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Random entry from the Encyclopaedia Telrhinica:
Arles-on-Volgrit
Arles-on-Volgrit is a quiet farming town on the Volgrit river, an offshoot of the Meldevic river that rejoins it further north. It straddles the narrow river with three old stone bridges, one them ...(truncated)
The 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide is in my fat geeky hands! Added to the collection.
Pre-ordered from Labyrinth Games & Puzzles here in DC, best Friendly Local Game Store.
And that's not a stock photo, those are my books! I bought that original 1E DMG in 1980 at a hobby shop in Princeton New Jersey when I was 12.
I fed the World Overview page to Google's NotebookLM, and this is what it created. An AI generated discussion of the world between two AI podcasters.
"It's like a dragon just swooped in and stole your expectations."
Apparently Telrhin has no unicorns.
Eloche was a great city of the Antedivisian world, a place of wisdom, culture, and knowledge. The Abantu and Westrons both claim it as theirs, and it may have even existed as echoes in other places, even other worlds.
At the end of the day, covered in the dust of a few tombs, any adventurer worth their salt makes their way to the tavern.
A place to kick back, brag about the day's victories, mourn the losses, and enjoy a good pint.
The world is changing, writhing, cracking under the strain of time. Serpent Earth is waking, her many dreams fracturing as she uncoils.
In the beginning the world was a scattered sky of different dreams, each one a world, born from the Womb and the Well of Dreams. Born from the sleeping minds of sleeping gods.
This is a short piece demonstrating the mundane magic of a fantasy world. In this case a temple in a major city, and the kind of things considered impressive but expected in a world of dragons, gods, and magic.
This is from some new work in the Field Guide to the Lowlands, in a section on Courts and Intrigue.
Very possible this was all influenced by too many games of this:
Lockdown gaming has driven us to this... pic.twitter.com/T7US1yTL5E
— The World of Telrhin (@Telrhin) June 9, 2020
In a world where the laws of science are mutable, and there's a palpable existence of good and evil, how do people define reality?
Each campaign can embrace its own direction for this, but the default worldview for most people is one of these.
Some might argue that this is the greatest solution to starvation ever conceived and a true miracle of the gods. Others - possibly the zealous followers of other religions - called it a blasphemous abomination. When it came to light that the source of the free meat was a giant bleeding aberration, the meat lost its appeal and communities turned against it. It didn't help that it had a strange taste some people compared to fish oil. The fish taste was sometimes excused away with an elaborate tale of Sarides, the "sometimes-brother" god of Sylas, and how he plucked the meat-sack-thing from the sea.
The cities and coasts of the Valek are all unified by the sea. You could say that everything around the Valek faces inward, and the sea is the focus of everything: trade, food, wealth, power, and war. The roonhands of the Valek are tied to this global world, influenced by the cultures of a hundred ports, speaking the same slang creole as the sailors: called Planker, it's a mix of Thurne, Tagani and Korul.
