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04-09-2022, 03:05 PM #1
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That's a good question. To my knowledge, the only thing official is what was in the original Boxed set: the small piece of geography across the Straights of Aerele. I don't offhand know of any supplements that have more about it. (That said, i don't have all supplements.)
The novel Greatheart has a chapter that is set way in the past (before Deismaar) in Aduria, which can give some clues as to what is there.
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04-13-2022, 02:51 PM #3
There is a little about the Yakmen and their Yikarian Empire. There are references somewhere I think to the beastmen. There is a conceptual map of Aduria (from one of the key BR designers) but little was marked on it other than the Anuirean "colonies". I'll look for more later.
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04-15-2022, 01:40 AM #4
If you read the wiki page about Aduria, it links to the discussions about the "official" and "editted" maps of Aduria
- http://www.birthright.net/forums/sho...9-Adurian-Maps
- http://www.birthright.net/forums/sho...an-Empires-Map
Looking at the original Dragon article about the Yikarian Empire "The Roof of the World", I would place it on and west of the mountain range that the Aduria map labels as the Mountain States.
I am not sure whether the Anuirean colonies in northern Aduria even got any canon details or history to them.
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04-17-2022, 12:48 PM #5
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From where did this notion of Aduria having Yak-Men and the Yikarian empire come? The Yak-men, Yikaria, etc are all from the Al-Qadim setting (which in turn is part of Forgotten Realms, not Birthright).
So somewhere along the line, it seems someone moved Yak-men / Yikaria etc as part of Aduria. Nothing wrong with that per se, but it can't be considered canon, can it?
How did this crossover to the Birthright wiki happen?
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04-17-2022, 04:02 PM #6
The article from Dragon #251 that describes the Yikarian Empire places it in various campaign settings, including Birthright.
The relevant bits are on the Internet Archive:
https://ia800907.us.archive.org/Book...ale=8&rotate=0
https://ia800907.us.archive.org/Book...ale=8&rotate=0
For the Br wiki, I have taken that as canon as they are from Dragon and rewritten it and the rest of the article.
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04-19-2022, 02:59 PM #7
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Actually, after I perused the article in Dragon #241, my first gut instinct was to place the Yikarian Empire in the Sere Coast (specifically, in the mountain chunk within the south of that area demarcated on Ian's map - it looks close to the map in the article). And I'm going to amalgamate that with the "Beastlands" chunk (and Nehalim will claim the southern plains/jungles of within the Beastlands area on Ian's map).
I'm going to make the beastmen referenced in the canon source material (I think the Atlas mentions them) and retcon them to be Yak-men. And, also, that Yak-men are minotaurs (that way, I don't have to create a whole new race).
Some scholars wonder if they were one of Azrai's beast-men but the yikaria actually evolved from an Adurian awnshegh. Their shape was originally the consequence of a blood form, but is now regarded as an inbred nature rather than a blood ability.
I think it fits well... anyone see any problems with that fix?Last edited by masterdaorin; 04-19-2022 at 03:26 PM.
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04-19-2022, 03:07 PM #8
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So, basically, all we really have as source material (other than the Yikara article) is a few place names - the Sere Coast, Oeried, Rhandal and Lurech, and mentions of a few other northern realms such as Aliatane and Mor Atha - and the rest is Ian's creation?
Is the stuff based on the "Caele's Journey" article also Ian's creation?Last edited by masterdaorin; 04-19-2022 at 03:12 PM.
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