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How would one get to Ossarion from Dar Zahn Vor? It seems like the main means would probably by boat, otherwise, wouldn't you have to march through the blessed lands, Khitan, and then into the west? Or is there enough room between the Aqtau mountains and the Sea of Lanterns over by the Mournmouth Caverns for significant land travel to get by? (which doesn't seem likely since the Mournmouth caverns in the mountain were discovered by sailors - thus the mountains must come pretty much right to the sea)
According to the most recent posted map on the Kickstarter announcement page, there is a region to the west of Dar Zhan Vor called the Plains of Jhaut, and there is an obvious break in the Aqtau Mountains near the Llharzyur Mountains near the League of Princes. The Aqtau also don't look like a massive mountain range like the Corlathians, so they may be scaleable or passes may exist. This would put them on the south coast of the Sea of Lanterns or the Messelian Sea (depending how far to the west they were).
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This was one of the questions I had about the Maghir getting over to the city states during the time of terror. Wouldn't they have had to go up over the Fervidite hills, through Khitan and down into the City states? Or did the nomadic horse warriors get on a boat for some reason? It seems very odd no matter what way they did it, since the Blessed Lands seems very cut off from the City-States when one looks at a map.
I seem to recall it saying that the Maghir used boats to cross the Messelian Sea and the Sea of Lanterns to escape the Infernals in the Time of Terror. When they got their Sarishan weapons, they returned home to liberate it, and could just as easily gone back over the water to get there.
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If there is a route between the Aqtau mountains and the Sea of Lanterns, doesn't that still let out into Khitan? Junks of theirs regularly come to the First City by water, either indicating they have a southern port on the Sea of Lanterns, or that a lot of sea travel goes on all they way around the western portion of the continent. I think the latter is unlikely.
Do you know where the southern border of Khitan is? I sure as heck don't, so I don't think we can accurately state where Khitan ends and the rest of the Far West begins.
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This is important to know, since the coming of the Destroyer is supposed to be from, "The West" and thus an understanding of potential western invasion routes would seem to be something people would be looking at. (realizing of course that poetically speaking Dar Zahn Vor and the Plains of Jhaut may count as "the West" since they are west of Coryan, despite the fact that they are really South of the First City)
I do believe anything west of the First City counts as 'the west', since the original prophecy came from KHITAN and the Idiot Priests of Illiir. While our world is Coryan-centric, it doesn't mean the rest of the world is. As such, I am going to assume that the invasion will come from one of the lands geographically west of the First City.
Of course, this may very well be wrong, as Henry is known to be rather. . . deceptive with his prophecies. After all, prophecies are often misheard, and even more often misinterpreted.