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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 8286476" data-attributes="member: 2012">TALANGRÁN REGIONAs noted previously, Talangrán is based on the adventure "The Lady Rose," by Steven Kurtz, in DUNGEON Magazine #34.Talangrán's society is based on one word, "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castile_(historical_region)" target="_blank">Castilian</a>." That's the simple explaination. For a more detailed explaination then you should follow the link. I'm still learning what "Castilian" means myself.However, my version of Talangrán is a deeply evil and disturbed place. Corruption, devil worship, and slavery is the normal way of life in this dark empire. The heart of this evil is the city named Ciudad Talan. This sprawling metropolis is known to be the most decadant city in The Northwest and it has connections to planes both Infernal and Maddening.The Emperor of Talangrán, Rodrigo XII, rules his empire with an iron fist wrapped in a velvet glove. He is a charming man in public and his people love him or, at least, fear him enough to feign loving him. In private, he is as evil as they come. He consorts with devils in the political area and in the bedchamber. (It is rumored that the Lord of Dis, Dispater, owes him a favor.)All of his (living) heirs are half-fiends and they constantly backstab each other for the slightest dishonors done to each other. Of these hundreds of spawn, only a dozen or so have any sort of favor in Talangrán's Imperial Court. His favorite son, Fernán, rules the City of Ciudad Fal, which sits on the border with Novarum. Fernán is responsible for not only that city but also all clandestine Imperial plots hatched in Novarum.[ATTACH=full]137410[/ATTACH]Of course, there is a lot more on this map than just Talangrán but most of it is so new that I haven't really considered everything that's on it.There are the demihuman cities and towns in the Endwald Mountains, which are independant of Talangrán to the south and Waldheim to the north. Demihumans aren't treated well in Talangrán having been used as slaves for over 2,000 years. Rodrigo XII despises demihumans and most nonhumans and hates that there are free communities of elves and dwarves so close to his empire. The yearly campaigns against them would have succeeded centuries ago if not for the demihumans' allies in Waldheim (and, to a lesser extent, Novarum).The savage Germanic tribes of Waldheim are one of the few things in this world that worries the Emperor of Talangrán. He knows that if all of the tribal kings of Waldheim allied with the demihumns against him, his empire wouldn't stand a chance. Luckily for him, the tribes are constantly in conflict with each other, which makes them less of a threat.No, the Emperor concerns himself more with trying to undermine Novarum society and taming the ancients evils of the Twisting Sands. He is obsessed with Kulan's prehistory including the world's connections to other worlds through magical gates lost in the ruins of the desert.Talangrán also has a strong Spelljamming tradition, which supplies the empire with slaves when local sources run dry, so to speak. This means that you can find almost any race walking the streets of Talangrán's cities; although, almost all of these offworlders are either slaves or slave traders. Talangrán is one of the few places on Kulan where you can meet drow (since that race is not native to the world). The Emperor even has a few drow slaves!Any questions? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Knightfall</blockquote>

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