The Continent#

What these pages are for

Everything here is true of the whole world, wherever your character comes from: how the ages went, who the gods were, how magic works, how the year turns, who holds power right now, where to take a party, what the weather does to you and what you’ll eat. Your home province’s page says what’s true of your corner of it.

Ages of Urd From the Age of Peace to the Age of Commerce: the gods, the War of Souls, the plague and the Spire, in order. 6 ages The Gods Lythantos, Ettephemone and Dekkashraen, what they made, what they did to each other and how people pray to them now. 3 gods Magic What everyone sees, how each tradition of casters explains it, and the wheel of threads and seams the scholars draw. 9 traditions The Calendar Two suns, eleven months of thirty days, and the Breaking Return that ends the year. 11 months Powers & People The clans, the crowns and the famous names, and what people say about each of them. 35 names Adventure Sites Every hand-drawn ruin, road, town and cave on Sedia and in the Bleak, with the levels its creatures run at. 267 sites Climate & Weather What cold, heat and weather do to you, a roller for the day's weather, and every kind of ground. 100 kinds of ground Food & Drink Prices in vern, a roller for the house meal, what each province is known for, and foraging. Prices in vern

Urd#

Urd is the world. It weaves a figure eight around two suns, Aveo and Oeva, that pull on it equally. The year is eleven months of thirty days, and its hottest month is the one in which Urd crosses from one sun to the other.

The gods made Urd a garden. The War of Souls broke it, and everything since has been people building on the pieces.

Sedia#

Sedia is the continent everyone lives on. Nine provinces stand on it, each raised in the Reformation around one of the nine pieces of the Everspark that came out of the War of Souls. A tenth, Narsis, was there long before any of them, buried now under Tharsis.

The north is tundra and pine, the middle is the old farmland of Tharsis and Crecia, and the south dries out into the Sands of Bone and the broken country around Mt. Kyros before it turns to jungle in Menusia. Nobody has charted anything past the oceans.

The Bleak#

The Bleak is the undercontinent: caverns, catacombs and buried ruins under the whole of Sedia, and older than anything on the surface. You can go down almost anywhere, if you can find the way and don’t mind the dark.

It has five provinces of its own. Narsis is the only one with a city in it, and the only one a character can call home.

Narsis

Underground caves, caverns, catacombs. Under Tharsis · 25 sites

Vharmas

Underground tunnels, ruins, catacombs. Under Crecia · 13 sites

Korvann

Deep-mines, frozen vaults, ore shafts. Under Jewall and New Saellem · 12 sites

Meneshal

Catacombs, tombs, drowned undervaults. Under Esthar · 6 sites

Emberhollows

Lava tubes, ash caverns, bone-deeps. Under Moria and Dumasque · 11 sites

Sedia in 1512 AWS#

It is the twelfth day of the Shaded Aveo, the third month of 1512 After the War of Souls, and the last wars are not long over. An army of trolls, dwarves, humans and anyone else who would come stood together to defend the Lost City of Amone in Menusia, and plenty of them didn’t come back.

Over the Scar in the far north hangs a point of dark light that nobody can explain. The Rift Watch keeps an eye on it from Virgil Outpost in New Saellem, and the Exuvae scholars who come to study it disagree with the Watch about nearly everything.

Mandak’s Legion is pushing down into the Bleak, and in Tharsis the pamphlets still blame Narsis for whatever went wrong this week. In Amari a militant prophet has split the tribes over the old prophecy. In the south, new trade routes are drawing people back into the ruins of Esthar for the first time since the fall. The gods are still missing.