Hi everyone, I'm a long time fan of Might and Magic. I really love what you're doing here, and can help out with your map or any lore troubles. (if you still need any help with them)!
First off, thank you for the tremendous wealth of information you provided, and welcome to CivFanatics!
It is very much appreciated, being a long time fan myself, I usually miss out on alot of the lore aspect since I lean towards strategy and battle concepts
Roland Ironfist said:
Back on page 3:
Pierpont - correct, and Pierpont is indeed the right spelling.
Harmondale and Welnin are two distinct nations which are within the Contested Lands. Welnin's capital is Welnin City. Harmondale hasn't got one.
Steadwick - correct
Moulder - correct
It's usually spelled Eeofol, and Kreelah is correct
Nighon - well we don't know its capital, and because of constant infighting it seems to fluctuate. During Mutare's reign it was probably the city of Death Kiss. By MM7 it might have been Damocles. Tarnum is not a capital city, he's a character (protagonist of the Heroes Chronicles).
Tatalia's capital is unknown but it isn't Tidewater. Tidewater is actually an Erathian city in Tatalian territory.
Ulgak - correct
Celeste - correct
Volee is the capital of Vori. The Empire of Bracaduun - the forebears of Bracada - also had a capital, named Steelhorn.
If you need info on nations in Enroth and Jadame just scream.!
Thank you. Welnin City will work for The Contested Lands. In HoMM3 the Capitol will built in Welnin during that Scenario (I think it mentioned Harmondale in there somewhere, but can't remember what it was referring to exactly), but that clarifies that greatly.
Nighon - noted, off the top of my head, I can't quite recall where that came from (Tarnum as Capitol City

)
For the unknown Capitol Cities in the Epic game, I'm not sure what to do, it will probably just end up not having one specifically, w/e city in the city list will just have to do.
Roland Ironfist said:
No! Don't use it! It's fan-made and inaccurate. A fanmade world map which stays true to the developer's directions on the continents is here:
http://pic.ipicture.ru/uploads/090226/2200/SYWP4Td5KN.jpg
Many of the maps I found online where from 3D0, but there are indeed many fan-made compilations that have been attempted to be put together. I just looked at the map, and it is a Wake Of Gods Map (a very excellent fan-made expansion, still deciding on if to incorporate it into this mod). Very detailed also, I haven't started making the map yet, but this will come in handy and I will use it.
As far as the Vori goes, they were partially in one scenario of HoMM3, but there seems to not be very much information about them (although I would have to look a little more than I already did a while back). I was thinking about adding them into the mod, but without alot of graphics and creature lines, city names, etc... too much would be missing.
Roland Ironfist said:
This depends on when the whole thing takes place. If it's around MM7 or Heroes III times (1160s AS) then here are the kingdom leaders:
AvLee: Elvenking Eldrich Parson
Erathia: Nicolas Gryphonheart or Catherine Ironfist
Bracada: Gavin Magnus
Deyja: This is tricky as the country went through about five leaders in a space of a few years. Before Heroes III it's Finneas Vilmar. In H3 it's Lich King Gryphonheart. And then in MM7 it's Archibald Ironfist
Eeofol: Either Xenofex (before MM7) or Lucifer Kreegan (after).
Nighon: No specific leader. Mutare rises to power at an ambiguous point in time but she's not leading the country in Heroes 3.
Vori: King Vol
Tatalia: King Tralossk (Lizardman)
Krewlod: Duke Winston Boragus (Ogre)
Enroth and Jadame also have these too but I don't know if you'll be using those continents.
Good luck and let me know if I can help!
The CivIII Epic (normal non-scenario) game will not have a required specific leader. The H3 Leaders would make most sense for an H3 mod

Lich King Gryphonheart for Deyja would do, Lucifer Kreegan for Eeofol. For the scenarios, I can use the leaders that are used in the actual game. But this list fills in the blanks that I still was missing a few (since most time is going into getting the base of the game into Conquests, much of this has been put on the backburner, but I will update it now).
I don't believe Enroth or Jadame was used in Heroes 3. I may make a map that includes them though, as well as a map of only Antagarich. I have not started either yet, but one question we were looking at earlier was trying to find a map where specific cities were, of course I don't think one exists. So if I create a map, it's likely the cities may just be randomly placed, or randomly named, unless I can locate something that may help.
Roland Ironfist said:
Oh yes, and here's a link - among a bucket's worth of other concept art and images - to some very high-res images of the H3 skill icons if they're of any use (the site is Chinese so may load slowly). The skills are at the very bottom:
http://www.heroworld.net/album.php?id=20
Animated .gifs of all creatures in H3 which you can use as reference without needing to alt-tab between the game and Poser constantly:
http://www.heroworld.net/album.php?id=23
And a whole bloody library of H3's spell effects which you might be able to import:
http://www.heroworld.net/album.php?id=22
Hope they're of use!
Lucky for me I can read Chinese (after it's been translated by Google that is

).
There you go jewmpaloompa, these animated gif's of the creatures are much better than the one I quickly through together. I have already tested a few of the spells, and they converted great! I'll probably be able to get them done in a couple days.
Converted Meteor Shower Spell, 70 more to go
Thank you again for the great links, you really saved me loads of time by providing those! Now I can get the spells converted over, and added into the game.
Tom