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Looking at this map you may notice a number of big gaps. These are there as we have not yet made up our minds just what the terrain will be.
those of you who actually thought the terrain would mirror the British Isles will no doubt have noticed that this is not the case. What use having a fantasy world if we cannot have high mountains, huge forests and so on, close at hand. Just as we have moved places areound (and renamed them) so we have altered terrain.
Following on from this there are other prime differences in Avalon.
In the hills and mountains, on moores and the coast where there are cliffs can be found, gold, silver, tin and iron. Copper though can only be imported and is one of the main exports of Erseland. Flint can be found in the hills as well as lowland areas. Stone of various types in hills, moores and mountains. Amber can only be gathered from around the East Coast or imported from Lyonesse. Quartze can be found in cliff faces and some quarries. Gemstones can only come from underground and the experts in finding these are Dwarves and Drow. Potters clay can be found in the lowlands, the south east coast, estuaries and rivers though there are a few claybeds in the moores. Coal can be mined virtually anywhere though few prospectors are yet skilled in finding it.
Marsh areas and wet lands provide a host of food virtually all year round. Rushes and willow are valuable as are many of the grasses that grow here. Feathers from birds have many uses depending upon their types.
Woodlands and Forests naturally produce wood as well as fruit, nuts, berries and a host of other foods. Elves generally control the consumption of wood as they naturally want to preserve the forest. They are aided in this by some of the were creatures and Rangers.
Cattle are kept on lowland plains and hills, sheep on moores and foothills and goats in even rockier places. Other kept livestock are oxen (the main beast of burden), horses (mainly the smaller variety though some larger beasts are bred in Cent and the South West), chickens and ducks for food and eggs and geese for their warnings as well, dogs for a variety of tasks and more rarely cats and pigs -although the latter are popular in Pict Land. Bees are kept for honey and wax and some beetles and spiders are kept fed - the former for their decorative wings and shells (added to which they are edible) and the latter are crushed for a bitter juice that has medicinal purposes.
Salt is harvested from the sea, honey is the main sweetener and the pretty bland diets are varied with herbs. Spices are generally an imported luxury.
Virtually any vegetable will be used to make wine or beer - hops are grown all over the south and as far north as the midlands. The most pleantiful beer is mush ale, weak and bland but unlikely to contain many of the nasties that much water has. In this world stout only comes from Erse Land and Whisky only comes from Pict Land. Fruit is used for distilled drinks and wine and some strong fermentations. Beer and Mead are the most popular drinks in the South West with Cider coming a close third.