June 16, 2007
Magic. It’s a source of stress for me, speaking as a world-builder. One half of me longs to completely revamp the existing rules, while the more cautious half is unwilling to sacrifice the players’ sense of familiarity with the standard magic system. What to do, what to do?
Compromise is inevitable.
June 11, 2007
“Secret” and/or clandestine organizations are the meat n’ taters of any decent setting. What follows is a (by no means complete) list of such operations found in the Rúksea Region. The existence of these particular groups is common knowledge to any peasant who ever spent time gossiping in a tavern… Which is to say, just about every peasant. (They’re a bunch of drunkards.)
June 10, 2007
Tansimir [tan-zih-meer]
June 9, 2007
Mortháyin [morth-eye-in]
June 9, 2007
Note on the Time Line: “BR” is short for Baron’s Roll of Years. Baron Mogue (427-522 BR) was a renowned Dyath historian and scholar.
June 8, 2007
The Rúksea is like a great bowl with a chip on its western side where its water flows into the vast and treacherous Outer Ocean. Storms are common here. The Parse-speakers have a word for when the lightning dances on the water: urukë. Only addled men regard the Sea without fear.
June 8, 2007
In Lands of Yore the category people replaces race. All Player Characters are humans of one sort or another. Creatures like elves and halflings are unheard of — which is not to say that those sorts of things categorically do not exist. They’re just unknown in the region of the world where our story begins. Dwarfs (as opposed to dwarves), on the other hand, figure into the local mythology. They’re believed to be an extinct elder race, perhaps a deformed cousin of giantkind.
When we use the term “peoples” we’re talking about the various groups which make up mankind. The following list does not cover all the world’s peoples — only those found in the Rúksea Region. This is a brief introduction. Each group will be covered in depth elsewhere.
June 8, 2007
Dyánmir [dee-yahn-meer]
