About the Lexicon

All dates follow the Atlantean calendar and should be treated as rough; other peoples may count the years differently. A campaign set in the Second Age can open at any point from year 150 to year 200 by Atlantean reckoning, roughly 15,000 B.C. by our own count.

Every map should be assumed to contain errors, the wild lands such as Lemuria, Mu and Anostos most of all, because cartography in this era was crude and many far places were barely known. Some distant regions are left intentionally vague, since most Second Age folk still feared the open sea. The Game Judge is invited to add unmapped islands, secret lagoons, ruins and the like, and to read loosely worded passages however suits the campaign.

The setting offers almost endless adventure but just as much peril. Outside a handful of big cities, most of the world is raw wilderness where gear and provisions are hard or impossible to come by, and some regions hold nothing but wild animals and primitive tribes with odd beliefs. Even in lands that call themselves civilized, strangers may meet with superstitious dread and hostility, and the Judge is urged to stress this when building scenarios.