How are the area / regions defined?

[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?

[Phntm888]

I don't know if you've seen it, but here is a Pathfinder Wiki page that might be useful.

Looking at my copy of Stolen Lands and the map on Page 14, I think that the Greenbelt is supposed to be everything that's shown the map: the grayish grasslands around Oleg's and above the Narlmarches, the Narlmarches, and the Kamelands (which I think are supposed to be the more yellowy area).

Looking at my copy of Varnhold Vanishing, and its map on Page 14, It looks like The Nomen Heights encompasses what's left of the Kamelands, the Tors of Levenies, and the Dunsward. The Dunsward looks to be a lower terrain of plains and grasslands, as opposed to the rest of the Heights, which are more hilly.

[Spatula]

My personal conception of it is:

The Greenbelt is roughly the area between the Hooktongue Slough in the west and the Tors in the east. It's marked by lots of rivers and lakes which make the area very, well, green.

The Kamelands is the hilly region within the Greenbelt (kame is a kind of hill or mound). The Narlmarches is of course the forest (marches is an old word for a borderland, whereas "narl" is perhaps meant to invoke "gnarled"). The flatter area in the north is the southern edge of the Rostland Plains and is perhaps not properly part of the Greenbelt.

The Nomen Heights is the Tors and points east. The Dunsward is the flatlands (the plains hexes) within the Heights.