| Luckmann |
I'm having a bit of an issue. I'm planning for a Kingmaker game, making my own unified map, etc., and I've come to realize that I can't find any narrative logic to how the regions referenced are named.
Obviously, in the pseudo-feudal state of the game world, naming conventions are iffy and maps are uncertain, to say the least, and in an exploration-based game like Kingmaker, how are the regions defined?
For example, the first adventure, Stolen Lands, takes place in "the Greenbelt". Where does the Greenbelt start and stop? I've been trying to find a logic, to it, but I just can't. I was thinking that maybe it was a specifically green belt, an arable region between this or that other area, but there's no clear natural borders.
The same goes for the Kamelands. I was thinking that maybe it's simply the area between the Shrike River and the Tors of Levenies, but the I see that the Kamelands label stretches clear across the Gudrin River, too.
And what is the distinction between Dunsward and the Nomen Heights, considering that the Nomen Heights are the region which is supposed to contain Dunsward?
The only things I'm entirely clear on is the Narlmarches, which is obviously the large forest to the western end of the Greenbelt (or is it also a full part of the Greenbelt?), and "The Slough" is obviously justthe Hooktongue Slough.
Am I just going to have to make it up?