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Ocean. Polaria is a chain of mountainous
islands covered for at least part of the year
by the southern polar ice cap.
The northeast corner of Oerik is known
as “the Flanaess”, after the indigenous
Flannae people. It is the area covered in
previous Greyhawk publications such as
the original 1980 Folio and later the 1983
boxed set. The Flannaess, (not including
Amedio, Hepmonaland, Dry Steppes, Sea
of Dust, Land of Black Ice, or large bodies
of water) is approximately 6.5 million sq.
miles of land.
The most fantastic of many worlds,
Greyhawk’s world of Oerth is a place where
Geographic Divisions
When referring to the World of
Greyhawktm, one is typically talking about
the northeast portion of the continent
of Oerik known as the Flanaess. This is
the area best defined and described in
the original Folio and Boxed Set editions
of the setting however it is only a small
portion of the continent of Oerik. Oerik is
divided into a number of geographic and/
or cultural regions. The “mega-region”
known as the Flanaess consists of the
Sheldomar Valley, Old Ferrond, the Bitter
North, Rhizia and Old Aerdy East and
West.
Baklunish West
Survivors of the Invoked Devastation
settled these temperate prairies, forests,
and coastal lands about one thousand
years ago. Largely separated from the rest
of the Flanaess by the great Yatil, Barrier
Peaks, and Crystalmist Mountains, these
realms are a stronghold of Baklunish
culture. The Kettites have slightly mixed
bloodlines from interacting with the
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powerful creatures contest with humanity
and other races, where good folk struggle
against evil, and Law wrestles with Chaos,
Oerth is a world of magic, mystery, and
the imagination.
Some say the gem of this world is the
city of Greyhawk, a teeming metropolis
that attracts heroes and villains alike.
Warriors, merchants, wizards, beggars,
clerics, sages, and thieves fill its streets
in search of high adventure. Those in
western Oerik instead marvel at the
wonders of Tianshi, the Celestial City,
said to be home to over a million people
from over a hundred different races.
people of Bissel, Veluna and Perrenland
while many Paynim clans are of mixed
Baklunish/Suhfeng ancestry. Peoples of
this land range from nomadic horsemen
to grand merchant cities with powerful
navies. This land is stable and secure,
with few current outside threats. Ket
occasionally send small raids to Bissel
and Veluna, Ekbir suffers piratical raids
from the Ataphad, Tusmit remains stable
by playing neighbour off neighbour and
Zeif is constantly pushing back against
nomads from the Plains of the Paynims
and undead hordes that occasionally
move into their territory from the ruins of
the old Baklunish Empire.
The Bitter North
The lands north of the Yatil Mountains,
from the Dramidj coast to the Fellreev
Forest and Bluff Hills, make up the
Bitter North. The climate in this region
of steppes and coniferous forests varies
from cool to frigid, making this a sparsely
settled area home mostly to nomads,
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