Editing Greyhawk (section)

==Setting==

The world of Greyhawk is called Oerth, which has four continents: Oerik (upper hemisphere), Telchuria (also called Hyperboria in old sources, north pole area), Hepmonaland (large tropical island continent SE of Oerik), and some southern continent nobody ever gave a shit about.

Gary confirmed in various places that it's basically an alternate Earth, and there are others with different vowels at the beginning of their names (Aerth, Uerth, and Yarth); each of the alternate worlds has varying levels of magic, but Oerth seems to have the most.

It is also, unlike [[Forgotten Realms| Toril]] or [[Dragonlance| Krynn]], actually a geocentric solar system, with a small sun-equivalent that orbits the planet rather than the other way round.

===Oerik===

Almost all material dealing with the setting takes place on this continent.  The actual Greyhawk setting itself takes place in the eastern region of Oerik, called the Flanaess, which is mostly considered to be the areas formerly belonging to the Suloise and Baklunish Empires (now the Sea of Dust and the Baklunish Basin, respectively), and everything to the east of those areas all the way to the Solnor Ocean.

West of the Flanaess is a bit of a problem due to lack of consistent mapping by various official contributions to the setting.  The early-2000's Chainmail miniatures game (a revamp of the ancient wargame rules) was set in what is called the Sundered Empire to the far western shore of Oerik, which may kind of contradict/overwrite the ancient map of Oerik found in Dragon Annual #1, though nothing a clever DM can't handwave or ignore if they want.  Likewise, between those two extreme distances is supposedly an "Oriental"/Asian-style area for all the weeaboo stuff to come from.  The Dragon Annual map lists the Celestial Imperium (China), the Low and High Khanate (Mongolia), Nippon and the Nippon Dominion (Japan, and possibly a Korea analogue since the Japanese did invade proto-Korea IRL at various points in history ), and Zindia (okay, seriously Gary, what the actual fuck, at least try to be more original).

Sprinkled all over the old map are some ancient but fascinating stuff for a DM to work with.  In fact, one of the setting's well-known character, Robilar, supposedly went into the west to learn to tame and ride dragons (maybe the Empire of Lynn?).  Since it's never been really touched by official hands, the sky's the limit out there.  Go nuts, DMs.

===Hepmonaland===

While it is mostly undeveloped by official sources, this is basically your standard "Green Hell" tropical continent with primitive cultures/peoples there.  Basically a mix of Africa and South America from what little is known about it.

===Telchuria (Hyperboria)===

Typical arctic region.  Not much to talk about, really.

===Fourth Continent===

There's some neckbeards who debate about exactly where and what this area is.  There were some novels and other sources that take place on Oerth that mention areas like Aquaria and Gonduria (seriously, Gary, ripping off LOTR isn't an improvement on shit like Zindia), but nothing was ever officially done with that stuff.  If you give a shit, read the Gord novels.  Otherwise, make something up.