Maps and Regions of Hislariya's Known World

Preface

  Welcome traveler to this second edition of my overview of the geography of Hislariya.   The contents of this volume has been collected from my personal experience during my travels around our world and from conversations and correspondence with other travelers where my personal experience was lacking.   Similarly, the maps are for the most part copies from the originals drafted by my on board carthographer Mr. Briggs during our voyages by sea, compared, where others were available, with maps of the same region drafted by other artists and corrected where discrepancies seemed consistent.   The maps of the areas that were not by us visited have been compiled from local sources where available and redrawn in a way that seemed most consistent.   I plaud my cartographer for this extensive labour of research and for his artistic skills that gave us what I think are accurate carthographic depictions for the scope of this volume.   While some detailed maps are present in the volume, I urge the readers to seek local information and updated charts when venturing in unknown territory as all charts might have outdated informations at any point in time.   In the volume you will find informations about the territory, the environment and climate and the peoples and animals that inhabit the regions described.   Some areas will be described in more details, sometimes to the local amenities level, where personal experience and information seemed to make it worth mentioning, or because of the peculiarity of the location.   An appendix for personal notes is left at the end of the book. Feel free to use the blank pages and the margins to add personal recommendations and notes of points of interest. I intend this volume to be both a vademecum and a personal diary to be eventually passed on to friends and future generations updated with the experiences of the owner.   Travel safe,   Capn. Eudora Amaranth

The Author

  Eudora Amaranth is a seafarer with decades of expertise in the travels on the Svajan Sea.   She capitained the Amarylis ship during a seven years long mission to map the coast of the known world, for the benefit of the Kithandian rulers.   While an official account with more detailed maps for the benefit of the reign was handed privately to the crown, the author elected, aganist the ruling house consent, to publish part of her discoveries and her personal annotations about the places and peoples she visited in this book, for the benefit of the world at large.   This book is currently banned in Kithanda, and Capn. Amaranth has been stripped of her title in Kithanda's navy and lives in voluntary exile in a remote island of the Samuaxi Archipelago with part of her faithful crew.