Below are described only a handful of popular holidays and traditions observed in Morrain. n Festival of Fire – In the northern kingdoms, the warmth of the farmer’s hearth or the hunter’s campfire is essential to survival. The Festival of Fire takes place shortly after the autumnal equinox, marking the turn of the season and…
Month: March 2011
Adventure Timeline
Refer to Cillamar Calendar for months and day references n Current date and time for The Strangers: n Around Noon of 14 Rova, 1022. n Gozran 20 – Group meets with at the Inn of the Slumbering Drake with the Sablewing Council, agree to check out monks at Castle Whiterock n Gozran 21, 22, 23…
Northern Idioms
The isolated nation of Morrain has developed many phrases peculiar to its region of the North, lending colorful (and sometimes confusing) variations on the native tongue. Adroit listeners can often detect a speaker’s home or place of birth simply by placing a phrase or two, and assassins are advised to learn the right handful of…
Castle Whiterock: A New Day Dawning
You have finished up your training and are ready to do good deeds and earn gold pieces but you aren’t quite sure how to do that. While visiting the local taverns trying to find a job, you hear someone talking about help that is needed at the town of Cillamar. You ask the person about…
Interlude in Cillamar before exploring level 3
The two weeks passed in a busy whirl as all of you spent time with the teachers willing to help you build on your experience. At the end of the two weeks you felt you had refined your skills and added a feat or two that would help you as you explored. The pleasant spring…
Gendram Hills
Named after a mythic titan who died upon the broken land in his haste to escape a wrathful god, the Gendram Hills refer to the cold, jagged lands between the Cliffs of Dyzan and the Frosteye Mountains. Legends tell that the wicked titan stumbled and fell on the asperous grounds and struck his head on…
Mystenmere
(Small town, pop. 1,890) Mystenmere is Morrain’s window into the elven nation of Anseur. Built in the shadow of the elven wood and overlooking Valfors Bay on its western shores, it is the home of scholars, wizards, and hunters with a deep respect for the natural world. An embassy in all but name, the queen…
Anseur Forest
Aside from the wondrous bowers, sunlit glades, and shadowed ravines that comprise this vast woodland, the Anseur Forest is also a small nation of elves renowned throughout the Northlands for their arcane mastery and unwavering honor. A primeval wood with many ties to the fae world, the Anseur is a place of myth, beauty, and…
Galaron, Capital of Morrain
(Small city, pop. 8,527) The only true city in the kingdom and the seat of its monarchy, Galaron is yet a small community compared to the great metropolises of the south. Still, no other city in the region is as defensible as Galaron, its orphic, green-hued walls rising high along the southern shore of Valfors…
Ul Dominor Mountains
Ul Dominor Mountains – Boasting some of the highest peaks in all the Northlands, the rise of the Ul Dominor Mountains forms the eastern border of Morrain. These snow-capped mountains, looming high above the Vale, mark the domain of the Holdfast of the Steel Overlord. Several dwarf-highways lead from the foothills high into the mountains,…