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# wmllint: general spellings Aethen Glamdrol Rumyr Heartfangs
# wmllint: general spellings Barag Gor Bitok Castelfranc Farzi Festog
# wmllint: general spellings Tirigaz Dorth Oumph Bork Borstep Grisbi Lmarig
# wmllint: general spellings Melmog Prestim Thelien Dorest
# wmllint: general spellings Kerlath Southwood
# wmllint: local spellings Clannate Grey

[section]
    id=geography
    title= _ "Geography"
    topics=..geography,great_ocean,morogor,green_isle,old_continent,great_continent,irdya,kingdom_wesnoth,elensefar,northlands,far_north,heart_mountains,arkan_thoria,southwest_elven_lands
    sort_topics=yes
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[topic]
    id=..geography
    title= _ "Geography"
    #  text= _ ""
    generator="contents:geography"
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[topic]
    id=arkan_thoria
    title= _ "Arkan-thoria"
    text= _ "A river rising in the <ref>dst='heart_mountains' text='Heart Mountains'</ref> and running east to the Listra."
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[topic]
    id=great_ocean
    title= _ "Great Ocean"
    text= _ "Lies to the west of the <ref>dst='great_continent' text='continent'</ref> and all rivers eventually flow to it. Far to the west in the Great Ocean is a huge archipelago called <ref>dst='morogor' text='Morogor'</ref>."
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[topic]
    id=morogor
    title= _ "Morogor"
    text= _ "Archipelago, located somewhere in the <ref>dst='great_ocean' text='Great Ocean'</ref> east of the <ref>dst='green_isle' text='Green Isle'</ref> and west of the <ref>dst=great_continent text='Great Continent'</ref>.
It is mostly inhabited by <ref>dst='..race_drake' text='drakes'</ref>.
The central island of the archipelago is also called ‘Morogor’."
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[topic]
    id=green_isle
    title= _ "Green Isle"
    text= _ "A bigger island lying in the <ref>dst='great_ocean' text='Great Ocean'</ref>."
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[topic]
    id=old_continent
    title= _ "Old Continent"
    text= _ "Lies to the west of <ref>dst='morogor' text='Morogor'</ref> across the <ref>dst='great_ocean' text='Great Ocean'</ref>."
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[topic]
    id=great_continent
    title= _ "Great Continent"
    text= _ "The continent on which the <ref>dst='kingdom_wesnoth' text='Kingdom of Wesnoth'</ref> lies. Its west coast is surrounded by the <ref>dst='great_ocean' text='Great Ocean'</ref>."
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[topic]
    id=irdya
    title= _ "Irdya"
    text= _ "The name of the world in which the kingdom of <ref>dst='kingdom_wesnoth' text='Wesnoth'</ref> is situated is ‘Irdya’. This term is, however, only rarely used in the era depicted by the main map. People normally just say “the world” or, poetically, “the wide green world”."
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[topic]
    id=kingdom_wesnoth
    title= _ "Kingdom of Wesnoth"
    text= _ "The Kingdom of Wesnoth is located in the north-central portion of the <ref>dst='great_continent' text='Great Continent'</ref>. Most of the mainline campaigns revolve around it. It is bounded on the map by the Great River to the north, the shore of the Great Ocean to the west, the Aethenwood to the <ref>dst='southwest_elven_lands' text='southwest'</ref>, and the Bitter Swamp to the southeast (lower right corner of the main map).

Over the River Aethen, south of Fort Tahn, is a Wesnothian frontier region. It is bounded to the south (off-map) by dense woods of which the Aethenwood may be considered a northernmost extension.

<header>text='Notable cities:'</header>
    • Weldyn: The capital of Wesnoth.
    • Aldril: City lying on the Bay of Pearls.
    • Blackwater Port: City lying south of the Bay of Pearls.
    • Carcyn: Located between the Grey Woods and the Great River.
    • Dan’Tonk: Wesnoth’s largest city, located in the center of the country, just west and north of Weldyn.
    • Soradoc: The northernmost border outpost of Wesnoth, controls the confluence of the Weldyn River and the Great River.
    • Fort Tahn: The southernmost border outpost, controls the north/south road crossing the River Aethen.
    • Tath: Important fort city north of Dan’Tonk, exerts control over the wilderness country around the east of the Brown Hills and north to the Ford of Abez.

<header>text='Notable land features:'</header>
    • Gryphon Mountain: Home of the fabled Gryphons.
    • Ford of Abez: Shallow part of the Great River, it is usually controlled by Wesnothian forces.
    • Weldyn River: It branches from the Great River and goes south.
    • Great Central Plain: Area bounded by Weldyn, Dan’Tonk, and Fort Tahn, this plain is Wesnoth’s bread basket and home to most of its population.
    • Dulatus Hills: These rolling hills bordering the Great Central Plain provide much of Wesnoth’s livestock and agriculture.
    • Brown Hills: Wasteland surrounding Gryphon Mountain that is not well-populated and occasionally very dangerous.
    • Horse Plains: Region of rolling plains just south of the Great River, bounded by Glyn’s Forest to the west and the River Weldyn to the east; the southern reach merges into the Central Plain. Home of the powerful Clans; the best horses in Wesnoth are bred here.
    • Estmark Hills: Largish range rising south of the Great River and east of the Weldyn River. The northernmost portion, nearest the River Weldyn, has at various times been settled by Wesnothians, but the Kingdom’s control is tenuous at best and banditry is common.
    • Glyn’s Forest: Sometimes known as the Royal Forest, named for one of Haldric II’s sons.
    • Gray Woods: Large forest in the heart of the wilds of Wesnoth, located between Carcyn and Aldril and generally considered to be haunted."
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[topic]
    id=elensefar
    title= _ "Elensefar"
    text= _ "Elensefar is at times a province of <ref>dst='kingdom_wesnoth' text='Wesnoth'</ref>, at times an independent country, and at times in a treaty federation with Wesnoth. Its borders are the Great River to the north, a loosely defined line with Wesnoth to the east, the Bay of Pearls to the south, and the <ref>dst='great_ocean' text='ocean'</ref> to the west. More information is found in the historical narrative of Wesnoth.

<header>text='Notable cities:'</header>
    • Elensefar: The capital, located on an island in the <ref>dst='great_river' text='Great River'</ref> delta.
    • Carcyn: City on the Wesnoth–Elensefar border, disputed with Wesnoth.

<header>text='Notable land features:'</header>
    • <ref>dst='great_river' text='Great River'</ref>: It is very wide at this point, and only ships can cross it."
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[topic]
    id=northlands
    title= _ "Northlands"
    text= _ "There is no government of the Northlands. Various groups of orcs, dwarves, barbarian men and even elves populate the region. The northern and eastern borders are not defined, the southern border is the <ref>dst='great_river' text='Great River'</ref>, and the western border is the <ref>dst='great_ocean' text='Great Ocean'</ref>.

<header>text='Notable cities:'</header>
    • Glamdrol: An Orcish tribal capital.
    • Wesmere: The location of the Ka’lian — the Elvish Council.
    • Dwarven Doors: A mixed human/dwarven town in the region of Knalga in the southern Heart Mountains. A major trade center.
    • Dallben and Delwyn: Human villages originally built by settlers who crossed the Great River during Wesnoth’s Golden Age expansion. Now abandoned. The forested area northeast of Elensefar, where these villages were located, was named the Annuvin province by men but was known by the elves as Wesmere.

<header>text='Notable land features:'</header>
    • Heart Mountains: A virtually impassable barrier between the river country and the Northern Plains.
    • Heartfangs: the particularly forbidding stretch of high peaks southwest of Lake Vrug and north of the Forest of Wesmere. The most inhospitable and dangerous portion of the Heart Mountains; only hermits, madmen, and mages live there.
    • Swamp of Dread: a very large bog located between the Heart Mountains and the Great River. A notoriously dangerous place.
    • Lake Vrug: A large mountain lake whose river carves the only pathway through the Northern Mountains.
    • Arkan-thoria: The river that comes out of Lake Vrug. This is the elvish name; among humans it is called Longlier.
    • River Listra: The south-running tributary of the Great River into which the Arkan-thoria empties.
    • Lintanir Forest: The southernmost portion of the Great Northern Forest, a gigantic wood whose eastern and northern boundaries are known only to the elves. Their capital, Elensiria, has only seldom been visited by humans.
    • Great River: The origin of this river is somewhere in the east of the northern lands."
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[topic]
    id=southwest_elven_lands
    title= _ "Southwest Elven Lands"
    text= _ "The Wood Elves are separate from those of the north, and have only intermittent relations with them and most other countries. Its borders are the <ref>dst='great_ocean' text='Ocean'</ref> to the west, the Black River to the south and southeast, the lands of Wesnoth to the north and the Kerlath province to the east.

<header>text='Notable cities:'</header>
    • None known.

<header>text='Notable land features:'</header>
    • Aethenwood: The largest southern forest, it extends far to the south and is home to <ref>dst='..race_elf' text='elves'</ref>. Although the elves make no such distinction, the southern part of the forest has been named Southwood by denizens of Kerlath.
    • Black Forest: An ancient forest of which very little is known, abandoned by the elves long ago."
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[topic]
    id=heart_mountains
    title= _ "Heart Mountains"
    text= _ "A virtually impassable barrier between the <ref>dst='arkan_thoria' text='river'</ref> country and the <ref>dst='far_north' text='Northern Plains'</ref>."
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[topic]
    id=far_north
    title= _ "Far North"
    text= _ "Cold, harsh, and inaccessible, the Far North is the ancestral home of the Orcish Clannate. It lies north of the <ref>dst='heart_mountains' text='Heart Mountains'</ref>, which the Orcs call the Haggid-Dargor and claim (without merit) as their own. To the east lie the Unaligned Tribes of the Wild Steppe, who fell out of the control of the Clannate, instead roaming with wild human barbarians and clashing with the High Elves of the North Plains (known as North Elves in human lands). The High Elves themselves reside further east, where it is rumored they rule a vast kingdom.

<header>text='Notable cities:'</header>
    • Barag Gor, a city home to the Orcish Council
    • Bitok
    • Borstep
    • Farzi
    • Lmarig
    • Melmog
    • Prestim
    • Tirigaz
    • Dorest, the northernmost human city

<header>text='Notable land features:'</header>
    • Black Marshes
    • Mountains of Dorth
    • Mountains of Haag
    • Greenwood
    • Silent Forest
    • Forest of Thelien
    • River Oumph
    • River Bork
    • Frosty Wastes
    • Barren Plains"
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