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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daiymo" data-source="post: 1010847" data-attributes="member: 2539">Thanks Uriel-nice name on your Wiz. Sorry about the bard, but mad characters are always good.Manz- looking at it I should have figured out 3k minus 1k equals 2k.As for some setting info I was going to try to keep things delibertely vague. But heres some background:The world is  divided between the old world of Scandanavia (Ostland) , and the new world (Vestland). Until the recent past, Men have  lived in small communities, as their father's fathers did, free to enjoy the liberty accorded them by right and custom.  They long lived in peace with the elves of the forests and dwarves from the deep mountains of the world.Then a decade ago, a noble named Harald Fairhair rose to prominence  and began a series of campaigns to conquer the old world. A powerful warrior who weilded a great black axe, his influence spread across Ostland like a wildfire. Through deceit and assasination, Harald made war on freemen and nobles, conquering much of Ostland and crowning himself as High King. Power hungry and without honor, Harald sought aid  from sources dark and evil in his quest for kingship.  Hidden necromantic cults, undead minions, alliances with orcs and giants from the east, and other, darker things too unsavory to contemplate all aided his conquests. And wherever Harald extended his rule, the old freedoms and rights of men were replaced by tyranny.Many good men opposed this evil, and defeated, were forced to retreat first to the western islands of Britain. But Harald followed there and conquered those lands, forcing his opponents to take refuge in the harsher lands of Iceland and Greenland, as well as in the frontier lands of Vestland-Helluland, Markland, and Vinland. Harald, now flush with his new power,  turned his gaze eastward to consolidate his new gains. In the west, the folk of Vestland worked hard to live life as before in their new lands, living free despite the harshness of their new settlements.Ten years have now passed since the retreat, years of watchful peace. But now rumors reach the freemen of warlike preperations in Ostland, of a building of a great fleet of boats, and of plans to attack when winter is gone.It is now early October. The PCs have come to the south of Greenland into the realm of Magnus Forkbeard, Jarl of Thule. Magnus is well known, a respected noble whose hospitality is famous and the PC come seeking temporary shelter from the elements.With this in mind, I guess the thing to know is that this world is one where honor and personal freedom are held as sacred, and it is a society of relative mobility (no rigid fuedal system here). Iceland and Greenland are very harsh lands, and the new world, while lightly settled on the eastern coasts, is very much a wilderness. And of course, the threat from Ostland looms always on the horizon.Also, for purposes of the game, the default clothing of the PCs is the cold winter gear. Normal gear is optional for warmer weather.EDIT EDIT EDIT: fixed grammar a little and added to the end.</blockquote>

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