Macros the Black wrote:You still haven't played the Might and Magic games, I presume? In MM8 King Roland and Queen Catherine arrive in Jadame, on route from Antagarich to Enroth. Jadame has to be at least somewhat in between the two for that to make sense.
Plus, the reason they land in Jadame is that the Pirates are blocking them from returning to Enroth. Thus, Karigor has to be somewhat between Enroth and Jadame as well.
Not to mention - because I know this isn't hard proof in a fantasy story - Jadame is a very tropical continent while Enroth has snow in it's northern parts. If this was not a high-magic kind of universe, I would expect Jadame to be at least a little further south than Enroth. And since Antagarich has snow in it's southern parts, I would then also expect Antagarich to be further south than Jadame.
I have played the Might and Magic games. I haven't completed them, but eventually I doubtless will.
The reason I say that Antagarich is north of Enroth is that in Heroes III Queen Catherine lands on the south-east of the continent in order to help the Erathians fight Nighon and the Kreegans.
The reason I say they are likely to be pretty close is that there are close cultural and political links between them, which do not appear to exist between either of them and Jadame.
You have a point about the snow. If Antagarich has snow in it's southern parts that would mean that Antagarich is in the southern hemisphere while Enroth is in the northern hemisphere. But paradoxically, if you go from Enroth to Antagarich you end up in the South-East.
The most likely way that this would be the case is if you have to go around some other large continent that crosses the equator, let's assume that's Jadame so that to get to the habitable end of Antagarich you have to go around Jadame and then go north.
This does mean that my initial assertion about the proximity of Antagarich and Enroth fall into some problems
but the map would look something like this. Something like this, I do not claim to have drawn the continents correctly.
The red area is land that is basically uninhabitable and you don't want to land. That is land that is desert, jungle or tundra where not many people live. Green cross is where Queen Catherine landed in the Restoration of Erathia's first mission. Blue is the possible routes she could have taken.
Route 3 is the normal route used by Enrothians to get to Antagarich but Queen Catherine didn't take that route as it involves sailing towards Regna, it's not that they are afraid of the Regnans, but more that the Regnans will naturally believe that she is about to invade them and respond accordingly.
Route 1 is a short route to Av Lee and eastern Erathia but it takes you right past Nighon and the Nighons also have a fleet of pirates of their own. It is also possible that this passage is impassable or highly dangerous.
So Route 2 was what Queen Catherine took. But Because she took this route she ended up in the South-East of Erathia and then had to depart to visit Bracada, while if she had taken Route 3 she could have landed in Bracada and then entered Erathia from the west with them in tow.
