Just a question that came to my mind from reading the campaign summary. The question is two parts: Is the original Archduchy of Ravounel indeed just the small area northeast of the Yolubilis with the forest and plains up to Kintargo, and an island or two? Does it continue along that strip of coast up towards Nisroch, or down toward Pezzack? Or does it go inland and include some of the north plains or the mountain ranges? And secondly, how big of an actual area is that? It seems small compared to the region, but I believe Cheliax is fairly large. What sizes of settlements are dotting that plain and forest without getting noted on the map?
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Ravounel's borders are shown on a regional map in the 5th part of Hell's Rebels, and in the upcoming Cheliax book.
That said, its borders are pretty well defined by geography; the southern border is the center line of the Menador Mountains, and it goes all the way along the south to just above Citadel Enferac (which is in the region known as the Hellcoast). Ravounel does indeed include all of the islands off the coast, including Vyre and Deepmar. To the east, it goes all the way to Nidal, stopping halfway through the North Plains more or less (where it's shown on the regional map of Cheliax in the Inner Sea World Guide).
It is, overall, the smallest of the six regions of Cheliax.
There's more info about other settlements in Ravounel in upcoming adventures in Hell's Rebels, but there's not really many major ones. The North Plains, to the southeast of Kintargo, have a fair number of tiny faming thorps, and there's several small towns on the coast and along the river, and a fair number of tiny mining hamlets and villages in the southern Menador foothills. To the west things get more wild, with a lot fewer villages. There's no settlements in Ravounel Forest or the surrounding area; that place is REALLY dangerous and the locals tend to avoid it.
Ah, I was just looking at the ISWG map, and since the only place with the name Ravounel was the forest, I was concerned that it was just the small area around the forest, with Kintargo as its northeasternmost point. If it includes down to the mountains and Pezzack and whatever Terapasillion turns out to be, that's a much more solid foundation for a potential independent region.
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It looks like the region that used to be called "the Cosmopolitan Northwest" is coterminous with the Archduchy of Ravounel. Pezzack, as part of the "Rebellious West," would thus fall outside it. Though I'd expect it to become a friction point between any independent anti-Hell Ravounel and the rump Cheliax post-Hell's Rebels/Hell's Vengeance. I mean, it's right there on the border.
Ah, I could be mistaken. I didn't find (in a quick search) exactly where Citadel Enferac is, so I assumed it was near the bay called the Hellmouth.
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Ah, I could be mistaken. I didn't find (in a quick search) exactly where Citadel Enferac is, so I assumed it was near the bay called the Hellmouth.
Enferac is shown on this map, which appears in the Inner Sea World Guide, page 56.
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It looks like the region that used to be called "the Cosmopolitan Northwest" is coterminous with the Archduchy of Ravounel. Pezzack, as part of the "Rebellious West," would thus fall outside it. Though I'd expect it to become a friction point between any independent anti-Hell Ravounel and the rump Cheliax post-Hell's Rebels/Hell's Vengeance. I mean, it's right there on the border.
That's more or less correct, but we've abandoned the names like "The Cosmopolitan Northwest" more or less entirely today. Pezzack is indeed part of Hellcoast, not Ravounel.
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That's more or less correct, but we've abandoned the names like "The Cosmopolitan Northwest" more or less entirely today. Pezzack is indeed part of Hellcoast, not Ravounel.
Probably for the best. It seems more like an ethnologist's or historian's term than one the people living there (or even the faraway oppressors with their boots on the necks of the people living there) would actually use.
Early names for when it hadn't been well-filled-in, too.
Anyway, I think I can picture it clearly now. It's still pretty small, but at least they have more land and aren't almost completely forest.