Next FQ Chapter?

[Inkfinger]

Is there any news on how soon the next chapter will begin, both in-character and out-of-character? Are we waiting for the ToC to end, or just until some other unknown deadline is reached? :D

[Christoph]

It should be starting shortly. Bloodrose and I decided to have there be a break between chapters, with the ToC absorbing a large chunk of player attention. Again, though, it should be starting very soon.

[Caden Law]

What he said.

I might add, however, there are still a few opportunities (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?t=18005) for finishing up/snagging extra points on the Raiaeran end of things.

[Inkfinger]

Next round of annoying questions! (For which I apologize, as I have worldbuilder's syndrome and need to know these things!) Just trying to suss out how best to throw Cael into the most chaos possible without breaking timelines into itty-bitty pieces.

Are these maps (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?t=8683) still accurate, and if so does that make this map (http://www.althanas.com/maps/northalthanaspreview.jpg) inaccurate? I only ask because the FQ-based maps seem to have Salvar have shoreline along the eastern edge, while the full map makes it seem to be landlocked there.

And does the world of Althanas (or at least the humans thereon), IC, operate on a 12month calendar? How do the events in Raiaera and the events in Salvar overlap, timelines wise? Were the seven months since the beginning of the War taking place, in part, over the long winter in Salvar? Would the people -the general populace, not the Church or State- know about the goings-on in Raiaera?

...yeah, I'll stop now. D:

How many licks, how many angels, tootsie-pops and pins, etc etc etc.

[Taskmienster]

Dee dee... what the... Alright. So, here's the thing that I'm confused about:

The first map is the one that Findelfin said was going to be used for the FQ, and from here on out is the "official" map. Though, the way the almanac is set up and what has been canon for as long as I can remember, contradicts the map of Raiaera that is supposed to be the true one (the FQ one). I'll explain the first link as FQ, for short, and the Almanac as canon, also just shorter.

FQ says that to the north of Raiaera is water, which it's supposed to be a line of mountains that split the country from Salvar according to canon. There are a number of cities that are either very hard to find and I'm failing in doing so, or aren't on the FQ map, or they're somewhere I didn't expect them to be from what the information provided about them made me assume.

I'm going to assume that mixing the two maps would be the best thing to think of... Say Raiaera is more of peninsula to itself, with the northern shore running into the mountains that split Alerar and Salvar (which are connected in a straight, vertical line).

Salvar's composition also in the FQ map stands out against the canon map, since it's supposed to share a northern border with Berevar, split by a range of mountains as well. Where it says "Dwarf Territory" to the extreme southeast on the FQ Salvar map, I'm assuming just below that is the land that makes up the extreme northwestern meeting of Raiaera and Salvar... hence why I'm confused.

If the FQ map is supposed to be the canon map now, it should be changed in the Almanac to show that, but isn't.


For calendar purposes, I have no clue. Due to the nature of Althanas having the FQ work without liquid time has thrown my sense of having to keep track of what time is what. I would assume for the simplicity of gauging time we're going with a 12 month calendar since it's what we're all used to anyway.

As for the general populace knowing about Chapter 2 goings-on in Raiaera... Since it was supposed to be a bitter winter, possibly one of the worst to the nation, it would make sense in my head that realistically the relay of information would have been cut to a near minimum. What info is known would be known in Knife's Edge, and to the upper crust of society that may have been there to gather a little before heading out to wherever they were going.

I'd say, realistically, the general populace of Salvar (not the church/state) would probably be at a loss for the most part in regards to the happenings of the high elven nation. The knowledge they'd have would be something second hand and possibly even grossely overemphasized or understated in regards to the affairs of Raiaera. Something akin to some rumors being that Xem'zund has been losing to even beaten back, or that he has destroyed all the cities and the lands belong to him now could both be in play at the moment. The concept of having the conflicting rumors both being spread and argued about by those spreading them at an inn or tavern wouldn't surprise me to see either.

[Caden Law]

re: Maps: That was the work of the previous FQ guys.

They might be valid, they might not. For Raiaera, I'm still (generally) using the old one while I look for time to make a new one. Can't speak for Salvar.

[Ashiakin]

When I was the Regions Admin (and when I was working on the FQ with Sighter) we considered the FQ maps to be the official maps of Althanas and the map that Santh made being out of date. Y'all are free to do whatever you want, though, of course.

We had imagined everything looking like this:

Salvar
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Alerar - Raiaera

With Corone and Fallien somewhere to the south, Dheathain to the east, and the unexplored north (Berevar) above Salvar. But again, that was us.

[Taskmienster]

That's cool, if you want to get with me so we can make more up-to-date maps, probably a mix of the two (just in the way Salvar connects to Berevar) and update the Almanac that would be spiffy. That way it's less confusing...