World Geography and History

Keelta MacRonan · Post by **Keelta MacRonan** » January 4th, 2006, 12:02 am

Wesnoth world geography seems to be very chaotic. No one has a clear outline of the world image from what I can tell. The Wiki does not have very good information on this topic. I know that much of it is left open for people to imagine, but it might be nice to at least make a general idea.

Ranger M · Post by **Ranger M** » January 4th, 2006, 12:18 am

Turlin was making one, although he was generally leaving many blanc spaces for expansion by campaign and faction designers.

There is a thread which I think is in the ideas forum, but I am not sure.

Post by **turin** » January 4th, 2006, 12:52 am

I'm semi-officially in charge of the Wesnoth world geography (and history). Basically, I saw that no one was maintaining it or anything, and took it over. I have a quite clear image of the world map, and the civilizations on it, and some other stuff, but haven't updated the wiki for a while.

Did you have a specific question, or were you just commenting on the general inadequacy of our info? If the second, I'm working on it.

Tux2B · Post by **Tux2B** » January 4th, 2006, 12:40 pm

We need to find out where other civilisations are on the wesnoth planet.

Ranger M · Post by **Ranger M** » January 4th, 2006, 12:48 pm

There aren't any, untill you make them.

I needed a country which was not wesnoth, but would come into contact with wesnoth in my campaign, so I made one and tried to find somewhere for it to fit in.

There is no specified land outside of wesnoth untill it is put in a campaign.

Well, at least that is my understanding of it.

Keelta MacRonan · Post by **Keelta MacRonan** » January 4th, 2006, 5:18 pm

turin wrote: Did you have a specific question, or were you just commenting on the general inadequacy of our info? If the second, I'm working on it.

Yeah, I was commmenting on the second. Apologies if I was a bit rude. I didn't know you were working on it so I was actually trying to suggest that a couple people work together on it.

Post by **turin** » January 4th, 2006, 11:56 pm

Not at all... it's perfectly understandable that few would really know much about Wesnoth's geography. However, I have a map drawn up, and I'll post it soon.

Post by **turin** » January 5th, 2006, 1:58 am

What the heck. Here's my preliminary map... I may be missing a few factions. I also intentionally excluded a few factions, like the Aragwaithi and Akladians, because I don't know where they belong.

Edit: For example, I forgot to put the Clans (which are separate from Wesnoth) on. They are located in the north-east of Wesnoth, between the hills and the river. I also forgot the mountain range that Gryphon Mountain is in. Oh well. Next draft.

insomnia · Post by **insomnia** » January 5th, 2006, 6:35 pm

some factions you cant add in as the campaign "burning sands" the sand elves are about 20,000 years after the fall of civilisation in wesnoth so they couldnt be added

JW · Post by JW » January 5th, 2006, 6:54 pm

Excellent. I'm going to work on the geography where the Shifters are now. =)

scott · Post by **scott** » January 5th, 2006, 7:48 pm

Does this mean the Wesfolk were originally Greek?

Tux2B · Post by **Tux2B** » January 5th, 2006, 8:26 pm

In campaigns, there are several different periods. Wesfolk is old, but UtBS is in the future (IIRC)

romnajin · Post by **romnajin** » January 5th, 2006, 9:00 pm

WAY in the future.

JW · Post by JW » January 5th, 2006, 9:37 pm

I'm currently working on a map that would roughly estimate the area to the South-East of the current map edge as I envision it. I'll definitely leave room for future growth as the same has been done for me.

I'll upload it when I finish it to my satisfaction.

Foxwolf · Post by **Foxwolf** » January 5th, 2006, 11:07 pm

I "fixed" your map