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Farwydd Basin

**Farwydd Basin** was a large low-lying basin that encompassed much of the east Danderillon. In the present day, it was only a large inlet with a small island in the centre, but the name **Farwydd Basin** was still used to refer to the area as a whole. It ran in through the Bay of Drowned Wishes, past Bracken and Kol Darim between the two mountain ranges of Auril's Girdle and the Dellings, and then curved south to the shores of Nisos, Taros and other ports. Many of the Danderillon's rivers flowed into it.

Back in the early ages of history, it was more waterlogged and full of other lakes, making it a perfect location for villages like Anoq and Njeteve.

Its name possibly originated from the Proto-Gildegran ᕙᕐᕕᑦ (varvit) meaning 'wide', in reference to the valley. This name came about in at least the -8000s and likely remained similar until the Nisosian establishment on the shores of the inlet in the -2200s, where it slowly morphed. **Varvit** became **Farvyd** which became **Farwýð** when the Rakkimarrans had something to say about it in the -1800s.
Gauward

**Gauward** was a shrewd gnome conman from The Fallo. He was part of the original founding of the Lakayan Liberators.

A sneaky and cunning man, he planned and plotted until his doom.

In 1513, he was captured whilst infiltrating Fort Helena alone, against the wishes of his fellows. He was dueled outside the powder store, captured, and interrogated, and during this torture, he revealed false information incriminating Commodore Lilac Rogers, spurring the Commodore to flee the capital with a chunk of the navy behind her.

Machavellio Disforza was worried that Gauward might spill the details of the Liberators' plan to unite the tribes, so he snuck in and got his uncle Gianluca Disforza to issue a writ for the gnome's death, but he was too late to stop the rumour spreading, and Gauward revealed the plan. This event was what set the Davison Detective Agency on the trail of the Liberators.

He was executed by firing squad at the crack of dawn.
Martha Meliketh

> *Quick as a flash, she drew the other pistol, and brought the fist holding the empty gun down on the hammer as she pulled the rusted trigger. A thunderous noise rang out, dust being thrown up by the explosion.*
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> *Cowley’s expression turned to shock as she slowly lowered her arm, and looked down at her chest. Across her black dress, an even darker stain blossomed like the petals of a flower. She opened her mouth in indignant surprise, and toppled over face down into the sandy earth, as her blood soaked into the dust.*
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**Martha Heather Meliketh** was a Luskan-Danderillonian corn farmer and a minor folk hero of sorts in the late 15th century. She was a honest, good sort.

## Martha Meliketh

Martha's reference art - holding a Decimus M1486

### Died

killed by Iunia of the Sect of the Poisoned Chalice in her bedroom in 1490

### Known For

folk hero for killing Saoirse Cowley; briefly hosting Michael Shoemaker's party before her death

### Family

Sasha Meliketh (younger sister), mayor of Taros from 1487-1492

As you can read in Stories, she was a corn farmer with grit, who didn't let herself get bullied by the local land baron, Saoirse Cowley. She managed to kill quite a few of her goons, then the Lady herself, in a shootout at her homestead in the 1480s.

Martha really represented everything that the Danderillonian dream stood for. Freedom, bravery, integrity, and charm.

In 1490, she found a small crystal in her cornfield in a crop circle and pocketed it. Days later, Michael Shoemaker, Elias Silverton, Trajan and Paul Prescott came to hers and stayed the night enroute to Aomodos. They also found a wandering lost soul in the rain, a man who had been blinded, and took him in briefly. Overnight, the assassin Iunia from the Sect of the Poisoned Chalice broke into her home and smothered her to retrieve the crystal.

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Martha was also one of the first NPCs I used, and she's special to me because I took her name as my middle name!.

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First Skyndrar Venture into the Underdark

This was the first time that any Skýndrar, or possibly any surface-dwellers, ventured into the Underdark. It took place on 24th Nightal -1779.

Some of the Crew of the Klemmuvængválf left from Pszczow, investigating a sinkhole, and ventured down into the dark below. They were Haelyn, Richard Dread, Hallbjorn Ulfsson, and Haengur Hamarsson. They delved through the chilling darkness, now carrying Kron de'Zephyn's Goldlock Chest. They fought and bested a group of Sylyntyri drowic smugglers/slavers, led by a cruel and savage sawbones. The slavers used the darkness to their advantage, jumping from the shadows and crawling from the gloom.

After besting the slavers, the group freed a captive Tbikhlan woman, but then spotted a horrific gibbering mouther slomping on several dead drow. Haelyn, in the form of a snake, tried to approach it as it tried to entice her with a dissolving rat, but it then chomped her unconscious in one blow. The mouther gave chase as Richard and Hallbjorn weakened it, but it left Ham stuck in its doughlike rock aura. As it rolled away, and Haelyn stumbled away miraculously up, Ham was encased in solid rock and died a horrible death. Haelyn, blinded by the mouther's spittle, stabbed the now-freed captive woman, then ran headfirst into the mouther, where she was instantly absorbed and semi-digested. Richard and Hallbjorn managed to kill the mouther, but at great cost. Three innocent people had died, and they found some of the latter two's remains within the pus and sacs of the mouther's corpse. They also found one key for the chest in the tunnels, and continued on to Sylyntyr.

It was, well, harrowing.
Great Resurrection Event

> *'We wove a fear into the primitive peoples of Toril. At their firesides, as their shamans, their soothsayers, we preached the fear of the dead, and soon they came to believe us. As they should! They have long since learnt to fear, to revere, but to not meddle. And now this changes.'*
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- Necromantic Celebrant Lorenzo al-Mualim, one of the magocratic council of Thay, giving a speech in the wake of the **Great Resurrection Event**.

The **Great Resurrection Event** was an event caused by Thovir wishing to a Djinn (which Solodar Tailor let escape), happening exactly at Midsummer 7pm 1516. Pretty much, from this exact moment on, anyone whose body was mostly intact could raise from the dead at any time, as the bond between life and death weakened. From now on, most bodies ought to be cremated. Not even beheading could stop someone, nor dismemberment - only being broken into many pieces and separated, or more commonly being burnt.

Those raised in the event were considered Undead versions of themselves with special rules.
Lareya Lily

The **Lareya** was a plant that grew along the riverbanks and water's edge of Farwydd Inlet, in the northeastern Danderillon. It was a beautiful drooping flowering plant that hung low over the edge of water, and it was white with deep red blotches.

Legend told that it was originally white, but when an ancient hunter mistook his maiden lover for a wolf, he shot her with a bow and her blood stained the flowers in death.
Jezibel Halfmoon

> *Lyslen, I'm sorry. I had to, I'm sorry. You'll be the last, I promise.*
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**Jezibel Halfmoon** was a Chultan Nisosian grey tortoiseshell tabaxi bounty hunter allied with the Golden Flock. She heard about a mage that sounded quite a lot like Lyslen 'Ear-splitter' MacEoin, in Hjarofjall, and investigated at the order of the Flock.

She wielded a scimitar and a war axe.

She paid off a gnome cutpurse to try to get Lyslen's attention, but she was badly wounded by Marndir.

She returned with the Fixers and her girlfriend, a fellow Flock member Tanis. Though her duel with Lyslen was inconclusive, she was approached again by Aric who promised he could lead her to Lyslen defenceless. She took her Fixers, some Xantics, and Tanis to the Roaring Hearth.

They attacked Lyslen at night, and she fled, wounded and bloody. Jezibel herself chased down Lyslen with her unrelenting feline speed, and ran her through with her scimitar, apologising.

Lyslen revealed to Jezibel the sham of the old, cruel Golden Flock as she breathed her last, and this seemed to make Jez realise what she had done. She vowed Lyslen would be the last mistake of the Flock.

### Return to Bracken and Disillusionment

Back in Bracken in early 1514, Jezibel delivered Lyslen's body as promised, but the she and Tanis were horrified that the leaders of the Flock were the same as back when Lyslen revealed the atrocities were. Jez and Tanis went on the run, leaving their house empty - Jez left a note behind as well as a few keepsakes she intended to come back for, including a picture of her, Lyslen, Jara, Araphel, Tanis and a few others. It was found by Brynn Garta, who helped his party track down Jezibel in the North Side sewers.

Jez had been injured by a rockfall caused during the tunnel collapse around the minecart carrying Vortex Translocator, unbeknownst to the lot of them. The Union Hacks retrieved her, but she decided to defect to The Independent Contractors instead. She accompanied them for a while, but they left her at Number 221, East Overlook, where The Bracken Harpers captured her. She was imprisoned for a few days before The Serpent's Head freed all the prisoners of the jails of Bracken.
Eva Westford

> *Echoing through the empty house, the grandfather clock chimed. No reply was heard, as it called into emptiness. Stood at the foot of the stairs, the young woman wound her watch, listening to the chimes. Half-focused on the timepiece, she called upstairs without glancing up.*
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> *‘Hurry and be packing your things, child! We’ven’t long till the coach, but… your grandpa says he’ll meet us there!’. She grimaced to herself at the gentle lie. By the woman’s feet were several large kit bags and suitcases, and she muttered a prayer under her breath. ‘Where… where in the world could he have gotten to?’ she mused silently. As the zip creaked and she closed one of the bags, a knock came at the door. The outline of a figure came into focus, the lamplight of the night filtering round it in the stained glass. The woman’s face immediately brightened as she strode toward the door and opened it, remarking joyously.*
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> *‘Sir! You’re back, we... wait-’ she began, before pausing suddenly.*
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> *Minutes later, the young child traipsed downstairs, hopping over the bags and boxes to find the front door ajar. A lady with choppy black hair was sat at the dining table, alone, with a kind smile in her eyes. She daubed her mouth with a napkin.*
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> *‘Hello, Eva. I’m a friend of your grandpa’s. He told me to come and collect you. We should go soon.’ the woman explained, as the child nodded in agreement. ‘I’m going to take you somewhere safe, where you’ll have a good life. I would never hurt a kid like you’ she reassured her.*
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- Valeria Grimes kills Jane the maid and adopts Eva as one of the thieves.

**Eva Westford** was a young Halcyonian, and the adoptive granddaughter of Doctor Hyram Westford.

She was born in 1558 to run-of-the-mill farming parents in Jarren's Well who passed away to sickness. Dr. Westford became her legal guardian after taking pity on her family. However, he was often away doing work and jobs, so she was mostly raised by Jane, her nanny.

At the age of nine, after the death of her custodian and her nanny Jane in 1567, she was adopted by Valeria Grimes (who had a hand in both those deaths!). Eva became one of the Lamplighters' Guild, as a pickpocket first, as many kids did under the Thieves.
Hotchkiss-Davis Model 1512 (Prototype)

The **Hotchkiss-Davis M1512 (P)** was an early rotary machine gun produced in 1512. It boasted eight long barrels in a metal cast, and had to be cranked by hand, being breech-fed. When it was at full capacity, it could fire at 120 rounds per minute, but only for a few seconds at most, before it either overheated or ran out of ammo. It was incredibly heavy and unwieldy, often only placed on the back of a flatbed cart.

Its design concept was somewhere between a cannon, repeating ballista and a revolver.

The Hotchkiss-Davis prototype only saw limited use, and was not advanced from the prototype stage for years, being regarded as a failed experiment.
Marija Grimes

**Marija Grimes** was a human Lamplighters' Guild leader, the elder sister of Valeria Grimes. Marija was an expert in espionage, disguise, and social engineering. After kidnapping Érmione Disforza in Lakay and forcing her to dig her own grave, Marija took on her identity for nefarious purposes, with the 'excuse' of 'Érmione' becoming a shut-in, hence her few public appearances. She revealed her deception to Hyram Westford amongst others in a pivotal moment before his death.
Latar

**Low Seer Latar** was a beholder of the Tribunal of Spiders. He was based in Guzuth Toth's central tower from the late 15th century until 1516. He collected relics like Storm and Stress and the Gjallarskjold, and bodies too.

He was killed by the Risen Dain Axehelm, whose body he purchased from King Badboy of the Melon Kingdom.
Evadne the Pagan

**Evadne Ščiyin**, later known as *Saint* *Evadne the Pagan*, was a Vistu fortune teller who lived around the 600s TE, in the Dvoryac river basin in the southwestern Danderillon. She became patron saint of fortune telling and divination.

## Story

In the early 610s, the Archon (pope) of the Euluskan church came to visit the burgeoning city of Felonil, and tour the countryside. Here, the Archon met Evadne, a fortune teller who followed a religion and culture that the Euluska at the time considered ‘pagan’ and ‘backcountry’. Nonetheless, Evadne begged to be permitted to speak, and urged the Archon she was in danger. Evadne performed a reading and ascertained that the shadow of a black hand hung over the red string of fate of the Archon’s life.

Evadne warned her that her life was about to be cut short. The archon initially dismissed it, but remembered the seer’s words some days later when travelling toward Jarren’s Well. In the retinue of the Archon was a man with a charred and burned right hand, who was secretly plotting the ruin of the Archon to elevate his own family’s political status. Heeding Evadne’s words, the Archon had the man interrogated, and he revealed he had set up a bandit ambush only ten miles ahead of where the Archon’s caravan had halted.

## Sainthood

For this great service, Evadne was inducted as a Saint after her death, being one of the few pagan or non-Euluskan saints to have done so - she is never attested to have converted to Euluskan religious tradition during her lifetime!

Evadne’s worshippers carried diving implements - tarot, crystals, palmistry, evil eyes, etc. Her feast day was Vowa 16th, the day that the Archon’s retinue halted to stop the plot.
MacCradhnaich Frost

**MacCradhnaich Frost** (pr. Mac-cray-nock) was a stout beer brewed the septs of Clan MacCrannack of Rakkimar that moved to Kol Darim, known as the MacCradhnaichs.

It was an oat-distilled stout, not too bitter, always served cold. It was notable for having a frosty foam on top that remained when poured correctly, even in the warmed climates, and could not be warmed up, even magically (somehow).
King Mazander Over-Under

> *Staring into the dark, Indrol drew her King Mazander in one smooth motion, her left hand pointing it confidently down the hall. Her right hand moved to lay across its hammer, and she squeezed the trigger just as she fanned it. A deafening blast echoed down the dark tunnel. A blinding fiery flash illuminated the outline of something. About Indrol’s height, with a gaunt, hunched insectile body and long claws, and a smooth head. The fiery flash was accompanied by a whizzing bolt, but the bullet found its mark in a pipe that began to spew gas. With a shrill screech, the thing leapt toward Indrol like some feral animal, as she stood paralysed in fear. As it leapt from all fours, its eyeless head and flaky dead skin reflecting on the SCRAM’s torchlight, Indrol squeezed the trigger again, and slammed the hammer down with her palm.*
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- Captain Indrol of the Khepri II's first encounter with one of the Brood.

The **Synoecre Over-Under Flintlock,** also called the **King Mazander Double-Barelled Flintlock**, or **King Mazander Over-Under**, was a double-barrelled muzzle-loaded flintlock pistol from Synoecre, in the Xant.

It saw serious prominence in Bracken, and gained its moniker from the King of Bracken from 1490.

It was unwieldy and inaccurate, but formidable at close range, capable of shooting twice in quick succession.
Khopesh of Siwa

The **Khopesh of Siwa** was a sicklesword from Thay. It was designed by the war magician Fa'rudk Silvermoon.

It used the stats of a scimitar. As a bonus action, the wielder could attempt to disarm an enemy by contesting an attack roll with the defender's Athletics or Acrobatics check. The khopesh also ignored the AC bonus granted by a defender's shield.
Luskan (Native)

The **Luskans** were the peoples native to what is now the Luskan Peninsula, Fallo and some of Turmish.

They were noted by their fair olive-tan complexions and blonde or light brown, wavy hair.

Their modern language, Luskan, was one of the major languages spread around the globe (the **Lingua Luska**, if you will). It had a shallow orthography. When spoken, it was colourful and full of trills and rolls, with geminate consonants and gendered nouns, similar to real-world Romance languages like Italian.

In the same vein, it was strongly descended from the language **Cleric.**
Kjotverð

**Kjotverð Halfdarymsson,** also known by his nickname **'Tooth-in-the-Eye'** was the **Jarl** (earl) of the city of Kol Darim, succeeding his father Halfdarym Skolsson (who was given his name because he was half-Darim).

Kjotverð was a warm and larger-than-life jarl who was well-liked. He enjoyed a good ale and some good sport, but could be stern when needed. He gained his name from when, as a boy of only twelve, he wrestled and killed a polar bear with naught but his bare hands when he was separated from his aunt's hunting party during a storm. He earned a savage scar from the bear's tooth across his left eye, which left the eye milky. But instead of wearing a patch or a glass eye, he proudly displayed his battle scar in true Darim spirit.

He succeeded Jarl Halfdarym in -1844 after the latter fell in battle. During a hunting expedition to find and catch a fabled three-antlered elk, the Jarl Halfdarym and his group were attacked by a Gildegran warband. Halfdarym and his two loyal landgrafir were outnumbered almost 10 to 1, but they managed to beat the warband, with one of his men dying from an axe to the head. However, Halfdarym's wounds were too grave, and his last remaining landgraf, Heithkja the Unbroken, buried her jarl, axe in hand, and returned to bear the news.

Heithkja continued to serve her new jarl, Kjotverð, and was promoted to the rank of góþir, or 'advisor'.

Kjotverð had a son, Sigurð Kjotverðsson, born in -1759 DR.

After the Great Raid on Braeknge, Kjotverð became Jarl of the environs of the Rice Bræknge as well as his own kingdom and began to expand the kingdom.

Some time after the raid, he fell gravely ill with some unknown disease (diagnosed in modern times as pulmonary tuberculosis), which gave him a high fever, weakened his body, and attacked his lungs.

He died in -1775 to madness caused by incense.

In history, he came to be known posthumously as **Kjotverðestór,** a run-on of his posthumous epithet 'Kjotverð the Great' translated into Old Darim as 'Kjotverð denn stór'.
Fat Ernie

**Ernald Salmastrien,** also known as **Fat Ernie**, was a thief and boxer from Jarren's Well.

Ernie was born in 224 C. His parents were farmers from near Jarren's Well, and he spent most his life there. He was a good friend of Lavina Vitandyž, who he met during a job stealing bullion from a bank in the area.

In 251 C, he was one of the main contacts of the Jarren's Well branch of the Baker's Guild, a continent-wide thieves' guild organisation. He met Erros, Olphira, and Caricc of the Wildecards and offered them work. Later that day, Copper of the group informed the local sheriffs where the underground Bakers' ring was, and Ernie fled. He ended up in prison in Accipiter, but just after Near Year 252, the Wildecards and him broke out of jail. He joined them in Lakay.
JAM and Jenny

The **JAM and Jenny** was a cocktail with a terrific name. It gained its moniker from the cleanup of the aftermath of Pier No3's battle, especially the mess made by both the mangled remains of a JAM, and of Jennethea.

It was similar to a Silverhand's Carpet, but used flaming Thayan Fireball instead of Voll, and left out the hot sauce. It was served in a scrap metal mug, flaming and pulpy...
IndRATera

**IndRATera**, also known as the **Elemental Plane of Rats**, was an inner Elemental plane. It was exactly the same as the Cradle except only inhabited by rodents. Or maybe it was just a void with rats that got bigger when they ate other rats? Accounts of this place were poorly attested for some strange reason.

One notable inhabitant was Mouselim.
Bluewood

**Bluewood** was a silver-barked tree with green-grey leaves and with a bluish tinge to its surface. It grew in tropical environments, and its sap was highly toxic, causing numbness and paralysis. Several tribes, like the Larawaks, used it for poison darts; they called the tree **Ts'kełíí áy epe'as**, meaning 'Silver-blue deathblood tree'.
Jak Waiki'ki

—Anaïs Disforza meets Jak Waiki'ki.

**Mad Captain Jak Waiki'ki** was a roguish ruffian sailor active in the 1510s.

Jak's token.

Her mother was from the Thousand Islands (O Whahani Mo'tuka) and her father was Euluskan; she was born in 1490 in the town of Pellegrina's Landing on the peninsula. Jak joined the Lusken Navy at the age of 17, and three years later in 1510 she ended up serving aboard the Blackwyche, a privateering vessel.

During this time, she met Anaïs Disforza, and the pair grew close. Jak made her the first mate.

However, after some time serving as a rigger, gunner, master of arms and later boatswain, she led a mutiny of the crew against the leadership - Crate, Helrus McCraggan and Marrek. This was caused by the crew's feelings against the leadership's brash and aggressive attitude, lack of concern for their wellbeing, as well their orders to attack Vortic merchant ships, fire on their own men, and attack a ship full of dying diseased merchants. Jak and the others dumped them on Aya Atoll and sailed away.

They spent some time carrying out odd jobs until they landed in Mésquinnes in 1511. Jak spent most her time gambling at the Waylay Inn. Later that year, some privateers arrived seeking her bounty. They beat her in a comedic barfight and Arthur faced her in a dramatic duel, where she managed to disarm him before being knocked out. Arthur later slit her throat painlessly and then ripped out her vocal chords to ensure she would not be interrogated or captured by the Empire.
Kron de'Zephyn

**Kron de'Zephyn** was a drow merchant from The Underdark. He had come into possession of the Goldlock Chest via a buyer down in Mir Osod in the -1780s.

He was on his way to try to barter with either Mzr Endel or Sylyntyr when he was killed by a falling paving stone dropped by the Crew of the Klemmuvængválf.
Giustiniani Longo

> *In my country, men like me are kings! \*hic\* kings, yes, kings...*
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> *-Giustiniani to Nils, drunk during the siege of Datria.*
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**Giuli Giustiniani Longo** was a Xantic condottiere, who led a mercenary force known as the Xantic Lions. In the 12th century, he led them on the defensive side of the Dead Man's Siege.

The Xantic Lions were undermined (literally) by sappers of Vhander's army, and most of them died. Giustiniani fell to an explosion caused by Donral, a druid agent of Section 2.
Hadasir Pistol

The **Çandahar Arms Personal Defence Weapon**, more colloquially known as the **Hadasir Pistol** or **Hippo Gun,** was a two- or four- barrelled percussion cap sidearm.

Manufactured by Beyir Khelumvirate gunsmiths in Çandahar (hence the name), it became increasingly popular with Xantic Imperium and Lusken Empire officers who spent time in the straits of Bey, and was seen as a trophy of their time.

it was prized by travellers and merchants, and used to ward off (or hunt) big game like the big cats and the vicious hippos along the Argan Way.

Its name derived from the Beyir words 'ah-adasirahya', meaning 'Loud Drum'.
Frostmaar

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The modest port of **Frostmaar** was a decently-sized city on the coast of Eðnir. There were several ships docked in the harbours that span either side of the mouth of the river Wyndolyn.

The districts were full of large buildings of mostly stone and brick, but some of wood too. Chimneys puffed out gentle columns of smoke, as people walked the streets swaddled in winter clothing.

Wagons were pulled here and there by blanketed horses, laden with elk meat, seal blubber, and large fir and pine logs. Beyond them all, just at the edge of the town you could see Castle MacGillivray. Banners of green, gold and black tartan fluttered in the cold afternoon breeze.

Out past the castle, was an expanse of snow, dotted with dark green fir trees, stretching into a dark haze.

The shops included The Hunter's Hoard, Moradin's Finest Farriers, Selim's General Store, Eðnir Gear, Saint Reþkar's Anvil...
Fanakhati

**Parsād Yusúf Fanakhāti**, **Vice Regent and Mouth to the King** was an elderly, cunning gnome with small gold-rimmed glasses. He acted as vice regent to King Ehrouk of the Verdis, as well as his spokesperson amongst the Lakayan Federation.

He gave Elna Carrinstoke the Crustaceous Apparatus, amongst other gifts to the Lakayan Liberators.
Kyrenaika Tavern

**Kyrenaika Tavern** was a tavern on the Central Spine of Bracken. It was a lovely little inn with quite a Luskan-Peninsula feel. It was several stories tall with tiled floors, balconies, trailing curtains, serving flatbread, olives and meat and dried tomatoes, wines, airag and sliced meats. Just lovely!

Rooms were five silver, wine ranged from 1cp-2gp, and the airag from Lakay was 7sp but very nice (1d4 temp hp!).
Lass

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**Lass** was a triton paladin, general, and pirate captain active in the 1510s in the Wolcott Straits. She captained the Scaleskull. She was a fearless warrior and devotee of Ymir, god of the depths.

## Personal Life

She spent most of her life leading her battalion of expertly-trained underwater soldiers to conquer the depths, defending their vaults from onslaughts of sahuagin and merfolk. Nothing was more important to her than her honour and respect from the rest of her folk- although her reputation as a leader was not always a pleasant one. Cruel and merciless, the respect she wished for was often gained through fear.

One fateful day, she led her Guard to defend their vault from a small group of merfolk, not noticing the great numbers of reinforcements hidden in the depths.  Of her guard, only a few survived, and after clearing the bodies from the sunken halls it was discovered that a single jewelled chalice was missing from the trove. Lass’s bravery was of little consequence, as she was banished to search for the stolen chalice, doomed to never come back until it was returned.

Now feeling like a stranger in her homeland, she headed to the one place she never thought she would have to make a home: on land. Her search for the chalice occupied her mind, taunting and teasing her, and she found it hard to settle in this alien land.

Her mind in turmoil, after years of searching she grew careless. Her search led her to the Fallo, where she broke into a rich merchant's house- not realising that there were guards hidden in the shadows. Her arrest took her to a Lusken Empire prison ship, where she joined the other prisoners in overthrowing the captain and claiming the ship as their own, making it the Scaleskull.
Kraklan Jaernværks

> *'All throughout Hjarofjall, we heard of your ironworks and how great they were!'*
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- Soot, flattering a worker.

The **Kraklan Jaernværks** (Common: Krak Clan Ironworks) was an iron foundry in Nova Scandzia in Hjarofjall. It was a very reputable business with good quality metal and fair-priced labour.
Galaden

> *'Galaden's dead. The Davisons are gone. It's time we continue.'*
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- Alessandro Lucari breaks the news of Galaden's death to Elna Carrinstoke. **Galaden** was a south Lakayan sea elf, and short-time member of the Lakayan Liberators. A troublemaker, he was sent by Machavellio Disforza's uncle to the group to get him out of jail.

He was a mage and an annoying but curious fellow.

He died to an ambush of the Davison Detective Agency outside King's Stead, as he refused to end his ritual and come quietly, in 1513. He brought down many agents with him.

His grave marker was left just by the abandoned crumbling ruins of the camp, two crossed sticks.

Brigg Bannock buried his treasure 21 paces west of the marker.

In 1561, the Night Watch paid their respects here before finding the treasure.
Gildegra

—My narration for Fort Moose in Gildegra.

The Straits of **Gildegra** was the name given to the stretch of cold land that connected The Danderillon to Rakkimar & Tarkassia. Throughout history, definitions of its bounds changed in terms of what was Rakkimar, what was Gildegra, and what was the Yuren.

They were cold and boreal, but not uninhabitable. Many *Yupiit, Essuit, Fenet, Rakki, Danderillic, Darim*, and *Brackian* peoples called the lands their home at one point or another. Through the twelfth to sixteenth centuries, Rakkimar, Bracken, Kol Darim, & the Lusken Empire all vied for control in the region due to its rich natural resources such as furs, metal, and timber. See the War of the Darim Succession / The Great North Wars for an idea of one of the many conflicts.

## Many Names

### "Yuren"

* The Rakkimarrans, in Old Rakki sagas, named the eastern part of Gildegra (i.e. Anticosti, Fjarri, Mjor, and Eðnir) the name **Vorðanland**, meaning "North Greenland".
* The region further west of Vorðanland was named **Jyrennland** by the Old Rakki explorers, who failed to fully settle it from their Vorðan homes but sent many logging expeditions and made contact with the native groups. This name came from the Old Rakki "Jyrr-Renn Land", meaning "Land of Narrow Paths". This possibly referred to the winding straits and obstructive icebergs that would have littered the waterways.
* The name persisted into modern Rakki as **Jyrenn**, Darim as **Jurehn**, and made its way into Brackian as **Yēoaren**.
* From one of these three sources, twelfth century Lusken Emperíja colonialists would have integrated it into Middle Euluska as **Yuren**, persisting into Modern Euluska. The history of the name explains why it contradicts Modern Euluska orthography, where it would be transcribed as *Juren*.

### "Gildegra"

* The Proto-Gildegran peoples who were indigenous to the area called the islands in the straits **Ȝiti'ȝra** or **Ygitiygra,** meaning 'winding ice-filled water'.
* This term then can be derived into the four modern languages of the Gildegran family, those being:
	+ Feŋet: Gitiyagra
	+ Yupiisut: Gitigera
	+ Essuit: Qodaliqa
	+ Uuränlainen *(Yuren)*: Giłtegra
* From the Yuren groups' contact with the colonial Vortic Mercatorium, their term **Giłtegra** was bastardised into Vortais as **Gille-te-grâs**, which was then borrowed into Modern Euluska as **Gildegra**.

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Goldlock Chest

The **Goldlock Chest** was a large heavy black iron-and-silver chest from The Underdark. It had two large golden locks on it. It was carried by Kron de'Zephyn until he was killed by a paving slab.

One golden key was in the possession of some slavers/smugglers, which were killed during the First Skyndrar Venture into the Underdark.

The second golden key, according to the note found on a dead merchant's corpse from inside the mouther, told that a powerful man of trade named Xelym of Sylyntyr owned it.
Lake Walker

—Malak spurring on Lake Walker., The Fallonese phrase means 'Go, fast as you can'. In Euluska it would read 'Imveix zna mise'.

**Lake Walker** (Fallonese: *Amffergaled*) was the white female wingéd horse of Malak Coldblood, which he rode through the 1560s and 70s. Amffergaled was a muscular white horse with a leather bridle, ornate carpets and a fine saddle. Her wings were large, white, and feathered, hidden beneath her barding. She wore ornate silver armour and was fairly strong and fast but slow to turn. Amffergaled heavily resembled a more bulky version of the literary 'Pale White Horse' of the Luskan death god, Makë. Malak would often boast that she could talk to him; this was partly true, as she could imprint her mood and general thoughts on those who touched her skin.

Amffergaled was descended naturally from the the Töltenstáur breed of winged horse, native to the cold wooded plains of southern Gildegra. These horses were noted for all carrying a nonsense genetic mutation on the DMRT3 gene, a gene which usually helped coordinate the left and right sides of the body. This mutation allowed them to move their legs in patterns that other horses could not, running faster without breaking into gallop in what was known as a 'gaining run', thought to be an adaptation related to preparing to take off for flight. This allowed Amffergaled to have a very smooth yet rapid run, even notwithstanding the fact she also was winged. Amffergaled went on to sire a lineage of winged horses that were native to the northern Fallo, the island of Maeldaf, and Lakay's eastern horn.
Henri Angier

**Henri Angier** was a stage magician and amateur scientist. Having grown up in the town of Jarren's Well as a farmer's son, he travelled to what was then Waterdeep in his twenties looking for work, and joined showbiz first as a stagehand and an audience plant. He became proficient with his tricks, generating a modest amount of fame and wealth. It was at a science expo during this time he met his assistant Arabella as well as crossing paths with Hyram Westford.

In the 1550s, he disappeared for quite some time, and returned from seeing J. Arnu Waldenstromm Vörgåsen in Rakkimar with a new lightning machine which he used in his return show, Shock and Awe. Though the show itself was a smashing success, something went wrong after. He was found in his dressing room by several people, a knife in his back, and many suspicious clues around leading the people to investigate. He had been killed in a scuffle by Isalda DuPont Leroux, but his death uncovered a sinister string of threads.

His older sister, Léanna Angier, had a son named Douglas Roscoe Angier, who would later become a famous stage actor by virtue of his family's love of stagecraft.
Klébel Repétre

The **Klébel Fusil Repétre-Révolve** **Carábine**was a longarm used by The Vortic Mercatorium in abundance. It was a four-chambered revolver rifle made of reddish wood that was incredibly hardy and good for use at sea. It could be disassembled to become quite compact, with very few bits to catch on rigging.

It was also popular amongst some Vortic officers to saw their repeaters off, creating a four-chamber revolver., the **Klébel (Repétre) Scie-Cour.**
Matador Mk2

The **Matador Mk2** was a powder shotgun manufactured by WDSA. It was loud, smokey, powerful and quite worrying. It fired in a 15 foot cone and dealt 2d4 damage.

Gulrak Browbeater owned one, which was retrieved by The Serpent's Head after his death, and given to Heinrich. Heinrich killed several of Altor's court with it.
Hazirtwain

> *The grasp of shadow grows ever the more dire, for now there is a second eater of souls amongst us.*
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-Unknown.

Hazirtwain was a carbon copy of Hazirawn, summoned by Thovir thanks to a Djinn. It was pretty much identical in every way to the black blade, except engraved on the hilt was '*Second Edition*.'

Obviously, it would one day be highly sought-after. It was located in Bracken in 1516.
Martus of the Vortai

**Marthus Elefendil**, later **Saint** **Martus the Lucky** was a gambler and trident-gladiator from the Burning Hills who lived in the 1300s.

He was the patron saint of luck, gambling, and gladiators. He was a great brutish half-ogre half-human warrior, and a formidable fighter, as well as very rich by betting on many exploits. As gladiator, he won his freedom from enslavement by the Luskens from fighting in the capital’s fighting pits. He was so beloved and famous in his life, and he gave so much to charity and helped his community, that after his death, Martus was made a saint. Some of his followers who were Vortai then named the future Vortic secondary capital, Sant-Mart, after him in their language, because of how great they thought him to be. His holy day was Helkoalda 26th, and his followers carried icons of gladiatorial helmets, cards, coins, or tridents for good luck.
Hotchkiss-Decimus Model 1509 Mk2

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> *-Rear Admiral Alexandre Decimus just before the conception of the idea of the Mk2.*
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The **Hotchkiss-Decimus Model 1509 Mk2**, also called the **M1509 Carbine,** was a shortened version of the M1509, designed with the idea of Lusken Navy usage in mind. It was perfect for naval use, being less unwieldy.
Mhára MacKilghraimh

**Mhára MacKilghraimh** (pr. Veira MacKilrave) was a Saemhl elvish woman, the daughter of Lord Kilroy of Clan Kilghraimh. In the late 15th century she married Amelio Cassalanter. She was a strong and bossy woman who was a good fighter and learned in magical arts, skills she passed down to her daughter Lyra.
Luskan Sugar Crosses

**Sugar Crosses** (*Xiassa iyeha)*, known internationally as **Luskan Sugar Crosses**, were a delicacy from the Luskan Peninsula region. They were small heads of sweet green cabbage (usually harvested early to be a little smaller than an apple, but some smaller or larger ones were sold too). Cabbages and similar veggies were known as 'crosses' in Euluska due to the shape of the leaves they bore (four in a cross-shape).

These cabbage heads were then rolled in a sugar and cinnamon mixture and boiled, causing them to become sweeter, caramelised and crunchy, with a similar texture and taste a toffee apple or toffee popcorn but quite refreshing. They were sometimes served with handfuls of berries or sprinkled with jam sugar.
Maelstromancy

—Jezibel Halfmoon confronting Lyslen MacEoin over the murder of Araphel Blacktooth.

**Maelstromancy**, also known **storm magic**, was a discipline of magic. It was a doctrine of Chaomancy, the manipulation of chaos. Maelstromancy related to wind, rain, thunder, lightning, storms, and the sea. Maelstromancers might feel most at home in pouring rain, a swirling gale, or out on the lashing ocean. Many great sailors were Maelstromancers, riders of the white-foam seas.

 —The sea-mage Aelmir drowns Vanakir Twiceborn.

As a maelstromancer, you gained the following cantriplike ability. It effectively is a free Prestidigitation/Thaumaturgy/Druidcraft cantrip, which is harmless, you can cast at will, as an **action**, and lasting up to a minute, but with a much more thematically focused effect. It only had a somatic component, which was usually a small but meaningful hand symbol of your choice.

* **Clement Weather**. You can create a small harmless weather effect within 10ft. of you as an action. This might include a small breeze enough to send papers scattering, the smell of the salty sea, falling snowflakes to dust someone's shoulders, or a tiny cloud that follows you, drizzles lightly, and puts out unattended candles.

## At Higher Levels

When you gain the ability to cast spells of 3rd level, you also gain an additional trait from your chosen domain of maelstromancy.

* **Landfall**. When you cast a spell, you can also cause a harmless but dramatic weather effect to occur nearby. For example, you could make a distant lightning strike when you land your spell. Alternatively, you could emit a gust of wind that blows back nearby objects and slams doors or shutters when you cast, or call forth a small rainstorm, enough to drench everyone nearby. Again, it can't be harmful or impose conditions, but you can still be creative.

Some notable maelstormancers were Elluin Ethanderal, and Aelmir the Drowned, and Lyslen MacEoin.
Luca the Lame

**Luka Gholweal**, aka *Luca the Lame* was a Turmish one-legged inventor who was hailed as the patron saint of tinkers, artificers, and of the disabled.

He was born with one leg, and in his youth, spent time working with metals and crystals of various provenances, eventually being able to create a prosthetic leg for himself with little to no training or formal education. He got a knack for it, and people began to seek Luca out so that he could make them prosthetic eyes, limbs, and even medical equipment for the heart or lungs.

After his death in the tenth century TE, he was given a state funeral in the capital, which thousands attended, and was elevated to Sainthood. His holy day was his birthday, Veltai 28th, and his symbols were metal arms, legs, or eyes.
Hotchkiss-Davis Model 1539 Rotary

The **Hotchkiss-Davis Model 1539 Rotary** was a 1539 upgrade on the Hotchkiss-Davis Model 1512 (Prototype) and a precursor to the handheld Hotchkiss-Davis Model 1544 LMR.

It was a two-handed rotary water-cooled machine gun designed for use whilst standing. By the time it was developed, it was heavily used by The Vortic Mercatorium's peacekeeping forces. It was incredibly heavy, too.
Mackenzie University

**Mackenzie University of Halcyon** (stylised as *MKUH*) was an institute of higher education in Halcyon built in the 1570s. Its main campus was on the south coast. In Euluska, its name was **Makenzi Kaëvapaïa Halxeiön**. The University's motto was *Mitaïndra teza*, meaning 'Always Greater'.

## Buildings

There were many buildings named for either notable financial contributors to the uni, or famous Halcyians. Each building had a statue at its entrance of the person it was named for. Many of the buildings hosted public libraries; it was the city's repository of knowledge.
Iesca Trewellyn

**Kaptenow Iesca Trewellyn** was a Turmish Tbikhlan dwarf. A blonde-haired and bearded woman with an eyepatch, she worked in the lowland tin mine of Wheal Yster until she made enough money to buy her own ship and set sail in 1511. However, she was captured by the Lusken Navy in 1517, and she escaped the noose shortly after.

In 1519, she reappeared in Waterdeep, frequenting The Polished Pump looking for a crew to help her steal Cassalanter's Spear. The crew in question, the West Marchers, ended up doing the whole thing without even speaking to her, and so she was never relevant...
Grace Eti

**Grace Eti** (Eti meaning 'wild animal') was a humanlike shifter and part of the tribe of Anoq. She was the no-nonsense elder sister of Orson Eti.

When she was younger, her village was attacked by the Sunwalker tribe, a defining moment that scarred her.

She took up a fey pact with Summer of the Evening Court and lost her powerful natural affinity and hunting abilities.

She also invented the marionette doll.
Gianluca Disforza

**Gianluca Disforza** was an old Luskan half-elven man. Born in 1479, he was of house Disforza, a scholarly and educated chap, who held a professor's level qualification in linguistics - his thesis was named **The Native Tongues of the Sword Coast**. His nephew was Machavellio Disforza, born to Gianluca's sister and her husband.

When the family fell in the 1500s, Gianluca's sharp mind and understanding of some of the native Lakayan languages was appreciated by Emperor Regulus. He was sent to be an indentured scribe in Fort Helena under Laeral Silverhand, and swiftly rose to her **Scribe-in-command** by 1510.

In 1513, he got in contact with his nephew, who was leading the Lakayan Liberators. Max used his uncle as a 'man on the inside', within reason to not arouse suspicion. Max pulled strings with his uncle to have Gauward executed by firing squad to not compromise their plan.

During the Battle of Fort Helena, Max, Orthalas and Lee saved Gianluca from Commodore Lilac Rogers, who was about to shoot him, blaming him for her fall from grace (when it was actually the lie Gauward told).

Gianluca continued to serve as scribe and envoy under the Federation, but no longer was he this indentured servant. Instead he was a sagacious fellow allowed to continue his research unbridled. He lived with his nephew.
Jeremiah Tovey

**Jeremiah Tovey** was the son of a whistleblowing scientist working on the WRWL project. He got suspicious, and asked Kessar Truespear and Dain Axehelm to help him investigate the disappearance of his father, who had been silenced.

Jeremiah was caught by the Datrian City Watch. He was in his cell when The Violet Catastrophe happened, and he died as a result.
Hangman's Draught

> *'Hangman's Draught. It'll knock you right out!'*
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- Advertising tagline.

A **Hangman's Draught** was a strong and fruity cocktail. Brewed in its first form by bandits of the central Danderillon, it was initially made from spare old rum-runner caches and collected native berries. Michael Shoemaker drank one such drink and was enthralled by it.

Balgolor Firbolgsprog dedicated his life to working out how to replicate the infamous drink, which he finally did. He opened a brewery in Bracken and sold it all over the world.

It was comprised of two shots of Lowlands Spiced Rum, then topped up with raspberry juice. It was finished with a pinch of salt, a drop of scorpion venom, and a lime wedge. It was incredibly strong to stomach, but it was a unique and amazing taste.
Karrus Weyloran

> *That sword is MINE! MY birthright. MY blood claims it. Give it to me NOW!*
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**Karras ibn-Yarran Wajilaran** / **Karrus Weyloran** was the twenty-third descendant of Weyloran, part of The Edict of the Seventh Dragon. Personality wise, he was a bit like Kylo Ren.

He was the son of Jarren Weyloran.

Karrus joined Trajan, Michael Shoemaker, Paul Prescott, Baddhuk the Loyak and Elias Silverton on their quest across the Danderillon in 1490. He was at first a sort of friend to the group, appearing at odd times to have late-night conversations spurring them on their quest, not seeming like a villain yet (though he tried to get them to betray one another for promise of power). He was mostly in it just to get his grubby paws on Hazirawn, which he considered his birthright, as a blood descendant of Weyloran.

However, when the group ported to Ysgard without him, he tried to apprehend them as they returned, but failed. He stole Trajan's horse Charger and raced away to Netheril to try to contact them via magic, but they returned and escaped his grasp.

He spent the next year chasing Trajan - they both ended up in Bracken first, during The Battle of Bracken. Trajan fled to Rakkimar in 1491, and Karrus followed, in 1504. It was around then when he became familiar with the concept of *enðurskolþren,* or **reclaimance**. As the guide Alf told him, he was a *Heiðurbarda -* he sought to reclaim his own honour by dueling Trajan.

Halfway up the Kaserini mountain range, he was frozen solid into a block of ice by inclement weather in 1504, where he was perfectly preserved.

(In the meantime, around 1519, the West Marchers scrapped with some of the The Edict of the Seventh Dragon without him)

In 1553, he was freed by The Agents of Chaos, and he witnessed the duel between Luke Stormwind and Trajan. He was too weak to intervene.

They left him in Hjarofjall. He returned to Waterdeep and tried to stage a revival of the Edict, but this failed. He slipped into obscurity and set off to find Luke Stormwind, perhaps one day he would show up again...