Ghyll:WhereIsWhere
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This Where's Where article is an attempt at establishing geographical facts about Ghyll; it does not record other facts. For example, it records that the Evesque Valley is well-irrigated (and therefore must have plenty of streams), but it does not record that it used to play host to Aelfants.
Ghyll Map
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We also have the old map, which is not being maintained.
The Facts
- Alezan (land)
- Is heavily forested (Alezan)
- Uninhabited, thus no other towns (Alezan)
- Situated to the west of the Evesque Valley (Alezan)
- Most prominent feature: ruins with a twin-spire structure (Alezan)
- @@ Situated close to the Vale of Serdoch (Bordingbras his hatt!)
- Andelphracian River Valley (valley)
- Is not in the Evesque Valley or Sarfelogian Mountains (Carsokian)
- Arbuckle Hill (hill)
- Situated in Folktown (Cadaver, The)
- Host to the Cadaver public house (Cadaver, The)
- Avazian Ruins (building)
- Possibly in a wasteland (Avazian Box)
- Avaz Minor (city)
- Suspected to be located at the center of the Shallow Gulf (Dagger Seas)
- Ancient city; detonation point of Justice Device during the Third Avazian War (Dagger Seas)
- Azura Mines (mines)
- Situated by the city of Iganefta (Altoxian Bulb)
- Baleman (building)
- Ruined in an earthquake (Baleman)
- Situated on the northern edge of the Evesque Valley (Baleman)
- Bute (university/town)
- The Timperton Clocktower is on campus (Bute University)
- Contains three lakes, a forest, and blasted moorland (Bute University)
- Cactus Forests
- A rarely travelled land (Cactus forests)
- Located in the deserts of the southern end of Ghyll (Cactus forests)
- Cake (building)
- Situated on the side of a valley by the hamlet of Odlucia (Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge)
- Cataract Road (road)
- Has waterfalls alongside it (Burnflies)
- Starts in the north of the Evesque Valley (Cataract Road)
- Runs through Cranee and Folktown (Cataract Road)
- Ends in the southern town of Iganefta (Cataract Road)
- In the foothills of Mount Yurch it is built on the Yérplat Ridge. (Plain of Brahang)
- At the Plain of Brahang it follows an old road that has been there as early as -400 EC (Plain of Brahang)
- Charterhouse Estate (estate)
- On the outskirts of Folktown (Charterhouse Collection)
- Cranee (hamlet)
- Situated to the north of the Vale of Serdoch (Battle of Barnum Stones)
- The Battle of Barnum Stones probably took place 25 lele south (Battle of Barnum Stones)
- Directly between the Evesque Valley and Folktown (Cranee Historical Society)
- 25 sugro-nanits from the Evesque Valley (Cranee Historical Society)
- 18 sugro-nanits from Folktown (Cranee Historical Society)
- Has a village green (Cranee Historical Society)
- Dagger Peninsulas (peninsulas)
- Creates the dagger-like freshwater points of the Dagger Seas (Dagger Seas)
- Dagger Seas (seas)
- A haunt of the well-known Captain Riquiras (Captain Riquiras)
- Four massive estuaries: Primus, Segundus, Tertius, and Marty (Dagger Seas)
- Broad mouths at the gulf tapering to dagger-like freshwater points (Dagger Seas)
- The freshwater points are where the Dagger Peninsulas join the mainland (Dagger Seas)
- The seas are calm, though they are affected by the tides (Dagger Seas)
- The Marty Sea contains Kebro-shepenor, a small island (Kebro-shepenor)
- Dŵplat (stream)
- Eastern Province of the Dulalian Empire (region)
- Home to the Brothers of the Lantern (Brothers of the Lantern)
- Elminster Mire (mire)
- Known to exist at the time of Quezlar 6 (Andelphracian Lights)
- Ghyll-wide environmental crisis: ongoing stillicide in the Mire (Doc Rockett)
- Located east of the Evesque Valley and northwest of the Andelphracian River Valley (Elminster Mire)
- Egron (town)
- Situated close to Folktown (Bindlet Ball)
- Located northeast of Folktown, east of the town of Sejfeld (Egron)
- Evesque Valley (valley)
- Is picturesque (Bavarian Creame)
- Is well-irrigated (Adlorst Vinifera)
- Contains quayres (Andelphracian Lights)
- Is situated in the north of Ghyll (Cataract Road)
- Situated to the east of the land of Alezan (Alezan)
- A fault-line runs under the northern edge (Baleman)
- The northen edge has a relatively unpopulated area (Baleman)
- Fluyr may be the name of something in the north (Baleman)
- Divided into three sections, upper, mid, and lower ((Evesque Valley)
- 25 sugro-nanits from the hamlet of Cranee (Cranee Historical Society)
- Contains plantations (Adlorst Vinifera), e.g. of Sphoxolis Trees (Besq Boats)
- Contains the Seven Lakes of Midevesque (Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge & Evesque Valley)
- Folktown (city)
- Is a city (Amphitheatre aristocracy)
- Contains Arbuckle Hill (Cadaver, The)
- Contains the Laureat House (Calends Gala)
- Situated close to the town of Egron (Bindlet Ball)
- Has a town square (Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge)
- Contains an amphitheatre (Amphitheatre aristocracy)
- Ten sugro-nanits south-east of Marsh Gibbon (Bavarian Creame)
- 18 sugro-nanits from the hamlet of Cranee (Cranee Historical Society)
- Contains the Folktown Hyperbolic Bindlet Ball Arena (Day of Champions)
- The outskirts are home to the Charterhouse Estate (Charterhouse Collection)
- Has a Grand Mall 'twixt the Folktown Council Hall and Folktown Amphitheatre (Bavarian Creame)
- Fundzherit Peninsula (peninsula)
- Had some theoalchemical incident (inferred) (Doc Rockett)
- Fylesgate (town)
- Possibly in the Evesque Valley (Andelphracian Lights)
- Glossfordshire (town)
- Involved heavily in Bindlet Ball (Bindlet Ball)
- Iganefta (city)
- Situated by the Azura Mines (Altoxian Bulb)
- Is situated in the south of Ghyll (Cataract Road)
- A city comprised of many smaller settlements (Altoxian Bulb)
- Is divided into upper and lower class sections (Altoxian Bulb)
- Two leles away from the Azura Mines (Iganefta)
- 120 leles away from Mount Yurch (Iganefta)
- Iganefta-on-the-Sea is 30 leles away (Iganefta)
- Contains Memorial Garden and Brothers monastery (NeoAlezanians)
- Iganefta-on-the-Sea (city)
- 30 leles away from Iganefta (Iganefta)
- Was once the fishing village of Thunderbarg (Lord Glosfordshier)
- Jorvyll (region)
- Moutainous region north of the Evesque Valley (Keglacians)
- Kebro-shepenor (island)
- Located in Marty, one of the four Dagger Seas (Kebro-shepenor)
- At low tide, connected to Shepenor by a sandbar (Kebro-shepenor)
- Marsh Gibbon (town)
- Situated near the town of Sejfeld (Bavarian Creame)
- Ten sugro-nanits north-west of Folktown (Bavarian Creame)
- Mount Rotyg (mountain)
- About 4,000 nanits smaller than Mount Yurch (Mount Yurch)
- Is the second tallest mountain in Ghyll (Mount Yurch)
- Mount Yurch (mountain)
- About 120 lele west of Iganefta (Grommies)
- Is 18,764 nanits tall (Mount Yurch)
- Is the tallest mountain in Ghyll (Mount Yurch)
- Odlucia (hamlet)
- Situated in a valley (Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge)
- Is surrounded by many farmsteads (Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge)
- Contains the Odlucian Library and the Bureau's Cake (Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge)
- Odlucian Library (building)
- Is an active library (Anaximancer)
- Situated on the side of a valley by Odlucia (Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge)
- Palace of Lost Souls (building)
- Building of a location not yet recorded (Alarius)
- Pinky and Perky (astrological)
- The moons of Ghyll (Cranee Historical Society)
- Plain of Brahang (plain)
- Location of the Brahang Turnpike Inn (Plain of Brahang)
- Formerly the location of a turnpike.
- 1250 square sugro-nanits in size (Plain of Brahang)
- 800 lele northwest of Iganefta (Plain of Brahang)
- Bordered to the north by the Qestarius River (Plain of Brahang)
- Bordered to the south by the Yérplat Ridge which is now the Cataract Road (Plain of Brahang)
- The battle of the Aelfant coprolith took place here (Conflict That Is Not Happening)
- Principality of Jurra (town; maybe more)
- The Harrabloon Bank mints coins for them (Harrabloon Bank)
- Presumably nearby Folktown, as its press affects them (Harrabloon Bank)
- River Ocean (ocean)
- The Dagger Seas and Shallow Gulf empty into it (Opoudelian Starker)
- Qestarius River (river)
- Borders the north edge of the Plain of Brahang (Plain of Brahang)
- The major tributary to the Dagger Sea (Plain of Brahang)
- Sarfelogian Mountains (mountains)
- Its foothills have plantations (Adlorst Vinifera)
- Ghyll-wide environmental crisis: destruction of the mountain meadows (Doc Rockett)
- Po Mountain is located within this range (Heh-blammo balance)
- Sayaziha or City of Spheres (city)
- Said to have been seen by Ibaan Malmiz (Grimporke Grimoire)
- Sejfeld (town)
- Situated near the town of Marsh Gibbon (Bavarian Creame)
- Shallow Gulf (gulf)
- The four Dagger Seas empty into it (Dagger Seas)
- Dominates the western edge of our continent (Dagger Seas)
- The Gulf is calm, though is affected by the tides (Dagger Seas)
- Center of the Gulf is likely to have been site of ancient city of Avaz Minor (Dagger Seas)
- Shepenor (fishing village)
- Near, or on, the coast of Marty, one of the Dagger Seas (Kebro-shepenor)
- Kebro-shepenor is within sight of Shepenor, but too far to swim (Kebro-shepenor)
- At low tide, connected to Kebro-shepenor by a sandbar (Kebro-shepenor)
- Spacial Clocktower, The (clocktower)
- Unfindable (Cartographer's Nerves)
- Stindersgrough (town)
- Home of the Barnum Stones (Battle of Barnum Stones)
- Threel (town?)
- Location unknown, circa -249 EC (Extraordinarily Bloodless Revolution)
- Probably near the Palace of Lost Souls, also location unknown (Extraordinarily Bloodless Revolution)
- Thungerbarg (village)
- Former name of Iganefta-on-the-Sea; still in use among some residents.
- Umbo Moor (moor)
- @@ In-between or nearby (?) Egron and Marsh Gibbon (Edvard von Craghelm)
- Undivaggen (building)
- Situated in the town of Marsh Gibbon (Bavarian Creame)
- Vale of Serdoch (vale)
- Situated just to the south of Cranee (Battle of Barnum Stones)
- @@ Situated close to the ruins of Alezan (Bordingbras his hatt!)
- Wentzel Fen (fen)
- @@ In-between or nearby (?) Egron and Marsh Gibbon (Edvard von Craghelm)
- Yérplat Ridge (ridge)
- Better known as the Cataract Road these days (Plain of Brahang)