the Town of Maiah in the valley of Gavin Wel

Posted in The Shadow Road on February 12, 2009 by coyoteandthunder

The Besellyn Farm outside of Maeah is a elvenhostel in a human township. Zarconus the Paladin and his older brother Kai were born here. Zarconus went to the City to become a knight and Kai to become a priest in their early adolecence.

The Poolis-Fyr Memorial, or, The Long Spike, is thecenter of Orkish Druidic ritual on the outskirts of Maiah.The Head of the Order is an Ork Shaman named Hearthis and together with the Order of Sherriffs deal with any civil and religious issues that require a governing hand in the community.

The town of Maiah is one day’s walk west of the Longwatch Gate of Gavin Wel. The tower of Reihm is a keep and a grain silo. The own itself is mostly human and is set in a fertile valley that farms olives, cotton, greens and livestock.

Culture in the City of Gavin Wel

Posted in The Shadow Road on February 12, 2009 by coyoteandthunder

The BladeSong knights and the Sherriffs of Gavin Wel are the law of the town and wear traditional ceramic and brass helmets with a fluer-d’li, the symbol of the City.

The ancient hall of Echoes is the political heart of the City.

Often called the Emerald City, the City itself at the base of the artificial Volcano enjoys warm temperature all year round.

The Cathedral of Sinis Oebyr, or the Green Lady is the center of religious life in Gavin Wel.

the Valley of Gavin Wel

Posted in The Shadow Road on February 12, 2009 by coyoteandthunder

The Valley of Gavin Wel, wherein lies the largest metropolis in the Southern Sorado, lies at the heart of the coming Blight war between the country of Beris with it dark agenda and the aligned kingdoms of the West, including the Winelands, the men of Femin and the free people of Gavin Wel.

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The City itself sits at the southwest side of the artificial mountain of Erythia. The lands to the northwest of the City are generally referred to at the Dark Valley. Here, there can be found a mix of integrated races where most thinking and civilized people have gathered together to form towns against the faywilds and the shadowroads, most of which have been lost to history and are open now to only fel-things. Were open war to come to Gavin Wel from the Blighted kingdom of Beris, it would be imperative to open these roads again and unite the peoples of the Valley into a defensible military of somekind.
Below is a topographic map of the Vally showing all main rivers and natural features.

Erythia, Mountain at the center of the City

Posted in The Shadow Road on February 12, 2009 by coyoteandthunder

The mountain of Gavin Wel, Erythia, where the present metropolis surrounds is actually a massive ancient forge built by Raelfaen with the help of the titans, the tiefling and the ShadarKai late in the fourth age of the world nearly fifteen hundred years ago. Originally a smelting plant for the first Cathoid alloy, mined from veins in the earth and turned into weapons, armor and coin currency, local lore is replete with ancient songs of heroes who helped with creation of the forge. Now, Erythia, long drained of its cathoid, a substance now believed to have some connection to the Blight that threatens the Valley at Gavin Wel, stands as a constructed volcano with eternally rivers of molten lava running down steep canals.

Eshin the Diamond Mind

Posted in The Shadow Road on January 30, 2009 by coyoteandthunder

Eshin Harbareign is a beautiful and tortured soul. With Scathing wit, this diminuative character who figures prominately in Tiefling prophecy as The Diamon Mind, has died twice, destroyed the Dragon Queen of Belarion and built the first Cathoid powered Airship: The Kellis Truveau.

Once Timber Land, now Desert

Posted in The Shadow Road on January 30, 2009 by coyoteandthunder

The region of Sear Kiat is a new ecology. Strange new species of both plant and beast seemingly genesis everyday over this open land. Also called the North Blight Front or the Blight Taiga. Under a freezing sun and an ashen coat of snow, the amazing diversity of life continues to astound the pioneers and the bold who call this harrowing place home. Men live is squat and square houses of ceramic. The region of Del Thane remains a civilized nation despite the advance of Beris armies in the lower wards of the region, repelled mainly by the buffer of the Warforged army that remains vigilant against the Blight in the land of Reagla. There rules the enigmatic Lord of Blades, patron of all Warforged and enemy of men and Nlight both.

Look north to the Ice wall from what was only recently the seat of the City of Gondahane. Now only a whisper of vapor where thousands of souls were instantly voided by Beris’ new doom weapon. The Thaltomic Bomb that was dropped here two years ago did not leave a mournland, but more transformed the place, indeed now new species, new resources and new adventures await those who are curious or innovative enough to survive in this region with no identity.

A new kind of weapon

Posted in The Shadow Road on January 30, 2009 by coyoteandthunder

Clearly the ThunderSpear has something to do with the Thaltomic weaponary coming out of Beris. An antidote to its poison? possibly. Now it remains without it head as a staff in Muel protected in the dried corpse of the beast that once protected it, Chirchianon. Below are the notes of the Destruction of Gondahane: a large city destroyed in a moment when a Blight Zeppelid unleased a thaltomic weapon. The third detonation in Searkiat in the last two years. For now the apocalyptic barrage has subsided, but why? Why does not Beris continue its unstoppable destruction?

A horrible encounter on the Blighted Taiga

Posted in The Shadow Road on January 30, 2009 by coyoteandthunder

In the Blight Taiga between Muel and Kahl Vor, Eshin and Thorn encounter Esthionix, an elder Blue Dragon who was entertained by the Gnomish Wizard. The dragon had large sigils painted on each expansive wing of old western Raelfaen, possibly indicating his origin near the winelands.

The two who were then traveling to Kahl Vor encountered the wyrm after he was done devouring Sespicia the Princess of Stone and daughter of Sora Maenya the Hag.

It was then that playing a silent drum, the mysterious Auger of Skulls became present and frightened away lord Esthionix. Awakening the corpse of the halfeaten medusa, Sespicia attacked Eshin who may have perished but not for Thorn’s Warhammer.

The nature of Esthionix’s fright is a mystery although Ehsin feels in his bones that they shall meet again.

Quick and Quill

Posted in The Shadow Road on January 30, 2009 by coyoteandthunder

The Wizened Snitches are actually excellent cartographers where they aren’t putting their noses where they don’t belong. They remain fascinated with Eshin and can almost pick him up by the shoulders.

Muel of the Elves

Posted in The Shadow Road on January 30, 2009 by coyoteandthunder

It was Khelian with the Moonblade and His Brother Formenlhor the forcemage, the rulers of the elven fortress of Muel who destroyed the undead Red Dragon Chirchianon and brought the Thunderspear back to Muel. Formenlohr now uses a runed tooth of Chirchianon as a weapon.

Muel, the armored palace, is a city made of plates mined from the Feywilds of Essalo. Inside is a wonderous jungle while outside is only a shell on the blight taiga.