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Table of Contents

• Act 1: Kingdom of the Blind
• Act 2: Past is Prologue

Setting Notes

• Geography
• Timeline
• Powers and Principalities
  • The Nameless Emperor
  • The Obelisk
  • Bazma Jyt
  • Izjathuun
  • Bah-Eth the Nightbearer
• Religion, Alignments, and Miracles
• Cosmology
  • Yn
  • Elemental Realms
    • the Living Flame
    • the Frozen Maze
    • the Realm of Air and Darkness
• Literary Works
  • the Voyny Trekh Ostoshaniya, an Ogren oral epic
  • The Penitent Man
• Artifacts and Devices of Power
  • the Silent Fountain
  • the Chainshatter Staff
  • the Blade of the Warden

Character Pages

• Art Denson
• Ricros Silverkin
• Th'resh
• Lord Orilar and Sergeant Meecham
• Willow Bitterspring
• Grothnir and Bear
• Groxat

NPCs

Contacts

• Sebastian Sixfingers, antiquarian fence
• Creel Avet, Imperial Second Seeker

Groups

• The Resistance, comprised of many sub-groups, unified by hatred for the Obelisk
• Lapshin Clan, a nomadic ogre tribe of the south
• Khodok Clan, an ogre tribe that travels between Shasahat and the Bordermarch
• Dustwatchers
• The Eastern Horde
• the Chainshatter cult

Encountered

• Elesha Spiret, resistance member
• Algrash Lightfinger, petty thief
• Corbin the Wall, resistance leader
• the Tatterdemalion, enigma
• Uldric Wintersage, scholar and hedge-wizard
• Silverhand, shapeshifter and resistance member
• Byron Gladhammer, dwarven mercenary captain
• Rada vost Richter, notary of Ostnetherine
• the Impresario, collector of classic literature, manager of the Shadow Cast, and dragon
• Jenrakasandi, salamander warden of the Netherine Titan
• Odrak the Cleaver, orcish blacksmith in Padlan's Ferry
• Verturan, a broken robot
• Finneas Step, an extremely grizzled hunter

Deceased

• Luthtor the Drunk, vault-keeper
• Nethoris Skybane, lich
• Telerad Hallow, Ostpadash gang-leader

Historical

• Bomor os’Fliegan, mid-Imperial heretical scholar
• Ester, the Baroness Verdant of Pinnacle, last of the pre-Imperial aristocracy
• the Thousand-Eyes King
• Kilpuuk the Destroyer, possesses a sad tail

Locations

• Istagat: South-easternmost region of the continent. Swampy and humid.
  • Cities: Rom, ...
  • Neighboring Regions: Padash (W), ...
  • Of Note: Evangeline
• Padash: Southern temperate region with an inland sea, large river, and many fertile flood plains. Bordered by mountain ranges on most sides.
  • Cities: Ostpadash, ...
  • Neighboring Regions: Istagat (E), Shasahat (NE), ...
  • Of Note: Pinnacle Gyre, the Red Conservatory
• Shasahat: Large arid region. Much of the southern part is covered by the inhospitable Shasahat Desert; the inner region is civilized and prosperous.
  • Cities: Ostnetherine, Tahlforks, ...
  • Neighboring Regions: Istagat (SW), Bordermarch (N), ...
• Bordermarch: Dry, well-populated temperate region.
  • Cities: Padlin's Ferry, ...
  • Neighboring Regions: Shasahat (S), Fimbulwood (N), the Northern Catacombs (down), ...
• Fimbulwood: Uncivilized and heavily forested temperate region populated by exceptionally dangerous wildlife.
  • Neighboring Regions: Bordermarch (S), ...

Unknown/Historical

• The Alatahl Historical Academy
• Telewyn

Theme

• We are not the good guys

Reading List

• The God in the Bowl