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Empires of the Known Wolrd

The known world is defined as the Lankhmar-centric portion of Nehwon that has a working political and economic interdependancy. There may be areas outside of the known world, but the eastern kingdoms, the mingol steppes and the Great Outer Sea prevent most of the peoples of the Known World from encountering them or knowing about them. For most, the five empires guide the world of men.

• Lankhmar
• The Empire of the Eight Cities
• The Mingol Steppes
• The Eastern Kingdoms
• Quarmal

There are also a few minor, yet notable independant civilizations in the known world. These few do not play a major role in world politics as the overlords know it, but are never-the-less very real and very well known.

• Ilthmar
• Jungles of Klesh
• The City of the Ghouls
• Tovilyis, City of Beggars
• Eevamarensee

Empires of Legend

Somewhere, sometime, maybe even to this day ... these are the first words of any story concerning the Empires that graced Nehwon's lands and seas in ages past, and may still. Some claim to have actually visited these fabled lands and survived. In order of popularity or relevance ... who is to say?

• The Shadowlands
• Simorgya
• Lankhmar Below
• Godsland
• Rime Isle
• Dominion of the Ice Gnomes
• Lair of the Sea King
• Cold Corner
• Forbidden City of the Black Idols
• The Bleak Shore

The Seas of Nehwon

• The Eastern Sea: Divides the continent of Lankhmar and the Eastern Coninent. It is bordered on the north by the sinking land and the south by the sea of stars.
• The Inner Sea: Divides the continent of Lankhmar and the northern Kingdom of the Eight cities. It is bordered on the east by Ilthmar and the Poisoned Desert. To the west it is contiguous to the Outer Sea.
• The Outer Sea: Extends west from the continent of Lankhmar, The Inner Sea, and the Kingdom of the Eight Cities. Its western border is rumored to be the Bleak Shore.
• The Sea of Monsters: The Sea of Monsters is a Land-locked sea south of the Mingol Steppes and North of the Eastern Kingdoms. The City of Ghouls lies on the coast, as do poisoned desert and the Parched Mountains.
• The Sea of Stars: The Sea of Stars lies south of the Continent of Lankhmar and the Eastern Sea. It is said that the sun, moon, and all the stars rise out of it into the sky along its southern extremities.

For the next three years, the Years of Leviathan, the Roc, and the Dragon, they wandered the world of Nehwon south, east, north, and west, seeking forgetfulness of their great loves and their first great guilts and finding neither. They ventured east past mystic Tisilinilit with its slender, opalescent spires, which always seemed newly crystallized out of its humid, pearly skies, to lands that were legends in Lankhmar and even Horborixen. One amongst many was the skeletally shrunken Empire of Eevamarensee, a country so decadent, so far-grown into the future, that all the rats and men are bald and even the dogs and cats are hairless.
-- Fritz Leiber,
"The Circle Curse"