Creative Exercise: The Sovereign Dominion of Eyros

Rystil Arden

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Phineas Crow said:
Much of the land that makes up present-day Eyros was once, thousands of years ago, an elven province. From the northern highlands an invading army of orc and human tribes marched through the fertile elven steppes where they sacked and destroyed the splendid elven cities. Eventually the conquering army reached the base of Mt. Xark where they declared total victory over the elves and founded the city of Eyrdeyn to be their capitol over their newly conquered lands.
In one of the few extant woodland areas of Eyros, a relatively malign, bestial reptile cult has been growing among the local elves. Worship of a half-fiend tyrannosaurus named Vildaxaranthus has caused some of the elves to devolve, becoming brutish, larger, and strong, almost dire (effectively ogres with elven racial traits). Scary stories are told to Eyrian children about the forest elves and these rumours are oft used as justification for the enslavement of the unrelated elven thralls.
 

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Breakstone

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Working off of this idea:

The common folk make frequent, largely ceremonial blood sacrifice to the soil; the blood of thousands waits beneath the ground for the call of sorcery and ritual.

A tree known as Bloodwillow often grows from the blood-soaked soil. The large black fruit it grows is full of seeds- and absorbed blood. This fruit, known as Clot Apples (ew!) can be used to give power to necromantic rituals and spells. Entire secret valleys full of Bloodwillows are tended by the Praes Thanatos.
 

Tinner

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Breakstone said:
Working off of this idea:
A tree known as Bloodwillow often grows from the blood-soaked soil. The large black fruit it grows is full of seeds- and absorbed blood. This fruit, known as Clot Apples (ew!) can be used to give power to necromantic rituals and spells. Entire secret valleys full of Bloodwillows are tended by the Praes Thanatos.

The noble half orcs are trained from birth in a special ritualized fighting style known as "The Claws of the Dragon." This fighting style specializes in the two-bladed sword, and uses many leaping attacks and charges. Each year a tournament is held for the the nation's youth to compete in this bloody martial art. While other races are permitted to enter the tournamet, few do, and everyone knows that even those that do are expected to purposefully lose to their orcblooded betters.
 

Doug McCrae

Legend
Ghalfaen is being ravaged by a purple worm of colossal size. A dissolute sorcerer named Herewald claims he can control it but he demands a terrible price.
 

Andor

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The agents of the jagged eye have developed a psionic tattoo that allows the bearer to use an Alter Self effect at will. The agents of The Secret Blade, a sect of Soulblade assasins are commonly given these tattoos.

One such, a brilliant agent named Borak Foehammer, has infiltrated Keyzha Zhals forces and is steadily working his way up in rank.
 

Phineas Crow

First Post
Andor said:
The agents of the jagged eye have developed a psionic tattoo that allows the bearer to use an Alter Self effect at will. The agents of The Secret Blade, a sect of Soulblade assasins are commonly given these tattoos.

One such, a brilliant agent named Borak Foehammer, has infiltrated Keyzha Zhals forces and is steadily working his way up in rank.


Horses are uncommon in Eyros and considered weak and useless by the Eyrian orcs. Instead Eyrians ride longstrider lizards (deinonychus, dinosaur) which have been domesticated for riding and for drawing carts. Warstrider lizards are longstriders which are ridden into battle. While longstriders and warstriders are identical only the fittest and most promising longstrider lizards become warstriders.
 

Phineas Crow said:
Horses are uncommon in Eyros and considered weak and useless by the Eyrian orcs. Instead Eyrians ride longstrider lizards (deinonychus, dinosaur) which have been domesticated for riding and for drawing carts. Warstrider lizards are longstriders which are ridden into battle. While longstriders and warstriders are identical only the fittest and most promising longstrider lizards become warstriders.

House Vajar--which has held the throne more times than any other Orc-Blooded House, though they do not do so currently--hides a terrible, shameful secret. They are not pure-blooded. They actually have a tiny bit of hobgoblin in their ancestry, though it is so far back that no trace of it is detectable. Anyone who learns this secret would hold great power over House Vajar... Until the Vajar enforcers and Masks found a means of silencing that individual for good. Even most of the Vajar themselves are ignorant of this fact; it is known only to the very highest-ranking and eldest members of the House, who are considering letting the secret die with them, rather than passing it on.
 
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hero4hire

Explorer
Mouseferatu said:
House Vajar--which has held the throne more times than any other Orc-Blooded House, though they do not do so currently--hides a terrible, shameful secret. They are not pure-blooded. They actually have a tiny bit of hobgoblin in their ancestry, though it is so far back that no trace of it is detectable. Anyone who learns this secret would hold great power over House Vajar... Until the Vajar enforcers and Masks found a means of silencing that individual for good. Even most of the Vajar themselves are ignorant of this fact; it is known only to the very highest-ranking and eldest members of the House, who are considering letting the secret die with them, rather than passing it on.

A secret cabal of Half-Orc wizards known as the Animus, through generations of selective breeding and magical "guidance" has recently succeeded in producing two genetically superior racial offshoots. Orogs and the Sharakim. The latter can blend in effortlessly with thier progenitors undetected and the new generation is just coming to age. The Animus' are now setting into motion machinations to put the Sharakim in places of political power. Orogs are being kept more or less as "muscle" and are beginning to resent thier position. Few if any outside the Animus organization now of the existence of thier new "brothers".
 

Tonguez

A suffusion of yellow
Mouseferatu said:
House Vajar--which has held the throne more times than any other Orc-Blooded House, though they do not do so currently--hides a terrible, shameful secret. They are not pure-blooded. They actually have a tiny bit of hobgoblin in their ancestry, though it is so far back that no trace of it is detectable. Anyone who learns this secret would hold great power over House Vajar... Until the Vajar enforcers and Masks found a means of silencing that individual for good. Even most of the Vajar themselves are ignorant of this fact; it is known only to the very highest-ranking and eldest members of the House, who are considering letting the secret die with them, rather than passing it on.

The Half-Elf Leader (King?) of Ghalfaen knows of this secret, it is the privateer Darrenback who has kept him from using the information for fear of the repercussions for Felra Raj-Tinar
 

Rystil Arden

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Tonguez said:
The Half-Elf Leader (King?) of Ghalfaen knows of this secret, it is the privateer Darrenback who has kept him from using the information for fear of the repercussions for Felra Raj-Tinar
Sania is a bloodthirsty fiendish dryad necromancer who has sprung up as the spirit of an elder Bloodwillow in Praes Thanatos's secret orchard. She is the source of Praes Thanatos's newest secret necromancy techniques, and she initiates the Patriae Sicarii, an all-male elder council of Praes Thanatos gnomes, in the darkest depths of necromancy...and perhaps other things as well. As a result, a small but significant number of powerful female half-gnome/half-dryad necromancers is rising in the upcoming generation. Will they become a threat to the Patriae Sicarii's hegemony?
 

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