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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 8279244" data-attributes="member: 2012">Knowledge (local) checks for those who want to know if their PCs know anything about either the Arreptitii or The Dusk. Knowledge (history) would be useful too.[USER=24380]@Neurotic[/USER]:[Spoiler="For Neurotic Only"]Loremaster Ákos already knows who the Arreptitii are or, at least, he immediately makes the connection between that word and Phelix's followers, the Loyalists. Arreptitii means "the fanatics" in Ticin, the language of the Imperial Lands of Ticinum to the northeast of Bluffside across the Red Mountains (or Montagne Rosse).While Falen also speaks Ticin, he didn't make the connection between the Loyalists and the word "Arreptitii," which is likely code. (Falen hasn't heard Phelix's followers referred to as Loyalists.) Of course, at this point, Ákos does not know where this coded information that Falen has access to comes from, but he can make an educated guess.Ákos already knows that the Old Empire Lands, as they are sometimes called, once ruled over almost all the lands north of the Montagne Rosse, as well as Kingdom of Tarminan, which sits just north of Bluffside. Its expansive empire broke up in 998 BR (Bluffside Reckoning), which was 474 years ago. Besides Tarminan and the current Imperial Lands, the current kingdoms and empires known as Falia, Kalmonte, Montresor, Novarum, Oakenvale (†), Talangrán, and the Vinovian Protectorate were all once a part of the Ticinum Empire at its height.While the Kingdom of Várad to the east of Montage Rosse was never officially part of that empire under its current name, a great deal of its current territory was once controlled by Ticinum as what the Ticins called barbarian lands. Várad arose after the breakup of the empire (but I haven't yet decided how old Várad is as a kingdom). Várad stands between Ticinum in the west and Tumnor in the east, although some sages consider Várad to be a part of Tumnor, which is not true at all.(Tumnor is another expansive empire that is more "Holy Roman Empire" compared to Ticinum, which is more "old school" Roman Empire. In truth, it's going to be a lot more complicated than that... but that's the simplest explanation.)FYI, I'm currently working on a timeline for the Western Lands of Kanpur. It's something brand new that I've been meaning to create for some time. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />† Oakenvale was known by another name back then but it's not something Ákos would know off the top of his head.[/Spoiler]</blockquote>

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