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BogMod: /* East */

2013-07-11T08:29:08Z

‎East

BogMod: /* Tangxi */

2013-06-27T07:33:35Z

‎Tangxi

BogMod: /* East */

2013-06-27T07:29:55Z

‎East

BogMod: /* The Raised Kingdom */

2011-12-13T21:44:37Z

‎The Raised Kingdom

BogMod: /* The Great Eastern Wall */

2011-08-14T04:26:32Z

‎The Great Eastern Wall

BogMod: /* Kingdom of Roland */

2011-08-14T04:24:03Z

‎Kingdom of Roland

BogMod: /* Lakelands */

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‎Lakelands

BogMod: /* The Echo Market */

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‎The Echo Market

BogMod: /* Lakelands */

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‎Lakelands

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‎Lakelands

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		+	=== Reisengraf ===
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		+	In the east a great valley kingdom through which a river cut its way through the middle. A prosperous place in the First Age and even into the Shogunate it seemed to do alright through the Great Contagion thanks to a long standing blessing on the region from the central manse of the region. However the invasion of the Fair Folk changed that. A terrible unshaped descended upon the valley and then when it moved on the place was changed and twisted. Everything that the Great Contagion hadn't slain was consumed yet...not dead. Not even undead. Not alive though. Instead the lingering wyld energies had certainly slain them but left them with a sort of life. The trees, the grass, the fish in the river, the people, the river itself even hadn't quite realized they were dead yet. If you look down at the valley from the heights around it you will see the place for the barren place it is with a dark twisted river twisting through it. As you go down though it seems to come to life. The scraggly dead trees seem to grow strait and get covered in leaves. Skeletons of people move and for a moment you can see they are sun bleached bones before full bodied people are in their place moving. The people nearby though know that the friendliness of the once living people there is a lie. They draw you in and kill you and you join them. Still for the crafty or heavily armed brief raids can yield Shogunate legacies.
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		+	=== Heimhall ===
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		+	40 years after the Great Contagion the remains of the 18th Legion of the Dragon-Blooded Shogunate returned to what was once the city that they had been based out of. The Fair Folk invasion and retaliatory strike of the Scarlet Empress had scoured the place from the map down to its foundations. Yet elemental and wyld energies had mixed with the power of the ancient magitech left from the First Age giving them what was at first called White Tiger's Fountain. Seeing potential in this strange liquid-organic glass being made the few savants pooled their talents and bound it into what they would call the Glass Cauldron. Feeding the right things into it and playing the inscribed sides with jade hammers one can grow buildings or other objects of this glass with the glass having a hardness of stone or steel. The very first test run of this was a opaque grey glass barrack building some 100 feet long and it still stands today. An attempt to steal the Glass Cauldron while it was in use a decade ago has lead to the ruling family using it more rarely and under much much heavier guard which has lead to the development of more conventional buildings in the city. Though the cities rulers claim descent from the original survivors of the 18th Legion careful examination of the cities history indicates a coup in the second century leading to a new ruling family and little remains of the blood of the Dragons in the city.

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 === Tangxi ===
-One of the numerous nations of the Thousand Kingdoms this growing city is set against a mountainside.  Placed near a river a few inherited first age siege weapons ensures that they are able to profit from tariffs on passing trade.  However 50 years ago mining in the mountain they are set against turned up something amazing.  Not only did they come across the fossilized remains of a truly massive behemoth creature seeming mountain sized itself but also indications of a hidden submerged city.  Entrance to the area is highly restricted and mining the remains or excavating the ruins is very dangerous.  The beasts death have infused strange energies into rocks and the petrified flesh and bones.  Also some of the people old inhabitants have come to life to defend the revealed ruins, wielding painted bronze and arcane lacquered woods they have slain many excavators.  However the value of the finds and demand for the remains have made it a valuable source of income for the council lead Kingdom.
+One of the numerous nations of the Thousand Kingdoms this growing city is set against a mountainside.  Placed near a river a few inherited first age siege weapons ensures that they are able to profit from tariffs on passing trade.  However 50 years ago mining in the mountain they are set against turned up something amazing.  Not only did they come across the fossilized remains of a truly massive behemoth creature seeming mountain sized itself but also indications of a hidden submerged city.  Entrance to the area is highly restricted and mining the remains or excavating the ruins is very dangerous.  The beasts death have infused strange energies into rocks and the petrified flesh and bones.  Also some of the people old inhabitants have come to life to defend the revealed ruins, wielding painted bronze and arcane lacquered woods they have slain many excavators.  However the value of the finds and demand for the remains have made it a valuable source of income for the city-state.  The city is ruled by a child King, who is blessed with youth and long life as well as other strengths by a group of 5 local terrestrial deities.  The child rules for a century before being a lottery chooses the next.  The old child ruler vanishes and the new one replaces them, changing by the imbued power to take up the role.
 === The Raised Kingdom ===

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		+	=== Tangxi ===
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		+	One of the numerous nations of the Thousand Kingdoms this growing city is set against a mountainside. Placed near a river a few inherited first age siege weapons ensures that they are able to profit from tariffs on passing trade. However 50 years ago mining in the mountain they are set against turned up something amazing. Not only did they come across the fossilized remains of a truly massive behemoth creature seeming mountain sized itself but also indications of a hidden submerged city. Entrance to the area is highly restricted and mining the remains or excavating the ruins is very dangerous. The beasts death have infused strange energies into rocks and the petrified flesh and bones. Also some of the people old inhabitants have come to life to defend the revealed ruins, wielding painted bronze and arcane lacquered woods they have slain many excavators. However the value of the finds and demand for the remains have made it a valuable source of income for the council lead Kingdom.

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 One of the stranger nations of the Thousand Kingdoms is known for its bridges.  This would not be so interesting except that all the bridges connect various hills and do not cross any bodies of water.  During the years preceeding the Fair Folk invasion the entire area was under water but for numerous islands.  Connected by imperishable bridges made by First Age methods the area was influenced heavily by the Lunar who later Exalted there leading to a lot of animal images and themes to the bridges and architecture.  The Shogunate covered up these motifes where they could.
-The Fair Folk invasion changed things however.  Elemental energies and chaos changed the landscape in places an soon enough the lake was empty or raised, waters diverted.  Now the bridges connect various hills on which towns and a city or two are built with a class of underpriveledged and criminal element setting up shop under the arches of the bridges themselves.
+The Fair Folk invasion changed things however.  Elemental energies and chaos changed the landscape in places an soon enough the lake were emptied or raised, waters diverted.  Now the bridges connect various hills on which towns and a city or two are built with a class of underpriveledged and criminal element setting up shop under the arches of the bridges themselves.
 === The Ruins of Ronal ===

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	One of the very rare legacies from before the rise of the Exalted lies in the far east. In the great eternal forests there is a massive wall so tall that one can see it rise above some clouds. It is roughly made from massive blocks of some unique brown stone. The whole thing gives one the idea that it was made perhaps by a child playing with building blocks...were such a child a massive titan miles in size itself. Stretching nearly 200 miles perfectly north to south the wall was permitted to exist after the fall of the Primordials by the Solars thanks to certain properties it has. The western side of the wall is normal enough. The eastern side though twists the energies of the dragonlines that flow under it causing strange fauna that are found nowhere else in all Creation to be found growing within a mile of it.		One of the very rare legacies from before the rise of the Exalted lies in the far east. In the great eternal forests there is a massive wall so tall that one can see it rise above some clouds. It is roughly made from massive blocks of some unique brown stone. The whole thing gives one the idea that it was made perhaps by a child playing with building blocks...were such a child a massive titan miles in size itself. Stretching nearly 200 miles perfectly north to south the wall was permitted to exist after the fall of the Primordials by the Solars thanks to certain properties it has. The western side of the wall is normal enough. The eastern side though twists the energies of the dragonlines that flow under it causing strange fauna that are found nowhere else in all Creation to be found growing within a mile of it.
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		+	In the second age it survived the invasion of the Fair Folk and has survived the passage of time and elements too. Yet for all its length only a single village dares grow nestled against its western side. There is even a path up to the top. The villagers hold a legend that one who climbs to the top with a wish in their heart and jumps off towards the Pole of Wood will, so long as their heart is true, be caught by the Dragon of Wood and have their wish granted.

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	Aside from that one great tower though the region is of second age inhabitation and construction. A few minor manses are in the region all however are claimed by local gods. Those Gods who make their home in the region have shared their blessings to keep the offerings and worship coming in but have bowed to the pressure of the national god of the region and produce no offspring with the locals. The Guild has only a light presence in the region thanks to the strong local government and a touch of interference from a membef of the Gold Faction.		Aside from that one great tower though the region is of second age inhabitation and construction. A few minor manses are in the region all however are claimed by local gods. Those Gods who make their home in the region have shared their blessings to keep the offerings and worship coming in but have bowed to the pressure of the national god of the region and produce no offspring with the locals. The Guild has only a light presence in the region thanks to the strong local government and a touch of interference from a membef of the Gold Faction.
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		+	=== The Great Eastern Wall ===
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		+	One of the very rare legacies from before the rise of the Exalted lies in the far east. In the great eternal forests there is a massive wall so tall that one can see it rise above some clouds. It is roughly made from massive blocks of some unique brown stone. The whole thing gives one the idea that it was made perhaps by a child playing with building blocks...were such a child a massive titan miles in size itself. Stretching nearly 200 miles perfectly north to south the wall was permitted to exist after the fall of the Primordials by the Solars thanks to certain properties it has. The western side of the wall is normal enough. The eastern side though twists the energies of the dragonlines that flow under it causing strange fauna that are found nowhere else in all Creation to be found growing within a mile of it.

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−	In the east there is a region of lakes fed by several rivers that well up from the underground. These vast sparkling lakes. Connected by rivers both above and belowground the whole fertile region is dominated by two human factions and a third non-human one. The territory is rich in legacies of bygone ages though most of them prove rather inaccessable to conventional scavanger lords. Though the entire region is small compared to many of the great nations of the world it remains large to the locals.
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−	Historically however in the region used to be home to merely one group of humans and the sea folk. Near 3 centuries ago a Lunar started to meddle and interfere leading to the division of the humans into two kingdoms. Whatever the Lunar was trying to achieve though isn't known as the Lunar ended up being slain by the relics of the past in the region though the two groups have never reconciled and continue more or less culturally how she divided them.
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−	The western and southern parts of this area are home to a place called Kingdom of Kyrhan. Here the people uphold the ideal of the warrior. Even the farmers know how to turn common farm implements into deadly weapons. While the people of this land make for powerful warriors on an individual scale and have ambitions to match their martial nature their ability to wage war is rather hampered by that very culture. They fight as individuals and while on a one to one basis they can outmatch their neighbours in the Lakelands they can not overcome tactics and unified fighting units.
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−	The capital city Dunshan(pronounced duns-han) is home to the royal family of Kyrhan. By tradition the crown passes to the eldest child with a tournament held to determine their partner. Any can enter even outlanders. Because of this the terrestial exalted have mingled their blood with that of the royal family several times. Whenever a Terrestial heir would become ruler often the kingdom would make gains against their enemies only to lose territory in the years after the eventual defeat of that powerful leader. They never did change the culture and no Dragonblood has been born to the family and lived long enough to be able to single handedly decimate trained and disciplined armies. The King is supported by 10 other noble families who live in relative wealth compared to the rather basic lives of the common peasentry. Still it is a land of honor. They have a saying. "An enemy can break your sword or shield but only you can dull the edge of your honor."
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−	The Kryhanites put Mars at the top of their divine hierarchy. They of course acknowledge Sunipa and make offerings to her but her way of war is not their way. They also worship the Divine Sentinel who isn't a god or even responds but still receives their worship. The City Fathers and Mothers do not make themselves known to the people or rule as one might find in Great Forks. After Mars the second most important diety is Tayna, a fertility goddess. She has a great temple and often takes a personal and visable interest in the locals. They pray to her for numerous and strong offspring which she sometimes grants in a personal way. After those many minor terrestial dieties are venerated. Even a few temples to the Elemental Dragons established by missionaries from Greyfalls though they have had little success in diminishing the local Hundred Gods Heresies.
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−	The region's dragonlines have all been tamed long ago by the Shogunate and the manses which remain show that architectural style. Perhaps half the hearthstones generated by the manses remain within the region as the rest have been traded or lost in the centuries and the people lack the ability and desire to make the probably lenghty effort to track down and retrieve them. The priesthoods of the dieties who often receive the ability to use essence as gives use and claim the remainder along with those nobles who have received the blessing of the Dragons or awakened their own essence next.
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−	Near the northwestern most border with their neighbours where the rivers give way to open plains stands a gleaming statue. Worked in jade, moonsilver and orichalcum this 50 foot tall armored human figure stands in unmoving vigil looking eastward. This is the Divine Sentinel. Legends hold that this is Kyrhan the founder himself granted divinity by Mars and the chance to forever watch his people. Should they ever lose their way and turn from their path he shall turn his wrath upon them. Yet should they triumph against their neighbours he will grant true divine martial ability to claim the world for their own. It goes without saying that he also ensures that their lands will never be taken over by a foreign power.
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−	The western edge of what the Kingdom defines as theirs stands a ruin. Once it was called the City of Silver and it was a place where Luna's worship dominated in the First Age instead of the Unconquered Sun. It was a wonderful city of art and culture, of learned and noble men and women. Guided by a powerful Lunar the people were prosperous and wise. In terms of percentages it is quite posible that no other city in the First Age possessed more mortals who could wield essence. The people claimed that it was a gift of Luna though Sidereals scoffed and explained on about auspicious locations, geomancy and the like they nonetheless if pressed by one who could press them would admit that there were rather more people with strong souls showing up there then the place had any explained reason to account for. The place is empty now. It remains sound of geomancy, its homes untouched, its temptes unlooted, its vaults still closed. Still it is empty. No ghosts, no version of it in the underworld, no visable gaurdians. Legends say the lady of the Moon herself deals with intruders. They say she took the people to the Moon during the Great Uprising and one day they will come back. The people of Kyrhan leave the place alone though every year it claims a life or 10 from those outsiders foolish enough to explore it.
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−	~~The northern and eastern parts of the area are home to the Dominion of Fuelo.~~
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−	There is another group though that is spread throughout the entire region. However this group dominates the lakes themselves. Far from the great seas of the west live some more of the people of the sea survive in the water.

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	For Storytellers who use this place it can be a powerful storytelling tool. Things people think they have lost forever can possibly be regained. Friendships traded for power or the rarest of components for a powerful artifact. Using it as a place to let the Players just stock up on an infinite string of potent devices isn't recommended. The		For Storytellers who use this place it can be a powerful storytelling tool. Things people think they have lost forever can possibly be regained. Friendships traded for power or the rarest of components for a powerful artifact. Using it as a place to let the Players just stock up on an infinite string of potent devices isn't recommended. The
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 Near the northwestern most border with their neighbours where the rivers give way to open plains stands a gleaming statue.  Worked in jade, moonsilver and orichalcum this 50 foot tall armored human figure stands in unmoving vigil looking eastward.  This is the Divine Sentinel.  Legends hold that this is Kyrhan the founder himself granted divinity by Mars and the chance to forever watch his people.  Should they ever lose their way and turn from their path he shall turn his wrath upon them.  Yet should they triumph against their neighbours he will grant true divine martial ability to claim the world for their own.  It goes without saying that he also ensures that their lands will never be taken over by a foreign power.
-The western edge of what the Kingdom defines as theirs stands a ruin.  Once it was called the City of Silver and it was a place where Luna's worship dominated in the First Age instead of the Unconquered Sun.  It was a wonderful city of art and culture, of learned and noble men and women.  Guided by a powerful Lunar the people were prosperous and wise.  In terms of percentages it is quite posible that no other city in the First Age possessed more mortals who could wield essence.  The people claimed that it was a gift of Luna though Sidereals scoffed and explained on about auspicious locations, geomancy and the like they nonetheless if pressed by one who could press them would admit that there were rather more people with strong souls showing up there then the place had any explained reason to account for.
+The western edge of what the Kingdom defines as theirs stands a ruin.  Once it was called the City of Silver and it was a place where Luna's worship dominated in the First Age instead of the Unconquered Sun.  It was a wonderful city of art and culture, of learned and noble men and women.  Guided by a powerful Lunar the people were prosperous and wise.  In terms of percentages it is quite posible that no other city in the First Age possessed more mortals who could wield essence.  The people claimed that it was a gift of Luna though Sidereals scoffed and explained on about auspicious locations, geomancy and the like they nonetheless if pressed by one who could press them would admit that there were rather more people with strong souls showing up there then the place had any explained reason to account for.  The place is empty now.  It remains sound of geomancy, its homes untouched, its temptes unlooted, its vaults still closed.  Still it is empty.  No ghosts, no version of it in the underworld, no visable gaurdians.  Legends say the lady of the Moon herself deals with intruders.  They say she took the people to the Moon during the Great Uprising and one day they will come back.  The people of Kyrhan leave the place alone though every year it claims a life or 10 from those outsiders foolish enough to explore it.
 The northern and eastern parts of the area are home to the Dominion of Fuelo.