The Nine Nations
This campaign focuses on an area of Ferrum often referred to colloquially as 'The Nine Nations'. Settles upon two Continents connected by an archipelago of large and small islands, The Nine Nation are often considered the more civilized and advanced nations of the world. A few other continents lie far across the seas, and are populated largely by the minor races of The Nine Nations. These other lands are not savage, necessarily, but rather just looked down upon by the people of this area of the world.
As you could probably guess, the Nine Nations are comprised of nine different states, each with their own culture, history, and problems. Some of these lands have closed borders, while other typically allow free travel of non-military personal through their lands. And all of them are tied together by a defining moment in the nations past called the Grand Incursion, followed by the Chaos. From that Chaos, these nine states were born, and have existed in one way or another sense.
Each nation has their own way of life, and unique facets of their culture. Each nation also has their own language that they primarily use. There is a shared language sometimes used by merchants or diplomats and ambassadors called Gibbelish, but your average person is not likely to know it. The 'Common' Language of most campaigns is not common in The Nine Nations, though it does still exist - primarily it is used in Foreign Territories.
The world of Ferrum is roughly the same size as the planet earth, though slightly smaller in scale. As a matter of giving a sense of scale to the maps and nations of the world, Hesperis - The Western Continent of The Nine Nations - is about the same size as Africa. Likewise, Orientum is slightly larger than North American, exceeding it by about three hundred thousand square miles. Expanding on this, the nation of Agual's entire land mass is roughly equivalent to that of Australia, though slightly smaller. The Ironclast Empire's area is comparable to that of Russia, with Lusach being nearly the same size as the United States. As you might imagine, this means travelling the lands by foot is time-consuming.
It also revolves around it's sun at roughly the same rate and distance, though slightly faster. If you go to the Calendar, you will be able to see that the year on Ferrum is composed of 13 months, each with 4 weeks of 7 days a piece. This gives them a total year of 364 days. The length of days, hours, minutes, etc. are all equal to how we would measure time on earth.
Using the Map
The map above can be used to explore the world. You can can use your scroll wheel on your mouse or the '+' and '–' buttons at the top left corner of the map as well. If you click on any of the lands of the nations, the page will update to information related to that nation. If you click on the oceans or any land not owned by one of the nations, it will bring you back to this information.
The default map displayed shows the political nature of the world. This map shows only towns and cities with at least 1,000 inhabitants or more. Ther may be many smaller villages scattered around the area as well. If the name of a city is translucent, it means this is a placeholder name for the town and may change as the compaign progresses. As well, if you would like to choose and name any of these cities as part of your character's backstories, you are encouraged to - just be sure to let me know which city and what you would like it to be named and I will update the name the next time I update the map.
You can also switch the map to show geographical information instead of political information. With this map, temporary city names are hidden, though important or visited city names will still appear. It will also show you names of rivers and mountain ranges, as well as some other important geographical areas.
If you would like to explore this map more closely or see a bit more of the details, I am also providing you the raw map data file here. You can navigate to the Azgaar Fantasy map Generator, where you can load the map file and explore the map at your leisure. The map file will always be the most up to date, while the map image above will only change occasionally as needed.
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