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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Libertad" data-source="post: 8802856" data-attributes="member: 6750502">I posted this on another forum involving Dragonlance talk, but figured to bring it up here given the city in which this adventure takes place. Although the Knights of Solamnia are one of the "iconic" classes and concepts of the setting, at the Time of the War of the Lance they are far from popular in the land of their namesake. After the Cataclysm, word spread of Lord Soth's failure, which via a game of telephone morphed into the rumor that the Knights of Solamnia could've prevented the Cataclysm but chose not to. This caused lots of violent upheaval, to the point that their few remaining strongholds were in Sancrist and a garrison at the High Clerist's Tower in Palanthas. The majority of Solamnia was made up various governments, from councils of wealthy commoners to more traditional non-Knight feudal nobilities which sprang up in the centuries since.Kalaman in particular was pretty much an early republic phase; after overthrowing the Knights they redistributed the wealth and instituted generous social safety nets. Powerful trade guilds ended up becoming the real political power, but it was a pretty interesting example in a departure from feudalism and reflecting Solamnia's diversity. I don't exactly have much faith in WotC, but I'm hoping with Shadow they touch upon the city's unorthodox political system and Solamnia's regional variations beyond "land of goodly knights."Kalaman being one of the easternmost cities pretty made it one of the first casualties of the War of the Lance, and Lady Kitiara of the Blue Dragonarmy used it as a base of operations once conquered. So I'm quite sure that the module will be the Fort Sumpter or Pearl Harbor of the Solamnia-Dragonarmies War.**not an official name, I made it up</blockquote>

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