Back in my college days (about 3 years ago), I took some courses on meteorology and geology. The insight I gained, I tried to apply to Cerilia, to locate just where it would be located on Aebrynis. Based upon its general land forms, and flora, as well as weather patterns and the fact that Thaele is evidently near the “Arctic Circle” but not close to a pole, since there is no permafrost in the Rjurik colonies and the ice actually is seasonal in the Great Bay, I estimated the following:
Aebrynis is approximatly the same size as Earth, and is approximatly the same distance from the “sun” as Earth.
And that Cerilia occupies a very small area of the planet (remarkable small when you look at the scale of the map, compared to Faerun or Greyhawk…it is really just a little larger than Ansalon, more or less.
Cerilia must fall entirely between 30 and 60 degrees North Latitude…roughly the same area as that of the United States, with Thaele being near the same location as Southern Alaska.
The Deserts of Khinasi must result from a large dry landmass to the south, surrounding a small sea (otherwise, the weather there would be more harsh)
This leaves a VAST amount of planet left to cover, and having similar weathern patterns to that of Europe across the face of Cerilia, a large land mass would necessarily have to be located to both the South (Aduria), a lesser, but still sizeable landmass to the North (Thaele), and a vast landmass to the east and south east beyond a small mostly enclosed sea(the land of the Basarji).
With this in mind, it was a simple task to begin to draft a plauable and scientifically accurate rendering of a possible landmass scheme of a single hemisphere of Aebrynis.
Thaele was actually a large area that would extend north past the “Arctic Circle”, and perhaps to the pole. This continent would continue to the north east of Cerilia, where it would curve down to join with Basaria (which would be in the area equivalent of the Middle East and Asia Minor).
Aduria rould extend southwards with a considerably larger portion of the continent south of the equator, perhaps extending as far south as the “Antarctic Circle” (more than enough area to encompass the online Aduria project, and that project comes very close to fitting with this scheme also). The ancient land of the Mesantian, Mesetia, would then have to be located somewhere to the east of Aduria, between that land and Basaria (equivalent of central and eastern Africa).
As for the rest of the world, the other hemisphere, I dabbled with the idea of an oriental-style campaign world based upon the sub-continent of Shensi and a continent of northern-style barbarians with a taint of native american/east indian influence (Mongols and huns) on the two opposing lands of Fennic and Bracic.
If anyone is interested, I would be happy to scan the old map and send it to you, but it is very rough and only shows the location of the continents themselves.
What if a group of Masetians did survive and sailed far away and settled a distant land. Now after a long hiding have grown and are looking to come back to cerilia to conquer it.