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As you said there are plenty of possibilities
For my part I'm preparing a 4-days week-end with old friends. Not long enough for a whole campaign but I think we can still do something good (and longer than what was done in the Iron State ).

I plan to give them the opportunity to find a piece of the talisman. They are told that a drunken guy has claimed to be a member of one of the eight family. There will be a race between them and "officials" in order to find this guy and to follow the track until the talisman location. There are four lost parts and it can be anyone of them but I'm not sure I'm going to use Anark's one.

Concerning the number of mage in the nation, it's ok. Dalmoran decides
It's interresting to think that all officials mages comes from wealthy families. I see them as gifted, proud, arrogant and loyal to the tyran. They look like the bitter enemy of a sooooo faaaamous little sorcerer.

Ha!
We are hobbits in the Shire!
I hope you didn't meet only snooty halflings!

I know I know David, you already have A LOT of things to do. But I just wanted to finish that before hollydays.

Arcane Items:

• Artifact: in Farastu page, there is an unfinished sentence at the end of the last section. - Sentence Completed.
• Jewelry: Tulyken's Ring is said to be an artifact but it is not in the artifact section. - Fixed.

Talis :

• founded in 621 CY : "Although they had lived in cooperation peacefully for many years, they formalized their relationship in 621 CY with the first Verral." in Talis page VS "Talis is discovered. [...] they are recognized as an independent nation." in history timeline page.  - Fixed.  
• history section : "...an enchanted talisman in the shape of stone statuette that bore the likeness of a cat sitting in quiet repose"
  VS "Stone Phelysien" page (in legend and lore?) : "It appears as a small, stone statuette of a feline humanoid kneeling in supplication".   - Fixed.

Bathynia :
  history section "he united the clans of the region in 423 TIC and ruled over them. [...] Many served him at his sprawling estate including several legions of troops led by his greatest warrior, Krugendaur." and "Finally, in 28 CY,  met his fate in battle against phellysian marauders."
There are 75 years between 423TlC and 28CY. Was Krugendaur's life extended with magic? Such a long life-span is quite obvious for Threll because he's a sorcerer, but less explainable for Krugendaur, isn't it?  - Krugendaur was older, but had some help from magic. I'll add a comment to clarify.

Anquar:

• Kannor and its island is not included into Anquaran Kingdom - Anquar Locator Map has been fixed to include Sollok Island and the town of Kannor.
• bug in population density - Demographics now adds up to 100%.
• bug in founding date 678CY (it does not correspond to founding date of Ipotal, nor ascention of Dalmoran)  - Good catch! Wow, I have no idea where 678CY came from. That's definitely wrong. I've fixed this and also added some new material to the history section of Anquar. Hopefully, that ties off the loose threads in that section.
• allies and enemies categories have no link (to Border Clans (or Borderlands???) and Padashan Empire). Generally speaking you have to check because there are conflicts in these categories between Anquar / Border Clans / Padashan Empire (and few have links) - I added Border Clans as an enemy to Padashan, but other than that, everything looks ok here.

Ipotal page:

• governement type conflicts with Anquar page (Imperial autocracy VS Theocratic autocracy) - It's a theocratic autocracy. This is Fixed.  
• shops and guilds : unfinished sentence in Copper Bell - Fixed.

Language : Quaryn

• it refers to the language of the "Kingdom of Quar" which is in fact Anquar
• and in the Anquar page the language is said to be the "Anquar" and not the "Quaryn"
    ... probably some changes in the names... (personnally I prefer "The Kingdom of Quar", too bad )  - Fixed.  

• in Entropy (organisation page) :
     Primary location -> "Arcanum" link dead (the second "Arcanum" link is good)  - Fixed.  
  


• Flora :
     forest : in Clabbergill page, repetition of the sentence about the tolerance at the end  - Fixed.
  


• Fauna :
  
  
  
  • desert : Durgang and Dune strider have the same second name : "sand runners".  - Fixed.  
  • swamp : in Dragonsnake page, the last sentence in "habitat" unfinished...  - Fixed. 
  
  

The end. Enventually not as many things as I thought.

Excuse me for replying to buried post but... where did you mentioned the exact date for conjonction?

You're absolutely right. There are plenty of possibilities.

And I was just wondering about Anark. Does one piece of the talisman really confer immortality? I'm not sure... First because it would imply that the same kings and queens have shared the power during 2000 years (exept exceptionnal death). I'm not sure it is the best way to obtain "rulers of great wisdom". Secondly even if the talsman is very powerful, immortality is not an easy things to acquire. Moreover immortality is unnatural and often deals with dark magic/sorcery and that was certainly not the first goal of the talisman... In my opinion, Dalmoran with four parts really tried to keep power beyond a human time by doing what needed to be done (sacrifice of young people? dark sorcery?).
David, could you tell us if kings were immortal from the beginning? Is Anark still alive (I guess you let it an open question as you like to do )?

My fourth point I mentionned previously was concernign magic school and number of mages. It is said that the Tower is the only allowed magic school of the realm (plus the one of the resistance). The Tower graduates about thirty mages each years. Compared to other university in the world it's in the average. But contrarily with other nation, it is explicitely said teaching magic out of the school is forbidden. There is so 30 new mages each year and no more. Even if it is said "Because of Anquar's strict regulation of magic, there are few wizards and sorcerers here than one might expect for a kingdom of this size.", I would think that 30 mages/year for the whole nation is very low. Perhaps it's the best students that study here, it would imply that there are no poor or medium mages but only few good one (why not?).
Well, I'm a little bit disappointed by these statistics but perhaps I'm completely wrong .

Wonderful!
You know that I prefer to adapt my game to the world, rather than to adapt the world to my game.
I'm definitely satisfied with your answers, it solves problems!

I've got a last point I forgot yesterday, but there is no time for this now.
Thanks

Hey!
This post remains unanswered!

(haha! you will never be free! )

Hello everyone!
I'm planning to do a one-shot based in Anquar, and I've some questions about this nation.

First concerning the influence of the resistance. It is said that:

• king Dalmoran do its best to win the people over (patriot festivals, etc... but still taxes heavily with the other hand)
• the conflict with resistance is almost an open warfare (guerrilla style?)
• some people are said to help the resistance (for example Isabella ven Mira)
• Dalmoran relies heavily on propaganda (as said for drama favorable to him)

Knowing that king Dalmoran took control of the nation two centuries ago, and because of propaganda, does people know the truth about him? Do they believe resistance are illuminated guys or do they agree with them? In one word, does the resistance have major support from the population?

Second point concerning the power of the talisman. I have a problem with that because it seems too powerful to me... I explain. Karnus was propably an Alliance Mage Lord and then an incredibly powerful sorcerer. He made the talisman and it is said that each part made the advisors demi-gods and that the whole was "awesome". After two thousands years, Dalmoran manages to obtain four parts and his power is now nearly unbeatable. So there are some annoying points in all that:

• why Alliance Mage Lords were not asked to create such useful items by Thullian Emperors? Were they less powerfull than Karnus?
• if Dalmoran is so powerful ("half-god") he should be able to win any battle just doing it himself. Even against Kannor, against the Padashan Empire, or against the Gynfeld Forest dragon... Is he a coward?

So my point of view is clearly that the power is over-estimated: it contradicts Ithria's history and is not very logical in a military point of view. The second "issue" could be explain by writing the reasons why Dalmoran doesn't want to imply personnaly. The first "issue" is more delicate. I have few ideas but I would like to know your point of view.

The third point is closely related to the second one since it still deals with the talisman and the advisors. Is it necessary to have magical ability to wield it? Probably all Karnus advisors were mages of great talent. But -apart if magic capability is completely genetical- their heirs are not automatically. I don't know what it could imply, but perhaps it can help finding explanation about the second point.

Well, a lot of questions and more work for you. I hope you are not too busy with your real life and the trip preparation...

Ooooh! I've found reference to the "xorn" in "The quarry" short fiction. As it looked like the iron eater I guessed it was just an ancient name... I understant!
Very well if it doesn't take you too long and too much work, ok for a spotlight. I would be glad to know more about this beast.

A little question to wake up a too quiet forum.
It is said that the iron eater is not interrested in consumming flesh or vegetation but only metals and minerals. As we are what we eat, I guess the chemical composition of the iron eater is made of silicon, iron, copper... I guess it explain it's greyish skin color but you don't tell a lot of things about its resistance (one time again, I guess it should be quiet hard if composed of array of metallic fiber) or its regeneration rate...
And what is approximately its size? "terrible beast to behold" means 2.5 meters or more?

Uuuuh
It was a joke! In fact I didn't expect to effectively flood you by adding proofreading to your long "to do" list.
Are you still alive? (because I have a new list)

I'm probably the closest to your road trip but I don't know were I will be at this time.
I'm afraid I will be quite busy to do the trip to the south of France (either in the lab or gone for vacations)   

Excellent!
Thanks for these details

You're right, they can eat more meat than a rukemian human peasan... but I don't see the Coalition as a luxurious forest full of jumping games
I'm sure they hunt and eat meat but I fear fauna is not sufficient for the voracious ogrish appetite. And perhaps Tyrrenkor's area has been emptied of all animals for long.

Hi everyone!
The Coalition is a quite desertic place, lot's of rocks and sand. But even ogres and orcs have to eat and I was wondering about the agriculture there.
It is said to be only 19% of arable land. So I guess theses land are mainly located one the shore of the blood river. Is it right? In this case the Coalition looks like Egypt with the fertile Nil valley and the steril desert all around. Is there really lots of vegetable fields and animals in grassy lands?
The other solution would be to import food, but I don't know which surrounding country would accept to sell food to them. And it would be a key military weakness.
So David, could you describe me a little bit how you see that?