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i-donot-forget · 30 days ago

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I would like to take advantage of the same map to add some locations of ANE and TO

9 - the Toh'rukan people

Miiko mentions them in ep 21, they and the kappa inform the guard about disappearances, taking that into consideration it must be near the kappas and Memoria where Marie-Anne had her laboratory.

10 - Yaqut

The vampire region where Nevra and Karenn come from is a desert with caves and rocky cliffs, which in the past was part of a kind of trade route. So I deduce that it may coincide with some settlement of the ancient silk road, plus the caves give a clue that it could be Turkey as it closely resembles Cappadocia and Derinkuyu underground cities.

11 - Genkaku

Here there is no science, cold, isolated and snowy place whose geography resembles, at least the circular bay. Maybe Iceland or Greenland but I see them as too far away, although they would fit with the isolation.

12 - Memoria

It is evidently a Greek island so it must be in that area, which coincides with the other locations where Marie-Anne supposedly went.

?#3 - Ankh'tjenu

This city is mentioned in ep 24 but I was unable to find when, may be near egypt

Peoples without location

The tribe of Garuda disciples (India maybe)

The 4 remaining fenghuang temples

Ren-Fenghuang: what we are told is that the 5 temples are “spread around the world” so they must be in corners of the known world, being apparently the ren-fenghuang temple (Huang-Hua) the one that is “in the center” of the known world.

Xin-Fenghuang: the only one that indicates more or less where they are located “southeast of eldarya”. apparently the fenghuang are disciples of Pangu, so this specific temple could be in China.

Li-Fenghuang

Zhi-Fenghuang

Yi-Fenghuang

Amazons, we are only told that they do not appreciate the presence of men, in the myths they are located on Mount Taurus (Turkey) and later in the new continent (I bet on Turkey).

Azizas, according to the dahomean religion, they are forest fairies from africa (huang-hua's mother is an aziza) and are known for their spiritual powers.

Banshees, originating from Irish folklore, Ezarel tells us that he summoned one with alchemy that destroyed a city… and he also attacks one in ep 30.

Bugbears, Werewolf, part of Anglo-Saxon mythology

Chimeras, very different from those of the traditional mythology, I looked for the origin by the names of the chimeras of the game “yeu and tinh” both names of Vietnamese origin.

Scandinavian and nordic Mythology, valkyries, einherjars, mermaids, elves

Greek Mythology, harpy, satyrs, erinyes

Judeo-Christian Mythology, golem, succubus, incubus

This post is only a visual support to calculate distances in the world of Eldarya, if you remember any other location or group of people that is not mentioned I would appreciate it.

Theory : The parallel between Earth and Eldarya

First of all, I wanted to thank you, @yashiro-hatsuki and @bitchimunique, for your interest in my theory <3

As I was asked, I am sharing the theory I wrote about the parallel between Earth and Eldarya. I had proposed this theory on the dedicated topic on the french forum, but only a player had loved, the few others thinking that the writers surely had not done something so worked, because for them, there was too many holes in the script, and that was enough to say that it was not so worked.

Meh. I really like my theory and I’ll keep it until something proves me wrong. Being an fantasy author myself, I know that you can work a lot in your world but still have some problems in your plot, as you can’t prepare anything and write a perfectly coherent text.

Anyway, here is the theory. It is quite long, I hope it will be understandable with my hesitant English. So, first, so that you can locate you, I have placed landmarks on a map of Europe, you will only have to report to the corresponding number.

1 - Glas Gow = Glasgow

In her mission report, Cameria explains that after recovering the corrupted crystals in the Gran Ysmisse mines and fought an over-contaminated Magi, she found herself on the trail of the kidnapper. She followed the trail to Glas Gow and lost track there. In our world, Glasgow is Scotland’s largest and most populated city.

2 - The mines of Gran Ysmisse = The sunken city of Ys.

It is in the mines of Gran Ysmisse that Cameria recovers some of the corrupt crystals that she brought back from her mission.

How did I get to the legendary city of Ys? It’s very simple, I relied on the transformation of Glasgow= > Glas Gow, sensing that the team had rearranged the spelling so that it sounds better.

Gran Ysmisse = Grand Ys missed.

Ys is a legendary city of Brittany, France. Like Atlantis, Sodom and Gomorrah and other places, she would have suffered divine wrath because of the sins of her people and especially those of the princess, Dahut.

There are many variations, but there are similarities and Dahut is the central character of this legend. By mixing a little bit of everything, we can say of her that she is the daughter that the legendary king of Cornwall Gradlon had with a queen of the North, Malgven. The latter being designated as a valkyrie, she transmits to her daughter its fairy nature. Dahut is considered a fairy with the ability to change into a mermaid.

Some versions make Dahut the guardian of the floodgates that prevent water from invading the city. She and her mother are women of the Other World. It is the equivalent of Hell and Paradise among the Celts. The gates of the Other World were guarded either by Fairies or by Banshees. Dahut was one of those guardians.

In other words, she occupied more or less the same role as Enthraa.

The biggest sin that Dahut has been accused of provoking divine wrath is having sex with the devil.

When we look at the location of Gran Ysmisse and Glas Gow based on the position of their equivalents on Earth, we see that this route was quite accessible to Cameria

3 - Balenvia = Hamelin/Hameln

This is the comparison made by a French youtuber (la dreameuse) in one of her videos and I agree with her

As a reminder, Hamelin/Hameln, a german village, is known for his legend of the flute player. This legend is repeated in Eldarya: the flute player is the ancestor of Huang Hua. He would have used the powers of his flute to free the faerys, then he would have opened the mountain in two, allowing the faerys and some children of the village to end up on Eldarya.

This is how we find Balenvia, where there is a mountain cut in two. Huang Hua explains that his ancestor certainly didn’t open a mountain in two and that it is an exaggeration of the storytellers.

What happened in my opinion is that, arrived in front of the mountain, the fenghuang used the flute to open a portal on Eldarya, displaying the vision of the cut mountain of Balenvia. Once the portal closed, the mountain on Earth reappeared whole. Incredulous eyes may have thought that he had actually opened the mountain in two, when in reality they had had a glimpse of Eldarya.

4 - The Jade Coast (Kappa region) = Messenia - Laconia

To try to find the location of the area where the Kappas live, I used exploration map. At the bottom right is the Amphea river; we know it thanks to the exploration points. So I looked for the equivalent of Amphea on Earth and discovered that it was the name of an ancient city of Messenia that was on the border between Messenia and Laconia, two departments of the Peloponnese, a region of Greece. This is the first city captured by the Spartans during the first year of the first messenian war

(map in French)

Another detail that makes me think that I aim well with Greece is the Phibea sea. Phibea is the name of the first woman to have plunged into these waters (accordind to the exploration map), but it is also a name that is very similar to Phoebe, which is the name of several characters from Greek mythology. (In French, Phoebe = Phébe)

5 - Ezarel’s homeland, Lund'Mulhingar = Nordic countries

It’s difficult to clearly place a country / region. But by simply returning the name to a search engine, I quickly found a match. Two to be precise, namely two cities. The first, Lund, is a town in southern Sweden, not far from Denmark. The second, Mullingar, is a city in Ireland.

In the game, when we show the nomads the brooch, one of them says they don’t usually go to the Northern Kingdoms, which brings a new correspondence with the Nordic countries. Finally, the elves come from the myths and legends of these countries. Note: on my map, Glas Gow is included in Lund'Mulhingar. It should be treated cautiously, I chose the ease by drawing the route Lund-Mullingar. Maybe the border is not quite there, maybe it’s a circle over Glas Glow. We know that Cameria has made it easy, but we don’tt know the political situation of Ezarel’country.

6 - Gorona Gorges = Canary Islands.

This is an NPC/PNJ that mentions these gorge in episode 21. He tells Miiko that it is there he found traces of mermaid. Leiftan explains to the gardienne that this is a volcanic region where lava flows.

While searching Gorona, I found a single interesting but surprising occurrence: Gorona del Viento, the name of a hydroelectric power station located on El Hierro island, the smallest of the Canary Islands. It was not enough as a clue for me, but it gave me at least a trail, the Spanish origin. But impossible to find a meaning in Gorona.

So I became interested again in the station, because the name had to come from somewhere. I finally found out what I needed: an article in Spanish dedicated to the name of the company.

That’s how I learned that gorona was a common word in guanche and meant stone circle. The Guanche people were the indigenous people of the Canary Islands. This time, I had something solid. The guanches were of Berber origin. There are few written sources, so there were plenty of assumptions, including that they descended from the Atlanteans.

Anyway, that’s how I breng the Gorona Gorges and the Canary Islands.

7 - The Dantea region = Greece-Bulgaria

One of the most difficult to find, especially since we are talking about a region. My first reflex was to look for Dantea, without success. I realized I had to look for the spelling of the word and thought of a French contraction. Dantea => d’Anthea (”of Anthea” in english).

And there, bingo ! Anthea exists. It is the name of several mythological female characters. This is also one of the epithets of the goddess Hera. Although it gave me an indication of the origin, I needed something else. I did not find a place called this, but I learned that Anthea was the Romanized form of Antheia.

And cities / villages bearing this name, I found several, mainly names of ancient cities. I had to fumble a bit for geographical clues related to these ancient places. The good thing is that we stay in the same geographical area, as you can see on this map.

And yes, if my hypothesis is correct, Danthea region is close to the Kappa’s.

8 - The Umbra valley = la Valle Umbra

Yes, it’s not more complicated than that xD In the game, the Umbra Valley is the place where the nomads come from. In our world, la Valle Umbra is a vast plain with alluvial origin located in the center of Italy

? # 1 - The Eel region?

We don’t have much clues about Eel’s location. I placed it here for a question of logic taking into account the positioning of Balenvia, which is not that far from the HQ according to the game

? # 2 - The Fenghuangs Temple?

Several players were surprised that we take the boat to go to the Kappas and that we go through the mainland to go to the Fenghuangs. This is because unconsciously, the fact that both are in the Jade Kingdom suggests that they are necessarily close geographically. Except this is not indicated at any time in the game. Lille and Marseille are two cities in France, yet they are opposite each other.

Differences and similarities of topography

In seeking these correspondences, I realized something for the places whose topography we knew. Some have similarities, reminders with their earth equivalent while others are the opposite, as in negative

Similar places:

- The mines of Gran Ysmisse and the sunken city of Ys: for these two places, we find the idea of depth

- The Jade coast and Messenia / Laconia: the contours of the two areas are very similar, there is even a mountain.

- Balenvia and Hameln/Hamelin: A small village, a path that leads to a mountain. Both villages have the same configuration

Places with opposite topographies:

- Gorona Gorges and the Canary Islands: For both we are on a volcanic land. But while Gorona Gorges are, well, gorges with visible lava that flows to the bottom, the Canary Islands have reliefs that can peak to more than 3000m above sea level.

Finally, there is another detail that I have noticed about the places that have similarities : there is always a portal, that it takes place in our legends or in the lore of Eldarya:

- The City of Ys: According to legend, Princess Dahut was the guardian of a door leading to the Other World

- On the exploration map of the Jade coast, there is a Torii, which was an ancient portal

- The ancestor of Huang Hua opened a portal in the village of Hamelin/Hameln

Ok, It finished. I am not saying that all my correspondences are accurate, but I think there is a good basis.

Thank you to all who have had the courage to read me to the end! <3 <3 <3

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