So, on the map, there is a road that goes south from Turpin Rowe called "Merovan" Road, not Meravon.
However, the World Guide calls it Meravon. Which is accurate? Or are they two separate places? It's very confusing and a horrible typo multiple times.
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Merovan vs Meravon is a "very confusing and a horrible typo"?
I'm sure there is an answer, though this should be in the Extinction Curse forum tbh. But if you don't get an answer, just pick one of the two near identical options and stick with it I guess.
This should probably be in either the Extinction Curse forum or the Campaign Setting forum to get more informed answers.
Merovan vs Meravon is a "very confusing and a horrible typo"?
I'm sure there is an answer, though this should be in the Extinction Curse forum tbh. But if you don't get an answer, just pick one of the two near identical options and stick with it I guess.
While I'll repost this elsewhere, yes, it is a horrible typo in the sense it's performed multiple, numerous times. "Merovan" is not just in a single sentence, or here and there, but across maps and paragraphs, in descriptions and also makes reference to the city "east" in the Immenwood, meaning it very well could be referencing Meravon - which is problematic as the entirety of the World Guide hinges on it being spelled with the 'a' and 'o' situated as spelled above.
Which urges the question does the "Merovan Road" lead to Meravon or Merovan? Kind of important when world building and using canon as your foundation, my guy.
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which is problematic as the entirety of the World Guide hinges on it being spelled with the 'a' and 'o' situated as spelled above.
Which urges the question does the "Merovan Road" lead to Meravon or Merovan? Kind of important when world building and using canon as your foundation, my guy.
I consider myself pretty interested in the details and having a good idea what lies just off the map, and expanding the world to feel real around the PCs.
But I cannot fathom the scale at which you perceive this to be an issue. It's one place, it's very clearly not a typo that makes it hard to figure out both spellings refer to the same place. Pick one spelling.
If the typo made it hard to determine what place they were talking about was I'd be frustrated for sure, a road to Oppara called the road to Westcrown, etc.
Anyway... Good luck finding an answer that pleases you.
Greetings from Europe, a faraway exotic continent where one place can have several different variations of its name, in the same country, in the same language, because Europe.
Maybe that's why I'm not perturbed by this. All the sign posts are bilingual where I'm from and every town has varying pronunciation, often even within the same town.
I can only imagine it's even more wildly varying if there wasn't a forced language.
which is problematic as the entirety of the World Guide hinges on it being spelled with the 'a' and 'o' situated as spelled above.
Which urges the question does the "Merovan Road" lead to Meravon or Merovan? Kind of important when world building and using canon as your foundation, my guy.I consider myself pretty interested in the details and having a good idea what lies just off the map, and expanding the world to feel real around the PCs.
But I cannot fathom the scale at which you perceive this to be an issue. It's one place, it's very clearly not a typo that makes it hard to figure out both spellings refer to the same place. Pick one spelling.
If the typo made it hard to determine what place they were talking about was I'd be frustrated for sure, a road to Oppara called the road to Westcrown, etc.
Anyway... Good luck finding an answer that pleases you.
So, essentially, what everyone will answer (summed up) is "no one cares about spelling, go [creative expletive] yourself my guy" because no one can be $*#@ed to sit down and just have a discussion/figure out what it could mean?
Sure, perhaps it doesn't matter to you. Or any of you.
That's all fine and good, but why bother posting to make that known? Obviously I'm posting because it's confusing and there are tons of locations in 2e that exist on maps but don't have specifics. If one book has spelling A, and another spelling B - both eerily similar - and the second book goes into great detail about this location, it still leaves people wondering if it is the same location mentioned the first time 'round.
And if you come to find out later it *was* two locations, then the choice in combining them only serves to create headache down the road as you effectively either must retcon all of what might transpire in your game around that area or bite the the bullet and do any number of things to create a new "second place" that should have been that way from the beginning.
So yeah, heaven forbid I asked a gorram question as to whether these were the same location or not.
Holy hell, people.
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You got your answer. It was "They are referring to the same town" which is what you said was the important bit. You also got some world building information that there indeed exist places in the world where location names differ regionally.
You would have gotten more precise answers if you just had asked your question without blowing that little letter swap up as a big horrible thing with which the whole adventure could be scrapped because it's unplayable. O_o
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which is problematic as the entirety of the World Guide hinges on it being spelled with the 'a' and 'o' situated as spelled above.
Since I don't expect staff to answer all 5 of your identical posts, here's what they said
They're the same place.
Perhaps chalk up the confusion to a difference in how it's pronounced in the local dialect.
Official reply here:
https://paizo.com/threads/rzs433x4?Meravon-or-Merovan-Pathfinder-2e-AP
Ironically, my own post.
This is as simple as it needed to be.
I'm still wondering how "the entirety of the World Guide hinges on" the spelling of one insignificant town on the Isle of Kortos.
On a related topic, I couldnt help but notice that Merovan and Meravon gets used interchangeably. Does anyone know which spelling is correct? Not a big deal, just want to be consistent and I'm wondering which it's supposed to be
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On a related topic, I couldnt help but notice that Merovan and Meravon gets used interchangeably. Does anyone know which spelling is correct? Not a big deal, just want to be consistent and I'm wondering which it's supposed to be
"Lost Omens: World Guide" spells it Meravon. The other spelling is on an AP map.
If you insist on a single spelling being correct, then I'd go with the one that got the most editorial scrutiny: the World Guide spelling. It's much easier for the name of a road on a map to be overlooked.
They're both the same place, according to Paizo developers.
Diagetically, literacy is nearly universal in the inner sea region, but that does not mean that standards of spelling or grammar are especially high.