Hidden deep in the Hanomae Tundra, a sword juts into the air, embedded in the permafrost. Beneath it, a dark shape like an elongated, massive head can just be made out through the cloudy ice. In fact, if one were able to get a view of the ground from the air, a dragon-like shape would [...]
If you were brave and foolish enough to travel through Argonneson– and powerful or lucky enough to survive your travels– you might come across a ravine many hundreds of feet deep. And if you were to look inside that ravine, you’d notice two bizarre things.
First, there is the orrery. Massive spheres of stone float in [...]
A wizard named Thorin built a tower in the middle of a forest to study his arts in seclusion. Thorin loved dogs, and brought many of them along with him. At some point, he created a spell to uplift all the dogs, giving them rudimentary intelligence and the ability to speak.
Thorin is long dead, but [...]
Within the realm of Gnomica, all rules shall be sacrosanct and shall enforce themselves.
–The First Law
As soon as the PCs enter Gnomica, it is immediately evident that this is an unusual place. Each male PC without a hat suddenly finds himself wearing one, and is unable to remove the hat except indoors. In fact, upon [...]
Marrowgrim is a fairly affluent city located where the Sinhe River and Yellow Peaks nearly run along-side each other. It started off as a small mining town, growing fat off the gold from which the Yellow Peaks take their names, and the river allowed for convenient shipping. It didn’t take long for a bustling trading [...]
She lights up a candle for hope to be found
Captive and blind by the darkness around
Firm as a mountain, she never will mourn
Timeless, she waits for the break of dawn
-The Maiden’s Hymn
On the northeastern coasts, just below the frozen wastes of Nordica, a small town named Maiden’s Watch operates a small, but successful, port.
The town [...]
As you walk through The Dancing Wood, you hear a wind like a thousand whispers. All the trees are sentient and capable of both movement and speech, but they move at an incredibly slow place, dozens to hundreds of times slower than you or I. As a result, there doesn’t appear to be anything unusual [...]
It sits like a massive red boil on the landscape; a huge, red dome visible from miles away. Malus Mundi, commonly known as The City of Devils.
Malus Mundi is quite literally a little bit of hell on Earth. At its heart lies a gate to hell, and infernal creatures come and go freely, allowing them [...]
There was once a great hero, a paladin known as Sir Glorious. Early in his career, Sir Glorious was entrusted with a vile artifact known as the Narpa Sword. So great was Sir Glorious’s piety, that he was able to turn the Narpa Sword from evil into a vanguard of good, and it was renamed [...]
The towers of Ling’hurak pierce the sky like daggers of steel and stone, visible for miles and miles in every direction.
Ling’hurak was the greatest of the Motori metropolises, and the only one still functional. Though the Motori have long since left this world, their metatons still watch over and maintain Ling’hurak.
Some fools have tried to [...]
