gazeteer

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There's a page of basic pirate lingo, and a gazeteer of important and interesting places in the Thousand Isles.

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  • There's a page of basic pirate lingo, and a gazeteer of important and interesting places in the Thousand Isles. —  UncleBear
  • The object of this intelligent gazeteer, let us state briefly, was to extract from his victim the outlines of a biography which would cover one hundred lines. —  The Waif of the "Cynthia"
  • And always practical in his doings, he walked round to the Free Library, obtained a gazeteer, and looked up particulars of Barthorpe. —  The Paradise Mystery
  • Free Library, obtained a gazeteer, and looked up particulars of Barthorpe. —  The Paradise Mystery
  • There's a good amount of detail with gazeteer-style entries about each kingdom, county, or duchy in Rullaea, economics, religion (the dominant religion of the setting is something called Pentonism, a vaguely new-agey religious philosophy without deities that appears to have been somewhat inspired by real-world Buddhism, but in fact comes out reading a bit more like gnosticism than anything else), a couple of evil cults, the calendar, great wonders of the world, and mythologies. —  theRPGSite
 

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