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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vrecknidj" data-source="post: 1652561" data-attributes="member: 7301">The DM has been remarkably quiet on this issue.  He has dropped a few morsels though.  First, Rome never made it quite as far north as in actuality.  This meant a bit less Roman influence on England and even on the Normans.  Second, the empire's split into two was healed, as you suggested, and a unified Rome was strong enough to repel the rather constant attacks from both within and without.  As far as historical individuals, he's left most of them out.  He's included many of the figures of Western Civilization up to about Augustine, but he must have decided on something important having happened around the 6th or 7th century, because he doesn't use many references to actual folks after that.Right, they're certainly not all evil (though, of course, enough of them are).  Our PCs haven't adventured there; pretty much all the information we have is from the fact that my character has ancestry in that direction.  I'm really itching to get a chance to travel south and see what's under all that sand.I've come close. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Exactly.  Her Diplomacy score is in the 20's somewhere (this DM uses an interesting house rule: once a class skill, always a class skill--so this character has taken a rank of Diplomacy at every level).  And, given that she is a Lady, this gives her a lot of room to get favors, etc., while on the road--well, at least when being on the road means staying in cities and not literally on the road (which happens too much for her tastes).Please do.  Her name happens to be Arianna Ravensbridge, but I suppose something rather useful could come from an attempted clarification of "Vrecknidj."  That name, by the way, comes from a being in my own campaign.  Long, long ago Vrecknidj was a blue dragon who eventually grew fearful of death and so learned the secrets of lichdom.  And, eons later, was recruited into demigod status by another deity of undeath.  Vrecknidj is now the central deity of undead in my campaign and is also widely worshipped by dragon-cult zealots.  ("Vrecknidj" is approximately the sound made when his breath weapon echoed in his caverns while he lived as a blue dragon.)DaveDave</blockquote>

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