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Hey, folks, anyone want to help me out with a picky little bit of geography trivia for the SoS Gaz?

I can't seem to find my poster map of the Core from the original Black Box, and I need to know if it gives names for either of the two mountains in Markovia. The NMNB module doesn't include their names, so I'm pretty sure they don't have any yet, but I thought I'd better check before finalizing the Markovia chapter.

Likewise, if anyone knows of another source that might have named these two mountains, please post and let me know. Even if it's non-canon, I'd prefer not to contradict existing Ravenloft material if I can help it.

Thanks!

I'm having trouble locating my black box map right now, but in the process I confirmed that there's nothing on the TSR Gold map.

(I also found my misplaced Ravenloft bookmark. yay!)

The Black Box map only names two: a ridge of Barovia's Mt Baratak extends into Markovia, as well as a ridge of Dorvinia's Mt Gries. The other two mountains completely within Markovia are not labeled with any name.
I see nothing in either later setting versions, NMNB, or in a quick perusal of 'Tapestry of Dark Souls' that names them.

Hi - I have got the original black box map open in front of me.

Mt Gries (or the foothills) seems to be at least partially in Markovia but is mostly in Dorvinia and the monastery is on Mt Baratok -shared with Barovia.

The other two mountains that fully reside in Markovia are not named on the map.

Interestingly the 'Monastery A4 card' in the black box mentions the Balinok Mountains of Markovia. The reference is definitely mountain(s) in plural.

Red box map has no reference to the mountains - neither does the domains and denizens book in it or the domains of dread hardback -as far as I can tell.


Hope that helps. Im afraid I cannot think of any other sources.

Thanks a bunch, gang! Okay, now I can use the names I made up, without learning after-the-fact that they'd already had them.

The Archibald syndrome?

ProfPete wrote:
Interestingly the 'Monastery A4 card' in the black box mentions the Balinok Mountains of Markovia. The reference is definitely mountain(s) in plural.

That's because the Balinoks are supposed to be a large chain of mountains spanning the Core, much like how the Alps cross many European nations or the Rockies span several states in the US.

Funny that, I wanted their names too, just yesterday. Once they are officially christien, I'll have another peak for the Mistipedia.