Map of Estphalia, Northlands

"Map of Estphalia, the Northlands, and Surrounding Regions"

A map, obviously. Zoom in and read all the little place names! Well, this is an original Dungeons & Dragons-esque fantasy world, known as Eurden, and this map covers two countries from it.
The funny thing about Eurden, is that while it may have magic and elves and all that jazz, it's much, much closer to our world's Pre-Renaissance Europe, or as it's called on Eurden, "Kernin". By S.Y. 1471, all the orcs and beasty things have been almost totally destroyed, the elves only have two countries on the continent, and the dwarves have been reduced to a trio of small mountain city-states. Meaning, that it's essentially a human realm (albeit with token amounts of gnomes, halflings, dwarves, and elves along for the ride) in which the deciding events shall now be decided by humans working against other humans. Yet magic (both arcane and holy) is still a big influence, and any traveler knows that they can find magical, mysterious, and deadly things only a few hours' ride outside of civilization.

I wrote a short story called "A Birthday Present" about a half-elf apprentice wizard named Tonis Aramil Naïlo (he's half human and half high elf, for those keeping score) who through the course of the story gives a short bio and has a short adventure in Elchester and in Maiden's Peak. which namely, contained a banshee.

I'm also working on another story, a novella tenatively titled "A Midsummer's Present", in which Tonis's master, Jared, receives a letter and then sends his sole apprentice to the port city of Auden. I hope to have it finished this summer (2005) and publish with an on-demand service.

Neither one will be featured on DeviantArt, since, namely, DeviantArt only allows plain text and that does undesirable things to people who put things like italics in their writing. If you want any of my writing, please visit my website ([link])

*If you would like to rework this map and improve the quality {coughmountainscough}, please contact me. I'd love to see what someone more skilled take a whack at it.*
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Notes:
Estphalia and the Northlands of Northeastern Kernin, S.Y. 1471
Estphalia Quick Stats:
Country: Principality of Estphalia
Location: Northeastern Kernin. NE of Helden Confederation, South of Northlands, Directly to the west of Winyador
Area: 46,512 Sq. mi. (120,465 sq. km.) (Roughly the size of Pennsylvania)
Climate: Temperate. Cool summers, cold, wet winters. Colmar and Auden are affected by the Elle Current, a warm current and are warmer than average. Hampstead is unusually rainy, and usually cold.
Terrain: Marshy near west coast, and in Colmar Mire. Ranges from temperature forest in the south to near-taiga in the north, with grasslands intermixed. Two exceptionally dense old-growth forests are marked on the map.
Natural Resources: Arable land, timber, peat, some coal, iron, silver, copper, mithral

Population: ~1.5 million.
Life Expectancy: 65/68 Male/Female (Humans only)
Demographics: Mostly human, with gnomish and dwarven populations. Small numbers of elves, halflings, and a smattering of half-elves and other races.
Ethnic Groups: Anglish, Helden, Winyadorian (Elven), various dwarven/gnomish groups
Religion: Christianity (Small Jewish and Islamic populations in Auden)
Official Language: Anglish
Literacy: 60%
Conventional long name: Principality of Estphalia
Conventional short name: Estphalia
Government type: Monarchy, limited constitution (think Magna Carta)
Head of state: Crown Prince