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Hello all!

The title says everything.
Corvenian people rely on magic for everything in their day to day life. But what happen to their magic during a Drellis phase. I guess like other magic it's deeply weakened and made chaotic. So the stars phase should have strongly influence Corvenian culture, more than any other culture. What do you think about that?

According to the abilities of the other ranks (empathy, telepathy, mental domination...), I think your third answer is the good one.

O, for putting both systems. But it means to change a lot of measures in the entire website... (don't forget the gp/pound and gp/kg )

About the new maps. Will they have exactly the same size than the previous ones. Because I'm doing a road map with tracks and distance (in km ) and I will send it to you as soon as I finish it. If the new maps have the same size, with city in the same place, we could use the tracks layers for them (with minor change for Drakkellian Alliance tracks). If not, well... it will still be useful on the "old" map.

Hmmmm...
How many of you use the names of the day and the names of the months? Who say during his game Landthrive instead of July for example...
If I say to my players "The next village is in more than 5 koraks". They will ask again and again what is the size of a "korak", and a "lak", and a "minak", etc...
I agree with David when he said that "fortnights" and "leagues" are already too complex...

I notice something a little bit disappointing...
It deals with the position of the Merchant's Highway river. On the 1998' map, it reaches the sea in Asylum. Now it reaches the sea near Drakkel. We can then assume that the later version is the official...
In your Crystal Dominion campaign, you said the group book passage on the "Lady on the Water" to travel to Price. On the map the river is not very close to Drakkel but we can assume that they find it more confortable for the travel...
The question is : is this river in its final place?

Woaaaa!
I couldn't have imagined that! I'm very glad to hear such a thing! (and not only because I won't need to convert distances anymore ).

You know, I don't think anybody here or elsewhere can blame you! You are the Khoras' Creator and such decision owns to you (and people angry with your decision can create their own world from scratch )

Ok, I know what is the problem!
I've just forgotten that you have used the old, few-used and odd unit of "miles" instead of a well-known, world wide and scientifically based unit of "kilometer" . That's why it was 1.6 times smaller...
So, never mind

I'm working again on the map with road and distance. This time I'm doing the things properly (using differents layers for map, roads and distances) and all can be modified at will.
But... I have used the distance already calculated one year ago and now re-checked them. And it doesn't match! Did you change the scale of the continent (on the distance chart)? It seems to me that all is nearly 2 times smaller...
Anyway, the work is going well and I hope to provide you a map in a month or two (depending of the time I can spend on).

Hello!

I'm reading the old journal written in your first Avisarr campaign (for those who want to find it : DM Tools>Full Campaign>Avisarr>Notes for past Avisarr campaign>Journal). It's quite funny to see you Khoras was before being the Khoras we all now today.
There are some old names that I was able to recover (Kitar was called Ratik and Miranor was Marner), the geopolitic problem are quite the same but slightly different (the bad guy is Alifax Deathchilde (as in the "To find a King" novel) and not the Black Sorcerers)... Even Caramus is not yet the ruler of Duthelm...
It's definitively an interresting story for those interested in the evolution of Khoras world

You have mentioned "blood magic" concerning the Darzek Tribes during the Age of Dawning.

Coooool
In fact I think it was the only possible way to write something about this part. It's coherent without modifying deeply the current history. I'm now searching for an way to describe it to my players...
Glad to help by pointing out strange things

I mainly agree with you David. In my opinion the situations before 2563 CY and after 2711 CY are quite the same (Draxorith is in his own plane of existance). But in between? He is trapped between dimensions and shouldn't be able to "power any spell" of its priests...
Oh course as usual a DM can do what he wants. And I don't think my players, which are not deeply involved in such matters like Golanthius's, would think about that. But the history of Khoras has to be exact and coherent. If Draxorith is trapped, either there is still an inderect way to power the priest's spells, either these priests will be powerless.  And I wonder what YOU decide for the official history.

In fact, I'm not sure that the complete banishement of Draxorith can change something. For me, the situation will be quite comparable to the situation before 2563 CY. Perhaps we can say that Draxorith is "further" but he is on his own plane of existence, as before.
But... I don't exactly understand what you mean with your last sentence :

Quote from: Golanthius on March 19, 2009, 01:42:08 PM
Now, the emptying of the Shrine of Lost Souls is going to wreck havoc on the Temple as there is no more energy flowing into the Temple. The ramifications of this has yet to be determined.

In my game, priest have generally no power for themselves. They can obtain temporarely power by asking something to their god, but if the god is "elsewhere", they should no longer have these powers.

When the White Council have banished Draxorith, one part of its essence was still on Khoras. That's why the banishement was not complete and he was traped between dimensions (I guess). In addition, priests of Draxorith usually obtain some power of their god (or at least they can speak to him).

So the question is : what happen for the priests when Draxorith was trapped? Did they still obtain powers (from which entity?)? Did they loose all contact with him?
Obviously the second solution would have terrific aftermaths for the conducting of Duthelm. If Draxorith priests are no longer able to obtain power of their god, all adeptes would have felt in desespair for the disapearance (perhaps killing) of their god. Ok it was not the case or it would deeply modify all the recent history of Duthelm (neither possible nor wanted I guess).
So what kind of explanation could be given for that? Perhaps lesser powers can still be provided by Draxorith lieutenant, and Draxorith cult was globally weakened...? Perhaps priest knew what happened... knew that Draxorith was somewhere... but it doesn't explain from where they obtain their powers...

Haha! The proofreader is going to flood you!

Timeline :

4,500 BT    -    -    Beginning of the Kingdom of Anhara.
3,700 BT    -    -    Unification of the Darzek Tribes.
    In the Age of Dawning page, the Darzek's Tribes were found in 4500 BT (the kingdom of Anhara is not dated)" - Fixed

2,400 BT    -    -    First recording appearance of the Barakus Clans. - Fixed
   If the Barakus clan were found after the kingdom of Anhara, you should describe thier history after in the Age of Dawning page (chronological order)

345 TIC    9    8    To distance itself from politics, the Alliance relocates to the city of North Aden.  - Fixed

  I think this is not the good date, and this line in not sorted with the others in the chronological order.

2 CY    5    16    Prison of Asylum Overthrown - Major landquake devastates the southern regions of Ithrian. Prisoners in a Thullian prison take advantage of the event and overthrow their guards.
It's probably a traxxian prison (not thullian prison). And this is in conflict with :
771 CY    6    10    The city of Asylum is founded. Prison riot in the dungeon keep of Shirdan allows prisoners, led by the rebel Symok, to overpower guards and obtain control of the entire prison complex. The town of Shirden is taken over the next day. The town is renamed "Asylum". All laws are declared void and the gates to the city are burned. Asylum formerly declares itself an independent city and Symok crowns himself king.

  Their are two different date for a similar event. If there is only one (and the other is a mistake),the second one is much more credible. Because we cannot see why the Traxx Legion would have left this town free for so long. - Fixed

89 CY    5    16    Thullian Capital Falls - Last Alliance mage lord, Mandacas, is captured and executed by Traxxian forces at the Siege of Bekai, the capital city of the Thullian Empire. Bekai falls and the empire begins to crumble.
If the Empire "begins to crumble", there shouldn't be 250 years of war after that. Or it do not begin to crumble.  - Fixed. The city of Bekai did fall on this day, but it's premature to say that the Empire began to crumble on this day. It's been reworded.

309 CY    10    17    Adaptors Are Created - The Thullian Empire creates a group of magically enhanced warriors called adaptors which are used for a variety of war-related functions.

327 CY    10    27    Adaptors Enter Baen - A group of adaptors are sent into the wastelands of the Baen Valley  to search the ruins there and retrieve whatever Alliance artifacts they can find. The adaptors are the only beings able to endure the conditions there. This group are called the Baenites because of their mission.

Weren't they created just to explore the Baen Desert? Why did they wait 18 years before sending them there? And if not, what type a functions had they? It is said "warriors able to adapt to any environment or condition." in Great War page, but what environnement or condition needed such magical warrior if not the Baen desert?

The adaptors were not created just for the Baen Desert. They were used in many missions before they were sent into the Baen Desert. They were used in a variety of environments - arctic, swamp, mountain, subterranean, desert, deep forest, highly irradiated magical zones, alternate planes, essence storms and so forth.

621 CY    3    9    Talis is discovered. The Traxx Legion first encounters the phellysians of the west and they are recognized as an independent nation.

According to the history of phellysian, they were already there in the age of Dream. I cannot believe that they had to "wait" more than 600 years to be seen by the Traxx Legion (a very powerfull neightboor). 621 CY is also mentioned as the founding date in the Talis page. Even if they were discovered at this time, they existed long before...  - Fixed

765 CY    2    24    Myria discovered. Primitives are discovered by a Traxx Legion sea faring captain living in the southwest and the area is named Myria.

Same thing that for Talis. Myrien existed long before and formed their own nation. Not discovered for 500-1000 years? And the Myria page mentioned also the date 765 CY as their founding year...

I've altered this one so that the specific date makes sense. And this new data is on the timeline now. Here it is... Captain Kassen, a Traxxian sea faring captain, having spent years living amongst the Myrians, returns to the Traxx Legion with tales and artifacts of Myria. Although there had been several previous encounters with the myrians, Kassen's tales ignite interest in Myria. Beginning this year, Myria is included on Traxxian maps.

1454 CY    6    6    Thurin Generates Support - With the political clout of having recaptured the Citadel from the forces of darkness, Alfred Thurin is able to generate support in the court of Rukemia.
1456 CY    7    19    Rukemian Empire Founded - An ambitious baron, popular with the commoners, overthrows the corrupt king of Rukemia and publicly executes him. The baron, Alfred Thurin, declares himself Emperor and renames the Kingdom of Rukemia as the Rukemian Empire.
The second line was written long before the first one and seems now "strange". The ambitious baron is obviously Alfred Thurin...   - Fixed

2705 CY    6    7    Second Demon War Begins - ...
2709    1    5    Siege of Myranor - ...
2711 CY    8    9    Second Demon War Ends - ...
Waaaaaaaaaaoooo! You have changed some dates and the war is declared earlier than before! Gosh!
Too bad, I cannot change all the dates of my campaigns and I have to differ significantly from the website (I don't like that)
Snif...