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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…
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Continue reading →: The Days of Kruk-Ma-Kali Part 13Previous: The Days of Kruk-Ma-Kali Part 12 Kruk-Ma-Kali’s tomb was eventually found and raided by the Second Alliance. The Alliance members sought Kharad-khor, having heard rumors of its magical power to win battles. The traps and creatures of the tomb were defeated by Tagenadi, Torin, Amalius, Aldarian, and Terroc. At…




