After the Fall of Brother’s Head fort the Civil War turns into a conventional war against the powers of Ragyiel against the united powers of the people of Berenium: The Elves of House Fuhema, the Dwarves of Gnarfold, the Dream Thief elves, and the Skyhunter Griffon Riders. The Front, now running twenty miles down the Salt Road on the eastern banks of the Night Crossing River will define how fighting may or may not cease in Gavin Wel Valley.
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The Berenium Front
Posted in The Shadow Road on May 24, 2009 by coyoteandthunderThe Cult of the Liege of the Pit
Posted in The Shadow Road on May 24, 2009 by coyoteandthunder
The Cult of the Liege of the Pit is a wild card in the mind of Tim Tigeon, the Sherriff of Gavin Wel Valley. He has no idea how powerful they really are. Followers of an unknown demon named Rydikos, the cultist with their blight magic and there emblamatic straw masks and thatched armor has developed into a military force along the Salt Road following the Fall of Brother’s Head Fort.
FelHenge, an ancient sanctuary.
Posted in The Shadow Road on May 24, 2009 by coyoteandthunderThe Fall of Brother’s Head Fort
Posted in The Shadow Road on May 24, 2009 by coyoteandthunderGolifer, the Syphon Mage of Urboni rained fire and earth down on Brother’s Head Fort in the Twilight of the First Harvest No Moon of 1103. The Fort is Destroyed and 150 are killed, survivors regroup at Felhenge.
The Goblin Skycutters take over the abandoned ruin of the Brother’s Head Fort. The goblins use explosives and continue to destroy the once mighty fort.
Of the friendship of Elves and Dwarves
Posted in The Shadow Road on May 24, 2009 by coyoteandthunder
The House Fuhema is an elven City. Home to the Kurem Fuhema, the House of Flowers. Is is by the funding of the Kurem Fuhema and their powerful geomagic that Fiola the Scavenger is able to build the Hellian Fence from the House Fuhema to Felhenge. There are 200 elves living here and they do not have any alignment to the Northern war between the Starbloom and the Deep River elves.
The Sky Folk and the Dream Thieves
Posted in The Shadow Road on May 24, 2009 by coyoteandthunder
The Dream Thieves, a tribe of wild elves who live in the Adellian Woods keep up an extended guerilla campaign against the forces of Brother’s Head Fort.
The Sky Folk of the Dry Canyon are not traditionally warring folk but align with the Dream Thieves against the People’s army. Tolliver embermage learns that these normally peaceful people are indeed poisoned in the mind and soul by Radikos, the Demon King of Ragyiel. He beseeches Chanela of the House Fuhema to assist in the breaking of the spell. Just after the Fall of the Brother’s Head fort, her efforts are successful and the fighting cesates in Adellian and the Dry Canyon.
The Radian Knights
Posted in The Shadow Road on May 24, 2009 by coyoteandthunder
Keljmar is the leader of the Radian Knights. the Radian Knights are druids loyal to the COE but not necessarily to the People’s Army. They are also called the Votaries.
The Radian Knights form an alliance with the Skyhunters of Gavin Wel to battle the Dreamthieves at Oratel. A particularly vicious fight with hundreds dead after the second Harvest Moon of 1103, just prior to the Fall of Brother’s Head Fort and the undoing of the the possession spell of the Dream Thieves.
The Hellian Fence, The Berenium Front
Posted in The Shadow Road on May 24, 2009 by coyoteandthunder
the Building of the Hellian Fence, as magically funded by the Fuhema House was actually begun before the fall of Brother’s Head Fort. (click to enlarge)
The Skyhunters of Gavin Wel
Posted in The Shadow Road on May 24, 2009 by coyoteandthunder
Niana the Gold, a sharpclaw shifter is the leader of the Skyhunter Griffon riders who are locked into an extended campaign against the Sky folk and the Dream Thieves, both renegade elven clans who are secretly possessed by the demon Rakydis from Ragiyel.
Shown here above the Red Tower at the Berenium front of the Civil War, one of the spear warriors of the reknowned Skyhunters flies a war griffon. With their large beaks and small hind legs, the griffons of Gavin Wel are carefully bred to preserve these features which makes them appears more fearsome and appear almost as flying lizards.
Golifer, the Syphon Mage of Urboni
Posted in The Shadow Road on May 24, 2009 by coyoteandthunder
In the massive underground sewers of old Khepathia, a dark realm known as Urboni, benieth present day Berennium, just east of Brothers’ Head Fort, the Syphon mage governs the Scab Clan, mutant goblinkind augmented by cathidic ritual.




















