Welcome To Zarlaw
The Evolving World© Terraland is now in it's tenth year. A world that was born through submissions through BBS' around
the world, but with primarily (80%+) of it's content Southern based i.e. Australia, South East Asia & New Zealand°
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Submit your details to the largest Australian Fantasy realm to be based in the SOUTHERN Hemisphere!
Since before the last decade of the twentieth century, when BBS's rather than the "Internet" ruled the PCs of ardent online gamers, a pebble was dropped... A young man asked to join a campaign.
The DM said "it would be a bit hard, you'll have to come up with a story to fit in with the backgrounds of the others, it's based loosely around the Arthurian Legends..."
Perplexed the young man said "Couldn't he be an outworlder, as the only character the same level I have is an oriental based character. He could come from over the sea..."
The DM typed back across the Chat Channel "Sorry but I haven't done much mapping or history beyond 100 or so miles of the 'England' I have created."
"Hmmm I have an idea...." The young man said. The seed was born, he had dreamed of a huge world based in the Southern Hemisphere, but the task was wearing on his social life (and Zarlaw wasn't even a sparkle in this DMs eye)...what if he asked for help...got submissions from other gamers on the various BBSs he was a member of.
Terraland was BORN!
Welcome to a new way to "evolving" adventure settings. Literally Thousands of submissions from all walks of life, from ardent AD&D enthusiasts to creators of worlds based loosely around the world of the Hobbit© this is a land made by people who already know that the world just STARTS to get interesting when you cross the equator & gets better the further south you go....
A SOUTHERN Perspective!
With YOUR help we have made Terraland a great SOUTHERN Land!
Submit your WORLD...
When submitting your world to ZARLAW Publishing, you are also giving permission for us to use your images &/or text for future gaming publishing purposes. You are also stating that any material is either public domain or if your own, you freely grant us the right to use the material in edited or unedited form.
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When submitting your session details, please note the time line you are playing in. Just ad the AW or BG date in the message title.
Join the Terraland League today to become an official world co-designer
of Terraland, the Great SOUTHERN World.
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Add your army to the Empirical Conflict
"I had traveled for three months, gathering intelligence for the council of Traehaverfeld. It had been an unnerving experience to say the least. Every petty lord had either sided with the Empire or the newly formed Traevian Alliance, or made very obvious their neutrality in the whole affair. That much was well known, but the disturbing facts I would have to soon relay were; strange forces moving this way or that way, completely unrelated, yet strangers to the coastal lands. My only thought was that they were like the strange birds from the desert that waited until a man was too weak to move, or already dead before setting into the act of eating his flesh...waiting to see who would win this terrible war!
More recently & with more regularity as I have headed north, I have heard ever increasing estimations of the Empirical forces. Starting at one hundred thousand, they seemed modest, or only to include the core of the Empirical troops we already knew about. I began to think that the Emperor had decided not to risk enough men so as to leave himself unguarded. After a few more wayside inns & chapels to this or that god, I started to wonder which tales were reality & which were fireside tales. Tales of so many troops as would fill three horizons. So many that they had to keep apart so as not to threaten each other's resources. It had to be exaggeration. It had to be...
This morning I saw them...just before dawn, the lazy haze of woodsmoke creating a dirty orange scar on the sun's rise to meet the azure sky of day. At first I thought there must have been a forest fire through the area, such was the thickness of the smoke to my nose after so long in the saddle away from large towns & settlements. When I could focus on the site of what was once Frabintus (a town of some twenty thousand men women & children) I saw the centre of the army. Spread out to cover a size twenty times the diametre of Frabintus, a veritable horde sat waiting for the Traevian forces to show their faces. Already messenger horsemen were moving to & fro between the main tents in what was once the hillside town I had visited only last Planting; barely four months earlier. Then I saw a second mass closer to the western shores of the Cairvalle Sea. More plumes broke the sky above the craggy shore I had trod in innocence as a youth thirty years ago.
The worst I could imagine, or so I thought until a huge shadow lurched across my own. I looked up to see a bird flying very low...NO it was a huge flyer travelling quite high. The rider a spec against the beast's huge expanse. It was a 'RED'! A Red Dragon leading twelve of it's bretheren, oblivious to a certain Traevian spy as he took to his horse & rode for all he was worth towards the south & the Traevian forces that gathered there...oblivious to me."
An exerpt from Astrin Courer's journal, found scorched almost beyond reading three miles south of Arronville. Just ten miles north of the Traevian forces' rally point.
Set to be the largest battle via e-mail, over one & one third million troops may ride into the Traevian held lands of the temperate south.
The Emperor is dead!(?) but even with his absence over a million troops gather & argue over whether they should still complete his last orders & crush the Traevian allies.
When submitting your army please keep in mind the following list. Armies already named & supplied are in red, armies unspoken for are in white...
The EMPIRE...
10,000 Orchurian Archers
100,000 horse warriors from the mysterious desert interior
100,000 light infantry from the north east
300,000 Peasant Infantry (Empirical draftees)
200,000 Medium Infantry (Empirical)
18,000 Elite Heavy Infantry (Empirical)
20,000 medium Cavalry (Empirical)
5,000 Heavy Cavalry (Empirical)
1,000 assorted artillery (70% light - Empirical)
100,000 troops from outlying lordships
100,000 mercenary army recruits
20,000 light cavalry
1,200 light aerial cavalry from lands unknown (Hippogrifs)
400 medium aerial cavalry from lands unknown (Griffins)
50 Heavy Aerial Cavalry from lands unknown (young-adult dragons - Green, Blue & a few reds)
45,000 guerilla warriors
1020700
200,000 mixed mercenaries (to be split min. 4,000 per submission, max. 40,000 )
The Traevian Alliance...
120,000 Militia (Traevian volunteers)
40,000 Light Infantry (Traevian)
10,000 Medium Infantry (Traevian)
1,000 Heavy Infantry (Traevian)
1,200 Medium Cavalry - Garnish Knights
4,500 Heavy Cavalry - Edliw's Chosen
10,000 Traevian Marines - Shock Troops/guerilla fighters
20,000 Gnomish Medium Crossbowmen
200 Assorted Gnomish Artillery (90% light)
12,000 Elven Archers*
8,000 Medium Elven Infantry*
20,000 Light Elven Infantry*
25,000 Southern Barbarians (loyal to Relenford)
100,000 mixed mercenaries (to be split min. 2,000 per submission, max. 20,000)
(40,000 left)
