Log Horizon - Miscellaneous Info (Updated 1/26/2014)

WARNING: This information is from Mamare's official googledocs. The majority is either not canon at the moment, or side story material. - MG

World Maps
- Unofficial Map using Mamare's notes
http://i.imgur.com/OTfaTUQ.jpg
- Fan Map
http://i.imgur.com/MmE2FGO.jpg

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North America
Cities
- Big Apple (New York)
- The Brotherhood (Philidelphia)
- South Angels (Los Angeles)
- Dixie (Austin)
- Pueblo (Albuquerque)
- Jean Drapeau (Montreal)
- Portage (Anchorage)
- Ekechi 51 (Area 51)

Area of Interest
- (Wisconsin: Chekuwamegon National Forest), an area of large forests near the Great Lakes. Ruled by a surly false god named Naka (Lava Dragon of Wen) who takes his origins from Cthulhu mythology.

- Black Hills (South Dakota: Mount Rushmore National Memorial Park), a sacred place for the indigenous people. The region has yet to be recaptured from the army or subhumans now occupying the land, but native landers are doing their best to rally a force to take back the area. In addition, there is said to be a huge vein of gold in this land.

- Dragonette Colony (Arizona: Grand Canyon National Park) one of the highest level zones, one of the earliest in Elder Tale, and was the original setting for the Reign of the Heavenly Dragon content.
The area is inhabited entirely by dragon species and wyverns. The species that can be found in the region changes with the seasons.

- Ataruva U.S.,the company that created Elder Tale, is based in Los Angeles. Because of this the in-game city of South Angel has a statue of god where their building would be located, called the Monument of the Covenant.
The statue has become a huge joke to players around the world, and a popular spot for American players to meet up.

- Jade Pearl Labyrinth, main headquarters for the 13 Orders of Knights located northeast of South Angels.

- Star Tower aka Devils Tower, a huge rock famous for being in a certain movie. Bringing a small clay copy of the tower used to trigger a small event before the Catastrophe. Now rumors have spread of a mysterious object hovering above the tower.

Guilds:
- Morning Star is the American cavalry subclass guild that is most like the Round Table. They're doing their best to establish social stability and security, using the Old West as their ideal.

- 49erS are an international guild made up of North American and Western European adventurers.

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South America
Cities
- Diego (Mexico City)
- El Dorado

Area of Interest
- Temple of the Ecliptic (Peru), a raid where adventures make their way through a temple containing gold, crystal, exquisite stonework, and an enshrined crystal skull.
Completeing the raid leads adventurers to a field in the sky where gods reside.

- Nazca Lines (Peru), figures can be grasped by following the different colored earth and mapping your path. Time and events alter what figures might be found at any point.
A player with the Surveyor subclass can follow the paths to gain access to a raid quest.

- Devil's Triangle (Bermuda Triangle) was a mid-level zone before the Catastrophe. Now a mischievous ancient entity from a previous Catastropher may be emerging.

- Auyán-tepui "Devil's Table" (Venezuela: Guiana Highlands and Canaima National Park), the top of the mountain is a harsh environment with unstable weather. The surrounding jungle is a high-level field where evil spirits and the Devil Dragon wander.

Guilds:

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Japan
Cities
- Akiba (Akihabara)
- Minami (Osaka)
- Susukino (Sapporo)
- Shibuya (Shibuya)
- Nakasu (Fukuoka)

Area of Interest
Guilds:
- Queries over star / Extreme Questers???

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Korea
Cities
- Hanson (Seoul)

Area of Interest
- F2P - Bank, guild hall, and increased item capacity are all things you must pay to access.
- Random cosmetic items in the cash store.
- Can also purchase the Summoner summons whilst playing other classes. This has made Korea famous for their difference in combat ability.
- Split into three kingdoms.
- Players learned how to cook from Japanese adventurers.
- Unfortunately there is a massive shortage of materials and ingredients in the server. Some players have turned to stealing food from landers, whilst others are monopolizing the fish market due to a lack of the proper subclass.

Guilds:

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China
Cities
- Dadon (Shanghai)
- Yandon (Beijing)
- Hong Kong

Area of Interest
- Waste District Tekeli (Kazakhstan), an ancient city located in the southern regions of what used to be Kazakhstan. Region is now populated by  monsters, leading to many large-scale battle events held by Mizukagami (The Water Mirror) in the surrounding area and the bell tower at the center of Tekeli. Adventures must make their way unnoticed through ruins in order to gain access to the secure temple.

-Tian Shan "Shammai" - The unexplored lands that are inhabited entirely by dragon species.

-East Ming tombs and Buyeo Castle

-Walled City of the Oasis Samarkand, lander trade town and relay point on the route known as the Silk Road. The amount of visiting adventurers has decreased since the Catastrophe.

-Lake Lop Nord to Wandering, a lake of the illusion that is said to be in the Taklamakan Desert. It is called "The Wandering Lake" because its location changes every year .

-Moving City Ouran, a lander city that follows "The Wandering Lake" every year The city is also a relay point along the eastern section of the Silk Road.
The Loulan ruins are a known questing area in the Taklimakan desert, but the starting point is far from the moving city.

- Dadon (Shanghai), a city  that has descended into chaos and is steadily worsening.
Three guild haves tried claiming the great city as their own, but they are locked in a stalemate. Each of three guilds currently occupies important facilities around the city.

- Dark Prison Gateway “The Door to Hell” (Darvaza, Turkmenistan),  After many expansions it is one of the dungeons which has become an entrance to the underworld in an overseas server.

Guilds:

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Southeast Asia
Cities
- Leon City (Singapore)
- Manila
- Taipei
- Kaohsiung

Area of Interest
- Dungeon at the bottom of the Mariana Trench that requires a ton of special items, contracts, and other requirements to even attempt. At the end is an altar-like rock that can be used to "summon" something.

Guilds:

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India
Cities
- Delhi
- Mumbai
- Agra

Area of Interest
- Currently at war with Pakistani players.

- In the middle of a massive PVP tournament in one of their cities.

- Space Scraping Tower (Sri Lanka), ancient ruins referred to as the "Tower of Kalidasa". It used to stand several hundred kilometers in height before it was greatly damaged. Now the fallen tower leads to a tunnel-like dungeon with areas full of bright plants, golems, the undead, and outer walls like diamond.

Guilds:

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Middle East
Cities
- Dubai
- Palmyra
- Circular City Baghdad
- Costantina (Istanbul)
- Meccalin (Mecca)

Area of Interest
- Baghdad had an escort quest that required adventurers to guard a ship across the sea for three days. The quest was eventually taken over by Ancient NPCs.

- White point (Israel), a location where no village or landmark remains. This seems to have done so deliberately.

- Turkmenistan-Darvaza -

- Oman - Underground cave of Ubaru

- Lightning Spire (Dubai Tower)

- Constantina (Istanbul), one of the major players cities for the middle east and the boundary town that leads to Western Europe.
After the Catastrophe Middle Eastern adventurers began to riot, pushing out the European adventurers from their city and back into the Western lands.

Guilds:

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Western Europe
Cities
- Seven Hills (Rome)
- Via de Fleur (Paris)
- Madrid
- Madeira

Area of Interest
- Floating Island (Neverland), a floating island that has been repeatedly spotted across all of Western Europe. It has remained a mystery to players for years, though some believe that it is involved in a very difficult quest line.
The island is actually a bug from Neverland content that was shelved after an incident in the NA server.

- Hole of the Giants (Tartarus), a literal hole into the underworld that randomly moves about the country spitting out one raid level giant after another.

- Daedalus's Labyrinth (Crete), an ancient labyrinth modeled after the legend of the Minotaur from Greek mythology.
The dungeon is a magnificent royal palace for Prince Asterius, the Minotaur. Because it was designed to confine the prince who became the Minotaur adventures find it impossible to escape the high-level Legion Raid dungeon. The only minimum requirement for escaping the labyrinth is the item "Ariadne's Thread" which returns adventurers to the Great Temple of Athens.
The dungeon is still not widely known in Japan even lthough a message reported that a Japanese group had clear the labyrinth and obtained a Phantasmal-class battle axe. [D.D.D]

- The Undying Factory (France), a factory that is not completely dead which lies hidden deep in a cave inside a secluded forest.
Ghosts of the old world continue to work the broken production line shouting, "Failure. Yes! Does not meet the quality standards."
Using the materials lying around adventurers must find a way to repair the machinery. Completing the dungeon grants adventurers the factory's finished product as a reward.

- Carpathian Mountains (Romania), an area modeled after Bram Stoker's "Dracula" and the holy land of vampire legends. At the peak lies the impregnable castle known as "Castlevania".
Rumors say that the high-level kin of darkness who guard Castlevania are ruled by a vampire emperor. Many expeditions have been led by European players, but non have yet to witness the figure known as emperor.
It is said that a new area would be opened up with the release of the "Homesteading the Noosphere" expansion.

- Mountain of the Sleeping Dragon (Spanish Pyrenees), the gently-sloping mountain range that straddles Spain and France. Due to the difficulty of crossing lander and and adventurers rarely approach. Wild animals, monsters, and a large dragon species have made the mountains their home.

Guilds:
- Straight Panties, guild that only wears panties on the lower half of their bodies. Made up of various races, but mainly werecats.

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Northern Europe
Cities
- Londonheim (London)
- Walled City Hoen (Berlin)
- Heteren (Gelderland)
- Grand Palace (Brussels)

Area of Interest
- Garden of Chastity / Fairy Garden Keukenhof (de Hoge Veluwe National Park, Netherlands), the most beautiful field in all of Europe.
The field has many flowers and trees that still remain, and a little stream that has created flower gardens in many places. The gardens have also become the home of fairies and spirits of the departed.
A long quest chain begins for a young girl that has three knights trying to win her affection with gifts. A snow-white sword, a tiara of gold, and a sparkling jewel. In the end the girl chose to turn herself into a tulip to remain pure, becoming the fairy queen in the process. After she has left an Artifact-level reward remains for the adventurer.

- City of Eternal Diamond (Belgium), a city created from a forest of diamond spires created with nanotechnology from the Old World.
A nearby mine contains diamonds of every color imaginable. There is also a spire that was destroyed by unimaginably powerful weapons. Any debris that remained was carried off as a jewel long ago.
Under the diamond spires an underground dungeon can be found that is in a state of twilight. The holographic logo of a diamond company can be found. It is one of the strongest examples of corporate advertising on the European servers.

- Field of Forgotten Seedlings

Guilds:

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Russia
Cities
- Kazan
- Omsk
- St. Petersburg

Area of Interest
Guilds:

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Africa
Cities
- Kahira (Cairo)
- Johannesburg
- Dakar
- Kartago (Carthage)

Area of Interest
- Johannesburg, a lawless city with a near nonexistent safe zone, and rampant PKing taking place.

- Kartago (Carthage), was the major port for moving between the European and African servers. Immediately after the Catastrophe European adventurers panicked and began to fight the African adventurers in the city. After sometime peace was made and now both parties are working on a way to control the transporation ring so they can return to their home server.

Guilds:
- Amarna Revolutionary Movement was the combat guild of Africa. It was the guild to be in to take part in large scale raids, and was renown for tackling the rare Legion raids across all of Africa.
Head members were the son of a local millionaire, children of company heads, celebrities, and other high ranking members of African society.
Based out of southern Qahira.

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Oceanic
Cities
- Albion (Sydney)
- Melbourne
- Jarvis (Canberra)
- Mandurah
- Perth
- Freemantle

Area of Interest
Guilds:
- Green & Green, massive international pacifist guild based in Perth. They seem to be the Round Table of the Oceanic server acknowledging that Landers have rights, kicking out anyone that harasses landers or PKs.
Green & Green is also clearing out monsters so they can work towards finding a way home.

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Guildless Groups:
- Red Dragon Pirates, were said to prey upon the Yamato Sea and Korean Peninsula. They are actually a ragtag group of refugees and outcasts from around the region that go out of their way to help others and establish trade routes. Though what they may be up to at any moment is up to a whim.

- Roland Village Knights: Local lords abandoned the North American village of Roland to fend for themselves. A dozen adventures decided to stay and protect the town, gaining the title of Knights from local villagers.

- Black Hand of Justice: Rumored to be a worldwide spy organization and assassination group consisting of Ancients and selected Landers
 Formed 240 years ago, they secretly eliminate any unwanted presence for the gods.
Players complained about never finding any traces of the Black Hand, so it is very much a mystery if the group actually exists or not. Though they are likely to have been met by some adventurers...maybe.