In this series I will look at the history of the Forgotten Realms world and publish a series of maps depicting the continent of Faerûn and the wider world of Toril at various points in its past. Like my previous series, Nations of the Forgotten Realms, this series draws on The Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas and other Dungeons & Dragons resources for the setting, particularly The Grand History of the Realms, Netheril: Empire of Magic, Cormanthyr: Empire of Elves and Lost Empires of Faerûn. The work of Richard Baker, Ed Bonny, Eric L. Boy ..read more

Fallout is one of the biggest franchises in video games, set in both an alternate timeline (where the retrofuturistic imagery of mid-20th Century sci-fi became a reality) and a post-apocalyptic future where the world has been partially laid waste by a nuclear exchange. Eight video games in the Fallout series have been released, along with a number of spin-off mobiles games, a board game, two miniatures wargames and a tabletop roleplaying game. The most recent addition to the Fallout canon is an 8-episode TV series on Amazon Prime Video. Here follows some interesting maps based on the franchise ..read more

This map is an update of my previous map of Toril (the Forgotten Realms planet) from 2019, mostly maintaining the same appearance but with some adjustments to better fit canonical information. As per the previous map, this depicts Toril as of the year 1372 DR (Dalereckoning) during the Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition/3rd Edition transition period; my initial plans to update the map to the “current” year of 1496 DR (5th Edition) foundered because there is insufficient information to create such a map (D&D 5th Edition focuses on the Sword Coast to the exclusion of almost everything else ..read more

The flying enclaves of Netheril were once among the greatest sights in all Faerûn. Netherese arcanists, using mighty magics beyond the reach of even the greatest living mage today, sheared off the tops of mountains, inverted them, floated them and used the flat space to build great cities. Thousands, even tens of thousands of people went about their daily business not even thinking of the fact they were eating, sleeping and living thousands of feet above the ground. The enclaves of Netheril effectively ceased to exist in in the 3,859th year of the Netheril Calendar (NY), 339 BDR (Before Dalere ..read more

Having established a baseline canonical map – basically Danielle Rousseau’s map with the 100%-identified locations from it and those that can be definitively inferred – the next task is to start adding the major locations from the show to it. And immediately we run into debatable issues. The map as we left it last time out. The first thing to do is establish the crash site of Oceanic Flight 815. The pilot episode establishes it crashes on a beach, with debris and even some passengers flung into the nearby jungle. Unfortunately, it is tricky to ascertain the crash site from visual observation a ..read more

Airing for six seasons from 2004 to 2010, Lost became one of the biggest water-cooler TV shows of all time. Millions of viewers tuned in to see the ongoing attempts by the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 to escape the mysterious Island, whilst flashbacks explored the background of each character in tremendous depth. The show also developed a complex mythology and backstory, with fans assembling timelines and, of course, maps to track the action. To some extent their efforts were supported by the creators of the show: Lost co-producer Gregg Nations kept track of both a timeline and a map in the ..read more

In this series I will look at the history of the Forgotten Realms world and publish a series of maps depicting the continent of Faerûn and the wider world of Toril at various points in its past. Like my previous series, Nations of the Forgotten Realms, this series draws on The Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas and other Dungeons & Dragons resources for the setting, particularly The Grand History of the Realms, Netheril: Empire of Magic, Cormanthyr: Empire of Elves and Lost Empires of Faerûn. The work of Richard Baker, Ed Bonny, Eric L. Boy ..read more

In this series I will look at the history of the Forgotten Realms world and publish a series of maps depicting the continent of Faerûn and the wider world of Toril at various points in its past. Like my previous series, Nations of the Forgotten Realms, this series draws on The Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas and other Dungeons & Dragons resources for the setting, particularly The Grand History of the Realms, Netheril: Empire of Magic, Cormanthyr: Empire of Elves and Lost Empires of Faerûn. The work of Richard Baker, Ed Bonny, Eric L. Boyd, James Butler, Thomas Costa, Ed Greenwood, Dale ..read more

In this series I looked at each of the individual nations of Faerûn in turn, in alphabetical order. This series was based around the status of each nation as of 1371-72 Dalereckoning (at the end of D&D 2nd Edition and the start of 3rd Edition). The maps are drawn from The Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas CD-ROM and their respective 1st and 2nd Edition sources. They are not necessarily current for the 5th Edition of the setting (which is set c. 1496 DR), as borders have changed and some towns and cities have fallen, whilst newer ones have risen. A “master map” of the N ..read more

In this series I will be looking at each of the individual nations of Faerûn in turn, in alphabetical order. This series is based around the status of each nation as of 1371-72 Dalereckoning (at the end of D&D 2nd Edition and the start of 3rd Edition). The maps are drawn from The Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas CD-ROM and their respective 1st and 2nd Edition sources. They are not necessarily current for the 5th Edition of the setting (which is set c. 1496 DR), as borders have changed and some towns and cities have fallen, whilst newer ones have risen. A map of the re ..read more