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Spires of Aeldrum/Side Story: War Games

Korinth was a fairly brutal campaign: the final tally is 30,000 Aeldrum Dragoons killed or wounded beyond hope of recovery and 60,000 Parliamentary guard killed or maimed, with a further 30,000 lost ATC auxiliaries and the loss of some 6,000 Parliamentary and 2,000 ATC air and ethermen. Total casualties are thus 8,000 air/ether and 120,000 ground from Korinth alone, with perhaps 10-20% more lost in mop ups and elsewhere. That means that, counting the Dragoons' "reserve" division on Aeldrum, they've lost about a quarter of their fighting force, and the Guard has lost about 15% of its active force. The Dragoons took by far the worst of the casualties, proportionally.

Sigvald's fresh cannon fodder gives Aeldrum 200,000 men to feed into the enemy's guns. The Shantine Emperor has committed to raise 500,000 men. The Alusians are raising another 300,000 for the Front. But so far Aeldrum is bearing the worst of the fighting by far, in both blood and treasure.

The Fialta are almost certainly preparing a counter-offensive. Where they'll hit, however, is an open question. They could try to keep grinding you on Korinth, or to hit one of the "platform" worlds off the Korinth route that gives you a launchpoint into the Fialta Empire. They might also try going around Korinth to hit the Shantine or the Alusians. Korinth, though symbolic to the Shantine and of major strategic value, is not a particularly productive world, and the Fialta may decide to let Aeldrum have it and essentially pin their forces there.

If they can overwhelm the Coalition elsewhere (Aeldrum can also expect another 50,000 or so partisan volunteers to join up with the Coalition armies in Korinth and its hinterworlds), the Fialta have a million men at least in striking distance of the Korinth front and can keep bringing in more. With the Shantine and the Alusians on Aeldrum's side, the numbers look better and better for a matchup. But Aeldrum is still going to have to take the lead on major offensives and also to keep track of its allies to make sure they don't get taken out of the war by a lucky Fialta strike.

The problem is the same as before. Aeldrum has superior ships and commanders, but cannot spend limited ground troops idly on every little engagement, for that is how the Fialta will wear them down. They've bought time with the Nippon States to keep them out of the war, but that may be only temporary. A major opportunity is still available to open up new fronts against the Fialta, drawing their men away. The best candidates are the Thalranese Marches lords and the Orcish Directorate (but of course the Marcher Lords and the Directorate hate each other bitterly).
Tiberius III

**Despot Tiberius III** (In full, His Grace Tiberius Samnus kast Alusia, Emperor of Alusia and Prince-Governor of the Reillan Union) was the Despot of Alusia during the First Coalition War. He originally took the throne in 352 A.U. He was the first Alusian Emperor, having declared the Empire following his victory in the Coalition War.

Tiberius instituted numerous reforms in the time after the Empire was declared, most of them revolving around the administrative state. It was he who formalized the Alusian rank system around the single title of Dikast/Dikcer, and forged the already strong bureaucratic state that had been the bedrock of their war effort into a truly cosmic-class institution.
The Tea Cake Girl

*See also: Teacakes*

## [Name Unknown]

**The Tea Cake Girl** was an employee of the Trans-Alpine Express who was flayed by Ico the Skinchanger during The Trans-Alpine Express (One-Shot).

## Personality

*This section is incomplete. You can help The Aeldrum Wiki by expanding it*.

## History

*This section is incomplete. You can help The Aeldrum Wiki by expanding it*.

*Main article: The Trans-Alpine Express (One-Shot)*
Reform Party

The **Reform Party** was a political party in the Serene Duchy of Aeldrum, active in the late 300s A.U. and led in 395 A.U. by Walton Sierman.

## Party Policy

* **Foreign Policy**: Interventionist
* **Economic Policy**: Mercantilist (the Duchy protects Guilds, ATC, Plantations etc.)
* **Political Connections**: Caucuses with the Vanguard Party and League of Sovereign Cities, Linked to the Lidenia Political Machine

## Constituency

* **Social Constituency**: Genteel
* **Planetary Constituency**: Aeldrum and Core Worlds

In 395 A.U., the Reform Party held 63 Parlimentary votes; 5 votes from Aeldrum, 58 votes from Core and Colony worlds.
The Fugitive

## [Name Unknown]

**The Fugitive**, originally known as **The Broker**, is a minor god and former angel of Othal.

## History

### Pantheon War

*Main article: The Pantheon War One-Shot Series*
The Fugitive was once in the service of Shantara, and played a triple game stealing and bartering lore for Adalna, Shantara, and Othal. The Fugitive’s subterfuge was discovered and disclosed by the Rainbow Serpent, and they were forced to spend the latter Pantheon War in constant flight from the vengeful agents of the gods they had wronged. The Fugitive was ultimately captured and bound in a prison-bier by the power of Valdos on behalf of the two Pentacle gods they had wronged.

### Modern Era

The Fugitive was extracted an eternity later by Dion de Turenne, Mimir's chief agent in Naga Space, and taken to Castle Lidenia, where the Fugitive parleyed ancient knowledge into refuge. This agreement lasted through the succession to the Lidenian throne of Count Solaire, but was cut short during the Grand Strategy era when a Knights Mercantile infiltration effort led to the imprisonment of a possessed KM operative at Castle Lidenia; the Fugitive assisted the interrogation, awakening the King in Yellow (an Othali servant) lurking in the prisoner. The King in Yellow burst from its host and dragged the Fugitive screaming into abysms known only to Othal.
Two-Weapon Fighting

***NOTICE: This article deals with game mechanics rather than with Aeldrum lore. More complete and up-to-date documentation of game mechanics and rulesets can be found here.***

Characters that take the **Two-Weapon Fighting** Special Ability are granted the following effect: Can fight and attack with a weapon in each hand. Rolls two separate attacks.

## Prerequisites

Two-Weapon Fighting requires that the character have at least two hands.

## Recommendations

Consider spec-ing into the Bruiser and Gunner builds. Combos extremely well with Cleave.

## Characters

*This section is incomplete. You can help The Aeldrum Wiki by expanding it*.

List of characters with this ability:

* Luigi G. Alberghi
The Pirate Captain

## [Name Unknown]

**The Pirate Captain** was one of the members of the First Knights Mercantile Expedition to the Taino Basin on Sierna. After ordering the expedition's cannon crew to open fire on the first native village the party encountered, he was shot down by an arrow fired by one of the angry locals.

## Personality

*This section is incomplete. You can help The Aeldrum Wiki by expanding it*.

## History

*This section is incomplete. You can help The Aeldrum Wiki by expanding it*.

*Main article: The Abortive Expedition Campaign*
The Man and the Dwarf

## [Names Unknown]

**The Man and the Dwarf** were two agents of the Cult of the Unnamed who were involved in The Black Pyramid Incident on A11. They both bore marks of Elder Script on their skin, and were capable of regenerating their bodies (even after having been seemingly killed by Marcel Rey).

## Personality

*This section is incomplete. You can help The Aeldrum Wiki by expanding it*.

## History

*This section is incomplete. You can help The Aeldrum Wiki by expanding it*.

*Main article: The Black Pyramid Campaign*
The Offering

**The Offering** was an abomination of Eldritch magic created by the Knights of Adarnum on Aeldrum using rituals re-purposed from cultists of Othal, Lord of Secrets. The Offering was a flesh golem crafted from several carefully selected and "purified" human specimens and used to contain a summoned Angel ofKirva. The angel, trapped in its prison of flesh, soon went mad and was kept bound by the Knights of Adarnum in large part so that it would not return to Kirva and bring divine wrath upon them.
Tom O'Leery

## Basic Information

### Relations

* Brigid O'Leery (wife)
* Gordon Lloyd Flashpan
* Dendra

## Alignment

### Ending

Pragmatic Good By Association

**Tom O'Leery** was a member of the CLAIN during the Irish War of Independence.

## Personality

*This section is incomplete. You can help The Aeldrum Wiki by expanding it*.

## History

*This section is incomplete. You can help The Aeldrum Wiki by expanding it*.

*Main article: The Irish Campaign*
The Mafia Campaign

*Not to be confused with The Gangsters Campaign.*

**The Mafia Campaign** took place on Genova in 335 A.U., and centers around mafioso Luigi G. Alberghi's rise through the Urbino Crime Family. It is referred to in-universe as the Second Genoan Revolution.

## Summary

*This section is incomplete. You can help The Aeldrum Wiki by expanding it*.

An internal dispute among the mafia in Genoa following the assassination of several key mafia figures erupts into a full blown revolution. Led by the ambitious Luigi G. Albergi, a mob of angry Genoans, alongside a band of Yakuza and the remaining Geonoan mafiosos, stormed the city treasury, murdered every government official they could get their hands on, and convinced the government's mercenary companies to leave the city.
Timely Walnuts

**Timely Walnuts** was the true name[*CONFIRM*] of a human who was recruited into the expedition to recover Garrel the Automaton while it was resting at the manor of [I forget his name].

## Personality

*This section is incomplete. You can help The Aeldrum Wiki by expanding it*.

## History

*This section is incomplete. You can help The Aeldrum Wiki by expanding it*.

*Main article: The Shambler Campaign*
The Quartermaster (Aztlan Campaign)

## [Name Unknown]

**The Quartermaster** was one of the secretive legendary Quartermasters, highest-ranking members of the Knights Mercantile, who was called to Sierna to assist with the Third Knights Mercantile Expedition to the Taino Basin.

## Personality

*This section is incomplete. You can help The Aeldrum Wiki by expanding it*.

## History

*This section is incomplete. You can help The Aeldrum Wiki by expanding it*.

*Main article: The Aztlan Campaign*
Tarrg

**Tarrg** is a crude alcoholic beverage derived from fish oil. In its pure unadulterated form, it is only slightly more liquid than puddling. "Like refridgerated turkey gravy, with the dark amber hue of fish-oil pills."

## History

On Koral during the Interregnum period, tarrg was popular in coastal towns and especially among local Sea Cults. The Cult of the Tides was known for its salted tarrg, a variety of tarrg made by mixing tarrg with seawater.
Treaty of Ahlam

The **Treaty of Ahlam** was signed on Ahlam in 454 A.U., ending the Alusian-Shantine War. The treaty resulted in a third of the Empire of Alusia being partitioned among the Shantine Empire and Fialta Imperium, and confirmed the territorial partitioning of the Fialta Confederacy/Fialta Union among the Fialta Imperium, Thalranese Marches and newly formed nation of Istomir.

## Background

In 454 A.U. the war was not going well for the Empire of Alusia. The Shantine Empire had control of Ahlam and Lechtus, and the Thalranese Marches had control of Firhbank and most of the Fialta Union. The Treaty of Ahlam was imposed by the Shantine Empire, Serene Duchy of Aeldrum, and Fialta Imperium as a tripartite resolution to end the war.

## Summary

### Regime Change

The treaty demanded the abdication of Empress Illyana of Alusia, with her successor required to be approved by Aeldrum.

Illyana abdicated, not in favor of Bishop Melchior of Reilla as anticipated, but for one of Alusia's most senior surviving generals, Alekai Chevik. Emperor Chevik followed his accession with the appointment of Nikki Yevozh, the successor to the late chief of the State Department Lavrency Beriak, as his heir. Neither the emperor nor the crown princess were related to the Alusian Royal House by blood or marriage, instead following a largely untested policy of adult adoption.

### Territorial Concessions

The Shantine Empire received Ahlam, Lechtus, and their hinterworlds, while the Fialta Imperium received Del'Mar and its hinterworlds. The two powers agreed to freedom of movement and resettlement for the Pentacle and Kirvan worshippers in the conquered territories, following the Zanevuela model from the end of the Second Coalition War.

With the signing of the treaty, the Shantine Empire was restored to its maximum extent of power since the 2nd century A.U. Only Hybern and its hinterworlds were among the territories held by the Shantine in definite recorded history that remained outside of Empress Theoboda's rule.

### Economic Agreements

Under the treaty, the Bank of Valdos received limited new investment rights in the Shantine Empire. The treaty also saw Aeldrum and Alusia pursue economic integration, with Bank of Valdos investments to be protected in-country. The signatories also agreed to economic controls for a managed drawdown of military spending to ensure cosmic economic stability.
The God of Mirrors

The **God of Mirrors** is an obscure elvish god worshipped by the Mirror Enclaves. Possibly a projection of the Elvish Triad, it is said that elves in strange and dark places of the cosmos who do not fall to worshiping Kalmat or Shantara follow a different god, who seems to have no angels or other direct servants but commands a fanatical loyalty and casts a bizarre mysticism over its followers all the same.

There are three prevailing views of the God of Mirrors -- the first is that it is merely a cosmetic reinterpretation of the Triad by a distant and deluded cult. The second is that the God of Mirrors is a sinister invention (perhaps aspect of) Shantara to subvert the Triad's holy structure. The third, generally preferred by the Cult of the Mirror itself, is that the God of Mirrors is the *true* god of the elves -- an ever-shifting, contradictory avatar of elvenkind, *misinterpreted* by past elven cultures as three different gods. The God of the Mirrors is worshipped almost entirely in Celestial Space, though first spread to Celestial Space through the decades-long ministry of an Imperial-space Enclave Elf, Arindar the Shattered.
The Folds

**The Folds** are a cosmological phenomenon in Celestial Space which permits travel in the aether between points on ley lines 12, 13, and 14 directly without the use of etheric gates. The Folds are located within ten or twenty thousand etheric miles of each of the three gates of the pocket dimension of Volune's Seat.

## History

In the modern era, the Folds are controlled by the Middle Kingdom.
The Thing Beyond The Door

*See also: Methos, the Ascended Mage Prince*

**The Thing Beyond the Door** was an Eldritch being with considerable influence over the history and present condition of the world of Sierna and which at one time had manipulated the Mage Imperial Seer Legate Lamnus. It was first lured to Sierna, which had been a place of power for it, and imprisoned Behind the Door at the Twilight of the Mage Imperium in a political coup by Seer Legate MacDonald and his occultist lackey, Siebern. While nominally a conflict between the Thing's puppet, Lamnus, and MacDonald, the construction of the Door was likely also a move in a much longer game between the Thing and MacDonald's "Friend."

## The Door

The Door itself is made of a strange, otherworldly metal. It reflects and refracts light at impossible angles, making it difficult to focus one's eyes upon. Examination of the frame yields some scant evidence that the door was constructed somehow with the involvement of quicksilver. The room that contains it is itself affected by the door, being pulled in towards it, although each surface is perfectly level when measured. It is housed in The Tower of the Door.

## History

*This section is incomplete. You can help The Aeldrum Wiki by expanding it*.

After the death of MacDonald and the Sundering of the Imperium, the Door was used by Aztlan and Siebern in order to contact the Thing to help Aztlan ascend to the role of High Priest of Xol. Siebern, of course, sought to imprison the Thing for his own purposes, while Aztlan, on realizing the deception, used the last of his own power to imprison It behind the door once again.

Much later, a small group arrived on Sierna and quickly found the Door. The Thing Beyond the Door attempted to influence a member of the group, J. Paul Getty. It gifted him a firearm that drained part of the user's flesh and sanity when fired[*CONFIRM*].
Thefaren

**Thefaren** was a "very French" pilot and wannabe-engineer who formed part of the Outremer party during the The Pirates Campaign. She died (along with the rest of the party) when Captain Moreau's pirate ship was destroyed in 402 A.U.., as she attempted to concuss the crazed crew with a particularly intricate, or perhaps particularly stupid, maneuver into the eddies between massive etheric waves. The ship was split in half and all aboard perished, some (including the pilot) in the immediate explosion and some slowly and painfully in the days and weeks that followed.
The Forgotten World

**The Forgotten World** is the name given to a pocket dimension in Naga Space. It was home to a Black Pyramid.

## Location

The Forgotten World was located in Naga Space a little over two weeks from the Pin-Jump on Ley Line 15, and adjacent to the Kingdom of Veran on Ley Line 16.

## History

### Discovery

The Forgotten World was first encountered by the Knights Mercantile's Deep Ether Expedition into Naga Space in 378 A.U..

### Second Coalition War

During the 5th century A.U., the Black Pyramid at the Forgotten World was used by the Serene Duchy of Aeldrum as a null bomb production site.

In 447 A.U., during the Second Coalition War, the black pyramid and null bomb production facilities were disabled in a raid by the Fialta Imperium.
Translane Navigation

**Translane Navigation** enables spaceships to traverse the aether without being confined to etheric ley lines.

## History

Translane technology was developed in the 5th century A.U., and was first used by the naval fleets of the Second Fialta Imperium during the Second Coalition War. Though translane technology became a more common feature of modern warships over the following century, commerce and domestic travel was still largely restricted to the standard ley line routes.

While translane navigation has been a recent development in Imperial Space, there is some evidence that the Naga have been capable of translane navigation for a long time, possible by making some use of psionics.
The Serene March

***The Serene March*** is the national anthem of the Serene Duchy of Aeldrum.

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In our veins pure elven blood doth flow
Throughout this noble realm
Shipped from Triad lands so long ago
Our ancestors at helm

Drive them out, drive them out, these crawling lesser castes
Rout this former throne of Baradun and Mage Dynast
Seven spires, seven seas of long aetheric road
All to thee, great Manticore, shall heavens be bestowed
All to thee, great Manticore, shall heavens be bestowed
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Tiel'Fialt, Hail!

***Tiel'Fialt, Hail!*** is the national anthem of the Second Fialta Imperium.

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Forward march to worlds long promised
Creased and tattered flags unite
Souls left parched of song and conquest
Feast on shattered spears tonight

Warships sail!
Cowards quail!
Tiel'Fialt, hail!
Tiel'Fialt, hail!

Angels mark, your kin are marching
Vassals humbled by your might
Time looms dark, overarching
Castles crumble overnight

Bloodlines fail!
Kingdoms ail!
Tiel'Fialt, hail!
Tiel'Fialt, hail!
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Trent Callis

**Trent Callis** was an Aeldman official in charge of military recruitment during the mid-400s A.U. One of the earliest adopters of Spiranism, he used his position in the Ursa Media Company to advocated for the Church and stump for his own Industrial Party. He was elected Governor of Harwel in 454 A.U.
Tropes

A (very incomplete) List of Tropes in the Aeldrum Universe

* Irish Racial Trait
* Drink to Avoid: An action/personality trait taken by characters who remain aggressively passive with regards to the plot. Pioneered by Sean.
* Don’t Drink the Bottomless Mimosas: They are surely poisoned.
* A WHOLE GLASS OF ORANGE JUICE?!?!?!: To drink Orange juice, one of the most priceless liquids in the universe, is one of the most lavish signs of wealth imaginable.
* Insatiable Drug Addiction: One of the most common character traits.
* Elves are racist bastards
* If there is an accent of it, the culture exists in space.
* If you're an officer, you are corrupt.
* weird pets
* Orcs are dumber than their INT modifier
* Dying in unusual ways
Tiel'Fialt

## Mithranatus

**Tiel'Fialt**, a dominant figure of the Fialta-Shantine War, was the name that the warlord **Mithranatus** gave himself when he declared himself Emperor in 359 A.U. and established the Second Fialta Imperium. It means "The Resurrected Fialta". He died during the First Coalition War and was succeeded by his grandson, Prince Brucius.
Towelie Tenskwetawa

## "Mr. T" "Towelie" Tenskwetawa

**Towelie Tenskwetawa** was a goblin lawyer and opium addict during The Russian Campaign who later went on to become the Secretary General of the Russian Charter of the Knights Mercantile.

## Personality

*This section is incomplete. You can help The Aeldrum Wiki by expanding it*.

## History

*This section is incomplete. You can help The Aeldrum Wiki by expanding it*.

*Main article: The Russian Campaign*
The Stooge Troika

**The Stooge Troika** was comprised of three members of the Russian Experimental Regiment during The Russian Campaign.

## Personality

*This section is incomplete. You can help The Aeldrum Wiki by expanding it*.

## History

*This section is incomplete. You can help The Aeldrum Wiki by expanding it*.

*Main article: The Russian Campaign*
The Marionette

**The Marionette** was a member of Sigvald's court. They got their moniker from the strings holding their body up to a floating psionic-controlled device.

## Personality

The Marionette was a vindictive, cruel person who delighted in hurting others. They were also very forgetful, to the point where they could not reliably remember their own name and just said the first one that came to mind.

## History

The Marionette tormented Banshee the Blind in their youth, leaving a mutual grudge that never left. One day, when Banshee briefly returned home from a trip into the deep aether, they saw an opportunity to hurt the heir once more. Banshee was to participate in a coliseum duel with a psychic blank.

During this duel, the Marionette, thinking of themself as subtle, occasionally made it harder for Banshee to strike, and easier to be stricken. In the end Banshee still won the fight and Sigvald decided to punish the Marionette. The Marionette struck psionically at their master and attempted to flee the area, but was caught. Sigvald then proceeded to lock themself inside their own mind, with the musical tune that the Marionette used to torment others forever playing.

The Marionette was later killed in a soul-removal experiment conducted by Sigurd the Mundane. Sigurd once mentioned this as a "mercy-killing".
The Skinchanger Campaign

**The Skinchanger Campaign** took place in the city of Hauldt on the planet Videna (also known as Carral). It introduced the Skinchangers.

## Summary

*This section is incomplete. You can help The Aeldrum Wiki by expanding it*.

The campaign followed the adventures of members of the Hauldt branch of the Knights Mercantile on an espionage charter to investigate and eliminate Jacob Parr, the leader of a local gang known as the Freebooters. Upon learning the true identity of their employer (a Skinchanger named Adolphos Knecht who had infiltrated the Knights Mercantile), the party betrayed and attempted to kill Knecht and the other Skinchangers, and were ultimately all killed in the attempt.
The White Pyramid Campaign

**The White Pyramid Campaign** took place in the hinter-regions of Celestial and Naga Space in the late Mage Imperium Era (approx. 250 years before the Sundering). The campaign followed the exploits of a Mage Imperium research expedition charged with discovering a legendary White Pyramid. The party, led by the Reverend Captain Ezekiel Abner and the Adalnan Seer Phaedrus, reached the White Pyramid but never returned. At the White Pyramid, many members of the party transcended their local reality, becoming embodiments of strange or even impossible phenomena.

## Background

The summaries of the White Pyramid Campaign may be found in the following google drive: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yb-zoMZ0E-2Z-O53nBveJwVKXIyxLLaYD30P\_fg-92I/edit?usp=sharing

## Characters

### Important Non-Player Characters

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## Summary

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The Stitch

**The "Stitch"** is a cosmological phenomenon in Celestial Space which permits travel in the aether between points on ley lines 10, 11, and 12 without any pocket dimension or other solid features present.

## History

In the early 500s A.U. the Stitch linked the territories of the Marches of the Ascendancy, Veiled Dominions, and Brass Cities, with the Stitch itself remaining as disputed territory among the three powers.
Trains

The solution to one of the more obvious problems of the steam carriage, **trains** of the Aeldrum setting function much like they do on Earth: as a self contained location for side stories, hijinks, and high adventure. As sleuths from Sherlock Holmes to Hercule Poirot have realized, the train is a great place to both advance the plot (by transporting characters from one location to another) and to have excellent entertainment in the form of the other passengers, the inevitable gambling car, harassing the lady with the dessert cart, and of course the odd scuffle at the bar. Trains are also excellent locations for bandits, communists, and other generally unlawful types to have shootouts with the authorities, usually over something locked in one of the cabins.

## History

*This section is incomplete. You can help The Aeldrum Wiki by expanding it*.

Invented by [BLANK] in [YEAR],.

## Trivia

* Teacakes are served on all trains, usually on carts pushed by old ladies. It is a well known fact that the quality of a train can be judged by its teacakes.
The Inquisition Campaign

*Not to be confused with The Imperial Inquisition.*

An approximate representation of the party

**The Inquisition Campaign** took place in 440 A.U. and involved an effort by the Confederate Inquisition to centralize Confederate power and root out foreign influence in the Fialta Confederacy, specifically on the worlds of Konira and Firhbank.

## Background

In the wake of the Gunboat Wars and the weakening of the Thalranese Marches in the Fialta Confederacy, the Bank of Valdos and the Fialta Imperium are making a grand attempt to reorient the Fialta princes to support an assertive Confederacy with institutions carefully constructed to reaffirm Imperial and especially Valdosian influence. The latest of these institutions is the Confederate Inquisition, a harmonization across many similar organizations raised by the Imperium and various Confederate states: while wary of mass persecution of the Kirvan and Idolmarite faithful in particular due to their common faith with the Shantine and Alusian Empires, the Confederate Council (increasingly dominated by the Valdosians) has seen the limited response to counterterrorism efforts against the most radical sects as a license to extend its activities.

With the Shantine and Alusians increasingly at odds over Alusia’s religious reformism (deemed heretical by many Shantine) and pretensions to Imperial status, and Aeldrum distracted by economic turmoil and agitations for colonial independence, the slow expansion of institutions to reunify the Confederacy under a more central authority is reaching a critical turning point. The success or failure of the Inquisition, and the deft handling of issues of internal and international politics by its agents, may decide the course of Fialta centralization and lay the path for a renewed Imperium or other national standard-bearer.

## Summary

*This section is incomplete. You can help The Aeldrum Wiki by expanding it*.

### On Konira

*See also: Kirvan Abbey Incident on Konira*
*See also: Labor Day Weekend Special Operation*
### On Firhbank

*See also: Inquisition Incident on Firhbank*
The Pantheon War One-Shot Series

*For the historical event, see The Pantheon War.*

**Legends of the Pantheon War** (aka Songs of the Pantheon War) was a One-Shot series that described vignettes of The Pantheon War, including the origins of the Idolmarite presence in the Irish boglands embodied by Finn MacCool and Shantara's betrayal of the Elvish Triad. Two new characters, the Fugitive and the Rainbow Serpent, emerged from series and carried into the modern era.

## Summary

*This section is incomplete. You can help The Aeldrum Wiki by expanding it*.
The Fialta-Shantine One-Shot Series

**The Fialta-Shantine One-Shot Series** was a series of One-Shots that took place during the Fialta-Shantine War.

## Session 1 - Trench Assault

### Summary

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## Sessions 2&3 - Blockade Runner

### Summary

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## Session 4 - Skirmish at the Pass

### Summary

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## Session 5 - Battle of Zanevuela

### Summary

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## Session 6 - Hostage Exchange

### Summary

During this mission, Frederick, a ferry-man local to Milgar, reported having traded passage with the team in exchange for treatment of his gangrenous leg. After Gordon Ramses damaged the ferry, the deal was quickly changed to covering the cost of the damages instead. Unfortunately, after a depth charge detonated next to the ferry, Frederick lost his leg anyway.

## Session 7 - The Korinth Gate

### Players and Their Characters

 Katya "Agent Purple" Morovin | Tom | Nipponese agent

### Summary

It's been five long years since the beginning of the brutal Fialta-Shantine War, and the party will be a crack squad fighting for the Fialta in what could be a deciding battle of the war. The backdrop to the session is the siege of the gate-city of Korinth, one of the vital arteries of the inner core of The Shantine Empire; the events of The Battle of Zanevuela and The Station Adventure (among others) have meant enormous gains for the Fialta warfleets. If Korinth falls, a second route opens for besieging the capital-world of Bishant itself, and the last safe corridor for supporting the protectorates is lost.

Using the expertise of Herman Mueller, you will force you way into the catacombs of the Basilica of Zaevron, thereby opening a route for sappers to infiltrate past the curtain wall of the upper city of Korinth and seize the gate. As always, secret motivations apply.
The Unnamed

**The Unnamed** is an unknown, perhaps unknowable entity (or entities, or a force) that lies behind the skeins of reality and can interact with the cosmos as we know it by "tapping" against regions of very low etheric energy (null space). The Unnamed's goals, if any, are inscrutable, but its influence causes (is?) madness and horror.

## History

### The Pantheon War

*Main article: The Pantheon War*
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It is plausible that The Unnamed swallowed the Great Pantheon god Baradun during the events of the Pantheon War.

### Post-Partition

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It is also plausible that The Unnamed consumed Adalna before the twilight of the Mage Imperium.
Tissa Bachelier

## Eva "Tissa" Bachelier

**Eva "Tissa" Bachelier** was Serene Duchy of Aeldrum's Minister of Finance during the mid-400s A.U.

## History

*Main article: The Grand Strategy Campaign*
Tissa Bachelier came from a middle-class human family on Aeldrum, and built her fortune on an unusual "Cosmic Theory" of market behavior. She was an early convert to the Church of the Spires, and was a close personal friend of the Aeldman politician and influential Spiran Abdul Al'Hazred.

In 451 A.U., Bachelier was appointed as Aeldrum's Deputy Minister of Finance, working under Finance Minister Manuel Emiir. She succeeded Emiir as Minister of Finance in 452 A.U. after Emiir's election to Serene Doge. While in the Finance Ministry, Bachelier developed the "Bachelier Doctrine", an Aeldman economic policy of subsidized foreign investment.
The Partition

**The Pantheon Wars**
"**... when at last the Gods ceased their interminable warring, there was little left of the beauty in the Cosmos that they had built. The bright palaces of Kirva were reduced to somber catacombs, the imposing fortresses of Thalran had each been breached and broken, and the gardens of Idolmar and Shantara had withered to twisted wastelands. Even the carefully kept Libraries of our beloved Adalna had been pillaged and burned. The Gods looked upon their works and wept, each in their own way, for the pride that had caused this ruin and despair.*

It was then that Valdos, himself on the verge of annihilation, suggested that the Gods bind their powers together, so that their dominion could be rebuilt..."*
 — Encyclopedia Imperia, 1st Edition

**The Partition** was the result of The Pantheon War. It rewrote the rules of reality to prevent Gods from manifesting themselves directly in the "mortal" plane and imposed strict, cyclical limitations on the manifestation of angels. These measures were taken to prevent the devastating escalation tactics of the Pantheon War while still allowing the Gods of the Great Pantheon to influence their former territorial holdings. "Loopholes" in the Partition have been used by mortal summoners and gods alike to insinuate divine power back into the mortal cosmos.
Tomas

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**Tomas** may refer to:

* Tomas Melchett, the Hybern Sector's Minister of Technology during the late Mage Imperium
* Tomas (The Russian Campaign), a human involved in the events of The Russian Campaign
Tiello

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**Tiello** may refer to:

* Admiral Faisal Tiello, a naval officer during the late Mage Imperium
* Juna Tiello, daughter of Faisal Tiello and wife of Raolf Semokku
* Tiello "Brick" Augustine, Doge of Estonne during the First Coalition War
The Mechanical Crab

**The Mechanical Crab** is a recurring and entirely accidental witness to many key historical events.

## History

It was first rescued from obscurity among countless other automata as a collector's piece and curiosity in the possession of Edward Apslund, a former officer of the Aeldrum Trade Company turned agent of the Academy of Saldan. While in Apslund's possession, the crab appeared to act with a malign intelligence all its own, displaying a peculiar loyalty to its owner; it was abandoned by Apslund at the behest of an orcish boat captain who would not otherwise grant him passage along the rivers of the Shambler-infested city of Vinize.

The Mechanical Crab passed into the vaults of Saldan along with Garrel the Automaton, but it reappeared in the events of The Heist Campaign in the possession of a retired Knight Mercantile, Fenton Covey, with strong connections to the Academy. When a band of Knights Mercantile operatives working for Dr. Hans Schulz and Frederick Hopkins raided Covey's mansion for information leading to the Codex Exilium, they discovered the crab in Covey's basement, and it was swiftly adopted by the halfling Hov. The crab accompanied Hov during the latter's participation in the events of the Saldanese Heist; Hov's increasingly deteriorating mental state at this time led him to believe that the Crab was speaking to him, and he followed its violent instructions until it abandoned him in the depths of the Vaults of Saldan.

A generation later, the Crab was in the possession of Royce Poindexter, a stellar graduate of the Academy who may have received the piece as a gesture to his wealthy father, Rhodes Poindexter. The crab remained in Royce's possession for many years, a treasured piece of autonomous machinery in the collection of the so-called "Drone Baron." Eventually it came into the possession of Mimir, who currently keeps it in his Museum.
The Lawyer

## [Name Unknown]

**The Lawyer** was one of the members of the First Knights Mercantile Expedition to the Taino Basin on Sierna. After the expedition's cannon crew opened fire on a native village, he was captured and eaten by the angry locals.

## Personality

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## History

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Treaty of Volune's Gate

The **Treaty of Volune's Gate** was signed in 452 A.U., ending the Great Celestial War.

## Description

The treaty was signed by the major powers of Celestial Space, and while it involved no territorial concessions it did restrict trade between Celestial and Imperial Space to only the corridor controlled by the Nippon States and New Celestial Confederacy. The treaty also defined Celestial Space officially, excluding the Brass Cities from the region.

The treaty granted patrol rights to the Nipponese and the Serene Duchy of Aeldrum in regions deemed to be at high risk of smuggling or other violations of the Celestial Trade Concordat, and saw the Fialta Imperium recede from the Celestial forefront by dictating an Aeldman hegemony.
Tower of the Door

The **Tower of the Door** is where the door that locks away The Thing Beyond the Door is housed. It is located on Sierna.

## Description

The Tower is located in the middle of the forest. Long neglected, there is no path leading to it and the building is slowly falling to ruin. An otherworldly force clearly makes its presence known when approached, as nothing grows within a 50-meter radius of the building. It is sometimes guarded by a fleshy monster.

The interior was originally designed to hide a secret basement level, now revealed as the floor above it crumbles. The rest of the building is rather plan — just a simple tower with stairs that rise to the top[*CONFIRM*].

From the journals of a member of a Knights Mercantile expedition to Sierna:

Peculiar runes and vicious stone carvings adorn [the basement level], with sacrificial alcoves populated by bones long-since laid bare by time and quickly exceeded in atrocity by the sight of fresher bodies piled into a wall. The chamber slopes to one side, almost imperceptibly at first but soon giving the nauseating impression of angular impossibility as its undulating stonework draws the eye to a door fashioned from some unearthly metal which coruscates in a thousand competing and equally enthralling patterns of cold light that seem to fall upon the monolith from afar but offer no sense of source within or without of that dismal place, nor cast any outward illumination to augment the shying torchlight.
Second Coalition War

The **Second Coalition War** was a war in 447 A.U. fought between the Serene Duchy of Aeldrum, Shantine Empire, Alusian Empire, and Thalranese Marches on one side, and the Second Fialta Imperium on the other. It ended in 448 A.U. with the signing of the Treaty of Tar'Thalran.

## Background

The Second Coalition War took place roughly fifty years after the First Coalition War (396 - 399 A.U.).

In the wake of the Confederate Crisis and the Treaty of Saldan of 445 A.U., tensions in Imperial Space remained high through the early and mid-440s A.U. with sectarian partisan fighting happening more-or-less nonstop throughout Zanevuela and other former Confederate territories.

The Second Coalition War began when the Fialta Imperium launched a naval invasion of the Thalranese Marches on claims that the Thalranese were guilty for the death of Crown Prince Claudius. The Shantine Empire joined the war in solidarity with the Thalranese, followed shortly thereafter by Aeldrum and Alusia.

## Theaters and Battles

### Tar'Thalran and Firhbank

*Main article: Invasion of Tar'Thalran and Firhbank*
### Zanevuela

*Main article: Second Battle of Zanevuela*
### Pin Jump

*Main article: Forgotten World Bombing Run*
## Conclusion

After Fialta defeat at the Battle of Semal-Marivan, the Second Coalition war ended in 448 A.U. with the Fialta Imperium's surrender and the signing of the Treaty of Tar'Thalran.

The war saw an estimated total of 5,380,000 deaths:

* Fialta Imperium: 2.05M military, 40k partisan, 675k civilian
* Thalranese Marches: 872k military, 30k civilian
* Serene Duchy of Aeldrum: 885k military, 10k civilian
* Shantine Empire: 529k military, 190k partisan, 100k civilian (occupied Zanevuelans)

The war saw the deployment of seven null bombs, mostly by the Fialta Imperium:

* One by the Knights of Adarnum at Fialt
* Two by the Imperium at the Forgotten World (one recovered unexploded by Aeldman forces)
* Three by the Imperium to generate or sustain etheric storms at the Korinth and Zanevuela gates
* One by the Imperium to cover their retreat at the Battle of Semal-Marivan

The Treaty of Sevalne, signed in 448 A.U., further helped to establish post-war economic and diplomatic relations. Cosmic peace did not last very long, with the Great Celestial War breaking out in 450 A.U. and the Alusian-Shantine War in 453 A.U..
Treaty of Korinth

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The **Treaty of Korinth** may refer to any of three treaties signed on Korinth:

* The First Treaty of Korinth, which ended the Fialta-Shantine War in 357 A.U.
* The Second Treaty of Korinth, signed during the First Coalition War in 396 A.U.
* The Third Treaty of Korinth, which ended the First Coalition War in 399 A.U.
The Librarian of Sigvald

**The Librarian of Sigvald** was a member of the Court of Sigvald during the Bank of Valdos's mission to kill Sigvald.

## Personality

The Librarian was an individual who perceived everything as a transaction. Anyone asking for help had to have something to offer, something to bargain with. They possessed a psionic power that let them drain information from a source. Their favorite thing, and their namesake, was to drain from books. They could also take information from a person's brain, although this was far riskier. Books proved to be a safer, more reliable source.

They prided themself on their wide knowledge base that could be recalled at a moment's notice. They desired to obtain increasingly more and more knowledge, and were willing to take risks behind Prince Sigvald's back to do so.

## History

### Life

As Sigvald mandates of his subordinates, the Librarian was given an ironic handicap. Unlike many of the physical ailments that the Prince bestowed, the Librarian's was to never know their past. All memory of life before the Court was taken, and all records scrubbed clean. The Court and Sigvald's will was all they would ever know.

### Death

When a group of mercenaries under the Bank of Valdos was sent to kill Sigvald, one of the mercenaries encountered the Librarian and talked with them briefly, inquiring about the disappearance of someone in the court. After the exchange, the Librarian followed the mercenary back to the group, and attempted to follow them into Banshee's quarters. But they stumbled upon opening the door, making a loud noise and drawing the attention of the mercenaries.

A fight quickly erupted and The Glass Cannon of Sigvald, the bodyguard for the Librarian, came to their aid. The Librarian attempted to quell the situation and take knowledge of the encounter from one of the mercenaries's minds. Unfortunately for them, however, the mercenaries had taken anti-psionic pills and were unaffected by the attempted. Even more unfortunately, the mercenary that the Librarian had targeted noticed the attempt and took it as an intense perversion of his mind. Even though his leader ordered him to take the Librarian alive, the attack on his mind was too revolting and he diced the Librarian into tiny pieces after the the Glass Cannon was shot dead.
The Silk Baron of Yushan

*For the merchant referred to by the moniker "Silk Baron of Yushan", see Xeros Mepatos.*

**The Silk Baron of Yushan** was a film created by the Highveldt Moving Picture Company.

## Background

"The Silk Baron of Yushan" premiered in 444 A.U., during the early days of motion picture technology and of widespread Ethernet technology. Thanks to Ethernet distribution, the film was a historic hit for the Highveldt Moving Picture Company.

## Description

"The Silk Baron of Yushan" told the story of the life and adventures of the late Xeros Mepatos, a Shantine silk merchant who traveled to Celestial space and helped develop Yushan's domestic silk industry from Russian and Shantine silkworms.

Though the film's plot was mostly based on true events, at the time of its release relatives of Mepatos claimed that stories of him buying a captured Brass Cities drone platoon and turning them into a living factory were greatly exaggerated, and that the inclusion of a fictitious Aeldman elvish associate was "pure tokenism."
Ulysses Durant

**Doge Ulysses "Stubbs" Durant** was the Doge of Galthad and the leader of Aeldrum's Common Party in the late 300s A.U.

## History

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During the First Coalition War, after a falling-out with Doge Tiello "Brick" Augustine, Durant started the radical Workers Party of Aeldrum out of half of the former Common Party, in opposition to Serene Doge Bareth Aefendt's controversial "War Volunteers Amendment" to the Aeldman Constitution.

Durant ultimately died in exile following his role in the Galthad Rebellion.