Also fun fact I learned on that podcast that they were originally going to have all five continents finished at launch, but they only had three done (really more like 2.5 sorry odus) so that's what shipped. But they had a pretty rich design doc for kunark written, and it was just kinda shelved because the game shipped already. Then when it turned out they needed an expansion, they just pulled out the kunark design doc and made what would have been in the original game (minus the slight graphical improvements that happened in the meantime) anyway.
Velious on the other hand I don't think they had anything designed or planned for yet ahead of time other than the name and the drawing of it on the original map.
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