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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 492634" data-attributes="member: 8530">Background:   My wife and I were active in the Gaming Con circuit from 1990 to 1998, but with the birth of our third child we found that attending cons was no longer feasible.   Last summer she mentioned wishing should could play a Living City character of hers again, a 6th level elf thief named Raliana (who some of you may remember from various Con Con, Con Man, Gen Con or Total Confusion games).    I quickly tossed together a solo game for this character, using various place and character names that I found on the Internet, for what I thought would be a short story.   The storyline has now taken on a life of its own, and we have gamed over 300 hours of it.   My wife suggested that I write down the narrated details of this location before I forget them, so I am posting the information here in case anybody else would also like to use this particular setting.  Please feel free to comment on any of this, as this storyline is ongoing.   I will also be using some of the NPC’s from this setting in an upcoming module with my regular group (a work-in-progress currently being plotted on this board as the “League of Assassins” thread). Credits: Silvanost was the setting of various TSR Dragonlance novels and game accessories.   Initial narrative passages, as well as place and character names relating to this land, were found in several places on the Internet.   They were adapted for this setting, which is clearly a different place than that of the novels.    Mengale, and some of its characters were found on the Eldahor World Internet site, and modified for this particular setting.   Much of the details of the Mage’s school at Ravensgate can be traced back to the well published work of J.K. Rowling.  The City of Brondani and its characters are derived from information on the nightmare.org Internet site.History of the Kingdom of Silvanost:Over 5,000 years ago the elvan deity Corellon Larethian brought together a group of nine elvan heroes to fight alongside of him against the forces of evil.   An epic battle was fought on a barren and desolate plane, which covered a 300-by-200-mile area along the east-central coastline of the vast continent.   They were successful in forcing the evil from the land.The god chose to reward these courageous fighters.  He blessed the land on which they had fought, turning it into a lush and fertile paradise, which was then named Silvanost.  The friends of families of these nine were then teleported to this land, and the god granted them all life spans twice that of normal elves, a trait that they would pass on to their descendants.   Finally, Corellon referred to the nine as the Knights of Silvanost, and to each he gave a magical stone, which have come to be named the Silvanost Elf Stones. The leader of the Knights was an elf named Laretinor.  The elves declared him to be their King, and he became Silvanost's first ruler.    King Laretinor ruled for over 1,800 years, during which time the elves prospered and built a great Kingdom, with beautifully designed buildings that complimented the flora and fauna of the land, and vast cathedrals dedicated to the elvan god.With the passing of each Knight, the remaining Knights would chose who each stone and title was to be given.  The criteria for this was to select the one that showed greatest degree of courage, dedication and promise rather than having it be inherited.  Many of stones did pass directly descendents of each Knight, as they often were the ones most inspired by the examples set by their parents.</blockquote>

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