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Transcript
There is more than just elven refugees and Huma’s tomb in Southern Ergoth!
Intro
Welcome to another DragonLance Saga episode. My name is Adam and today we are going to talk about Southern Ergoth in the War of the Lance Era. I would like to take a moment and thank the DLSaga members, and invite you to consider becoming a member by visiting the link in the description below. You can even pick up Dragonlance gaming materials using my affiliate links. I am referencing The Atlas of the Dragonlance World, Tales of the Lance Boxed Set, and the War of the Lance sourcebook for this information. If I leave anything out or misspeak, please leave a comment below!
Discussion
The cataclysm broke Northern and Southern Ergoth from mainland Ansalon. The massive floods left the two islands separate with three lesser islands of Cristyne, Enstar, and Hostar. This also stood as a fitting conclusion to the once great Empire of Ergoth whose power over the land was slowly dwindling between its wars with Solamnia and Istar.
The northernmost area of Southern Ergoth is not much more than a large desolate plain. Its only inhabitants are dwindling goblin tribes. Just south of this lies Morgash Bay, also known as the bay of darkness. On its southern shore is the port city of Daltigoth, the once proud capital of the Empire of Ergoth, it has since fallen to ogres. To the west rising from the island are the spinelike mountains of Ergoth. And in its center lies Foghaven Vale, where Huma’s tomb lies. To the west and south of the mountains are open plains and deep forests which lead to the Sirrion Sea. This is where you will find the refugees from Silvanesti in Silvamori and nearly twenty miles away, the Qualinesti in Qualimori. The Thon-Tsalarian River, or River of the Dead separates them. These encampments disrupted the native Kagonesti elves, but the Silvanesti and Qualinesti don’t seem to care much about it, as they use them as slaves.
The weather in Southern Ergoth can be quite harsh and unpredictable. The Sirrion Sea pushes its storms from the west across the island. These spring cyclones come in Chistlemont and crash against the Ergothian mountains which make spring and summer west of the mountains very wet. These mountains prevent the moisture from advancing north or east causing their dry and desolate conditions. Summer lasts from Corij to Reorxmont remaining fairly mild, and by mid H’rarmont, winter brings blizzards to the west and biting winds to the north. With a population of over two hundred and twenty thousand, only thirty six percent of them are human. Thirty percent are ogres with over thirty percent being elves and other racess fill the remainder. The ogres originally enslaved humans in the age of dreams in the Foundation until the humans rebelled and claimed Daltigoth as the capital of what would be their mighty empire in twenty six-hundred prae cataclius, in the Time of Light. In bitter irony after the cataclysm, the ogres reclaimed their city and many tribes live east of the Last Gaard Mountains in their ancestral homeland.
There are a number of human settlements along the east coast, owing allegiance to the empire of Ergoth, but they are the last surviving remnants of the once mighty empire on the island. The barbarian humans to the north rival the wild ogre tribes they frequently war with in savagery. The forests to the west are a sylvan refuge to the more mystical beings in Ansalon and the Kagonesti. The hill giant Stormogre rules Daltigoth, and made a pact with the White Dragon Highlord Feal-Thas. He swore to bring the ogre clans together into a great army, and Feal-Thas would provide them with White Dragons. We know this never happens due to bitter ogre clan rivalries and the heroes of the Lance.
There are some noteworthy major settlements like Castle Eastwatch with over two hundred residents. This Solamnic Knights outpost acts as the main outpost of knights and oversees the territory preparing for conflict. Daltigoth boasts nearly fifteen thousand residents...
20 май 2024
