Well met, dear @TheEdVerse. A small question, if I may: if I wanted to add a second halfling nation to Faerûn by adding Mystara's The Five Shires in Faerûn around 1357 DR, what would be the best place to place it? #Realmslore #Halflings
— Ricardo Williams (@rwgs76) February 19, 2020
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“Best” depends on your purpose: best for the hin would likely be siting it near Starmantle (or a tad further east along the same coast, into Turmish), flipping it north/south to keep the seacoast where it is. This would give2)
…you roughly the same climate, and some space from threatening foes. More perilous sites would be in the Vilhon or Wizards Reach or Chessenta, or taking over the Velen peninsula. Or wiping out the drow of Dambrath and putting… #Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 19, 2020
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…it there.
If you sacrifice the seacoast, the Five Shires will fit in several places along the Heartlands trade routes, such as in the Greenfields, or in The Shining Plains or along the shores of Shalane Lake. Or it could…4)
…nestle into what is now Battledale and Highdale and upland Sembia, displacing them all, or be slotted in between Cormyr and Sembia in the vicinity of Daerlun, becoming a buffer between them.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 19, 2020
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If you’re willing to obliterate the Marshes of Tun, the Five Shires will fit nigh-perfectly into that space between existing mountain ranges. And so on, and on.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 19, 2020