Overcrowding in Weryth

[Dan Sellars]

Hello Chaps,

Sorry this rambles a bit...

I was just  looking through the rule book last night refreshing myself about  Weryth etc as I've never really read it through before.  

I was looking at the map and geography and all of the map seems to be settled by humans of on race or another.  

Where do the Gols (as an example) live?  Is if just squashed into the mountains between lands or is the land seen as being sparsely populated so that fey and troll spawn can live in and around the different countires as a constant menace.  

How do other people see the other races as interacting, with humans?  Humans seem to be warring with each other and there dosn't seem to be much room left.  

Oh and does any one have any information written up about Farrenshire?  As this is where I'm thinking about settign my campaign.

Ideas? comments?

Cheers,
Dan.

[Jake Norwood]

Hi Dan.

Weyrth is not a world with nations or even factions of Fantasy Races.  Humans run everything in Weyrth.  The Fey stick to their forests, scattered throughout the world, the seelie and unseelie inhabit the same forests and some rural villages, the Golen hide away in the mountains, where humans don't live.  There's no offically mapped territory for these races, and the bulk of humanity thinks them to be legend (although that doesn't keep them from being superstitious about it).

Interaction between races would be something like this:
-The villagers know better than to wander into the Bloodwood Forest, as no one ever comes out of it, except old William, who went in a boy and came out an old, old man after just three days.
-The village of Strussel, in Southern Stahl, borders the IronTooth Mountains. Although they aren't close to any of Stahl's enemies, their village looks like a little fortress of wood and stone.  Their lord went to cross the mountains once, and saw two demon (gol) armies fighting deep in the range.  He fled right away, and ordered his villagers start building fortifications.  That was 15 years ago, and there's been no attack and no armies, but every penny the old lord has goes into ramparts and walls anyway.

In short, large human population centers will be farthest from non-human activity, but there's bound to be villages nearby.  Always villages, or maybe villages that have just recently become towns.

Fey and Trollspawn are only a "constant menace" to those that live quite nearby, in such villages.  They're never (or very, very rarely) enough of a problem for the large population centers (and kings) to take notice (or at least to admit to noticing). Everybody is afraid of big, dark forests and pretty much any part of the Iron Tooth Mountains.

I don't have much extra written up on Farrenshire, but it is probably my favorite place to begin a game.

Jake

[Dan Sellars]

Thanks Jake,

You actually managed to write a sensible reply out of my post ;)  I like the way you described it there.

I have aother question ;-)

I can't rememeber the exact details but in the write up about Farranshire it says that it is rolling hills and forests (I kind of think Medieaval England as it should have been) with relativly no mountainous areas.  But in the Trollspawn/ Gol write up it says that they are a mence to those areas of Stahl and Farranshire that border the Iorn Tooth mountains.  Are the Iorn Tooth mountains seen to stretch to northern Farrenshire?

Cheers,
Dan.

[Jake Norwood]

Are the Iorn Tooth mountains seen to stretch to northern Farrenshire?

Cheers,
Dan.

[checks map]

Yes, especially near Nith.

Jake

[Dan Sellars]

Cheers,

Which map are you looking at?  I've got access to the online one here (which I think is the same as the one in the back of the book) and I can't actually see a town/area called Nith.  I assume that the black lines are country boundries.  I can make out Mouren and a Defville(?) there also seems to be a large lake to the north of the country.

Have I got this correct and is there a more detailed map (I don't expect everything to be labeled ;-) just wondered) available?

Cheers,
Dan.

[Jake Norwood]

My bad.  I meant Denaille. I'm using the map out of the back of the book.

Jake