Thread:Eras of Arda Team/@comment-75.217.25.184-20170722004221/@comment-28868502-20170722084936

To your first question, no it's not. We have made a whole new map due to the old one being outdated and as we have changed around a lot of the factions, the old one would simply not work. Of couse geographically speaking the new one looks a bit similar to the old one, as most rivers and mountains are where they were on the old map and so on, as both map are made according to an actual FA map. So it's mostly the biomes that have changed. Regarding a release of the map I simply cannot answer you as I have no idea myself. But as we aren't far from launch, it shouldn't be too long either way as you would get to see it when we release the submod.

What goes for your second question, we will start in F.A. 400. However, we are a bit easy on that topic regarding characters. If your character died in F.A. 390 and you can come up with a good reason for him not being dead, you might be let through.To the second part of that question: Time won't really progress. That is due to the butterfly effect and as we would encounter some issues like Belerieland would have to be sunk at some point and so on. It will be like on SA where we basically form our own lore after the set date. However, we might still stick somewhat to the actual lore and things similar to the lore events in the actual lore might orccur, though I wouldn't expect the Fall of Gondolin, sinking of Belerieland, etc. for obvious reasons. But there will also be a limit for how far off lore people can go. We don't want elves allying Morgoth, Utumno joining the elven alliance, etc. Things that happen will have to give sence.

To your last question: Not really. Looking apart for a very few factions, focus will be Belerieland and that will also be clear when you see the map. Besides the Easterlings, Dorwinion and Harad there aren't really any factions in the east. As stated before, Tauredain and Moredain won't be official factons. You are free to apply or buy a tag and live there, but they won't be factions you can join at spawn. Again, focus is Belerieland.

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