Diary of Pain Setting:

Post date: Apr 27, 2012 2:10:53 PM

I go through this exercise every so often replacing human countries with demi- and humanoids, thinking “where do they belong.”

Diary of Pain is set in a Romanic empire capital, one of my favorite settings. I decided to go with actually using Italy this time, and Rome as the Capital. From that starting point where do we place all the races.

Humans would be the Greece/Italy region. So we follow with where to place the others.

Elves in France.

Dwarves in Germany.

Gnomes go in the neutral countries between..

Halflings in Britain.

Orcs in Spain.

Goblins in Africa.

Hobgoblins in Slavic.

Ogres in Arabia (Ruled by Ogre Mages).

Giants are the Nordic Countries, Hill in the more hospitable areas, Ice further up and on, with Cloud and Storm living in the high mountains and clouds, Fire in a couple volcanoes and hot spring areas.

“Here Be Dragons” at the edges.

I haven’t thought were to put Trolls and Lizardmen, not really familiar with swampy areas, but they are probably within other areas.