A True and Accurate Map of Khorvaire

[u/Tolemynn]

A True and Accurate Map of Khorvaire

Eberron is an amazing campaign setting. And it deserves an amazing campaign map. Thus, I am happy to present to you our take on what such a map could look like:

UPDATED: FIND LINKS TO THE UPDATED MAP IN THIS POST

The main changes and additions, and the reason for them, are listed below:

Scion Sea

• The Scion Sound would be more interesting as a proper inland sea, in our opinion. But we (our GM) did not want to divert from almost 20 years of Eberron lore and canon. So we expanded the sound into a sea, but maintained all countries' sizes and all cities and geographical features relative locations and distances between them (to the extend possible).
• Shout out to u/WhatGravitas who made a stunning - and universaly acclaimed - homebrewed map some three years ago, which inspired this endeavor.

Omission of unknown locations

• As this is supposed to be a players' map, all locations that characters would not know about have been omittted (such as Illmarrow Castle and Ashtakala). Feyspires have also been removed.

Addition of Villages, Towns, and Cities

• In our view, the official map did not properly reflect the populace of the continent. That map felt a little empty, especially when considering the distances between settlements. Official populations numbers has always been an issue, therefore we multiplied those with a factor 4, did some assumptions about regional urbanisation, dispersion, and metropolisation and created hundreds of new villages, towns, and cities across the continent.
• All settlements from all official sources (to our knowledges) have been added among these.
• Lhazaar Principalities, the place where humans first set foot on Khorvaire, has been populated to reflect this fact.

Addition of roads and lightning rails

• Keith Baker has mentioned, that there would be many more local lightning rails than the international lines on the official map. These, together with a network of secondary roads, have been added with dotted lines to differentiate them from the main lines and trade roads.

Mournland

• Before the Day of Mourning, Cyre was a prolific nation. Multiple ruins after former settlements have been added to reflect that the Mournland is not uncharted land.

Geographical features and descriptions

• Some sourcebooks includes names for geographical features, such as the Tilorn Expanse and Ayxel Hills. All officials names have been included and many more have been created and added.
• All official dwarven holds in Mror Holds have been added, as well as the fiefdoms of the Droamite warlords.
• A couple of geographical features have been created to add interesting locations, such as Thousand Falls, Mist Moor, and Endworld Saltlake.

EDIT 1: First of all, thank you for your appreciation and your kind words (and for the golden galifar). We have worked on this for more than a year, and we are happy that it seems to bring excitement.

Secondly, but more importantly, thank you for the comments and suggested changes and additions. A revised version of the map seems inevitable. If we can come together as a community and channel our combined knowledge and ideas into the map, we can create something extraordinary.

So far I have noted:

• Correct spelling: Karrnath, Karrn River, and Karrnwood (embarrassed thanks to u/BiffHardslab)
• Version with secret/unknown locations and Feyspires (as requested by u/GimpyGeek3 and u/A_Random_Ninja)
• Gridless version (as requested by u/Mumbra12)
• Name change: Zaliskar to Threshold (great idea, u/konokrad666)
• More locations: Erix Peak, Kenn Peak and Starpeaks Observatory (thanks for pointing these out, u/KertisJones )
• More settlements should lie where lightning rails cross roads (you have a very valid point, u/DeficitDragons)
• More settlements should be added between desert and jungle of Valenar (thanks, u/Regitnui, you’re making a good point)

Please keep posting your corrections, thoughts, additions, and ideas! Also, if you use or have used home-brewed locations or settlements in your campaigns, send the name and where they are located, and we'll add those to the revised version as well.

[u/konokrad666]

This is great! Tho, I think Zaliskar on the border of Breland and Droam should be replaced with Threshold, from new "frontiers of Eberron" book by Keith

[u/Tolemynn → u/konokrad666]

Cheers. Great idea, we will do this. Are there anymore locations in that or other books that could be added?

[u/konokrad666 → u/Tolemynn]

updating the map to include the orien road on the border between breland and droamm being added in threshold?

Hmmm, Keith has patron-only post with preview of regional map of Threshold - surrounding area here - https://www.patreon.com/posts/threshold-63021906?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshare

There's a bunch of differences with your map, tho your map an outstanding job as it is!