So for the map I made that connected all four of David Eddings' universes there was a lot of empty spaces where the size of some of the areas weren't large enough. I took advantage of this, plus also adding another sheet to the map to create my own fantasy continent. The continent was very large with two primary sections, the north and the south split by the equator. This fictional continent lay between the west coast of The Land of Shaan and The Land of the Malavi (The Dreamers universe), and the east coast of Plakand and the island of Dhweria (The Redemption of Althalus universe.) The southern side is an extremely large, powerful, and corrupt empire devoted to expansion and the accumulation of wealth and power. They have complex machines of war and conquest like enormous galley ships and even small machines and wyvern riders capable of taking to the skies. Hunks of metal and weaponry roamed across the ground like armored insects. Their cities were extravagant and vain and many of the citizens had no jobs other than "being rich". The government was very corrupt but powerful with many conflicting factions within it. With their machines of war the empire has conquered almost a tenth of the fertile ribbon on the planet, the only part that humans lived in.
In the north is a wild area that for the most part is covered in forest filled with strange animals and sources of magic from Father Earth. The natives of this land are supreme hunters with the bow and a blade on the end of a staff, similar to a spear. These weapons are derived straight from the earth, wood from the trees, stone and some iron, and animal bone. Father earth grants a select few of these weapons made every so often with great power, and every so often even the people that wield them. This factor along with other forces of nature is all that has given these people any freedom at all. Most of them are still slaves and laborers to their southern neighbors. The north would be connected to the south by land but the empire dug a miles long canal, linking the ocean east of Plakand to the inland sea west of The Land of the Malavi. Since both the north and south are connected by land to the attic regions this canal is the only viable sea route.
The main protagonist would probably be a native from the north ever since his birth he was blessed with the strength, speed, and pure ferocity of ten men. This immense strength lets him pull a very long bow made of Zira wood. The raw force this bow offers lets him shoot arrows with very large heads, one shot to the leg would probably amputate it completely. Another protagonist this time actually from the south would be a mounted knight. At this point I think I'm going to make his mount something other than a horse, maybe something like a large buck but either way as a mounted knight he and the other knights would have long lances for the knight's charge. Now almost always the lance is broken on the first charge so a squire would keep four or five extra lances readily available but this man's would always pierce through its target and break off and splinter close to the handle then he would take what was left in his hand and put it through a loop on his back, when he pulls it back out the lance is completely restored.
So there are some of my ideas for my own main fantasy continent in my Eddings universe. Bye.
- By Ashton
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