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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DrunkonDuty" data-source="post: 9507758" data-attributes="member: 54364">But as to cool things about Greyhawk.One of my faves is the whole post Greyhawk Wars unholy mess that is Rauxes, former capital of the Great Kingdom.And I mean Unholy.A little background: The Great Kindgom, once a shining beacon of Good Guy tropes, has fallen to all the Bad Guy tropes. It's latest ruling house, the Naelex, are demon worshipping baddies. The current Overking Ivid V, the Undying, has embraced undeath* and summoned armies of demons to help him fight the Greyhawk Wars. At the end of the Greyhawk Wars a holy relic of immense power, The Crook of Rao, banished all demons** from the world. This had the adiditional affect that it in some way disrupted some sort of demonic gate*** in Rauxes that led to the entire area becoming an Abyssal hell-hole. The setting is (I assume deliberately) vague as to exactly what has happened. But the practical upshot is that no-one has heard a peep out of Rauxes since. The area for leagues around Rauxes has become home to all manner of terrible monsters. No-one even knows if Rauxes was dragged into the Abyss or not. Is Ivid still living (heh) up to his epithet? And what of all the riches of Rauxes palaces?It may be that there is now a rift to the Abyss, a la Golarion's World Wound. Or it may simply be that there has been magical fallout that has corrupted the world. Or something else. For my campaign, I've gone with a small rift. But one that is slowly growing larger with time.This is all from later sources, Ivid the Undying and From the Ashes.* IIRC it's not said anywhere if he's a lich, death knight, vampire, mummy, or something else entirely.** Doesn't effect Iuz, he's a local boy. His many summoned demons on the other hand are banished.*** Again, I don't think offical sources say exactly what interacts with the power of the Crook, just that it's presumed to have been demonic and very powerful, hence the earth shattering kaboom.</blockquote>

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