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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>O</b>nce, long ago before the days of the orlock occupation when
Midveil was a haven of elven culture salvaged from the old world, Eldannath was
a dedicated scholar who spent much of her time leafing through the pages of
ancient texts housed in the Tome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
was fascinated by the tales pre-dating the Breaking of the Moon and horrified
by the catastrophic loss of so much culture and beauty following the apocalypse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her thirst for knowledge combined with her
superior intellect were only exceeded by her near-ethereal presence. As one of
the few remaining kandowen elves, her appearance was exotic even among those
living in Midveil. Other scholars would often be intimidated by her presence,
feeling threatened by someone so exotic, yet so knowledgeable. Her perceived
character by those in the Tome couldn't be farther from the truth, however. A
very warm and caring individual, she did what she could to spread the knowledge
she gained and share the ancient tales of the elves which had come so close to
being lost forever. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo2KiP9V1t-n_w-OzfghVW0wtGfm9MvifvpsVuXReJRTmNaS_kXtwGF7kim-U9EyG2jF8onGQycnQoxMaWLvdP-tYw6A0zYSqb0doUqDq5T3HhjBVXArlUqytUJ7iqZDeRLf7F01kG8LBBfynCGIiSw_YWWhie2Ipj9xsVnmTTCGGyysoeP3NvMxAn/s1024/Priestess.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="724" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo2KiP9V1t-n_w-OzfghVW0wtGfm9MvifvpsVuXReJRTmNaS_kXtwGF7kim-U9EyG2jF8onGQycnQoxMaWLvdP-tYw6A0zYSqb0doUqDq5T3HhjBVXArlUqytUJ7iqZDeRLf7F01kG8LBBfynCGIiSw_YWWhie2Ipj9xsVnmTTCGGyysoeP3NvMxAn/s320/Priestess.jpg" width="226" /></a></div>When the servants of the Wheelhouse arrived in Midveil,
Eldannath knew that the quiet, secluded life she had known in town was surely
at an end. She was correct but had no idea how dire the circumstances truly
were. Eldannath did what she could to gather books of priceless information as
well as scrolls, potions, and texts once penned in a world that could only be
dreamed of now. But shortly after hiding these treasures, the Moonskull orlocks
of the neighboring forest invaded, and a bad situation soon turned to a
nightmare. Surviving the battle, Eldannath, like the other few survivors, found
herself reined of her innate magic and left as a “hollow elf.”
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Captured by the orlock chieftain, Krale, she was beaten,
then made to serve he and his family as they settled into the rule of the town.
Krale stripped her of all ties she had previously known, including her true
name. Calling her “Dannah,” or often simply, “the Rooked,” to add insult to
injury, she was named the caretaker of the Briar Seat and forced to act as
nursemaid to Krale’s son, Triggor. Her place in the baron’s home, and her
seemingly broken spirit sent a message to those elves who remained in the town:
the time of the elves had passed, and a new power resided in the Briar Seat of
Midveil.
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Yet, in truth, Dannah’s spirit remained stronger than ever,
and what was once a hunger for ancient knowledge turned into a focused desire
to protect what little of that heritage remained. And alongside that desire burned
a distinct need for revenge.
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Dannah worked secretly with the leader of the hollow elves, Finril
and other sympathizers who remained in Midveil, supplying them with information
and invaluable knowledge salvaged from the Tome. With this, the hollow elves were
able to cultivate herbal concoctions and even track down the elusive cullden
potion which temporarily restored their magic.
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Her greatest desire now resided in her ability to turn
Furon, the son of the current baron, Triggor, against his father. For all the
years of Furon’s life, Dannah nursed him, just as she had his father. However,
in Furon Dannah discovered a far more sympathetic personality than she had
previously seen in the ruling family. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Furthermore,
she carefully navigated Furon around the lies and propaganda perpetuated by Triggor
and his elite guar, the Maulers, allowing the young man to see the consequences
of such cruelty and the truth of what happened to the elves who once called
this home. Though it was her goal to turn Furon into a weapon against the other
orlocks, Dannah discovered within herself the capacity to love. Despite her
need for vengeance, she could not deny the motherly affection she bore for him.
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">In the four decades that have passed since the orlock
invasion, Dannah managed to hide away numerous items of interest and power.
Although dormant in the hands of a hollow elf, she knew that with the use of
cullden, the elves would once again be capable of wielding their old magic.
Additionally, she knew that there were others within the town who might rally
against the baron if the situation were to demand it and the time was right.
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">In this manner, with great patience, she sowed the seeds of
unrest while keeping the ancient spirit of Midveil alive, in secret, amongst
the elves and perhaps within the baron’s son as well. </p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Adventure; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; line-height: 118%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: Adventure; mso-ascii-font-family: Adventure; mso-bidi-language: ar-SA; mso-currency-font-family: Adventure; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: Adventure; mso-eudc-font-family: Adventure; mso-greek-font-family: Adventure; mso-hebrew-font-family: Adventure; mso-latin-font-family: Adventure; mso-latinext-font-family: Adventure; mso-ligatures: none;">Todd VanHooser</span></p><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Adventure; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; line-height: 118%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: Adventure; mso-ascii-font-family: Adventure; mso-bidi-language: ar-SA; mso-currency-font-family: Adventure; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: Adventure; mso-eudc-font-family: Adventure; mso-greek-font-family: Adventure; mso-hebrew-font-family: Adventure; mso-latin-font-family: Adventure; mso-latinext-font-family: Adventure; mso-ligatures: none;"><a href="http://www.laughingmoonchronicles.com" target="_blank">Social Links</a></span><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p></p>Todd VanHooserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02684108809067432848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134261549050220167.post-90211292165427975832022-06-29T12:48:00.003-07:002022-07-27T10:27:48.564-07:00Setting: Locales of Midveil<p><b>T</b>he town of Midveil, tucked away in the Glooming Forest within the Brindrift, boasts a number of interesting personalities that inhabit the locales and establishments.</p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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vigil from the top of the tower is the old bandier, a rugged man known locally
as Steel. Most in town don’t know whether to fear or trust him, and the bandiar
doesn’t seem eager to sway their opinion. Regardless, his silhouette at the top
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bodyguards. These six, now despised by most of the population, have sold out
their own people in exchange for the favor of the baron. The Maulers include
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stone structure that has been converted to a prison for those who oppose the
baron’s rule. It has no door, only an opening at the top where prisoners are
dropped in. Outside stands the stocks, gallows, and guillotine where public
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away with much. The Brawlers consist of Serlo, Beltran, Sheev, and Mouse. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Briar Seat</b>:
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baron. In these days, the elven leaders are only a memory and the Briar Seat is
now home to the half-orlock baron, Triggor, and his human bride, the notorious
singer turned baroness, Bolta. They have a son, Furon, who has indicated in
subtle ways that he may not share the brutish, unforgiving, and gluttonous nature
of his forefathers. This may be partly due to the teachings of the hollow elf, Dannah,
who, enslaved by Krale forty years ago, has served the orlock household as
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the vandi fortune teller Madame Mauvine. She is accompanied by her bundalin,
Tarot. The baron is obsessed with her readings, though the fortune teller’s visions
are more often what the baron chooses to believe rather than a true deciphering
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cobbler & Tailor</b>:
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distant memory. Though pitiful in their appearance and demeanor, the hollows
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<![endif]-->They are led by Finril, a withered old elf. Additional
personalities include Terros, Baina, Jheldun, and Sparo.
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_I_DVra2lACOLtkYozUSCeMp_oFn4lt93RZVeuwCNFMM2V_1K8LiAXES5K8ehq4HBu1K8J4DL-noGNDspfsAiaC2LS2b4jX37bvbNHkBT8SWJNhSjkQJhp65xbv7T6y9rZsjTHuWVlO-HHjHYHDqvYYwrrrN3StXo8L0GuMkOcyggs2Q3WDVqG6Wh/s3279/Dinowen%20Saloon%20Gal.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3279" data-original-width="2537" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_I_DVra2lACOLtkYozUSCeMp_oFn4lt93RZVeuwCNFMM2V_1K8LiAXES5K8ehq4HBu1K8J4DL-noGNDspfsAiaC2LS2b4jX37bvbNHkBT8SWJNhSjkQJhp65xbv7T6y9rZsjTHuWVlO-HHjHYHDqvYYwrrrN3StXo8L0GuMkOcyggs2Q3WDVqG6Wh/s320/Dinowen%20Saloon%20Gal.jpg" width="248" /></a></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Idle Wind Theatre</b>:
once this was a highly respected outdoor stage where townsfolk could enjoy
performances from the street or from the balcony of the Overlook. Now, the
theatre has fallen on hard times and the actors, a group called the Midveil
Misfits, are often forced to perform lewd shows, or enact false histories to
perpetuate the propaganda of the orlock baron. Atop the theater is a type of
brothel where a handful of girls called the “Idols” service those willing to
pay for companionship. The Idols, however, are not the common soiled dove found
in other corners of the Remains. These companions are educated, sophisticated,
and as interesting as they are beautiful. <br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Loft</b>: stables
positioned at the far end of the Midveil Square, and easily accessible to the
inn. Family owned, no one spends more time with the horses than Maez, a
good-natured young woman whose tomboy ways have earned her a place of respect
even amongst the less-than-savory locals. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Overlook Tavern
& Inn</b>: the centerpiece of the Midveil square. The establishment is run
by Ailen, a well-meaning man with a sympathetic ear, and his wife Thea, who
tends to be mildly nosy and rather worrisome, especially when it comes to their
daughters, Samara and Adelphia. Both daughters, aged twenty and eighteen
respectively, spend their time helping around the tavern or running errands for
their over-worked parents. The upper portion of the Overlook stands open,
offering an unobstructed view of the market as well as the Idle Wind Theatre.
Although there are only four rooms available for travelers, the Overlook is a
popular place for the locals to get together.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sholy’s Bakery</b>:
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<![endif]-->The bakery is located on the second floor of the same
building that houses Zee’s Butcher Shop.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Street Merchants</b>:
the square is never at a loss for vendors and tradesmen. Most notable is Farley’s
Wagon, where Farley and his son, Holton sell a variety of wares; many of which
are practical while others lean toward the more whimsical. Other street
merchants, selling their goods from stalls or wagons set up in the marketplace
include Jalaine, Wilrick, Ezerie, Errek, and Bardoli.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Tome</b>: a large
stone structure that once housed a library of books predating the Breaking of
the Moon. Decades ago, the library was ransacked and burned. When it was
rebuilt, the floor was lined with the recovered leather bindings. It is now
occupied by a former sooth, who goes by the name Sennis. He spends his time
re-writing the lost books as best he can from memory. Assisting him is the young
bookbinder, Reyan. Having been more or less adopted by the scribe at a young
age, she now helps tend to his daily needs as well as those of the library
itself. Many of the locals refer to the library as “the Tomb.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Undertaker</b>: known
as Longtooth, this quiet individual takes care of all the necessary final
details of one’s estate but is also rumored to be in the pocket of the baron.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Zee’s Butcher Shop</b>:
Zolum, or Big Zee as he’s known to the locals, has run the butcher shop for
many years. The shop shares space with Sholy's bakery, which is located upstairs. Now, with the help of his son Zaim, Big Zee looks to eventually
pass the cleaver on to the next generation...that is if Zaim isn’t recruited by
the baron’s Maulers. </p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Adventure; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; line-height: 118%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: Adventure; mso-ascii-font-family: Adventure; mso-bidi-language: ar-SA; mso-currency-font-family: Adventure; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: Adventure; mso-eudc-font-family: Adventure; mso-greek-font-family: Adventure; mso-hebrew-font-family: Adventure; mso-latin-font-family: Adventure; mso-latinext-font-family: Adventure; mso-ligatures: none;">Todd VanHooser</span></p><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Adventure; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; line-height: 118%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: Adventure; mso-ascii-font-family: Adventure; mso-bidi-language: ar-SA; mso-currency-font-family: Adventure; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: Adventure; mso-eudc-font-family: Adventure; mso-greek-font-family: Adventure; mso-hebrew-font-family: Adventure; mso-latin-font-family: Adventure; mso-latinext-font-family: Adventure; mso-ligatures: none;"><a href="http://www.laughingmoonchronicles.com" target="_blank">Social Links</a></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p></p>Todd VanHooserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02684108809067432848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134261549050220167.post-8898569748220856842022-06-28T10:50:00.002-07:002022-06-28T10:50:31.592-07:00Setting: The Town of Midveil<p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsGLHugr_ieHiL1NOBCnm-1MKLwDgpgI6czsg7Jneq0G0zn6Mh1SoNdbewgTLCuiG3qPxIVF03K3pmNi_qUOtBVRDvaw6Auk9-k8jloURBpzETPEl1WKvLkwhxyy-Ipr64BSZ7tvC8ITxaoYEbNHp9GMuiNIcBC0fsFhD0_vTa5qgTN0CjGYpaRNGc/s3300/Dinowen%20Female%20Sorceress.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3300" data-original-width="2550" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsGLHugr_ieHiL1NOBCnm-1MKLwDgpgI6czsg7Jneq0G0zn6Mh1SoNdbewgTLCuiG3qPxIVF03K3pmNi_qUOtBVRDvaw6Auk9-k8jloURBpzETPEl1WKvLkwhxyy-Ipr64BSZ7tvC8ITxaoYEbNHp9GMuiNIcBC0fsFhD0_vTa5qgTN0CjGYpaRNGc/s320/Dinowen%20Female%20Sorceress.jpg" width="247" /></a></div>Long ago, Midveil was founded by dinowen elves, and much of
their culture from the old world was <br />salvaged and brought to new life here in
the safety of the town. Fragments of ancient building were incorporated into
new structures. Seeds from the long-lost Torrilyn realm were planted beyond the
walls. In the heart of the town square was a library that contained numerous
texts and scrolls, all salvaged from the Upfall or from the wreckage left
behind in the aftermath of the Breaking of the Moon. Scholars hoping to
rediscover secrets and magic of old were drawn to Midveil, finding here a place
of solace amidst the chaos of the shattered outside world. An outdoor, open
theatre was built, called the Idle Wind, and here performances were delivered
to crowds depicting tales of Old Mythren as well as the hardships following the
apocalypse.
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Perhaps most notable was the tower constructed in the center
of the town square. At the top of the tower, the elven founders placed an
eternal flame called the “balefire,” which once burned bright in the Crescentwood
Forest in a world now remembered only in story. This flame, said to have been
brought to the world of Mythren from the realm of the divine race called the
Ilianti, held powerful magic. Those of purity could not be harmed by the heat,
but those who harbored evil would be cleansed by the divine fire. Ascending the
stairs and touching the flame would offer proof that the individual was worthy
of taking the seat of power in Midveil and naming themselves baron or baroness.
Those who were not worthy would be consumed by the flame and their ashes
scattered from the top of the Balefire Tower. Once the seat was claimed, it
could not be rivaled until that person was dead. So stated the Right of
Ascendancy, which Midveil lived by since its founding.
</p><p class="MsoNormal">With such secrets of Old Mythren, it was only a matter of
time before the Wheelhouse became aware of the magic tucked away and housed
here. Between the ancient texts and the Balefire Tower itself with its enchanted
flame, it was a wonder that the servants of the Wheelhouse hadn’t arrived
before, but the time had come. At last, the elves of Midveil found a group of
bandiar accompanied by two men bearing the sickle mark of the Branded upon the
left cheek. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The demands of the
Wheelhouse were simple and to the point: surrender all manuscripts housed
within the library as well as the balefire kept in the tower. Naturally, the
Midveil elves refused. With godsteel drawn, the bandiar forced their way into
the town and the Branded began their work of rooking those who stood to oppose
them. The elves touched by the hands of the Branded felt their innate magic being
drawn forcibly from them and their tie to the long legacy and elven bloodline
severed. They were rendered barren of magic, never to know the kiss of arcane
power again.
</p><p class="MsoNormal">During the battle, seeing that the Midveil gates stood open
and its defenders weakened, the Moonskull orlock tribe, who had long stalked
the forest outside of town, took the opportunity to attack. Overwhelming numbers
flooded into the town, killing any and all in their path. One by one the
bandiar were taken down and their godsteel seized by the marauders. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The clan leader, a physically strong and
strategic orlock named Krale, stole the source stone pendant from the corpse of
a fallen bandiar. Within this scarab-shaped object lay the secret magic of the
Wheelhouse’s most prominent servant, the bandiar. Though it did not come
naturally or easily, Krale unlocked the pendant’s power and rooked one the
branded who lay wounded upon the market street. The process was violent and
painful, nearly killing the orlock before it was over, but in the end, Krale
was infused with the terrible and awesome abilities uniquely granted to the Branded.
</p><p class="MsoNormal">With his newly-claimed power, Krale sought out the elven baron
and impaled him with his spear. Before the elf could die, Krale placed his hand
upon his chest and rooked him of his magic—stealing his innate power and all
magic housed within his blood. And along with this came the elf’s Right to
Ascendancy.
</p><p class="MsoNormal">As the battle in the Midveil streets raged on, Krale climbed
the stairs of the Balefire Tower and cast his hands into the flame. The fire
was drawn into the orlock, burning through his veins, but it did not consume
him. Left alive, Krale called down from the tower for the battle to cease. The
marauding orlocks stopped their massacre and looked up to the tower where their
chieftain stood with arms outspread. Naming himself the new Midveil Baron, Krale
descended the tower and claimed the seat of power within the town.
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br />Of the Wheelhouse minions, only two were left alive in the
wake of the battle—a sole bandiar and a sooth child. Wounded and left for dead,
the bandiar managed to catch Krale off guard, and unseen by anyone else, rooked
him of all his power. Shocked and defeated, Krale fell to his knees, devastated
by the loss of all that he had only recently seized. Retrieving his godsteel,
the bandiar placed the barrel of the weapon against the orlock’s head, but his
finger hesitated on the trigger.
</p><p class="MsoNormal">Seeing the devastation around him, and feeling an unexpected
weight of guilt for being partly responsible, the bandiar quietly vowed to
abandon his Wheelhouse calling. Orlocks swarmed in the streets, burning
buildings, while raping, pillaging, and killing without remorse. With so many
either dead or depleted of their heritage and legacy, the elves of Midveil
would never again be able to hold off the orlocks, or any other threat that
came to their gates.
</p><p class="MsoNormal">In the abandoned house of baron, with the body of the dead
elven leader still impaled upon his throne, the bandiar made a secret deal with
Krale: if the orlock would send the rest of the Moonskull clan back into the Glooming
with the promise not to return, Krale would be allowed to remain in Midveil as
baron and the bandiar would never reveal that his Right of Ascendancy was
stolen. In this role as baron, Krale could mediate relations between Midveil’s
survivors and the orlocks, who had long been a threat to the town and the
passage through the forest. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJEQuGE5tf2J2lCa30EXE4LXKOAHlg3-L7Ag1aXYJ0QNGSvU_hIxsjJ0BByfsR6LfF4fGefx3ZNNPAh4wUl7R6E_C2p3K-BlC7KjTGpB1B9bpBjZc-gbLdVg4TTFn0Dh-2uc_t1drxevJOYwDY_wLqzJiea8ATq0VtlwzjPkLpSs6e3ixghZlM5c4g/s699/gunslinger%20main.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJEQuGE5tf2J2lCa30EXE4LXKOAHlg3-L7Ag1aXYJ0QNGSvU_hIxsjJ0BByfsR6LfF4fGefx3ZNNPAh4wUl7R6E_C2p3K-BlC7KjTGpB1B9bpBjZc-gbLdVg4TTFn0Dh-2uc_t1drxevJOYwDY_wLqzJiea8ATq0VtlwzjPkLpSs6e3ixghZlM5c4g/s320/gunslinger%20main.jpg" width="229" /></a></div>In exchange,
the bandiar promised to remain behind in Midveil and guard against a second
coming of Wheelhouse servants.Forty years have now passed since the Moonskull invasion and
the overthrowing of elven power in Midveil. The elven heritage that had been
salvaged from the old world was gradually replaced with the practical needs of
the new denizens. Humans settled in the burned out remnants of the town, and
the elves that remained, barren of their magic, fell to the wayside, living now
in tents and hovels as the cloud of depression settled over their hollow
existence. Amongst the townsfolk now exists a small population of half and
quarter orlocks; products of the vile acts committed during the massacre so
long ago.
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Now, four decades on, Midveil has lost much of its own
history as new “truths” are perpetuated by Triggor, the half-orlock son of
Krale, and the current baron . Tales are told how the orlocks liberated the
town from the cruel grip of the elves, all the while the population of Midveil
is taxed by the corrupt leader who uses his authority to supply the Moonskull
tribe whose power grows in the forest.
</p><p class="MsoNormal">But not all is lost. Some of the townsfolk hear whispered
stories from the hollow elves who still dwell in the run-down shanties. There
are some who risk their lives to help those in need, or those oppressed by the
greedy tyrants who hold sway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And an old
chronicler has taken up residence in the rebuilt library. Some say the old man
was once the very sooth child that came to the town so long ago, devoting his
life now to re-writing the priceless tomes burned during the invasion.
</p><p class="MsoNormal">Still, the balefire burns at the top of the tower and the
residents of Midveil have become accustomed to the lean silhouette of the
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">When the Mother and
Father, called the First Gods in the lost mythology, set foot onto the newly
forged Mythren, it is said they met over a pool of reflective water whose
glass-like surface caught the first light of the Laughing Moon. It was also the
place they would later meet for the last time before departing Mythren, bequeathing
a powerful totem to be found at some later date. Long after the First Gods
slipped into legend and their names forgotten, the Moon Pool itself remained a
sacred place often visited by those of fey origins, immortal races, and those
mortals blessed with powerful magic. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">In later ages, this
location would take on greater notoriety as a place of great mystery,
knowledge, and destructive power, ultimately transforming into an Oracle unlike
any other. </span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">During the early years of
the Dominion Age, the goddess Neverial, known as the Lady of Secrets, gave
birth to a daughter. True to form, Neverial kept the father’s identity secret,
though it was rumored he had come to her through one of the twelve ancient gateways
within her temple; a domed structure tucked far away in the mountains and
housing the sacred Moon Pool of the First Gods. But it was not only the father
that was hidden from the world, but the child as well. Upon discovering
Mythren, a pact was made between the three gods of magic that a child bearing
their bloodline would be too dangerous for this fragile world, and an act of
procreation was thereby forbidden. For years Neverial managed to keep her
daughter hidden, but at last betrayal and tragedy led to conflict which
inevitably bled to war, and in the fallout the child, Angel, suffered a mortal
wound. </span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Taking her dying daughter
into the heart of the broken temple, Neverial bathed her in the Moon Pool, and
summoning the long-dormant magic from the gateways, bound the child’s spirit to
the mortal world. The weaving of magical energy was something never before seen
or felt and the voices of the ancient First Gods echoed a warning across the
reaches of time which fell upon the deaf ears of a desperate mother. The magic
rendered was a combining of Neverial’s own power with that of the twelve gateways
woven together with the enchanted light of the Laughing Moon held within the
unspoiled pool for thousands of years. Neverial’s prayers to the First Gods,
however, were as lost as their warning was to her, and the gathered magic
proved too much for the crumbling stone gateways to bear. A tremendous
explosion occurred where all perished, save for Neverial who helplessly bore
witness. The temple imploded, and where once the sacred Moon Pool sat was only
a dark chasm. As Neverial wept, a light deep within the chasm appeared and the
Oracle was born.</span>
</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgStFFjnH3RdbC-m3rwTWDFYYGdfSyadn4AEUZ-dWG12mP_fUgRwhzlT34F19Nl85XOlgivWAYC4bYi3ATmZPVnMIw4fUan8QQTCortxCE74Mv1S_S5QiJ-N-Ml1wyeYmv_8-wCXuogj9aL4PfLQEtvJTHDDNwngd6a8KqAhOLiJQtJUpHx-k2DLvan/s4961/Feyen%202.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4961" data-original-width="3508" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgStFFjnH3RdbC-m3rwTWDFYYGdfSyadn4AEUZ-dWG12mP_fUgRwhzlT34F19Nl85XOlgivWAYC4bYi3ATmZPVnMIw4fUan8QQTCortxCE74Mv1S_S5QiJ-N-Ml1wyeYmv_8-wCXuogj9aL4PfLQEtvJTHDDNwngd6a8KqAhOLiJQtJUpHx-k2DLvan/w226-h320/Feyen%202.jpg" width="226" /></a></span>For time uncounted, the Lady of Secrets remained at the edge of the chasm, her face aglow with the ethereal light—a fire of creation and destruction burning like the heart of a
newborn star. In the centuries that followed she built a sprawling new temple
over the chasm, a place she named Ghul Tulak, translating loosely to “City of
Secrets” in the ancient tongue of the fey creatures that now inhabited that
place. Neverial adopted these strange creatures who had been severed from their
own homes in the wake of the explosion. The feyen, as they were called, were
able to assume the shape of others, and in this manner were used to collect
knowledge for the Oracle whose dawning sentience awakened a near insatiable
curiosity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These secrets were collected from
the world abroad and brought back to Ghul Tulak where they were whispered and purged
to the awaiting light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The
Oracle became self-aware at some point a few hundred years before the
cataclysmic end of the Age of Dominion, but its personality was akin to that of
a child. Neverial, unsure if this newly created entity was indeed her daughter
returned from beyond or perhaps something altogether new, vowed to protect the
Oracle by any means necessary. As the Sorcerer Kings and Queens rose to power
and the danger to immortal entities increased, Neverial sacrificed herself to
the Oracle. Stepping into the chasm, she was absorbed by the light, merging
with the blinding vortex. The Oracle consumed her entirely...save for the
mother’s protective instinct that, despite all the forces that pulled her
apart, survived.</span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">As
the world around Ghul Tulak slipped toward war and both gods and titans met
grisly ends at the hands of greedy mortals seeking divinity, the Oracle came to
understand a new emotion: fear.</span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Despite
all the knowledge of the world around it, the Oracle could not answer the all-consuming
questions about itself—could it die, and what would death mean?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Word
of the Oracle leaked beyond Ghul Tulak. A place that housed the greatest
secrets of the world became a highly sought destination for those in power, and
those seeking to claim power. A bridge was constructed over the chasm, and
pilgrims would make sacrifices of magic and blood for answers in return. But
these questions offered insight to the machinations of the mortal inhabitants
of Mythren. Their covetous nature betrayed their desire for strength and power
beyond their grasp. Despite the answers they gained, their need could not be
quenched, and those who could not be sated with truth became dangerous in their
conjured fictions.</span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHI9aDdELc1ue25xpOgf6sjPByGQccL4nHcQxSAyNbBIVHhd1djqfAqQiBDiekvS6NDaGoIf8MQ-2mv5Tdtg697dXaO-PdTmkAWk-T1n_woQW6Eaiq50bJOXSbymLPF2Cd2cnEdmqTiuhVQUu5VByJBl6qz8P5X9aRf95raJMM6KTrbgqiGx9GInZe/s750/Oracle%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="750" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHI9aDdELc1ue25xpOgf6sjPByGQccL4nHcQxSAyNbBIVHhd1djqfAqQiBDiekvS6NDaGoIf8MQ-2mv5Tdtg697dXaO-PdTmkAWk-T1n_woQW6Eaiq50bJOXSbymLPF2Cd2cnEdmqTiuhVQUu5VByJBl6qz8P5X9aRf95raJMM6KTrbgqiGx9GInZe/w400-h289/Oracle%201.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">As
war edged nearer to Ghul Tulak, the Oracle became consumed with fear. Here was
an entity of unrivaled power filtered through a child’s fear and embraced by
the looming presence of a dangerous and protective mother. To ensure its safety
and to protect what it believed might be its own immortal soul, the Oracle did
what was necessary. A beam of pure energy erupted from the domed temple,
splitting as it rose into dozens of smaller rays which struck every major city
upon the continent with disastrous effect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Age of Dominion ended in fire and ash and in the quiet calm that
followed, the Oracle feel into a deep slumber.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Time
slipped by, and in the centuries that followed, others came to discover the
secret city of Ghul Tulak and the Oracle within. Often these travelers and
truth-seekers encountered a young child on the outskirts of the city. Angel,
she called herself, and she warned of “Mother” who slept restlessly within the
wan light deep within the chasm. Answers might be gained, but only if those
seeking to speak with the Oracle did so quietly, allowing their whispered questions
to seep into Mother’s dreaming subconscious. As a projection of the Oracle’s
fragile psyche, Angel appeared unaware that she and Mother were, in fact, the
same entity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">To
ensure that the Oracle remained asleep, a clan of vandi called the Candlemakers
would visit every one-hundred years. Lowering a “valla vakra,” a young woman touched
by the powers of fate, the Oracle was lulled back to sleep with a song. So,
this ritual continued, though even the vandi knew it to be a doomed effort. It
was prophesied that the powers of the ancient world would arise, and none knew
better than the vandi that the greatest power of the former age lay here,
within the chasm.</span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">How exactly the Oracle
played into the destruction of Old Mythren and the Breaking of the Moon at the
end of the Age of Prophecy remains unclear. There are tales of a forlorn traveler
of who met Angel at the gates of Ghul Tulak and hand in hand they crossed the
long bridge where his whispered words re-awakened the ancient light. </span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">And though apocalypse
befell the world, the immortality of the Oracle was proven yet again. Even
through the dust and ashes of the ruin, somewhere in the shattered Remains of
Mythren the shadow of a young girl appeared, cast by the glow of an eternal
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; language: en-US; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; language: en-US; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">A land of shadow where the light of the sun is unknown, the Dim hosts a variety of terrifying creatures. Amongst the denizens of this realm, perhaps the most prevalent are the jackal o’dims. Terrifying humanoid creatures with a jackal-like skull, these monsters prospered to the point of running off other races. </span>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; language: en-US; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">For those bold or foolish enough to bring a dead body into the Twilight Lake, their wish for resurrection is granted at a terrible cost. Such an act creates a type of doppelganger called a Dim Walker. </span>
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Some say Caras was built “on the bones of Mythren,” and some truth to that statement can certainly be found in the architecture of the buildings. Sundered pieces from long lost structures have been incorporated into the design of the city as though Caras has somehow sprung from the ancient memory of old Mythren. Pillars from temples to forgotten gods stand in the marketplace known as the Menagerie. The Owl’s Nest, a popular tavern and inn boasts shelves of books and mounted weapons and relics rescued from the Upfall. And the Sanctuary itself contains the very cornerstones and stained glass windows from Grandel Lol, the Great Library of Delerion—a sprawling city that was once the heart of civilization and magic. 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And the awakening powers, stirred now from their long slumber following the Breaking of the Moon, seek to use them for their own devices. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">Kamu, the Owl, is a empathic caretaker of the Sanctuary City, but one as old as he knows there must exist a necessary balance for survival. In other words, though many would see Caras as a place of light in the darkness of the Remains, it is not without its pockets of shade. Working within the city is a powerful underground organization known as the Six Feet--a name derived from the place where their enemies are left in the ground. They own and operate many of the establishments within the Menagerie, and those that are not owned, likely have business ties of some nature to the organization. The most notorious of these is the tavern of ill-repute known as Tail Feathers. The beautiful dancers are as unaware of who their actual bosses are as they are of the dark business and unsavory deeds occurring in the back office. The Six Feet are as mysterious as they are feared, known only as Scar, Patch, and Stone. Their true names and identities remain entirely unknown, despite their reputation within the city.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">But their are other forces at work within the drift that fall outside the purview of the Wheelhouse. Within Caras is the "Nijant Shop," where two lone vigilante lawmen help to maintain the peace. Their very presence lends a stabilizing gravitas to the setting and holds the expansion and corruption of the Six Feet at bay. And only a few miles beyond the city walls lies the Vale Estate which sits atop a cliff overlooking the vast Upfall. Here the master of the estate works his magic as an unlikely and enigmatic ally. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Adventure; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; line-height: 118%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: Adventure; mso-ascii-font-family: Adventure; mso-bidi-language: ar-SA; mso-currency-font-family: Adventure; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: Adventure; mso-eudc-font-family: Adventure; mso-greek-font-family: Adventure; mso-hebrew-font-family: Adventure; mso-latin-font-family: Adventure; mso-latinext-font-family: Adventure; mso-ligatures: none;">Todd VanHooser</span></p><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Adventure; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; line-height: 118%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: Adventure; mso-ascii-font-family: Adventure; mso-bidi-language: ar-SA; mso-currency-font-family: Adventure; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: Adventure; mso-eudc-font-family: Adventure; mso-greek-font-family: Adventure; mso-hebrew-font-family: Adventure; mso-latin-font-family: Adventure; mso-latinext-font-family: Adventure; mso-ligatures: none;"><a href="http://www.laughingmoonchronicles.com" target="_blank">Social Links</a></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p>Todd VanHooserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02684108809067432848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134261549050220167.post-91253605753117900912022-04-27T12:52:00.005-07:002022-04-28T11:36:13.817-07:00Setting: The Remains of Mythren<p><br /><!--[if !mso]>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 118%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">The aftermath of the Breaking left a fragmented world inhabited by disjointed people and occupied by tangible relics that shattered through the thin veil of one reality and into the next. The remains of impossible structures jutted from the ruin of broken earth, standing as a testament to mortal man’s overreach. As the years passed, these things were scavenged, weathered, or destroyed, but their appearance left an undeniable impression, and many of the towns in the world abroad stand as tributes or reminders to those incredible sites. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 118%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4hn0ygWKZJwrHWmnyLw_BJ9pX5o0ahJXHsNCejtddiUxG-4jjeUhN9djy1A9b0R95aEHVALDLcCOfaRolPAZdRbQLO8IsUN5njHyeT3Xz2TewQ0mCXozOxXQtq0EMadUKBLZ69qymPrv31JKKDyWXN9FRsmX49XP-vbcFENOOnKpyt19I9MQWJ4MG/s7040/Remains%20of%20Mythren%20(Draft).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7040" data-original-width="7040" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4hn0ygWKZJwrHWmnyLw_BJ9pX5o0ahJXHsNCejtddiUxG-4jjeUhN9djy1A9b0R95aEHVALDLcCOfaRolPAZdRbQLO8IsUN5njHyeT3Xz2TewQ0mCXozOxXQtq0EMadUKBLZ69qymPrv31JKKDyWXN9FRsmX49XP-vbcFENOOnKpyt19I9MQWJ4MG/w400-h400/Remains%20of%20Mythren%20(Draft).png" width="400" /></a></div><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 118%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">Typically the towns found in the Remains consist of inns, taverns, brothels, apothecaries, merchants and tradesmen. Some have churches that worship a vague and faceless entity known as the “On-High,” and most have a deeply seeded distrust of all things related to the Wheelhouse. Despite their basic similarities, however, each of these towns are distinct in every aspect from their layout, style, history, and demeanor. Much of this comes from the influences they have seen from colliding realities and fey worlds that resulted from the apocalypse known as the Breaking of the Moon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><p></p><p><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">Inhabitants of the Remains have moved like magpies into the abandoned dwellings and locales of long-lost cities that still stand. New structures incorporate elements of old Mythren: inns built scavenged stone walls or age-old columns of once beautiful structures, streets cobbled together using the bricks of long lost roads, cracked faces of once-great statues layered into fortified walls. </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 118%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">The world that was should have been lost with the Breaking of the Moon. The destruction rendered in the sky was only the beginning of the cataclysm for the surface world as fiery fragments rained down with ruination in its wake. It is said that the Breaking sundered not only this world, but </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; line-height: 118%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">all</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 118%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;"> worlds connected to Mythren—a collision of realities and fey realms and a collapse of time and space. It was in those moments of utter destruction that the Wheelhouse appeared, dreamlike, out of the chaos. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 118%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">It is a place shrouded in myth, and none alive can truly say what the tower is, or who or </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; line-height: 118%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">what</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 118%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;"> resides within its secret rooms. Yet there are some answers, though few, as to what the Wheelhouse holds inside. Within its deepest levels exists the Dreaming Pool. It is a vast body of water, lit from within by tiny spheres of light that float and bob in the still water like jellyfish. The chamber housing the pool is immense, illuminated only by the small pinpoints of light in the water. Stalking the rim is the Fisherman, a tall, and stooped figure clad in back robes. It is he who captures the light and sends it along its way to the Cradle Sanctuaries of the Sanctuary Cities where that energy is used to infuse the bandiar with life. A hooded apparition that carries a long, netted pole, the Fisherman’s origins and identity are as mysterious as the tower in which he dwells.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 118%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">Muses and sooths are also known denizens of the Wheelhouse, though their origins stem from the outside world. The muses, beautiful young gypsy girls touched with the power of prophecy, fill the dark chambers and corridors with their song. It is a type of magic they weave—one of many types the Wheelhouse relies upon to maintain its existence as well as its hold on the surrounding drifts. Sooths are children brought to the tower and educated there in all things relating to the former ages, as well as relevant happenings in the Remains. The ancient tomes and scrolls used in their education are merely a fraction of the artifacts vaulted here, however. The Wheelhouse is the last great bastion of collected knowledge and tales, called the Chronicles, once recorded by the Mystics.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 118%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">Empowered by one such relic are the branded, those who serve the Wheelhouse as regulators of forbidden magic in the Remains. Upon their face is a rune-marking that grants them the ability to drain arcane power from a given source. They are sent out to the drifts when enchanted items are found by those living in the Remains, or on rare occasions, when magic is irresponsibly wielded by the bandiar. They, like the Wheelhouse itself, are an unforgiving lot willing to make the necessary sacrifices for a world that could not possibly understand their actions. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 118%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">There are others, too, that dwell within the tower, though their natures and identities remain hidden even from others who have spent time within the walls. What is not a mystery is the fact that out of all that has survived the so-called end of the world, the Wheelhouse stands as a seemingly omnipotent lynchpin to a fraying existence. Likely its presence has penetrated all realities, conjoining them in the shattered remnants of what was once the mythical Dreamscape. It is here, amongst the drifting wreckage of all that ever was, and all that was ever dreamed, that the Wheelhouse draws its power.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; language: en-US; line-height: 118%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">The effect was devastating. The world was utterly destroyed in the aftermath of what would become known as the Breaking of the Moon. Mythren was shattered into fragments and bound precariously together by fraying threads of magic woven together in the collapsing Dreamscape in a final, desperate act of survival done by the Spire of Mystics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The survivors called it the end of the world. Indeed it was, but so much more. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; language: en-US; line-height: 118%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">Left behind was a collection of scattered pieces like massive islands on a boundless, yet waterless ocean. These divided land masses were came to be known as “drifts,” and between each drift was an abyss of mystical debris known as the Upfall. The overhead sky remained haunted by the broken moon—a reminder of the consequences of mortal overreach. But littered throughout the drifts were the ruins of what once was. And more, the secrets of the ancient world lay buried there.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; language: en-US; line-height: 118%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">Many of the magical races were lost entirely as their innate magic was quenched and their lives withered away in its absence. Those that retained their magic were later hunted for it, reduced to refugees in the wake of the catastrophe. To survive, the mortal races intermingled and the pure elven bloodlines that had existed for thousands of years thinned to a dream-like memory. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; language: en-US; line-height: 118%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">Even the immortal races, those that did not perish in the fall, fled the devastation. Religion was extinguished and soon the very memory of divine power slipped away to myth and eventually even their names were virtually forgotten. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; language: en-US; line-height: 118%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">But life endured, salvaged somehow from the brink of oblivion and dreamed back into existence. Over time the surviving races of Mythren began to carve out settlements for themselves. Some chose to dwell within the protected walls of the Sanctuary Cities, while others preferred to seek solace beyond the watchful eye of the Wheelhouse. Bit by bit, the shattered lands were remade and the races that inhabited the world beneath the broken moon began a new history. </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; language: en-US; line-height: 118%; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Adventure; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; line-height: 118%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: Adventure; mso-ascii-font-family: Adventure; mso-bidi-language: ar-SA; mso-currency-font-family: Adventure; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: Adventure; mso-eudc-font-family: Adventure; mso-greek-font-family: Adventure; mso-hebrew-font-family: Adventure; mso-latin-font-family: Adventure; mso-latinext-font-family: Adventure; mso-ligatures: none;">Todd VanHooser</span></p><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Adventure; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; line-height: 118%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: Adventure; mso-ascii-font-family: Adventure; mso-bidi-language: ar-SA; mso-currency-font-family: Adventure; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: Adventure; mso-eudc-font-family: Adventure; mso-greek-font-family: Adventure; mso-hebrew-font-family: Adventure; mso-latin-font-family: Adventure; mso-latinext-font-family: Adventure; mso-ligatures: none;"><a href="http://www.laughingmoonchronicles.com" target="_blank">Social Links</a></span>
Todd VanHooserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02684108809067432848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134261549050220167.post-39975849088260639292022-04-27T12:14:00.005-07:002022-06-15T09:54:08.374-07:00Introduction: The World Under the Laughing Moon<p> <!--[if !mso]>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTAqq_-W6dDRKos3Vc9J53txfYnuVvdQwc5Zw7pP573ngXeNq7ZSRL02CjdWvDIeSasbiJRmBfM8E36usCSvzkQp8lslhhRZfbFbu2QF97qUoXFq4tnFGA1FRNUeBQR5eypM00tCjdeb9w_WlRNKbxUuwv7UrNDcDHLH8K2zioMLFmzvuqCzP6yDuO/s3300/EdeLaszlo_MAGICSPLASH%20JPEG.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3300" data-original-width="2589" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTAqq_-W6dDRKos3Vc9J53txfYnuVvdQwc5Zw7pP573ngXeNq7ZSRL02CjdWvDIeSasbiJRmBfM8E36usCSvzkQp8lslhhRZfbFbu2QF97qUoXFq4tnFGA1FRNUeBQR5eypM00tCjdeb9w_WlRNKbxUuwv7UrNDcDHLH8K2zioMLFmzvuqCzP6yDuO/s320/EdeLaszlo_MAGICSPLASH%20JPEG.jpg" width="251" /></a></div><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: DarksSkyrimFont; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: DarksSkyrimFont; mso-currency-font-family: DarksSkyrimFont; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: DarksSkyrimFont; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: DarksSkyrimFont; mso-latinext-font-family: DarksSkyrimFont; mso-ligatures: none;">T</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">he world of Mythren is a fantasy setting inhabited by a broad range of both familiar and unique denizens to the fantasy genre. It is a place where magic plays a significant role, and where mortal ambitions often conflict with immortal desires. In Mythren, the word “bandu” means fate. The ability to control bandu, not only one’s personal fate, but that of the world itself, lies at the very heart of the Laughing Moon setting. The history of Mythren is filled with characters who chose not to accept their meager lot in life, but to aspire for more: to shape the world and forge a destiny of their own choosing. </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">Mythren has known a long history of conflict that can be broken down into three distinct eras. Each of these historical eras are unique, but there is certainly a narrative thread that binds them together. Although there are differences between these eras, each of the three Ages of Mythren offer a wide world of adventure and compelling conflicts to help establish context for role-playing campaigns. Game Masters and players are encouraged to look over the three ages of the world and see what best fits the desired style and game play.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: DarksSkyrimFont; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: DarksSkyrimFont; mso-currency-font-family: DarksSkyrimFont; mso-default-font-family: DarksSkyrimFont; mso-latin-font-family: DarksSkyrimFont; mso-latinext-font-family: DarksSkyrimFont; mso-ligatures: none; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: DarksSkyrimFont; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: DarksSkyrimFont; mso-currency-font-family: DarksSkyrimFont; mso-default-font-family: DarksSkyrimFont; mso-latin-font-family: DarksSkyrimFont; mso-latinext-font-family: DarksSkyrimFont; mso-ligatures: none; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;">T</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;">he Three Ages of Mythren</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">The Age of Dominion</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">The longest time period of the Laughing Moon world, this age is characterized by the appearance of the immortal races and their rise to power. Some denizens of Mythren choose to worship these entities, while others aspire to claim that very power and rival those of immortal origins. As forbidden magic is eventually stolen by mortals, the lands of Mythren are transformed into a battlefield where armies of angelic creatures are bound to Sorcerer Kings and Queens, all vying for control in an effort to solidify an undying destiny.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">The Age of Prophecy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">From the ashes of the Dominion Age is born a world haunted by hubris and mortal greed. Magic is controlled by powerful institutions such as the Spire of Mystics and the elven tower of Tanthelion, but a rogue element begins to grow as the desire for forbidden arcane secrets takes root. Fear of the ancient world is balanced against personal quests for knowledge and power, but sleeping dangers buried in history move restlessly toward wakefulness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">The Age of Wheelhouse</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">Mythren was virtually lost in the catastrophe known as the Breaking of the Moon. Now what remains is a post-apocalyptic world virtually devoid of gods, its very existence impossible were it not for being anchored to the shattered Dreamscape. Here, a great tower called the Wheelhouse acts as a lynchpin, holding the fraying bits of the physical world as well as reality itself together. Heroes, resurrected from the former ages of the world, serve the Wheelhouse even as new powers arise, threatening to break that fragile hold on reality and scatter the remains to oblivion.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">All current RPG campaigns occur during this age.</span></p> <br /><p></p>
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