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Knights without land are known as executors, and these petty nobles serve as emissaries, spies, soldiers, and assassins for greater Warlock Knights.Ĭonflict-fraught place, Vaasa enjoyed a brief respite under the rule of Ironfell Councilors worry about this sign of an old evil renewed, but only a few mighty Warlock Knights have personally investigated and tried their power against the runes. Some Warlock Knights speculate that the renewed bastion was built in a night by a horde of demons once loyal to Zhengyi. The council dispatched a small expedition, but the dark runes frustrated all attempts at entry. The Warlock Knight whose lands were in view of the old ruin wasted no time relating the event to the Ironfell Council. Black runes shimmer with darkness on this castle’s walls, absorbing the wan northern light but providing no clues to the castle’s sudden rejuvenation. The ruined castle sloughed off crumbling stone and the marks of age, revealing a sleek and dark edifice beneath. Two years ago, a great earthquake rattled northern Vaasa and Damara. The lich was finally destroyed and his army defeated, and his castle fell into ruin. The self-styled Witch-King Zhengyi housed a huge army in and around the castle, repeatedly using it to attack the kingdom of Damara. Long ago, the famed Castle Perilous was a seat of power. The dreaded Warlock Knights of Vaasa gather an army of monsters of all descriptions, preparing for the day when their terrible hordes will sweep away neighboring kingdoms, spreading their alien evil. To the west, the Warlock Knights of Vaasa grow stronger and threaten war. While Damara’s people groan under tyrannical rule, deadly perils loom on all fronts. Any who stray too far from the walled towns end up fighting for their lives against horrible monsters. This is a northerly land of windswept plains, ice-crowned mountains, dark pine forests, and long, fearsome winters.

Vaasa is a desolate realm of bogs, tundra, and windswept mountains in the northwest corner of the Bloodstone Lands.ĭamara is wild, rugged, and rustic-a frontier as unrefined as it is remote. Demons freely menace the Dunwood and terrorize the villages of the Great Dale and frigid Narfell. The kingdom is now firmly in the grip of the Fraternity of Tharos, a fanatical cult of demon-worshipers. King Imbrar’s death and the retreat of the Inner Sea in the Year of Blue Fire ended Impiltur’s hopes. The assassination of Dragonsbane’s heir twenty years ago led to civil war throughout Bloodstone, allowing the patient Warlock Knights to seize control of windswept Vaasa. The region saw a glimmer of hope when King Gareth Dragonsbane united Damara and Vaasa into the unified kingdom of Bloodstone, and when young King Imbrar II of Impiltur dissolved the council of paladins (the Lords of Imphras II) and began ruling unfettered by the dynastic machinations of the past. It includes Impiltur, Damara, Vaasa, Narfell, and the Great Dale. This region consists of isolated territories of tough folk, hardened by decades of conflict with demonic beasts and fell magic. Wearing crystalline armor, whose breath neutralizes all heat. Of undead, a sentient blizzard? One tale posits a giant carved of ice,

The nature of the Breath of Winter is hotly debated insideĭamara’s walled cities and vassal keeps-is it a white dragon, some sort It leaves only frozen husks that are found months or Mercenary legions organized to combat monstrous threats and enforce theĬreature of ice stalks Damara, seeking groups or lone creatures to Has long had a tradition of hiring adventurers to serve as swordpoints, the Troll of Scragtop - believe the lies of the villagers (who try to feed strangers to the troll so it doesn’t bother the village) may find that the troll doesn’t, after all.Notes on the Realms (Duergar, the weave).Elminster of Shadowdale, Year of the Ageless One (1479 DR)