I'm guessing that this is the same as (or closely related to) 'Aldrya's Woe', the Dawn Age wars between the Mreli and Vrankali? But if so, interesting that is also destroyed an entire (presumably almost entirely Vronkali, given its cold Northern position) forest.
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>> The Fronelan Greenwoods are MASSIVE at the Dawn compared to
>> their size now! Same goes for pretty much all aldryami forests.
>> Interesting I always found the isolated aldryami in the Stinking
>> Forest a bit of an anomaly, but now that I can see they are a sad
>> remnant of what used to be part of the Elder Wilds forest
>
>Yes. The elves have lost out more than any of the other Elder Races.
>They are actually a bit more extensive in the next map (not counting
>the loss of Tallgreen), but after that, the decline begins.
>Comparing the last maps of the series with the first is a bit of a
>shock.
And interesting to compare this to the trollpak era maps. Less elves in Seshnela, central Ralios, central Fronela, but more elves in the Elder Wilds and just East of the Shan-shan.
The Redwood forest East of Dagori Inkarth isn't shown because it was wiped out prior to the Dawn?
> > Also interesting how big the Blue Moon Trolls are at the
>> Dawn, they've always seemed a less important troll stronghold than
>> Dagori Inkarth or the Shadow Plateau but maybe not so at the Dawn.
>
>Blue Moon has always been a very important troll stronghold.
Absolutely -
> The difference is that Dagori Inkarth and Shadow Plateau are very
>near the center of the action and the Blue Moon is a long way away.
>But if you lived in First Blessed, you'd know about them. And fear
>the Blue Moon a lot more than those other strongholds.
Well, obviously - just didn't realise they were as far West as the other side of the Thunder Delta, into modern Karasal, in the Dawn. Though that is pretty clear on the trollpak era map.
> > And this map also emphasizes how important the Kingdom of
>> Ignorance really is in the East, as the other major alternative
>> culture to the Kralorelans, and how little we know about them.
>
>Yep. Ignorance conquered Kralorela in the Darkness. The evil false
>Emperor Sekever was the ruler of Ignorance, but was finally
>destroyed by Daruda in the event that created the Suam Chow (and
>more or less established the geography of historical Kralorela).
Yes - that is a very Kralorela centric view of it though, and the relative numbers make it clear that there is a whole separate Kingdom of Ignorance culture at the dawn, who no doubt have their own, very different, version of events. And of all the human Dawn cultures, we know perhaps the least about them. Big pyramids, gladiatorial arenas, changable crypto-solar religion, and not much else. Pretty much our best source is the Black Sun writeup in Troll Pak, and no doubt lots has changed since then.
Cheers
David
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