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Thanks it was a horrible time....

Well I'll make it short and sweet....role playing is like acting if you can't act within the setting you probably shouldn't be involved in role playing. I've played Good, Neutral and Bad PC's its part of the RP world.

Happy Thanksgiving David!  Are the Falkir Clans considered part of the Rukemian Empire?  Also, you didn't mention Mercia in your breakdown of how the other Eastern Ithria nations might be involved with the war.

Perfect, thanks!

The way I ran it during the original campaign was that Draxorith:

a. had powerful magical abilities

b. himself was a physically intimidating foe on the battle field and could wade through armies like an engine of destruction

c. could open temporary gates to the Abyss to bring in demons in small numbers. He summoned single, powerful individual demons and small groups of weaker demons, etc. Not "armies of demons", but individuals and small groups. All of which served Draxorith and helped in the war.

d. most importantly, Draxorith was a rallying point for the forces of Duthelm. He was, after all, a demon lord and this gave the nation of Duthelm a great deal of military clout with which to sway others. With Draxorith leading the war, Duthelm was able to bring orcish clans, mercenary companies, bands of ogres, bandit groups, tribes of goblins and it's own army all together under a single banner.

Thanks, I will. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't duplicating effort.

Regarding the Demon Wars.. Mechanically, how did summoning Draxorith the first time, lead to the Wars? Is he able to summon demon armies?

Quote from: David Roomes on November 10, 2021, 09:24:39 PM
Organizations that are completely against the use of magic? Not really. None that I can think of.

Of course, you could always create such an organization if you need one for your campaign.

Organizations that are completely against the use of magic? Not really. None that I can think of.

Of course, you could always create such an organization if you need one for your campaign.

Good stuff David, thank you! 

Are there any established 'anti-magic' organizations?

Ok. Now that I'm reviewing it, I think I will need to modify some of the text descriptions. That particular segment of text was written before version 4 of the map and references a roughly linear travel path from Aridon to Waterford to Myranor on the old map (version 3). So, yeah, I'll need to review that and make some adjustments.

Regarding your questions. From the main menu on the left, if you click on the Physical World button and then on the "The Planet" button, it'll take you to a page that gives a good overview of the size of the planet and the scale of the map. The continent of Ithria is roughly 11,000 km wide from east to west - so about the size of Asia. So, yes the distances are vast. A war in the east would not affect the western half of the continent.

In my opinion, if Rukemia and Duthelm got into a major war, the following nations would be affected:

Kitar - Kitar would likely be pulled into the conflict due to its position and political ties to the Empire. Kitar is pretty close and would be directly in the conflict.

Ormek - Ormek might not be directly involved due distance, but the Empire could call on Ormek in other ways. Conscripted troops, higher taxes, etc.

The War Vale - The War Vale is close enough it might actually see some battles on its borders. And like Ormek, the Empire might pressure the Vale to provide soldiers or funds to support the war.

Carrikos - Carrikos is dependent on orichcalcum from Duthelm and would not want the flow of that valuable commodity to be interrupted by a war. There are a lot of interesting ways this could play out.

The Falkir Clans - The Falkir Clans might increase patrols on their borders and roads and might even see some battles at the edges of borders. The Clans might see an influx of refugees fleeing the war. Displaced people would see the Clans as the nearest peaceful region outside of Imperial control.

Vorrik - Vorrik would not get involved. It's too far away and would have no stake in the outcome. However, Duthelm might hire independent mercenary companies out of Vorrik to bolster its own forces.


Beyond that, I think the distances are too far. Other nations would be far enough away that they would eventually hear the news, but probably would not be affected.

Hi David, thanks for all your replies, on this and the other posts.  Regarding the road from Aridorn to Myranor, it's mentioned in the description for Waterford on the Kitar page:

"The main road from the Imperial capital city of Aridorn to Myranor crosses the Wild River at this location. The lord of Waterford is Corofen. During times of conflict with Duthelm, log palisades are erected, extra troops are stationed here and Waterford becomes a key staging point for patrols and raids."

I want to further flush out the background without getting completely buried. ON  Ithria who are the, say 5 most influencial Governments? Ones that would almost certainly get involved, or get petitioned to get involved, in a large war between Duthelm and Rukemia? 
I was thinking Drakellian Alliance, Cyrell, one of the Dwarven nations (Urmordia?) and Carrikos?  Or is the distances to large for them to care?

Should I keep it more "local" with War Vale, Ormek and Mercia an Carrikos?


trying to get a sense of scale of Ithria.. How does it compare in size to Europe for instance?