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What Is It?

.. The Great Realms Interactive Atlas is a Flash Movie/Program which displays the continent of the Great Realms with random details such as Countries & Governments, Cities and Townships, and Travel Routes. Other details may be added in the future. The program will load above until it is completely loaded, then it will begin. The program itself is only 4mb, so most people it will only take a minute, dial up users on the other hand will have to wait. You can download a zipped version of the program above, just open [The Great Realms Interactive Atlas.SWF]. If your computer does not reconize the file, then you will need to download the Flash Media Player (which would mean the above on-site atlas would not load either).

 

 

How To Use It

.. Allow the flash program to load, the map will not display until the entire program has been loaded. Once loaded the graphical map of the Great Realms will load, along with four button at the bottom. This main menu will allow you to see the town names. Each town is displayed on the map by a red dot, hold your cursor over the dot and the name will appear.

.. To go into a sub-section, click the button. The menu button will turn red and say [ Main Menu ] and you will now be in that sub-section. All sub-sections EXCEPT Landsmarks has items that will appear on the screen. There are random items that will pop up in such sections as Empires and especially Landmarks, along with small roleplaying details.

 

 

About The Sub-Sections

( EMPIRES ): The Empires Section will display the Governmental Boundries of all major countries. There are 8 official governments and 3 territories.

( TRAVEL ROUTES ): The Travel Route Section will shows how transportation is handled in the Great Realms. There are several main modes of travel, Road, Rail, Ocean or Air. This section will show all major routes.

( LANDMARKS ): The Landmarks Section displays the major 'landforms' of the Great Realms which are mentioned in various writings and text. This section is still under construction.

(AVAILABLE TOWNS): The Available Towns section displays all 'blank' towns which are available for development by the players. See the [ Submission ] section below on how to submit to this and other map sections.

 

Map Submissions

.. The Interactive Atlas is open for development by players for their own personal roleplaying use. Of course though this development will be shared by anyone else who uses this program, and will be an official part of the Great Realms. There are several areas available.

I. Townships: There are almost 50 available townships for people to develop, and can be found listed by number under the Available Towns Section. There is various information you must fill in...

Township Name: Obviously the town needs to have a name.
Township Description: A general description of the township, and it should be noted that the term township is used only roughly. A township could be a castle, a keep, a fortress, any kind of civilized settlement.
Government Description: A general description of what kind of government the township is ruled over. A single Lord wil supreme power, a Faction group with a mayor or council in charge. It should be noted that townships can run independantly from the major government they might be located in.

II. Empires & Kingdoms: Even though limited, it is possible to form your own large government in the Great Realms. There are only 3 available spots open (the 3 Territories) for development, more if people wish to only form a small Empire or Kingdom out of one of the territories. The same general information as townships is needed. For more information about Great Realmism Governments, please see the (Government) section on the web site.

Country Name: Name of the Country
Country Description: Need information about its history, general economy, basically everything in general you'd want to know about a certain country.
Government Description: There are 2 major types of governments in the Great Realms and information about this can be found in our (Government) section on the website. A Kingdom ruled by a King with a small personal advising council, A Empire is ruled by an Emperor who may or may not have an advising council. The different is a King's Council can overrule the king in certain matters, wihle an Emperor has utter supreme rule and cannot be overruled by anyone but him or herself.

.. If you are submitting a Country that is only taking up a small section of land and not an entire territory, then please do the following. With the Interactive Atlas on your screen, press the [PRINT SCREEN] key. Open MS-Paint and past the image inside. Feel free to crap your desktop out of the picture leaving just the map. Then use one of the paint tools to draw out the borders. Feel free to crap this section out roughly leaving some other surrounding landforms, and submit the picture with the other information.

III. Landmarks: The only information needed about Landmarks is a name. If you have deeper history about the landmark, then please submit that with the name also. Landmarks include major buildings and sites, not just forests, rivers and mountains.

.. To submit you will need to take a screen picture of the Great Realms Atlas and show me the section you wish to Landmark. Open the Atlas and press [ Print Screen ], then open MS-PAINT and paste the image inside. Using a paint tool circle the area you with to make a Landmark, crop the image down to size and send attached with your submission. If you are submitting a landmark found inside a township, just send the text details about the general information of this landmark, its history, etc.

How To Submit

Write down the information needed above (and or attach image file), and e-mail it to WDMUD(at)WaterdeepMUD.com

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Last Updated: (04/10/07)