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Here I've compiled a list of the regions mentioned in supplements and modules. Hopefully the list is complete, and it would be excellent if some of the staff could comment whether I am missing any, whether any are in the gazetteer, and general comments on specific locations of note. I hope I have listed all in Golarion. Alright, here I go:
Varisia, Cheliax, Andoran, Galt, Minkai, Belkzen, Land of the Linnorm KIngs, Tian Xia, Thom, Irrere, River Kingdoms, Sodden Lands, Kyonin, Sovyrian, Mordant Spire, Taldor, Geb, Numeria, Vandu, Azlant, Bhopan, Absalom, Osirion, Hold of the Mammoth LOrds, Wat Kyript, Ginji Mesa, Hollow Morass, Stinking Sink.
Sources: Pathfinder #1 bestiary and journal, Pathfinder #2 bestiary, Paizo.com, Player's Guide
Chief Creative Officer, Publisher
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You're missing a lot, naturally, but it's now becoming difficult to tell what has or hasn't made it into print yet. I was somewhat surprised to see "Hold of the Mammoth Lords" on that list, as I consider it still in the "place-holder" category.
Ah, well, perhaps not!
I'm only unfamiliar with a couple of those. Almost all of the others have (at the least) a couple of paragraphs and a list of general assumptions associated with them. A couple are just places, rather than proper nations.
--Erik
Well, there's Arcadia. (Pathfinder #1, p. 82, last paragraph, first sentence).
That's one about which I am interested in hearing more.
I like the idea of trying to get all of this info in one place. Excellent start!
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Geb is a medium-sized nation on the southern continent that has been run by an eponymous god-king necromancer for thousands of years. The nation's power (and Geb's interest in the material world) were at an all-time high more than a thousand years ago, when he was locked in ferocious magical battles with his northern neighbor, Nex, also named for a ridiculously powerful sorcerous god-king of antiquity. Some time ago (after a fruitless attack on Absalom), Nex vanished, and with him so too vanished Geb's day-to-day interest in the world.
Numeria is a northern barbarian nation with a big crashed spaceship littering its countryside. It's our place for weird science-fantasy, and it's fairly isolated from the rest of the world so that people who want that style of play can have it and people who don't can ignore it.
Much more on this stuff later.
--Erik
Arcadia, btw, is across the Arcadian Ocean and is sort of our stand-in for North America, although we're trying not to be too rigid when it comes to parallelism.
--Erik
I can appreciate the importance of not being rigid in your parallelism, but I'm still hoping for native Arcadian centaurs who live in tribes, as noble warriors who respect nature, etc. *crosses fingers*
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Oh I think that's quite likely, though we'll have centaurs in Avistan, too. Avistan is the northern continent of the western hemisphere, and is the home-continent of Varisia, Falcon's Hollow, etc. The southern continent, which may or may not have a final name, is the home to Osirion, from Entombed with the Pharaohs. We're focusing on those continents first, but there will be hints of other cultures off the map that will influence the core play area and that might be a place for further expansion.
Among these locations are Arcadia, our East Indian analogue areas, most of our Persian/Arabic analogue areas, and areas based upon Asian mythology. The latter, while peripheral for now, is important enough to be mentioned in Pathfinder #1. I'd also include Golarion's sister planets, each of which will be geared for a different style of science fantasy adventure.
I'm not sure we'll get around to detailing all of this, mind you. It would be really cool and extremely fun, but more people than just me need to think so to make it all happen.
--Erik
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Oh I think that's quite likely, though we'll have centaurs in Avistan, too. Avistan is the northern continent of the western hemisphere, and is the home-continent of Varisia, Falcon's Hollow, etc. The southern continent, which may or may not have a final name, is the home to Osirion, from Entombed with the Pharaohs. We're focusing on those continents first, but there will be hints of other cultures off the map that will influence the core play area and that might be a place for further expansion.
Among these locations are Arcadia, our East Indian analogue areas, most of our Persian/Arabic analogue areas, and areas based upon Asian mythology. The latter, while peripheral for now, is important enough to be mentioned in Pathfinder #1. I'd also include Golarion's sister planets, each of which will be geared for a different style of science fantasy adventure.
I'm not sure we'll get around to detailing all of this, mind you. It would be really cool and extremely fun, but more people than just me need to think so to make it all happen.
--Erik
It will be the epic endevour of our lifetime. And through the efforts of hundreds, nay, thousands, a time/space rift will open, and beyond the glowing chasms of splintered reality, your and our creation will stand, beckoning...
... And then their inhabitants will kick our asses, because we made them too cool.