Cities & Towns

Most of the Grand Duchy is forest and foothills, with a few larges patches of flatlands, moots, and one swampy region. Most of the communities shown are on the coast or along the rivers. There are very few human communities in deep woods or far from well-traveled roads, so the vast majority of the Grand Duchy is unsettled no-man's-land, unexplored and under-defended.

Some places, particularly rivers, are listed with two names. This is because the settling Thyatians, uncomfortable with the native names of some of these sites, simply renamed them. Today, when speaking Thyatian, most people use the Thyatian name, and when speaking Traladaran use the original name. Ont the map, the Thyatian name is given first, the Traladaran name given in parentheses.

Locations
Specularum

Dmitrov (House Dromilov)

Fort Doom (Black Eagle Barony)

Luln

Marilenev

Penhaligon

Rifllian

Rugalov

Sulescu

Vandevicsny

Verge

Vorloi

Threshold (House Halaran)

Highforge (House Hilltopper)

Callarii Lands
The Callarii elves live in the central forests east and west of Kelvin and in the forested foothills south of the gnomish community. Accurate numbers for the entire elvish population of Karameikos are not available (the elves don't bother to keep them and the humans can't tally them), but a reasonable guess is that there are about 7,500 elves scattered through this territory, living in communities of 100-200.

Smaller Villages and Homesteads
Finally, though we won't discuss them in great detail here, there are numerous villages and homesteads all across Karameikos.

There are several small villages given by name on the map but not described in the text above.

Additionally, there are literally hundreds of homesteads along the rivers and roads of the duchy. These are one- or two-family settlements, mostly farms and logging operations, with populations ranging from a handful of people to as many as 750 inhabitants.

Forts
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Strange Sites
The following strange sites are known to commoners.

Koriszegy Keep
One of the famous haunted places of Karameikos is Koriszegy Keep, which once was the seat of power of the Traladaran Koriszegy family. As legend has it, some 200 years ago a great calamity befell the Koriszegys breaking down their walls and destroying their family, and people who wander too close to the ruin often disappear.

Krakatos
Krakatos is a ruined stone-walled village of antiquity; some of the action in "The Song of King Halav" takes place here, and the site is of some fascination for Traladaran visitors. It has no inhabitants and should not be used as an origin-place, a or characters.