Sunset over Ocem NWN Wiki

***Sunset over Ocem is a persistent world for Neverwinter Nights EE set in a custom setting themed around an ancient, world-spanning empire struggling against an era of decline – beset by threats both foreign and internal, as well as the resurgence of magic considered sinful by the dominant religion of the region. For most part, the setting is based around the Kahnwold, a resource-rich northern border province far from the imperial seat of Great Ocem.***

**The server currently has a level cap of 10.**

Connect at: `**ocem.online**`

Map:Kahnwold

*"Conquered five hundred years ago (somewhere in year 5972), Kahnwold has remained the northern-most border of the Ocemi Empire, whose Legions were never able to conquer further north. It is a region rich in fertile soil and quality lumber, but the true prize for the Empire is the reserves of adamantine (one of the most valuable practical minerals) found in the foothills near the coast. The Empire constructed the fort town of Rorcharos (later named Roeswerp by the locals) near it to ensure that the engineers, soldiers, labourers and administrators involved in the running of the mine had a place to stay and work within easy access of the hills, and further developed the existing settlement of Kahnstadt to the north, which became the economic and political capital of the region whilst the Ocemi spread the state religion, folding much of the local peoples into their empire and decimating their ancient, pre-imperial identities.*

*It was from Kahnstadt that the challenge to the Ocem Empire’s authority first came ( around year 6483). Franz Essler, the patriarch of the wealthy Essler merchant family, fomented a republican movement to win independence from the Ocemi Empire, believing that the future of the province - which was growing increasingly wealthy - was as an independent mercantile power. Some believe that Essler's true goals were to twist the senate's arm into raising him to the prestigious office of provincial governer, a position long coveted by the Esslers - though this is generally considered a piece of Ocemi propaganda. Funded by the vast wealth of a conglomerate of merchant guilds, Franz raised an briefly army which seized control of Kahnstadt. Unwilling to risk their interests in the region, the Empire reinforced their position around Roeswerp and awaited the arrival of both diplomats and soldiers, eager to quickly bring the Kahnwold into order either by the silken glove or the iron gauntlet.*

*Before the Ocemi and Essler's republicans could clash, a third power entered the conflict, coming down from the frigid lands of Nowak to the north. The squabbling princes of that impoverished region had briefly united, seeing the Ocemi's weakness in the Kahnwold as an opportunity to capture the rich, fertile lands below their mountains. Nowak’s forces - numerous but disorganised - pressed forward and encircled the provinicial capital of Kahnstadt, resulting in a long and bitter siege known as the Kahnstadt Cauldron. The so-called revolutionary army was hard pressed and forced into a defensive position, with Kahnstadt and much of the outlying hamlets under their control falling into ruin under constant Nowaken raids. With desperation setting in and with his city on the brink of falling, Essler accepted the Ocemi Empire's terms. Shortly afterwards, the war hero Sergios Vascas was dispatched with a host of legionaries by the personal order of Niketas Vitelli XIV with orders to scatter the Nowaken invaders and bring the surviving republicans to heel.*

*According to the Concerned Citizens and their their leader Harri Stellwagen, then one of Essler's lieutenants, Essler was said to have fallen during this time, heroically leading a breakthrough against the encirclement. For some months, a bloody stalemate ensued, with allied and Nowaken forces clashing from district to district at a terrible cost. This was eventually broken, but not by either side's valour -- unbeknownst to those fighting over what now remained of Kahnstadt, Faucreaux's gates had been mysteriously thrown open, allowing a great orcish army now known as the Bloodmarch to rampage through Nowak and into the rear of the Nowaken enirclement.*

*When the smoke cleared, the city was a ruin and Nowak had all but collapsed as a nation, their great army crushed between the anvil of the Kahnwold's forces and the hammer of the orcs, who were in turn thrown back from some portions of the once-great city and settled the cathedral and the neaby steppe.*

*Bloodied and worn to the bone, Vascas called for a retreat to Roeswerp to rearm and regroup -- then thought to be a temporary measure, for the retaking of Kahnstadt might have been trivial for the Ocemi Legions, before the disaster at Velik.*

*Vascas was joined by some remnants of the Kahnstadt Trade Company's republican army, who reformed into the Roeswerp Merchant's Guild and ostensibly buried their ambitions. The rest stayed in the smoking ruins, forming a private militia known as the Concerned Citizens under the direct control of Stellwagen, who remain the dominant power in Kahnstadt and can be considered the de-facto government of the so-called free city.*

*In recent times, Kahnstadt has been largely abandoned after the dark, pagan magicks of the druids of the Solstice claimed the ruins and destroyed what little remained, using the infamous pirate lord Janer Gull as their patsy. While a few camps of survivors remain, clinging to a lost hope, the majority of Kahnstadt's survivors have moved for Roeswerp's Chines ... or worse yet, the Underducts below."*

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