Outside World

Archolos

• mountain
• famous for vineyards

Great Northern Plain

• German: Grossen Nordebene (in Gothic Comic)
• Following the heavy battles in the north, every countryman now knows how to use a bow and arrows
• Hoards of orcs invading the land from the North (old official website)

Myrtanian Outpost At The Edge Of The Great Northern Plains

• I was a soldier in the fortress in the large plain from the north.
• Soon they would have reached the end of the northern plains and overrun our little outpost with ease
• from outside looks like archetypal fort from American Old Wild West, as codified by Fort Texas Hollywood theme park in Spain, which appeared as background of many XX century western movies (source: interpretation of Gothic Comic visuals)

Khorinis

• a remote city, one closest to the Royal Ore Mines
• deserter was able to reach it from the Northern Plains without help and detection
  • even though deserting is one of the worst crimes in the kingdom
  • old official website indirectly mentions Khorinis being the next town from a fort by Northern Plains
  • Als sein Spähtrupp von der herannahenden Orkarmee überrollt zu werden droht, sucht Milten rechtzeitig sein Heil in der Flucht. Völlig entkräftet schleppt er sich in die nächste Stadt, wo er unglücklicherweise von den Stadtwachen als Deserteur festgenommen wird.
• I preferred to hide for a while and there was no better place for this than Khorinis
• ruled by the Lords of Khorinis (Gorn in Gothic I comic) or the High Council (Lester in Gothic I comic)
• Khorinis... This city was far away from the central cities of the realm, and the people here did not care about how the war was going.
• initial idea was to put the prison colony of an island
  • it was inspired by the movie “Escape from New York”, with prison covering entire former city-island of Manhattan
  • Gothic Der Comic shows city of Khorinis surrounded by mountains and without any view on the sea
  • finally it was on purpose left undefined, to let studio decide later
• Here they used to mine the ore, (...) before the accursed king made a prison out of it and created this barrier
• Ka Garon calls area where it is a desolate island (German: trostlosen Insel) (design doc Story 3.3 draft)
• there are merchants
  • I'll use this magic scroll the merchant in Khorinis sold me

Laran

• home of famous scholar of magic Barthos

Meidheim

• area ruled by the Count Of Meidheim
• briefly mentioned in alpha version of story of Lee

Morgrad

• name of the “world”
• In the center lies the Morgrad, containing the four elements earth, water, fire and air.
• similar to “Midgard” from Germanic mythology

Myrtana

• The kingdom of Myrtana united by King Rhobar II
  • the one who united the four realms at the myrtanian sea
  • term Kingdom Of Myrtana includes annexed realms like Varant
• called both kingdom and empire of four united kingdoms
• also called Martiana (alpha docs) and Myrthana (handbook)
• the original kingdom was on the continental lands known as Midlands

Nordmar

• place with blast furnaces
• only local masters know secret technique for smelting Magic Ore without sacrificing it’s magic power
• ancient Ore Armor of Ancient General was made using similar technology (in the release version of Gothic its the armour of the ancient paladin, not so in the Alpha, were it was to be made for the player by Stone on Xardas command)
• earliest real-world blast furnaces are from XII century

Polar north

• home of Cresh a Suul and Shirtakkihn tribe, as well as of Polar Bears, Polar Badgers and Polar Sharks
• the north, where all the water freezes immediately
• surrounded by endless blue surface of water
• shining white shapes with bizarre jagged outlines, towering several hundred meters high. Icebergs.
  • gigantic iceberg loomed several hundred meters above him

The Ice City In The Polar North

• the city is only described in a vision sent to Stomp by Creesh a Suul, it’s not made clear if it accurately describes actual location in Morgrad, or if it’s fantastic dream only containing some seed of truth

  A city, or rather a pueblo-like complex, all born from the ice of the mountain, which covered almost the entire flank of this colossus; Hundreds of houses were there, with ledges, stairs, and walkways connecting them. Myriads of graceful turrets and minarets, which, in defiance of all laws of gravity, rose above them in the most impossible nooks and crannies. Everything seemed to be made of green, glittering ice.
  

  Point at the base of the mountain (...) Stomp took a closer look and saw a free-standing portal there, made up of two irregularly shaped ice columns, behind which a flight of stairs led up into the city and after about forty meters lost itself in the tangle of houses, turrets and stairs. Finally he reached the portal, (...) massive stalagmites of greenish-white shimmering ice, towering a good ten meters high. Beyond it was the wide, gently curved staircase.
  

The Sea

• in the east from valley of the Royal Ore Mines
• probably the Sea of Myrtana / Mirtanian Sea
• Go beyond the forest until you can see the sea
• the old ruined monastery by the sea
• mentioned as Dummymeer (German) in a model file in alpha 0.56c

Sendar

• homeland of Milten Plescott

Stomp’s Hometown

• only mentioned in Sleeper’s Ban
• there are multiple trading houses ran by rich families
• there is at least one large mansion with multiple servants
• there is a peace council (der Friedensräte der Stadt) with a treasury storing valuable artefacts

Tymoris

• region ruled by the Lord of Tymoris
• contains Khorinis and the Royal Ore Mines
• likely contains Western Field (Bergmar of Western Field is subordinate to Lord Of Tymoris)

Western Field

• city or area either ruled by Burgrave Bergmar, or where he was born
• likely part of Tymoris (Bergmar is subordinate to Lord Of Tymoris)

Varant

• land neighbouring the Midlands
• according to Gothic I handbook conquered by Rhobar I, father of _Rhobar II
• king Rhobar II, bearer of the Scepter of Varant
• Varant had lost its seaports
• the range of hills surrounding the swamp
• attacked Myrtana to claim it’s riches from mining of copper, bronze and ore
• Armies of horsemen came over the hills of the empire, ships of dark wood drew up on the horizon
• had both land and sea border with Myrtana
• interplay of army and magic, helped him to stand at the gates of the capital of Varant