Locations

There is a place in the Kaikias Desert where sands turn to choking dust, rivers run as poison, and not even the green of scrub brush drinks the rains. It is a place where the Shroud has thinned so much, that natural life cannot sustain itself. And at the heart of this dying land, lies the knife which bled it dry: Cindersend, the impossible city. An oasis in the desert, home to every comfort and vice, if one can afford to pay the price. The founders of Cindersend were elves exiled from the temperate forests of Seldaesa - rebel generals, runaway criminals, and deserters of the endless Summer Wars. Those Scorned Houses, the First of Many, sought a land free of the rigid constraints of their society. Governance & the Houses Like their...

Overview A city of golden gears and sparkling steam, nestled high amidst the safety of the Mhearan mountains. Cloud’s Keep is made up of four boroughs, each a walled county in its own right. The Four Boroughs are connected via the Spider’s Way, a vast network of cable lines that span the peaks and valleys that make up the Dove’s Range of the Mheara, and act as vital infrastructure to Cloud’s Keep proper. The hum and whir of shroud engines is never too far from the sounds of everyday life across the Keep. Be it the crank and turn of crawler trolly’s mechanical legs, knitting across a span wire, or the zip of a sky-skiff’s wings buzzing in the distance, Cloud’s Keep is alive with the sounds of Magitech. Governance Beholden to the crown...

Nestled in the palm of the mountain range colloquially known as the Fingers, Plumhollow rests as a bustling metropolis for the Smallfolk. With roots as a settlement of refugees fleeing the devastation of the Tears of the Mother and the encroaching threat of the then nascent Devahni empire, Plumhollow grew into its own over the centuries. Small burrows and thatch-roofed houses gave way to a blend Dwarven, Gnomish, and Beaver-folk architecture, intricately wrought across the valley of the palm in tune with the natural curvature of the ground. The city itself, split with tributaries and rivers fed from the Finger's inner-bluff deltas, is layered with housing stacked about a compact space to give ground to the multiflorous orchards that...