Creative Exercise: The Sovereign Dominion of Eyros

[Sarellion]

I wonder how eyrian love dramas look like with nobles engaged in a quartet marriage.

The imperial theater featuring:
"Romo, Julitha, Trist & Isora"

 

[Rystil Arden]

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.

Sure, that works as a possibility too.

 

[Rystil Arden]

I wonder how eyrian love dramas look like with nobles engaged in a quartet marriage.

The imperial theater featuring:
"Romo, Julitha, Trist & Isora"

Probably works like drama from all the many real-world polygamist cultures, I would suppose. So we probably wouldn't see any Tristan and Iseult story, since if King Mark had great respect for Tristan, he could just bring Tristan in with him on the marriage instead.

 

[Sado]

Thanks for your support Sado! I doubt that we have the initial investment capital to do an actual print-run of Eyros (those things are expensive risks), but we are going to start working on a PDF very soon. We'll let you know when its done (I'm hoping we can get an announcement on the front page of ENWorld to the effect of "ENWorld's own Sovereign Domain of Eyros has become a PDF for sale from Lion's Den Press." or something like that).

Wow! I was just kidding. I thought this was all just for fun. Heck yeah, sign me up for a pdf.

And it will be cool to know I had a small part in helping create it.

We'll be bigger than the Realms!

 

[Sarellion]

I wonder if it´s one of the reasons that Eyros is still going strong. The other exercises, with the exception of Rhialto´s Aleasana ended pretty quickly, even Razina stopped.

 

[Rystil Arden]

I wonder if it´s one of the reasons that Eyros is still going strong. The other exercises, with the exception of Rhialto´s Aleasana ended pretty quickly, even Razina stopped.

Well you need to draw a few dedicated posters to make it work. Also, a lot of the other ones came in with a lot of presuppositions that drove people away. I know when I saw the author of CE#2 shooing away almost all of the first few posts because they didn't fit with Dark Crystal or the elevations on his map, that I knew I didn't want to contribute, for instance.

 

[Rhialto]

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.... :\

Hey, I'm surprised no one's picked up on the fact that I've strongly implied that Galldrian and Herewald are... special friends...

But as to why Eyros is going so strong--and why Aleasana seems to be, at the moment--well, I'd say it's a mix of factors--a strong hook that's vague enough to build on without being cramped--at least one person who's willing to keep the thread from falling off the map--and enough interesting ideas being added that other people get interesting ideas about them, and things just snowball--only in a good way...

 

[Arkhandus]

Less talky more contributions? *twitch*

Thanks for the support though Sado. Why not contribute again?

 

[Khorod]

Contribution:

Kes Trees grow to 20' high. The first half the trunk is devoid of branches, while the second half has branches that fan out in all directions and arc upwards at half their length. The bark of these trees is a soft yellow color, kept moist by the oils in the tree. The wood is a pale brown, the leaves oily green, thick and slightly ovoid circles, and the berries purple and fat.

The wood of Kes Trees is sometimes used for decorative work, because the native oils of the wood keep it from becoming brittle. The wood itself is extremely and intensely flammable because of these oils, and so bits are often used as kindling. The juice of the berries can be distilled into a potent and thick wine, used as an extremely hot cooking oil (Oil of Kes), or combined with various other substances to form a fluid that ignites on contact with air (Flame of Kes).

Since many Kes trees grow fairly close to the coast, the Halflings were among the first to significantly experiment with its uses. Discovering 'Flame of Kes' they were able to use it as a new and threatening weapon against ships at sea. When Eyros, Nistadeen, and another country heard of this, they immediately sought to engineer their own version.

 

[Rhialto]

One of the most notorious crimelords in Eyros is a Nistadeeni half-elf Meito 'the Rake'. Meito, infamous for his fancy clothes and dandyish manners is an incredible and deadly combatant if provoked, as most of his opponents have discovered to their misfortune.