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  1. 'Brizio
    19 January 2016 @ 3:37 am

    Hi Thorf, Mt. Legio (935 ft. / 285 m) doesn’t really look like a mountain.
    Although tallest than the highest point in Denmark, I doubt the Thyatians would ever call it “mountain”.
    Can we exclude that someone forgot a zero at the end?

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    • Thorfinn Tait
      19 January 2016 @ 9:39 pm

      You’re quite right! It also looks to me like most mountain altitudes end with a “0” on Mystaran maps, which doubly singles this one out as an error.

      I’ll change it to 9,350 ft.

  2. Simone Neri
    9 February 2016 @ 8:14 pm

    Hi Thorf, great updates on the map! Just a couple of comments:

    1) Is there any particular reason behind your choice of “Tarthia” over “Tarsia” as the name of the western Imperial Territories? I’m asking because “Tarthia” seems to be an odd tweak of the original name of Mt. Tarsus… (moreover, it also looks quite like “Thrathia”, which should be the name of the Thyatian Hinterlands).

    2) What about adding the village of Piceno from PWA3? Here is the reference (I copied and pasted it from my own post on The Piazza):

    * Village of Piceno (from Poor Wizard’s Almanac III)
    Nuwmont 20 entry, event “Slaves Unleash Terror”, is set in a farmhouse “near the village of Piceno”, located in “Central Thyatis”.

    The village is not located in the Kantrium area, as I previously thought, but in the region called “Central Thyatis” (domains of Thyatis, Lucinius, and Retebius). Since the village is tied to the Ac 1012 events regarding the slave uprising in Thyatis City, I suppose Piceno’s best location would be somewhere in the vicinities of the capital.

    Source: “Poor Wizard’s Almanac & Book of Facts III, AC 1012” by Ann Dupuis (TSR 2506, 1994), page 157.

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    • Thorfinn Tait
      9 February 2016 @ 10:22 pm

      Hi Simone!

      1) This is just bad memory on my part. I thought you had suggested Tarthia. I was probably conflating it with Tarthis. I’ll change it to Tarsia.

      2) Done! I’ll post on Facebook to check the location with you.

      3) I’m still in the process of working through official population figures. Thanks for spotting these, and please let me know if any more need changed!

  3. Simone Neri
    9 February 2016 @ 8:44 pm

    Oh, another thing: the symbol of Kerendas is to be changed to “metropolis” (black “capital” symbol) then?

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  4. Michael
    5 January 2019 @ 12:14 pm

    Why are some rivers “X River” and others “River Y”? Karameikos seemed to establish a pattern of Thyatians preferring the former format.

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    • Thorfinn Tait
      21 March 2019 @ 6:43 pm

      That’s a very perceptive observation, but isn’t this a matter of style more than anything else?

      … … …

      I looked into this and discovered that the position of the word “River” may be a regional thing. It looks like the British English convention is “River X”, while in the US it’s usually “X River”. I had never realised this difference.

      So, looking at things from a real world perspective, the Traladaran names were created by British authors (in B10) while the Thyatian names were created by an American, Aaron Allston (in GAZ1).

      Dawn of the Emperors, also by Aaron Allston, had all rivers as “X River”. TM2 revised some but not all of these rivers to “River X”; of these, the only one I adopted in this map was “River Stregger”, but this was more due to the different spelling (Stegger became Stregger) than the position of the word “River”. Incidentally, I believe that Bruce Heard (who is French/American) drafted TM2.

      So, the conclusion is that the variant river naming comes from TM2. From an in-world perspective, perhaps we could conclude that the Thyatians are happy with either order. I guess I could revert the order on this map to Stregger River just to be consistent.

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