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So, map issues sometimes crop up in Pathfinder. In the Mwangi Expanse (2e) book, the Mbe'ke city of K'lereng is mentioned as the second largest settlement of the Terwa Uplands dwarves, being a coastel settlement deeply involved in the third corsair war. Its kind, Thabsing Blood-Eye, was once captured by pirates near Mediogalti, so its ships should be capable to reach all the way there. So I ask, where actually is this city?
The book provides an answer: "K’lereng stands as a large trading port on the upper edge of the Terwa Uplands, in the southeastern corner of the Sodden Lands."
That doesn't make much sense. The southeastern corner of the Sodden Lands is not coastal at all; it borders the Mwangi Expanse. Is it supposed to instead by on the shores of Terwa Lake? But then how does it quarrel with the pirates of the Shackles? All sources I'm able to find on K'lereng (not many) state it's where the Terwa Uplands meet the Sodden Lands, but that doesn't make much sense as stated above. Maybe it's a typo, and it's meant to be on the western edge? That works with the sea, but it's further north than Dredgeport is, which means it'd be horribly whipped by the Eye of Abendego, and nowhere is that mentioned in the city's description. Further south then? Maybe, but then it's awfully close to Port Peril, which might work but I'm not sure about it. Or maybe the typo is different; maybe it's supposed to be on the southeastern Terwa Uplands rather than the Sodden Lands, so that it's between the Shackles and Anthusis. That would give it a more solid hold on the third corsair war, which sprung when plunder from Vidrian ran dry after the revolution, but it eliminates its ties to the Sodden Lands...
Does anyone have a better guess of where it's supposed to be? Better yet a map with a pin in it. Cloudspire isn't on any maps either...
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Yeah, got nothing more than what's in the Mwangi Expanse, which doesn't make sense.
The fact that the Terwa Uplands doesn't even have a marked area on any maps that I know of is also a problem. I assume some of what is currently flagged as The Shackles on the World Guide map is actually Terwa Uplands, but without any more from Paizo we're just making guesses based on incomplete and contradictory information.
Sigh.
That is correct actually! The Terwa Uplands is marked on the map that is provided with the 1e "Isles of the Shackles" book.