Still with me? Alright I've rambled on quite long enough so I'll try and keep the rest of this short.
Gygax writes, concerning the 1980 World of Greyhawk Folio:
"The maps show only a portion of the world. It is a very large and significant portion, but it is nevertheless a part of the whole, and during the course of the campaign, players have certainly adventured over more than it depicts. The Gazetteer is basically a survey of the states and geographical features. Some details were omitted so as to allow development by individual DMs, some because they are still 'unknown,' and a few because they will be revealed elsewhere as the need arises."
- Greyhawk: The Shape of the World, The Dragon #37
As was noted earlier, Gygax and friends had decided to slowly expand the scope of the published setting with a series of small-scale, but highly detailed maps of the important regions of the Flanaess. The details would've included things like major NPCs and suitable encounters. This would have had to have been in addition to Gygax's monthly articles in Dragon where he and later Rob Kuntz began to give political updates to the nations of the Flanaess and sometimes pivotal NPC groups like the Knights of Doom in Dragon #59. Then in his column in the same issue Gygax briefly made mention of a product called "Wasp Nest: The City State of Stoink". No sign of this work ever surfaced.
Gygax had from the beginning wanted to finish the entire globe of Oerth and to this part he was willing to add the works of other authors as well.
""Francois had a map of a continent and some islands to the east, and they were going to be added. The "Orient" was actually to be past them, closer to the West Coast of Oerik... Len Lakofka had an eastern continental addition as well as the Lendore Isles, so what I planned to do was incorporate Francois' and Len's maps with Oerik, complete the lower continent below it, and have a real globe."
"Gary Gygax: Q & A (Part VI, Page 4)". EN World.
Frank Mentzer, also had plans to have Gygax use his eastern land of Aquaria from a series of four RPGA modules. Even stranger, in Dragon #102 Coming Attractions there is a mention of the upcoming Oriental Adventures hardback book which was promoted as "the Oriental lands of Oerth." As this was near the end of Gygax's tenure at TSR, it was later discreetly unattached from Greyhawk though later indiscreetly reattached to the newly popular Forgotten Realms.
