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The Thaidon Map is a stone carving found in the city of Ledein (ancient Shledjegélma). It represents the world known to the Nozhetine people at the time. The main feature is the great Dzelba, the river flowing from top to bottom on the map, from the far western mountains to the sea. The cities labeled on the map are all in reasonably correct positions, though scale is not uniform throughout. Notably, the far eastern regions and the western plains are not nearly as small as depicted here.

 

 

Artifacts from Ancient Celesír

Thaidon Map - A carved stone map of the ancient world.

Copper Text - Part of a set of copper sheets containing an early version of the text Avantinantja Grogafa "The Origin of Kings".

Avantinantja Grogafa is one of the oldest chronicles of the ancient world. It details the systems of power governing Nozhetine society at the time, and describes the rise to power of city-kings. A set of embossed copper plates is the earliest copy we have of the story, though it is incomplete. The picture above is of the first two lines on the first plate. Avantinantja Grogafa or Origin of Kings is written in the most ancient Torantine language known. The above text reads:

Zatjet zhlo kel apshontja grogafid daltja, kel dutja vajedzipt kel zhraktun, dvesh zatjet...

It was in the first days of mankind, in our beginnings on the earth, after they were made...