Beyond the Silt Sea: The Anattan Coast released!

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After years of consolidating canon and fanon lore, and working with the Athasian Cartographers Guild to expand the world map, the Pristine Tower Development Group is finally ready to launch our Dark Sun Gazetteer series. Each book details a different distant region of Athas, providing both a compelling narrative as well as an overview of the key features of that region for DMs and lore junkies alike, and everything has been carefully researched to fit with 2e and 2e Revised canon.

For the first book in the series, we are exploring the Anattan Coast. Located beyond the Cerulean Storm on the far side of the Silt Sea, this region has been hinted at many times in lore, and has been mapped and developed by several different cartogophers and writers in our community over the decades. We’ve now consolidated all that amazing work and refined the lore into a single cohesive narrative.

Download our free netbook, join us across the Sea of Silt, and begin your expedition to the distant reaches of Athas today! https://athas.org/products/anattan-gazetteer

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This looks really cool!

I love how the map reflects what the original Wanderer’s Journal says about the Sea of Silt being a basin surrounded by Tablelands and then Ringing Mountains.

I’ll have to read through it and comment in more detail later.

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Thoughts so far:

  • I really like the idea that this area was exploited by the Dragon in a different way than the Tyr Region’s levy … though I kind of wish we got a description of the region at the time of the first boxed set or FY 1, rather than after the Dragon is already dead.
  • On the other hand, the expansion of mudflats due to Tyr-storms (“Dragon Squalls”) is really interesting. I wonder if this means more of the water escaping from the Cerulean Storm is moving east rather than west? It seems like the Tyr-storms in the Tyr Region aren’t changing things as dramatically, though they damage things.
  • Glad to see the Dragon Warriors and some of the kaisharga still being an active force post Cerulean Storm.
  • Interesting that with the lack of silt horrors, there are smaller, more edible creatures in the Silt Sea here.
  • The Meridional Forest is awesome! Some kind of anti-defiler protection… that’s a really interesting idea. I wonder if this is some kind of permanent version of the Preserver’s Scourge/Backlash spell… or if the life energy itself is corrupted somehow?
  • The Sundered Lands seem appropriately very desolate.
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