Everyone is advanced a lot further, steel is quite common, except for underaged newbs. Getting URself killed there is very easy tho. None of my english Chars have settled, I've tried, but it was way to boring, didn't get me anywherre, so they all travel. They do have some very nice maps, so no big mysteries there. And yeah, everything is connected, if only I had a boat. (To get me off of that @$%&%#^*# Sring Sri island.
KF was fun tho... Starting a fight was really easy there.
(Guess who my char was there)
Actually, I used to be fluent at german, yet I don't even have a german Char. Time to start one I think.
Still, having your char working for another one of your char's is very close to a CR breach. (Just to stay on-topic).