About the Atlantean World

The Lexicon sets out an entire world rather than a single region. Beyond its many countries and territories it details five of the world's largest cities and adds maps and charts of ocean currents, resources, trade routes and encounters. Because the Atlantean world is simply Earth in the long-gone Second Age, with Eria standing for North America, Gondwana for Africa and Jambu for Asia, players and Judges can lean on what they already know of the globe.

Every place and people in the book either really existed or was once believed to. Where sources disagreed about a locale, the material was reshaped for consistency, and where research ran dry, invention filled the gap. Place names follow the same rule: many are genuine, others adapted from old or legendary names. A few match modern names, on the grounds that many peoples and places kept the same name across history, and some legendary folk tied to later eras appear in the Second Age anyway; history buffs can treat them as forerunners of their namesakes.

The research was largely done by Ed Mortimer, with J. Andrew Keith credited for steadying the editing.