Winterscale’s Realm

“It is a place of graves and grinning skulls. Its wealth is its curse on all who seek it, for who could not look upon such wealth and not think to spill his brother’ s blood to possess it all?”
–Vilius Hope, voidsman
Winterscale's Realm is one of the most explored and
exploited regions, and one that has delivered both
fabulous riches and early death for the unwary in
equal measure. Winterscale’s Realm is a region defined by the
stars explored and charted by Sebastian Winterscale in the
early centuries of the 41st millennium. It is composed of a few
coveted worlds sitting like islands amongst the darkness of the
unknown. Rogue Traders have traversed the Realm’s breadth
a hundred times, but even so, its farther reaches and troubled
warp regions remain unmapped. Though only a handful of
worlds within Winterscale’s Realm have been even partially
explored, these have proven to be fat with riches and treasures.
It has lured those whose goal is only wealth, and has become
a battleground between rivals for its bounty. Gems, precious
minerals, exotic death world beasts, xenos artefacts, and
many more rarities have poured into select coffers of
merchant cartels and noble backers in the Calixis Sector and beyond, thanks in no small part to
the Winterscale Realm’s tireless explorers.
==The Thousand Charts==
Winterscale’s’ Realm is named for the Rogue Trader Sebastian
Winterscale who first explored and charted many of its stars.
Those who venture into Winterscale’s Realm do so in the
main because of the legendary wealth it is said to harbor, but
also because it is one of the most haphazardly charted regions
of the Koronus Expanse. There are many Navigator clans who
hold many more charts of Winterscale’s Realm; most such
records agree in part, though some are wildly divergent. The
few points of agreement between these charts thus indicate
the worlds, stars, and warp routes that are generally agreed to
exist, at least insofar as the explorers of the Koronus Expanse
are concerned. The other charts are considered to be flights of
fantasy, and their navigational data to be nothing more than a
vile trap to lure and destroy the foolhardy. Many believe that
the reason for the profusion of misleading and contradictory
charts of Winterscale’s Realm is simply a by-product of several
centuries of Rogue Trader activity. But a few whisper in the
obscura dens of Port Wander that all such charts are true, and
if combined using the correct cipher, they would reveal the
true extent of Sebastian Winterscale’s exploits and the hidden
riches of his realm.
==Blood and False Gold==
The proximity of Winterscale’s Realm to the Koronus Passage, the tales of its wealth, and the relative abundance of navigational charts---albeit of dubious accuracy---mean that
explorers and merchant concerns and renegades are drawn to
it, willing to fight for fortunes that might be no more than
fancy. Winterscale’s Realm is soaked in the blood of rival
claimants to worlds and resources, and every glittering prize
carried back into Calixis Sector has to be bought in death and
slaughter from those others who would claim it. Weaker Rogue
Traders, fearful of greater risks, may come to Winterscale’s
realm hoping to grow slowly wealthy from its resources while
remaining close to the light of Imperial domains. Any who
does not come armed and prepared for battle, however, is a
fool who will not see the lights of Port Wander again. The
graves of the naïve, arrogant, and unlucky litter the stars of
Winterscale’s Realm and offer mute testament to this untamed
cauldron of death and greed.
==Planets==
*Egarian Dominion
**Egaria Alpha
**Egaria Gamma
**Egaria Epsilon
**Egaria Omega
*Jerazol
*Lucin’s Breath
*Maleziel
*Forgotten Twins
*Langrenn's Belt
*Nameless Star
*Palatium Stellos
*Vesuvia Secundus
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