Dramatis Personae
People, places, and things of interest in the Talinore campaign
Note that details here are things the players know, believe they know, or would be expected to know, not a final source of truth.
- Almen is a minor noble House. The Shield of Castor Almen, featuring an eye proper in chief, a wall proper, is now carried by Drake.
- Arivanor is a major noble house. Device is diamonds azure in triad, argent. Blackbull is a major carle/ally. Reputed for their diplomacy and courtiers; some might say their haughtiness and guile. Avoras is their local court representative at Baerun’s.
- Blackbull is a noble house; their symbol is a black bull’s head upon a field gules. Motto: “Hoof and Horn.” They are major allies to House Arivanor and have a reputation for hot-headedness.
- Corant is a minor noble House fairly near the Watch. They are hard-working farmers, typical “country squires”, not too rich or fancy. Device is an ear of wheat, or, on a field vert.
- Fernywater is a minor noble house. Their device is spears proper in saltire, a golden frog chief, azure.Taran Fernywater, house heir, was killed in a brawl with the Blackbull and Arivanor houses right before Conor Kenrick‘s crowning.
- Artom Fernywater is the aging head of House Fernywater. His son Taran was slain in a bully-brawl before Conor’s crowning.
- Fallowfields is a noble house; their symbol is three flags, gules, in saltire
- Orantor is a noble house; their symbol is a lion couchant vert
- Luskan is a Northern noble house; their symbol is gules, a wolf salient, upon a field argent
- Malwys is a noble house; their symbol is three serpents gules in chief vert; sable, a closed book proper, indicating deep counsel. Motto: The wise know what is hidden. Now crumbling, somnolent, and far past its heyday, the true extent of Malwys’s power, and its actual aims, are the subject of much speculation.
- Redeheis is a noble house. Old and reputed to be very rich. Device is an owl proper, surmounting a chevron purpure, three coins or. Motto “All is revealed to the wise,” possible reference to the hoard that made their fortune. Yvaine Redeheis has been wed to Conor Kenrick.
- Thornhelm is a noble house. Pallinas Thornhelm is on the Council, or what is left of it, in Baerun’s Watch. A relation fell in the dwarven tomb many years ago.
- Valmy is a noble house; their symbol is vert, a band proper, upon a field gules. “We grow again.” Typically involved in minor wars/merc work, symbol expresses this. Terant Valmy is young heir
- Woodbight is a noble house; their symbol is argent, three trees proper in chief, a river azure. river Led by Peltas Woodbight, the young heir. A viscount. See Session 32 for his fears regarding the reawakening of a semi-legendary wyrm, Old Glour.
People and Groups
Aerununor, a name magically inscribed on the black door beneath the Sunburst Temple, revealed when Fath cast read magic on the door in Session 12. Accompanying it was the inscription “He with power will hold my key.”
Agorus, a Knight of the Hart, who acts as the organization’s herald and historian.
Agrilaus, a caravan foreman/right-hand man to Mirrish.
Alanna, a farm girl who left a mysterious charm at Fath’s doorstep at the behest of Sharane.
Aluina, a serving-girl at the Stone Wulfhaar.
Amaranthis. Queen of the South Kingdom, Saeltinei, de facto ruler of the North Kingdom. She is a seven-times-great-granddaughter of Toroallo Inigua.
Amelina, a stout lady who is Yvaine’s childhood nurse and a deeply trusted Redeheis retainer.
Amla, married to Orem the baker, found missing in Session 14. She possessed orethi (bloodybeard), suggesting she was a witch.
Amrhael, ancient Ysir sorcerer.
Anacreon, the leader of the Mossies. He is a distant relation of House Arivanor.
Anlis, an aged storyteller of some renown, often found at The Stone Wulfhaar.
Antar, a sheepherder of about 20, son of Borus the sheepherder (session 31)
Aoife, the Mossy sister of Maeve, who was slain by goblins.
Arborus. Landed knight, current elected ruler of the North Kingdom with a seat at Sver Palenn, the fortress at Baerun’s Watch. Now deceased. Succeeded by Conor Kenrick.
Arnulf is the Head Abbot at the Monastery of St. Marten. He is known not to be over-generous or particularly warm. Athelas’ boss.
Arquinas, called Blessed, was the half-legendary page of St Nevren, a faithful companion on the saint’s adventures and a minor saint in his own right. He is the nominal addressee of the Relation of St Nevren.
Athelas is head priest of the Manteion of St Marten and a member of the Council. Works for Arnulf.
Avrenor II, “The World-Eater,” first modern Thaarn Emperor, conqueror of Talinore, and founder of the Thaarn Reckoning calendar, still widely in use.
Bastien of the Hart, Sir, a member of the Knights of the Hart.
“Bearheart,” nom de guerre of a half-feral Old Druid in the service of Urnach Loskan.
Beddoes, a Knight of the Order of the Hart, feared missing since the spring of T.R. 402. His device is argent,a fish rampant azure, a chevron azure.
Bertus, a reeve and castellan at the Monastery of St. Marten.
Bodwin. Keeper of the Weeping Mermaid.
Borus, a Knight of the Hart now in the service of Queen Amaranthis. He told the party about Sir Beddoes in Session 5. His device is argent,a stag’s head guardant sable, three roses gule
Borus (disambiguation), sheep farmer to the west of the Watch. His herd of 31 sheep were slain by some mysterious predator in Session 31. His son is Antar.
Cor, a young boy with 15 siblings who has an unnatural relish for pie.
Corus, a farmer a half-hour outside Baerun’s Watch, was troubled by wolves and a worg until the party killed them. His wife May is an excellent cook, and daughter Tania a skilled if reluctant chicken-killer.
Council, the, the unofficial ruling group of former adventurers in Baerun’s Watch. Members include Erinthe, “Lady Green,”, Torin Fair-Speaker, Ormund, Prospero, Athelas, Kel ‘the Blackhammer’ and Pallinas Thornhelm, their general leader. Kel and Erinthe are members emeritus or at large; Erinthe is somewhere in the Old Forest, Kel is thought to have returned to his homeland. In late T.R. 402, Prospero, Pallinas, and Torin journeyed to the Glittering Mountains, apparently to help in a conflict taking place in the Halls of Hradin.
Davilas, a goodly hermit man who tends the well at Oakwell. Now humble and retiring, he was once a great warrior-priest in the service of St Nevren. On a spiritual quest to follow the saint’s footsteps on his journey North into the Old Forest, he believes he has found the “clere well” mentioned by the Saint in the Relation of St Nevren to His Page the Blessed Arquinus, which the Saint took refuge by and was granted a vision of his future deeds, about which he was silent.
Dilys. A beautiful, headstrong girl, daughter of Suelero, who appears to have run off with bandits.
Dominio (T.R. 206-T.R. 281), priest of St Marten, who entered the Tomb of Avoronax in T.R. 241 with his friend the warrior Elinithil. He sought to seal the tomb, especially its lower sanctum, to ward it shut.
Elinithil “Golden-Eyed” (T.R. -375? – ),elven warrior from the Court of the Silver Twilight who entered the Tomb of Avoronax in T.R, 241 at the behest of Dominio, a priest of St Marten.
Erdos Vos, a trader with some old connection to Suelero, strong enough to keep him making trade visits to Baerun’s Watch from Oaldes.
Erinthe, “Lady Green,” a skilled huntress and woodswoman, is a member at large of the Council. She is apparently sojourning amongst the Marchwardens or “Mossies.”
Finilias is an Elf at the Court of the Silver Twilight, whom Fathenthefath reports to.
Gilfoy, a monk of St Marten, who took a special interest in the boy Wilf.
Gorm is a man-at-arms currently in service with the PCs.
Gyllys is a seneschal at The Stone Wulfhaar. He was a reeve for Arborus but was cast aside when Conor became King.
Hamfast is a monk’s apprentice at the Manteion of St Marten in Baerun’s Watch, with a tendency to lord it over Miles.
Hilibert, a merchant, murdered with his 12-year-old son in Session 23 on the road to St. Marten’s Monastery. The PCs discovered the wreckage of his caravan. His sign is an oak leaf, worn as a shoulder pin.
Hradin, the near-legendary King of one of the Three Great Lineages of Dwarves. His delvings were in the Gilded Mountains and known still as the Halls of Hradin.
Ithilias is King of the Elves at the Court of the Silver Twilight.
Jarvis, a fisherman named as the husband of Miranda, an apparent witch.
Jem, a caravan foreman/right-hand-man to Mirrish.
Kel “the Blackhammer”, a Kemeri member of the Council and a skilled warrior, now gone from Baerun’s Watch since 391 T.R.
Kemeri, the, secretive people of the hills to the north-central section of Talinore. They are said to be the closest living descendants of the Ysir by some. Their language is obscure and difficult.
Knights of the Hart are a militant order of knights associated with St Marten’s older brother St Nevren. While pious, their tradition is more courtly and focuses on valor and honor. The order dates to the early days of Thaarn occupation and is frequently a temporary or even permanent stop for second sons, impoverished nobles, and the like. They have records of many prominent charges and heraldic devices and of the lives of divers knights, many of whom are recorded only in their chronicles. Only the Great Library at Oaldes has more.
Mabhrar II, see Talinore Gazetteer, victor over Amrhael and forger of an alliance with Ithilias.
Maeve, a Mossy who was Aoife’s elder sister and who was slain by the Urukhs in their underground keep before the PCs sacked it in (Session 21-22). Her sword Glassleaf was presumably taken by these creatures, as it was not found within.
Marchwardens are a group of borderers, rangers, foresters, and hunters who operate in the Old Forest. They are descended from a Thaarn auxiliary unit of some renown and still hold many of the traditions of the Empire as sacred truths. Called “Mossies,” originally a slightly derogatory term for their green dress, they serve the people of the Old Forest as scouts and occasional defenders. They hold no special love for Elves, generally despise bandits, and hate Orcs and other humanoids. They generally tend toward Good, but have a reputation as ruthlessly practical and pragmatic. Erinthe is a ranking member.
May, excellent farm cook and wife to Corus.
Milene is a serving-girl at The Stone Wulfhaar
Miles is a monk’s apprentice at the Manteion of St Marten in Baerun’s Watch.
Miranda, married to the fisherman Jarvis, was named a witch by one of her fellows in Session 11. When the party went to her home in Session 12, she seemed to have fled the town.
Mirulina, a witch encountered in Session 41 who seems to have fled as the party dispatched her ogrish servants.
Mirrish, a caravan leader from Oaldes; Jem and Agrilaus are his two lieutenants. He likes the look of the Watch (session 36) after delivering the household goods of Trantoro, and may organize more trips.
Morgan, a bartender and chief cook at The Stone Wulfhaar. A former cook under Arborus, he lost his position upon the accession of Conor Kenrick.
Mossies, an informal term for Marchwardens.
Mullivant is a wizard near Feybridge, an acquaintance of Prospero’s.
Naridis, an Elf, is chief sage and lore-keeper of the Court of the Silver Twilight.
Orem is a baker in Baerun’s Watch. He knows and has had many run-ins with Cor, and keeps a dog Towser with a sweet tooth for that individual. His wife Amla was missing in Session 14; she may be a witch.
Ormund is a nondescript man who is a member of the Council.
Osric is a man-at-arms currently in service with the PCs.
Pallinas Thornhelm, a knight, de facto leader of the Council and an unofficial ruler of Baerun’s Watch.
Peltas, Lord Woodbight, young heir of the house who first told the party about Old Glour in Session 32
Penrose, a boy of perhaps twelve, whose father was killed by goblin raiders and the farm burned in Session 12. While his mother and baby sister hid and survived, his older brother remains missing.
Prospero, a wizard who is a member of the Council of Baerun’s Watch.
Raven, the, is the canny ruler of the Wood Folk village of Crowhame. He is a middle-aged human with collar-length jet black hair and black eyes. He seeks to navigate the fractious nature of his people, their age-long hatred of authority, and the new reality of Conor Kenrick.
Red Alf, an elderly, somnolent purveyor of general goods in Baerun’s Watch.
Sefliri, an elderly woman with a reputation as a healer in Baerun’s Watch.
Sharane, a mysterious woman met in the forest by Alanna. She was slain in Episode 11 on Henge Island with more of her sisterhood.
Squeaker, a battle-scarred, smoke-colored tom who is the chief ratkiller at The Stone Wulfhaar. He “likes” Gyllys, will tolerate Morgan.
Suelero, drunken father of Dilys and sometime trader to Erdos Vos.
Taliniath, elven hero, slayer of Amrhael
Tania, daughter of Corus and the farm’s designated chicken-killer.
Tarantulides, Knight of the Laughing Moon, great warrior who set out to slay Arbogast in T.R. 328 before disappearing
Tarunas, senior-level Marchwarden slain by wyverns sometime before Session 34.
Terant Valmy, young heir just past his majority, House Valmy
Thelis, lady’s-maid assigned to House Arivanor/Avorus during the wedding feast of Lady Redeheis. Strong believer in Kenrick who took her up following her mother, a long-time servant “in the Forest” or “Before” (his formal kingship).
Tomar, rescued from Arbogastian rabbithood in Session 30, now one of the porters of all work at The Stone Wulfhaar inn and tavern. Impish, possibly with rogue tendencies
Torne, an older servant of Conor Kenrick, assigned to House Arivanor/Avorus during the wedding feast of Lady Redeheis. Served Arborus, survived the general purge after Kenrick’s ascension.
Toroallo Inigua, a Saeltinei King elevated to Imperial Governor of the Western Thaarn Empire in 224 T.R. His seven-times-great-granddaughter is Amaranthis.
Trantoro Domschi, a sage from Oaldes.
Tsilin is an Elf woman and court cupbearer for the Silver Twilight, a childhood companion of Fathenthefeth the player. She later founds a “redoubt” at H10
Tsithil is an Elf healer at the Court of the Silver Twilight.
Unthurukuk Vasht, a great Ysir wizard several thousand years ago. He is said to have worked his greatest magic to open the Road of Brass, a glittering thoroughfare that led Elsewhere before it closed suddenly after a century.
Urnach Loskan, leader of House Luskan, a powerful if savage Northern House.
Uther, a Saeltinei witch-finder of an obscure branch of the Order of St Marten. The PCs encountered him on the road in his scarlet hood in Session 12. He was visiting the Monastery of St. Marten and traveled on from there, apparently investigating recent witch occurrences.
Valmir Corant, a young knight-errant of the Hart, presumed slain; his signet ring was in Red Molly’s cave and was retrieved by Drake and Fath (see Session 24 Notes).
Vantir One-Eye, a F5, is the tough, wary leader of Oakwell. His policy is to be exceptionally wary of outsiders, given the dangerous areas in the hills nearby. He is generally on good terms with the Marchwardens. He has salt-and-pepper hair and a small, wiry build; he is missing his left eye and that area is a mass of scar tissue. He is about 50 years old.
Varunaxes Est, a Thaarn noble and war-captain (T.R. 210-256), considered to be the first true leader of the Marchwardens, a body of Dants trained, equipped, and led by his household knights. For his services to King Ithilias during the collapse of the Empire in the North, he was given many rare gifts by the Elves including the mail known as “Moonlight’s Durance,” forged by King Ithilias before he assumed the throne.
Vincor, master-of-arms at the Monastery of St. Marten.
Virlaen, a mercer and sometime fuller in the town of Baerun’s Watch who is father to the PC Drake.
Vortinas, former abbot of the Monastery of St Marten, died T.R. 381.
Wex, a soldier and personal guard of Amaranthis. His severe lisp is owing to having about half of his tongue cut out by someone or something.
Whiteleg, a donkey with one white leg and a dour disposition, currently in service to Athelas.
Wilf, a young novice of St Marten, who has run away from the monastery to the manteion (Session 22)
Wulfaar is a man-at-arms currently in service with the PCs. He was turned to stone in Session 13.
Wulfas is chief steward for Conor Kenrick. Morgan and Gyllys both know him, no love lost there. Accused of taking bribes for precedence, session 33.
Yorick is a boy in his early teens, living somewhere with his “Ma” in Baerun’s Watch, who is an uncannily good tracker. The party first hired him (10 gp a day, with a bonus from Fath) to track down the wolves bothering Corus.
Yvaine Redeheis, a 15-year-old heiress apparent to the Duchy of Redeheis, to be married to Conor Kenrick. She projects a demeanor of quiet naivete and seems a bit simple.
Villains, Foes, Monsters, and Similar Personages
Ach-Chorachach, commonly called Redspit, a fearsome ogre.
Lirith (fey), a semi-legendary wicked fairy who features in any number of tales. These usually involve her being bested by a canny peasant lad or planning and then executing a horrible curse, revenge, or maliciousness, the result of which often “explains” some natural phenomenon such as poison ivy. Her name has been given to at least one item, the sword Lirith, Heart’s Mourning.
Old Glour–a wyrm who according to legend lairs in lonely, broken hills on the edge of House Woodbight’s territory. He is rumored perhaps to be waking. Peltas Woodbight hesitates to send for help as his house is weak.
Queen Lilianthe–a Fey noble.
Red Molly, a witch.
Rongongoror, a miserly ettin slain by the party in front of the Rhael Trading Fortress in Session 21.
(The?) Shining Adumanticious–a fey, probably a pixie, who is a captain in the service of Lilianthe.
Thurakh, Great, the reputed great Orc king of the Glittering Mountains and environs. See “Winter Dreams”.
Places
(Aerununor’s) Black Door–A shining black, featureless slab of some dark stone beneath the Sunburst Temple near Baerun’s Watch. When touched, mystical silver designs and wards appear on it. It bears the inscription Aerununor and, in a spiral around a curious hole a few inches wide that is set into the center of the door, “He with power will hold my key.” The inscriptions appear when read magic is cast.
Allalellenfalas–The Elvish name for the Court of the Silver Twilight, the dwelling of the Elves in the Southern Old Forest.
Azaxoror seems to be some kind of Thaarnic ruin, perhaps in the Old Forest. According to Prospero, the name means “Hall of Twilight”. Appearing in a dream after the party restored his golden hand, the ghost from the Sunburst Temple revealed an overgrown milestone bearing the words “Azaxoror” over a curious device of a snake with its tail in its mouth. There was an accompanying vision of a hoard of coins hidden in a stone wall. This device was stamped on several of the coins the party recovered from the well at the bottom of the Sunburst Temple. Atop a low rise behind the milestone was a crumbling structure, possibly a villa of some kind. Where this place may be, or if it is even real outside the world of dream, is yet unknown.
Baerun’s Watch is a formerly prosperous outpost under the Thaarn Empire, ruined in the Collapse and now slowly being rebuilt. It is home to the PCs.
Barrow Hill is a small green knoll a mile or two outside Baerun’s Watch, a frequent trysting place for young people including Dilys when she eloped.
“The Witch Keep” is a large, half-ruined fortress and martell tower in D11 (II-0305). It was formerly occupied by many witches, attacked and disrupted by Drake and Fath in Session 27.
Cloudfall Lake is a smallish, deep lake at the foot of Baerun’s Watch. It is noted for its fish and for the thick mists that arise from it at irregular times, often in the summer and fall. It is the source of the Seflir.
Court of the Silver Twilight, in Elven Allalellenfalas, is the main dwelling-place of the Elves in the Southern Old Forest.
Crowhame (pop 550) is one of the larger villages of the People of the Wood, run by the Raven.
Davish River (“the Shining Water”) is a long river that forms a border between the North and South Kingdoms. It arises near Ys.
Enthor is a kingdom far to the South and West of Baerun’s Watch. Its king, Bagdemagus, was recently defeated by Amaranthis in a war that left her with title to the North Kingdom.
Feybridge is a small village several days’ ride to the West of Baerun’s Watch. It is notable for its bridge over the Davish River, said to have been built by the Fey at the behest of a wizard.
Gilded Mountains. A small range in the @Old Forest. Elvish Tal-i-Annun, (roughly) “Mountains of Sunset”. So-named because of the light striking them, also the huge amounts of gold the Dwarves of @HouseHradin took from them.
Great Leap (The) is a natural arch or bridge of stone, 200 yards or more long and no more than 20’ wide under E9. It spans a chasm at least 500’ deep. The ceiling some 70’ overhead is home to a large colony of vampire bats. At each end of the Leap is a stone with an ancient carving on it, repainted often with red paint, depicting some anthropoid creature’s head with two hands over its mouth. A troll or similar creature guards the far end; the PCs fled it, and the endless enraged bats, in Session 24 or so.
Halls of Hradin. The extensive ancestral warrens of the House of Hradin, one of the three great lineages of the Dwarves. Located in the Gilded Mountains. Now held by Orcs for some 300+ years.
Harthall is a complex of buildings, including a palisade, armory and stables, and Great Hall with supporting farms that is home to the Order of the Hart.
Henge Island is a smallish island, perhaps a mile in diameter, in Cloudfall Lake. The ruins of a henge are near its center; witches disport themselves there. A wood on the north shore of the island was previously home to three hags or devotees of the Crow-Mother, slain in Session 11 by the PCs. The island is usually shunned by the locals; only the north edge has places (barely) suitable for a small boat to land.
Iorent’s Needle, a ruin in a sharp natural peak or rock somewhere near the Gilded Mountains. Prospero announced a trip there in late T.R. 402 from which he did not return.
Manteion of St Marten is a small shrine or outpost of St Marten in Baerun’s Watch. It is a base for Drake the PC, and is led by Athelas and his apprentices Miles and Hamfast.
Oakwell (pop. 268) is a Folk o’ th’ Wood village located at E11. So named because of the grove of oaks surrounding a deep, clear natural spring, it is led by Vantir One-Eye (F5). The hermit Davilas has a small cave or cell near the spring, which he believes sacred to St Nevren who is reputed to have drunk there. He has been joined by Uther the witch-finder, rescued by the PCs from an Eery tower.
Oaldes is the ancient, sprawling capital of the South Kingdom at the junction of the Davish and the Seflir.
Old Forest is the Dantish name for the enormous wood, hundreds of miles across, that stretches to the north and east of Baerun’s Watch. Ancient and dotted with Thaarnic and older ruins, it seems to be spreading south in the past few decades.
Realm Below, general name for the vast network of caves, caverns, delvings, and diggings beneath the surface of the world. Occasionally called Kingdom Below.
Rhael Trade Fortress, a small underground keep in E9 formerly used by the Rhael in their dealings with the Realm Below. Home to the Ugarkh tribe of goblins, dispersed in late T.R. 402 by the player characters
Road of Brass, the mystical highway to Elsewhere opened by Unthurukuk Vasht some 2200 years before the campaign starts. The Road vanished abruptly a bit more than 100 years later.
Saeltinei. The Southron name for the South Kingdom.
Seflir (Dantish “Silverwater”) is a deep, fast-flowing river with its source in Cloudfall Lake.
South Kingdom is south of the Davish and east of Enthor, its ancient enemy. It is ruled by the beautiful and forceful Amaranthis. Its name in Southron is Saeltinei, and its people are also so-called.
Stone Wulfhaar, The: An inn owned by the PCs, founded in Session 30. It features a cap with harpy feathers sewn in and Arbogast’s hat and belt as decorations. More recently, a unicorn cape, also courtesy of Arbogast’s hall in the Eery, and two magnificent wyvern head mounts adorn the common room. The original stone Wulfhaar, who was petrified by a cockatrice on a dungeon delve, has been replaced with a well-done statue after being restored to flesh via the Efficacious Drop.
Sver Palenn (“Castle Blind”) is the fortress, Thaarnic in origin and greatly expanded over the years, which commands the height above Baerun’s Watch. It is frequently subject to the deep mists that rise from Cloudfall Lake.
Teflis, a Thaarn market town, now ruined and haunted by the ghosts of Thaarn soldiers and other, darker things. Reputed to be the scene of some great crime or massacre. On the map at location E8.
Thaarn Empire–a now-vanished empire founded centuries ago in what is now the North Kingdom by warlords from the East. Its ruins, lore, and treasures litter the landscape of the North Kingdom and the Old Forest.
The Weeping Mermaid is an inn and tavern at Baerun’s Watch. Its prize possession is a very old statue of a woman with a fish’s tail, said to weep when the Watch is in grave danger.
Ys is a ruined city, occupied by various peoples until the Thaarn made it a powerful capital, now broken and half-deserted. It lies many days to the West of Baerun’s Watch. Its wine, occasionally recovered from deep secret cellars by intrepid explorers of the Old City, commands staggering prices. The Great Temple is a dungeon with a fabulous and fearsome reputation.
Items and Objects
Black Door (general) is a slab of jet-black stone, usually featureless, that serves as a door. Originally created by the Ysir, the Rhael learned something of their art and built hundreds all over Talinore. All radiate strong enchantment magic, and some will display runes, devices, or patterns if a read magic is cast on them. These usually identify the Door’s owner or maker, but occasionally offer a clue (often by boasting) about how they may be opened. They typically require a unique key, meeting some criterion or performing some action, or speaking a specific command word.
Efficacious Drop, a glittering bead of dew affixed to a grass blade, carried by The Shining Adumanticious. He traded it to the party in exchange for Arbogast’s head, which both sides to the transaction assumed meant the end of the wicked ogre. While this was not so, the Drop turned Wulfhaar to flesh when it was applied to his statue as Adumanticious had promised.
Glassleaf, an elven-forged magic blade once carried by Maeve. It was lost after her captivity and subsequent death around Session 21.
Lirith “Heart’s Mourning” is a sword +1, +2 vs Men. Its special power is to cast fear at the wearer’s bidding, causing a target to flee with heart-racking sobs. The blade radiates enchantment per a magical weapon; the dweomer is vaguely unsettling to the diviner. Its name comes from a half-legendary wicked fairy, who supposedly granted it to a Rhael princeling’s mother when she wished true rulership for her son. It is said that one of his descendants, Bold Sir Ormeth, sought Lirith herself to confront her about the family’s ongoing woe only to disappear into the Old Forest, perhaps tormented forever by the wicked fey. In appearance, Lirith is a plain steel longsword without ornament. The weapon’s wielder may notice a faint pattern in the steel. In the right light, it suggests a screaming face.
Relation of St. Nevren to His Page the Blessed Arquinas is a scripture sacred to followers of St Nevren. In it, the Saint answers the questions put to him by his page, who wonders where his master has been “this year and a day.”
Time, Calendars, and Reckoning
Thaarn Reckoning, the “new calendar” decreed by Avrenor II and widely used throughout Talinore, especially in the southern and eastern regions. Current campaign date is 403 T.R., to wit, 1620 years off of “real world” time on Earth.