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Sorry for the delay in replying, George! I was offline and incommunicado from Sunday past until late yesterday.
So, the five islands: the big one (the site of Bhaluin) is Maharaal. Rocky outcrops and ravines in its northern third, descending to a swamp, then...
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@TheEdVerse Hi Ed! Given your love of all things Semphar and Murghôm, I was wondering if the big island in Brightstar Lake where Bhaluin is situated, has a name? Do the little isles to its east have names also? Any lore you can share?
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...thick jungle south of that (many rubber trees, lots of hunting snakes and birds of all sorts and descriptions, also a lot of perytons and a few reclusive ophidians, but no settlements or roads; it’s wilderness with wild bananas and coconuts galore).
The four...
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...smaller islands to the east are all rocky but forested, with many mango and orange trees (that due to the shallow soil, often blow over in storms and lean down into the sea), abundant tiny coves that offer good anchorages, and a rich population of clams and...
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...schools of fish of many sorts. They are uninhabited but much visited by fisherfolk sailing south from the mainland, and west from Harb, in small private boats. Wyverns roost on Keskrel, which discourages landings and explorations.
Collectively, these four...
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...smaller isles are known as the Vraevrar, after Vraevra Qoond, a long-ago “queen” who ruled Harb and considered them her personal property.
From Maharaal, looking east, the two nearest islands are Qoondan (the northernmost, so-named because it's beautiful and...
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...Vraevra Qoond wanted to be buried on it; history has forgotten if she was or not) and Irrace (the more southerly isle). Sailing east from them, one next comes to the largest of the four isles, Narvoresk, which was home to a herd of kevvar, small wild horses, ...
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...during Vraevra’s time that seem to have died out since; nowadays, the island is said to be roamed by prowling monsters of many sorts who fight each other for dominance. There are said to be overgrown ruins hidden in the thick jungles at its southeastern end, ...
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...that include “ways that go down deep, deep beneath the earth” (so, Upperdark at least, though nothing and no one seems to come up to the surface world here, from the Realms Below).
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Lastly, the easternmost island is Keskrel, smallest and rockiest (rising highest above the sea) of the four islands.
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