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Thanks so much Rikoo, im currently  working my way through the faction pages and ive discovered a couple of things:

The River that runs between Kumala and Lan Larosh, with tributaries running into both countries is called the Ataman River. 

The Jungle in Kumala is called the Gila Jungle. 

This is from the Atagek Faction Page.

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Thanks to JadeFae for the screenshot

This swamp/marsh located in southern Wolgast is named the Great March of Fyrgis which also happens to be cursed, and was created during the first Great Cleansing of the barbarian tribes by the Circle of Five while assisting King Lentas of Illyria.


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Something I noted a while ago, the presence of glaciers in the far north:

"Semantics are no protection from a 50 Megaton Thermonuclear Stormcrow."-Yggdrassil (June 21, 2011 6:48 PM)
"SCROLL ya donut!" Urgorr The Old (September 1, 2011 4:08 PM)
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I too have given some thought to Rill's mentioning (where did she get that from?) of the Ataman as mother of all waters, but I feel that some caution is called for as to what river this name actually refers to. There seems to be at least 6 possibilities:
1. It may indeed refer to the great river separating Kumala from Lan Larosh.
2. It may be entirely mythical.
3. It may refer to an ancient river which has now shifted or dried out.
4. It may refer to either of the two tributaries originating in Kumala (Rill's mentioning of the Ataman in Kumala would actually seem to suggest this).
5. Rather than an actual river it might refer to the riverlike fiord or firth cleaving the shoreline and tidal regions of Kumala.
6. It may be a river located in Kumala but outside the world map (Kumala cearly stretches beyond the map).

I suppose it might also be possible that ancient Kumala could have been a wider region than the name indicates today, but then again do we know if the reference was to ancient or modern Kumala...?
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I stumbled across a mentioning of Altars of Fire , Water , Air and Earth forming a perfect square around Centrum, at all coordinate combinations of 0 and/or 500, in another thread in this forum. Does anyone know if they are linked to any known mysteries, or if they have any other function in the Game?

Incidentally I noticed that all coordinate combinations of even 100s are lochs, or other water, but that doesn’t seem very significant…

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Originally posted by Assar Assar wrote:

I stumbled across a mentioning of Altars of Fire, Water, Air and Earth forming a perfect square around Centrum, at all coordinate combinations of 0 and/or 500, in another thread in this forum. Does anyone know if they are linked to any known mysteries, or if they have any other function in the Game?

Incidentally I noticed that all coordinate combinations of even 100s are lochs, or other water, but that doesn’t seem very significant…

Hi Assar,
those Altars were part of the Elemental-Hunting tournament some years ago, when elementals were first seen in Elgea. I forgot, whether they already got an explanation for the square form...
I found some nearly crumbled copies of the Circle of Five statement about that incident in our archives: 

http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/harness-the-elementals-introduction-rules_topic2037.html

So perhaps you can add some new infos to that, especially in regard to the later reappearance in a wild and somehow mutated form... and I was told that any referrences to rumours about possible inflictions of the Circle of Five is most certainly untrue!

http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/main-elemental-manifestations-no-cause-for-alarm_topic3943.html



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Dear Lords and Ladies,

Demdigs and Shûl-nak's slave coworker just recently published impressive findings about circular structures in seemingly uncoordinated city placement.

I took some time in the archives to reread the famous reports of Commander Cirian Danorian, who explored those dangerous areas.
Based on his discoveries, I'd like to differentiate 4 types of local settlements.

1. Shûl-nak's assumptions about a subconcious fear to enter the inner zone definitly might be true for the newer settlements, like those founded by the dwarven Overroad Traders. But not all hubs down there are post-Sundering...

2. Visiting the Mellorians, Commander Danorian describes Sanctuary as built upon pre-Sundering ruins, even finding frescos of Wizards, indicating an outpost of the Order of Silver Light.
Also the placement of Praekorn and Veem might be oriented on former outposts, maybe rebuilt by Voyldarn himself.

3. Orc settlements: Orcs had been severely enslaved during the reign of the Order, being forced to do the hard and dangerous labours. At every big construction site there would be a slum for the orc slaves to live in. I guess the very last big constructions where exactly those newly discovered "Pillars", and those slums might have been the seed for the present big orc hubs. Alas for the orc hubs nearer to the centre we could not find evidence of bigger ancient structures, thus those might be classified as Type 1.

4. Destroyed dwarven mines: Although the dwarves were also enslaved by the Order, to my dismay the little remainders left nearly no clue about any bigger structuring in the settlements. And Clan Dollogh refused to talk about details of this dark years, even to fellow dwarves! From their present affinity to high technology robotics, and the disturbing report of Danorian about the Lost Clans, I guess they were charged with the more delicate works (bionics?, golem tech?) nearer to the center.

Further I want to congratulate Shûl-nak for his outstanding knowledge of the "Heirs of Voyldarn". Both rings of their city setup must have a magical purpose, if only as markers around magical discharge danger zones. 
As their leaders indeed seem to be referred as to be of "the 9th sanctum", I asked my geometricians to check their previous findings. Eliminating some rounding errors now a approximate circle divided by nine Pillars  fits even better to the five accessable landmarks. (Here I want to include the deepest apologies from my coworkers for their sloppy calculations). Whether the resulting Enneagram features stronger or weaker magical powers is yet to be tested and might lead to new insights to multi dimensional mana projection curves. Maybe to the Order of Silver Light it was the major progress, the major flaw or both at the same time...



kindest regards, and thanking for all the valueable input,
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There are seven regions (region IDs 39, 42, 47, 53, 55, 60 and 65) in the game without any name. The tiles they consist of are located randomly on the map.

I created is a list of those tiles. There's 2290 of them.
Unfortunaty the list is too long for the forum so I uploaded it here.


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There is also a weird setup of hubs around this mountainous area http://elgea.illyriad.co.uk/#/World/Map/192/151 The hubs seem almost equidistant in a circle around this mountainous area. 
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