivaggen (building)
  • Situated in the town of Marsh Gibbon (Bavarian Creame)

• Vale of Oddbag (vale)
  • Location unknown, possibly near Iganefta (Laxicon)

• Vale of Serdoch (vale)
  • Situated just to the south of Cranee (Battle of Barnum Stones)
  • @@ Situated close to the ruins of Alezan (Bordingbras his hatt!)

• Wentzel Fen (fen)
  • @@ In-between or nearby (?) Egron and Marsh Gibbon (Edvard von Craghelm)

• Yérplat Ridge (ridge)
  • Better known as the Cataract Road these days (Plain of Brahang)