I am basing my upcoming campaign in Sargava and most of the residents, and especially nobles, are of Chelish descent. Note that Todd is adopted so you have considerable flexibility in how you define his background.
I stuck it on the edge of the Screaming Jungle … seemed appropriate, dinosaurs and monkeys and all. Changed the major nearby city to Osibu. Everyone is a "colonist" or rather descendent of so they are of mixed descent, take your pick … Cheliax, Taldane, Andor
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I did something a bit different and I sat Cauldron in a mountain range in Isger, with the burnt forest surrounding it.
The recent 'Goblinoid war' there added some interesting flavor to the campaign.
People focus too much on finding a 'jungle' to place the city, which actually makes very little impact on the story.
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People focus too much on finding a 'jungle' to place the city, which actually makes very little impact on the story.
True, but I like jungles!
If it was me, I'd probably just site it somewhere "off map", probably in southern Garund. Maybe a former Chelish colony that was left to fend for itself during the civil war, and which Cheliax has no interest in accepting back into the nation, much like Korvosa.
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I used almost the exact same placement DM. While the map depicts the mountainous regions of Sargava as dry and arid, similar to physical maps of the US Rocky Mountains. In fact, when you drive/hike through, you see a lot of green water. That's how I explained the differences in map view vs. what players see in descriptions of various places in the campaign. Beautiful work on the player's guide by the way.