A secret goblin city is rumored to exist within the Deepwood, and shrouded within the forest’s mists are all manner of faerie creatures such as the mysterious Cadhannwn, a great cat that never makes a sound and can vanish into thin air.
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The Oreiad of the High Empire, Pt. 5 – Our Lady of Coldhearth and the Lyang Liutan Coven
Many Oreiad, pious and Manshrioi alike, died when the Dragonlord scoured the peaks, now controlled by the Dragonscarred of Godsreach, referred to by the Oreiad as the Wu Tzuzhou, or Witchcursed, for mastery of the Dragon of the Moon. But thousands more died trekking south as they fled the accursed region in search of a …
The Oreiad of the High Empire, Pt. 4 – The Shi Cei Qoji of the Salt Crags
Atop the sheer cliffs that rise dramatically from the western shores beneath the Savage Sea, looming over the King of the Coin’s quaint nation of traders and sellswords, the Shi Cei Qoji Coven reigns with a dramatically iron grip in the name of their Empress. Called the Stonecutters by the Dragonscarred below, the Shi Cei …
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The Oreiad of the High Empire, Pt. 1 – Tyr Rin Zho, the Frozen Heart of the Oreiad Empire
Statuesque and cold, the Oreiad are an aloof people of a vast, ancient empire established in the frigid tundras of northern Ticonderos and spanning across the peaks and ridgelines of the continent’s imposing mountain ranges. They consider themselves above the petty squabbles of the Dragonscarred and have relatively little to no interaction with, and thus …
Dragonscarred of Ticonderos, Pt. 6 – Alo Pagtria, the Sovereign City-States of the Southern Desert
In the far south, beyond the reach of Ticonderos’ tallest, most treacherous mountains, lies the mysterious and scorching heat of the Kingdom of the Alo Pagtria. United by faith, by tradition, by loss, by perseverance and power of will, three once-independent city-states are now ruled by a fourth Sovereign State providing order, security, and prosperity …
Dragonscarred of Ticonderos, Pt. 5.5 – A Brief (ish) History of the Native Peoples of Ticonderos and the Founding of the Alo Pagtria.
Rallied together by millennia of tradition that had been trampled for centuries not only by the Dragonlord but other conquerors before him, the Alo Pagtria, a term that is used both to refer to the desert city-states in general but also to their people, redefined themselves in the spiritual iconography and heart of their native …
Dragonscarred of Ticonderos, Pt. 5 – Thanolund, the Kingdom of God atop a Cursed Mountain
Ticonderos is dominated by a range of perilous mountains that carve their way out of the northern tundras and stretch all the way into the southern desert, their huge, unforgiving crags reaching their claws near to every coastline on the continent. As such, precious little area is left for forests, plains, savannahs, or other more …
Dragonscarred of Ticonderos, Pt. 4 – Zelos, the Kingdom of the Western Coast
A flourishing, wealthy country of booming trade, daring seacaptains, and mighty warriors, Zelos is ruled by Celdas Celafir, the shrewd and daunting King of the Coin, from his hilltop fortress, Khodashmindas, overlooking the bustling mining city of Alacasba. Zelos is the source of the most widely accepted currency on Ticonderos and is easily the most …
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The Dragonscarred of Ticonderos, Pt. 2 – Kingspeace, the Tattered Heart of a Crumbling Continent
All of the territory south of the arctic regions of the Ice-Heart Empress and Peltast’s Kingdom are referred to collectively by the northern humans and Oreiad alike as “The South,” but the Dragonscarred that dwell there subdivide those lands. There the humans refer to the dry bluffs and vast desert south of the High Mountains …
The Dragonscarred of Ticonderos, Pt. 1 – Elnard, Kingdom of the Northwest Tundra
Scattered human realms, recently independent from a tyrant, warring, politicking, and backstabbing one another for control of six powerful dragon scales. In the years after the Dragonlord’s defeat, the Dragonscarred have reconsolidated power a handful of times as wars of military might as well as political and even religious ideology continued to scorch the earth …
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