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Continue reading →: Cimmerian Timeline Part 42
Previous: Cimmerian Timeline Part 41 More on the Aractrashan Kingdom’s founding. 552BCE: As Gollard grew into an adult he took an interest in the gold mines of Yuettencal. He learned the mining process and worked alongside the miners to understand their needs and desires. Gollard also practiced his swordsmanship against…
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Continue reading →: Cimmerian Timeline Part 41
Previous: Cimmerian Timeline Part 40 This post will detail the history of Yuettencal and the events leading to the founding of the Aractrashan Kingdom. 600BCE: The expanding civilization in Zeus’s Canvas drove the uncivilized races of Eastern Cimmeria south towards the Aractrash Jungle. Raiding problems rose for the communities located…
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Continue reading →: Characters of Cimmeria: Leopold AnigamaLeopold Anigama rose to prominence during the rebellion against King Shardamar II of Gazeara. He played a leading role during the revolution and upon its success, he became the new dictator of Gazeara. He built a cult of personality around himself as Gazeara’s head and soon used his hidden psionic…
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Continue reading →: Cimmerian Timeline Part 40
Previous: Cimmerian Timeline Part 39 533BCE: King Shardamar became King of Gazeara. 531BCE: A vicious group of thieves moved into Gazeara. Burglaries, robberies, and murders sky-rocketed. The town guard were unable to apprehend the criminals. 530BCE: King Shardamar worked with the wizards of Greshen Dale to install scrying dweomers throughout…
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Continue reading →: Ten Candles RPG
My friends and I were planning a twenty year reunion for our group last year, but it got delayed due to COVID. Once we were all vaccinated we rescheduled our twenty year reunion to be a twenty-one year reunion! Not all of us could make it, but we got together,…
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Continue reading →: Cimmerian Timeline Part 39
Previous: Cimmerian Timeline Part 38 This entry covers the events of Blendegad, Galandir, and Tereman prior to their first engagement with the githyanki in Shalerton. 967BCE: Galandir was born to elven parents in Valor’s Forest. 880BCE: The human settlements around Valor’s Forest suffered a number of monster attacks. They petitioned…
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Continue reading →: Early Kingdoms Done, What Next?
With the style change done and the Early Kingdoms period mostly completed for my D&D blogging, what’s next? There’s 300 years of history to cover between the Days of Kruk-Ma-Kali and the current campaign year. While it might make sense to just start from Kruk-Ma-Kali’s death and work towards ~400BCE,…
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Continue reading →: Style Change
I’ve been mulling over a writing style change to the D&D section of the blog that I’ve decided to implement. The capitalization of different races in D&D is a little strange. Normally you wouldn’t capitalize a word like “elf,” but what do elves speak in D&D? They speak Elvish and…
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Continue reading →: Cimmerian Timeline Part 38
Previous: Cimmerian Timeline Part 37 Here’s the story of Kruk-Ma-Kali condensed into timeline entries! As well as the conclusion to Shortrastor’s royal line. Of course more happens to Kharad-khor after Kruk-Ma-Kali’s death, but that will be covered another time. 722BCE: Kona-Ranor gave birth to Kruk-Ma-Kali. 710BCE: Kruk-Ma-Kali’s psionic powers emerged.…
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Continue reading →: Cimmerian Timeline Part 37
Previous: Cimmerian Timeline Part 36 In working on Kruk-Ma-Kali’s story I realized I hadn’t filled in the gaps for Shortrastor. Kruk-Ma-Kali provided the end of her life. I felt I’d already touched on her life in other ways that a full narrative post wasn’t really needed to finish out her…






