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(Post from my other blog becaus f Wix – 21 september 2023) To see the first article of the World Neverland lore series : CLICK HERE It's best to look at this article on its original site, to get the correct layout.

I can't thank the online translation tools enough, they helped me find a very interesting map.

After posting my second article, I came across twospaceizz's post on Tumblr. In their post, they showed an image of a card coming out of the Fanbook for the Elnea Kingdom game. And at that moment, i WANTED to find it.

Spoiler alert, I did it.

(so #WorldNeverland and for you @[email protected])

Technically, I haven't found the fanbook. I have neither the knowledge nor the contacts to be able to find it.

But with a bit of digging, I managed to find these image:

And just because I was so pleased with how I found it, here's a summary of my research:

I first tried a google search via the image. I came across THIS WEBSITE, in Japanese, with a map created by this person.

That didn't help much, except that when I searched the blog, I came across the way they call “Worldneverland” in Japanese.

Armed with this knowledge, I started googling alternatives to the phrase “Worldneverland map”. I found lots of cards from the different opuses, different ways of drawing etc... And then I found the Holy Grail.

This website.

And this is how I found the map :D

And what's even cooler is that the person, in their blog, had already done some of the translation work. (the comments were also a great help).

I also found another image while going into a rabbit hole with japanese writing. Translated with google translation, it show this :

Don't know if it's legit, but if it is, it is really cool to finally know where Hamoa Island is.

THE TRANSLATION

Anyway, after such a long introduction, here's the translated map:

**I'd like to make it clear that some of the translations MAY NOT BE TRUE! As always, I try to translate as best I can but I am dependent on translation tools because I have NO KNOWLEDGE of Japanese. **

As I know that my handwriting may not be too legible, here are the typed names below:

• Continent (the purple names) :
  • Midland Cont(inent)
  • Southernland
  • Nak Pen(insula)
  • Dasarios Isl(and)
  • an untranslatable island below the Dasarios Island
  • Topall Archipelago
  • Baiga Isl(and)
  • Keldonia Isl(and)
  • Rokus ( maybe) Isl(and)
  • Shiera Isl(and)
  • an untranslatable island below the Shiera Island ( Maybe Actica Island ? Seams to habe the same number of letters ?)
• Kingdom :
  • Gavamekia (Federation)
  • Guava State/Kingdom
  • Divi (maybe) State/Kingdom
  • Soh State/Kingdom
  • South Devon
  • Devon
  • Pluto (Wakt Republic of Pluto)
  • Wa Kingdom
  • Cornea(maybe) Kingdom
  • Olerud Kingdom
  • Rogoel (maybe) kingdom
  • Reinsaal (maybe) Kingdom
  • Hamoa Island
  • Akade Kingdom
  • Topall Kingdom
  • Oviger (maybe) Kingdom
  • Oderidekt (maybe) Kingdom
  • Deldonia (maybe) Kingdom
  • Nalulu Kingdom
  • Ravl (maybe) Kingdom
• Body of Water :
  • Akade Sea
  • Bauma Sea
  • Devonean Sea

BUTTT

That's not all I found!

In fact, I learned about the first(second?) online (I think) ( like a mmo) World Neverland game, “World Neverland Zehn Continent Stories”, which was a bit like an mmorpg where, instead of pnjs, everyone played in it.

Unfortunately, as I don't speak Japanese, I don't really know how to target my research; I didn't manage to find much on it. I do know, however, that the servers closed in 2010 (or thereabouts).

But if you type “ゼーン大陸” into YouTube, you can find videos showing what the game looked like. On Reddit, another person is talking about Zehn Continent Stories.

There is also, it seems, the games “The Union of Birth Stories”, “Cornea Kingdom” et “Stories of the land of Asitsugahara”. (I saw in one of the japanese blog that Asitsugahara may be a prequel to Zehn ? Maybe ?Or is it just because those 2 games are mmo ? Idk)

SO ?

From the map, many countries are unknown to us, and we still don't know where the Wym tribe and the Zehn continent are.

Perhaps the unknown island below the Nak peninsula is the Zehn continent?

One thing's for sure, though, and that's that the Nut/Nuit Region is indeed Nuit as in 'night' in French (let me dream ahah it's probably just a coincidence). And it's not a Region but a Peninsula. So my connection between Devon and Nuit was well-founded, because the Kingdom of Devon is on the Nuit Peninsula.

The question is, where is Elnea Kingdom? I'd imagined that the kingdom was in South Devon, but I imagine it's elsewhere on this continent. Between Guava and Soh perhaps? (Or not because I remember a traveler say that Soh and Gavamekia were far west from Elnea... I don't know...)

There's also the kingdom of Kukulia... It's said to be in the south-east, so maybe on the island next to the mainland of Southernland? Somewhere in Southernland ?

Naruelu and Jarram are also relative unknowns. Where are they? Perhaps I've translated it wrong? (probably)

I think I had the image too much in front of my eyes, I won't be able to do any better. If anyone can translate it better, don't hesitate!

If you ever find any information on the unknown opuses, likewise, let us know!