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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 9780300" data-attributes="member: 25619">Today, I download the 2 (of 3 ever made) Jakandor books available on DriveThruRPG.Jakandor: Isle of War is the Knorr book.Jakandor: Land of Legends is the overall DM book, not fully baked without the others.The missing book is called Jakandor: Isle of Destiny. It’s the Charonti book.  It’s unclear if it’s an oversight that it’s missing (though people have complained about that on DriveThruRPG) or if it’s banned by WotC some reason.Long story short skimming of these long books:Knorr are an Iron Age barbarian group. They make steel swords, but not armor, and have few horses and no saddles.  They don’t like commerce, and don’t have inns, but trade a little, in fur clothing and weapons.  They have sheep and corn. They are refugees from the western edge of a continent.  (Ahem, fits Greyhawk’s Gonduria unexplained continent, so yoink, Jakandor is my Greyhawk now.)They have so little contact with the outside world, most think it’s all dead. The War Mother is their goddess and tells them to exterminate the Charonti, who are necromancers.The author mentions they are loosely based on some unspecified real societies - yup, Vikings and Pre-Columbian Native Americans were at least visual influences.  Cultural is largely CN - highly individualistic and resentful of authority attempts, but also bound by a code and tribal and cult affiliations.The Charonti, their book wasn’t available, but the gist is they are necromancers who use undead for labor.  (Maybe that’s why it’s banned? I could imagine something written in 1998 about a unfree, undead labor force could have made WotC decide not to sell on PDF despite letting through things like GAZ10.)  Their empire collapsed in an apocalypse and they are using undead to unearth ruins.  Seems likely an LN-LE magocracy.</blockquote>

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