Creative Exercise: The Sovereign Dominion of Eyros

[Sarellion]

Contribution

During his reserch for his papers about the vale of Ur, Kalis Dal Malarn found some text fragments indicating that the Vale of Ur was a great source of power for an ancient empire in the mythic age before the Deceiver´s War. This empire was the largest of the the world and it´s capital city was surrounded by walls of air and water. The cause of the empire´s fall is not stated on the remaining fragments only that it disappeared in the mists of time.

Kalis assumed that the twelve rulers of Kwlloch got their hand on a similar text or know even more about it, given their efforts in the attacks on the vale.

 

[Rystil Arden]

During his reserch for his papers about the vale of Ur, Kalis Dal Malarn found some text fragments indicating that the Vale of Ur was a great source of power for an ancient empire in the mythic age before the Deceiver´s War. This empire was the largest of the the world and it´s capital city was surrounded by walls of air and water. The cause of the empire´s fall is not stated on the remaining fragments only that it disappeared in the mists of time.

Kalis assumed that the twelve rulers of Kwlloch got their hand on a similar text or know even more about it, given their efforts in the attacks on the vale.

I've always been meaning to provide examples of findings that Kalis researched that weren't correct, since we said that his speculative nature led to many such, but we've only provided examples of his highly accurate findings up til now, and I keep forgetting. Good call in putting some of that in for us.

 

[Sarellion]

That´s canon. All correct and true. Kalis is just a target for badmouthing and propaganda The Ancients are still out there and want to discredit him for finding out the truth.

Just kidding.

Seriously, he found a fragment stating this but with many parts missing. He made some wild guesses and published them without much/anything backing up his theory.
Kalis could have found a faerie tale, took it for truth and exaggerated wildly.

I think of it as Eyros version of Atlantis.

I wonder did it contradict something? I wanted it vague and full of hints so that it could be (somewhat) true if a DM or future contributor wanted to.

 

[Rystil Arden]

That´s canon. All correct and true. Kalis is just a target for badmouthing and propaganda The Ancients are still out there and want to discredit him for finding out the truth.

Just kidding.

Seriously, he found a fragment stating this but with many parts missing. He made some wild guesses and published them without much/anything backing up his theory.
Kalis could have found a faerie tale, took it for truth and exaggerated wildly.

I think of it as Eyros version of Atlantis.

I wonder did it contradict something? I wanted it vague and full of hints so that it could be (somewhat) true if a DM or future contributor wanted to.

Hmm...some of it could probably have a basis in Eyros reality. But we do know at least parts of it that are definitely wrong. Its pretty funny but that sounds like WoT too, which I know you haven't read.

 

[Sarellion]

I rip of Jordan without even knowing.

What are the wrong parts? Wouldn´t be good if it´s obviously a false legend.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Don't worry about it; its a few varied pieces of posts combining together (but one main chunk comes from post 174, the first mention of Kalis which said that Kalis's article was a thought experiment based on analysis of incursions from Kwlloch with no solid answer as to why or evidence thereof. So when I saw your post, I started thinking of why Kalis didn't publish this if he discovered it while doing that research, as we know for sure that he did not publish it. I had originally thought that you had planned for it to be a dubious theory where Kalis went wrong or something even he was unsure of the validity. I now realise from your post that you meant that he strongly believed it to be correct and kept it to himself to guard the knowledge, even at the expense of publishing something this noteworthy. That works too, although it wasn't how I initially envisioned Kalis reacting, and there's absolutely no need to change a thing in your post.

Fortunately, as long as we leave the post the way it is, as a mysterious and possibly true bit of lore, it will work great (my opinion now: let's keep the Vale of Ur a mystery for the DM to decide).

 

[Arkhandus]

but anyone who knows her personally knows that there is room for only one man in her heart, the elusive Captain Darrenback. Because of his refusal of her love, Rhiana has playfully but semi-seriously declared that she will chase him down and make him hers.

Sigh. How did I know someone was going to now turn the whole Felra/Darrenback thing into a love triangle or two? .....Yeesh. Though I rather suspected (and yesterday wanted to snarkily comment) that next someone'd mention a Kiron half-elf madly in love with Felra, filling this triangle+ with more halves....

Ah well, I guess this might nonetheless be of interest as an adventure hook to some DMs or players.... :\

 

[Rystil Arden]

Sigh. How did I know someone was going to now turn the whole Felra/Darrenback thing into a love triangle or two? .....Yeesh. Though I rather suspected (and yesterday wanted to snarkily comment) that next someone'd mention a Kiron half-elf madly in love with Felra, filling this triangle+ with more halves....

Ah well, I guess this might nonetheless be of interest as an adventure hook to some DMs or players.... :\

Guilty as charged. Want me to throw in a Kiron half-elf as well ? On the other hand, I created Felra and her illicit affair with Darrenback too. I don't know what's so wrong with love triangles (or in this case a love 'Z').

 

[Arkhandus]

During his reserch for his papers about the vale of Ur, Kalis Dal Malarn found some text fragments indicating that the Vale of Ur was a great source of power for an ancient empire in the mythic age before the Deceiver´s War. This empire was the largest of the the world and it´s capital city was surrounded by walls of air and water. The cause of the empire´s fall is not stated on the remaining fragments only that it disappeared in the mists of time.

Kalis assumed that the twelve rulers of Kwlloch got their hand on a similar text or know even more about it, given their efforts in the attacks on the vale.

Kalis also presented the possibility that this might be linked to the strange, large, fog-shrouded island in the western sea at the edge of Eyros' ships' reach. It could be entirely false of course, but it could also explain why no ships have made it through the fog (or at least, none have made it through and come back, according to Eyros' naval leaders). A few freelance mages in Eyros managed to learn of this theory from Kalis and began attempting to charter ships to take them to the island, hoping to find something of arcane power. These efforts have been ongoing for some time now, but the four mages have had no luck so far.

 

[Sarellion]

I see. I envisioned Kalis as a brillant historian who just went a little bit out of the usual with his theories. So he analysed his data about the incursions, found some stuff about the vale as a possible explanation and published it.
The other historians just pointed out that he doesn´t know where the fragment is coming from, if it´s "Romeo and Juliet" or the "Complete Historic Encyclopaedia".

The stuff about the thought experiment seems to be a cop out from his publisher if I read the post correctly.