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City Image - Punampu By: CaptainPenguin

Punampu, who's inhabitants call it the Anciently Dignified and Resplendently Aged City of the Punampu, was originally a very large and splendid city, the capitol of a forgotten kingdom, which, in age, has declined to a somewhat less grand state.

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145xp
8 replies
6587 views
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City Image - Anorrus By: CaptainPenguin

Anorrus, capitol of Marcosia, lies along both sides of the mighty and wide Rhenus River.

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105xp
5 replies
5581 views
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The Iothun: A New Look at Giants By: CaptainPenguin

Deep in the mountains, beyond where the trails end, one can find collossal stairways and long, cliffside roads, massive arched bridges and huge vaulted tunnels, spanning thousands of miles. These roads, though seemingly deserted, are closely watched by their creators, the reclusive and strange Iothun ('yoh-thoon').

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125xp
11 replies
8917 views
1 HoH
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Ru-Men By: CaptainPenguin

Ru-Men are an old race who dwell throughout the area encompassed by the Hundred, but are most plentiful in their traditional homeland on the Andraverly Mountains on the west coast of the Heavy Sea (northward of Peklichr). They live in small 'nests' of 10-20 individuals which generally lie in the mountains or cliffs. Many call them the Crow Men or the Jackdaw Men, while others refer to them as the Black Mountain Bastards.

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90xp
7 replies
5114 views
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The Plaza of Tarnished Entertainments By: CaptainPenguin

The Plaza of Tarnished Entertainments is a large, circular plaza, built in the formerly-affluent Saeppellion district of Hartacon, capitol of Mysia.

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130xp
6 replies
5569 views
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The Duerga - A New Look At Dwarves By: CaptainPenguin

I'm bored of dwarves. So, I'm trying to create my own dwarves. I've decided to call them the Duerga. Here's my basic ideas, and I'll flesh them out later, hopefully with your help.

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195xp
35 replies
15159 views
4 HoHs
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The Urwhor- A New Look At Orcs By: CaptainPenguin

Since the New Look At Dwarves was such a success, I decided that I would try an overhaul of another fantasy standard which I find boring, the Orcs. I'm using the Orcs only as a very loose base.

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185xp
29 replies
11612 views
3 HoHs
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Mysian Lengths By: CaptainPenguin

All Agera work with a base-8 system (though of course, in GMing, for simplicity, I don't). Accordingly, the Mysian system of measuring is based on 8s. From dolon to dolmelphion, the system is fairly straightforward, but, traditionally, after dolmelphion, it becomes a touch more complicated.

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60xp
4 replies
5880 views
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The Subeya By: CaptainPenguin

'When I was ten-and-eight years old, I went south to the land of Emhutz, which is near the Holy Land, and I went before the wisest of all God's creatures but the Prophet, Najaug, all-knowing, all-seeing, all-wise, who in this time did dwell there, and him I asked five-score questions.'
-The Subeya, 'First Song: Going Before the Prophet'

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130xp
5 replies
4672 views
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Uedha-a By: CaptainPenguin

Uedha-a is the God who dwells here. That I am not afraid, he makes me so- Uedha-a bolsters hearts with iron, and with-holds souls from the Shadow Himself.

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75xp
4 replies
4147 views
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Hubal and the Tisqoshu By: CaptainPenguin

A complex mythology with a full set of deities.

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60xp
3 replies
5036 views
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The Four Dragons and the Four Fiends By: CaptainPenguin

In this pantheon, there are four dragons, and only four, and they are gods. They are opposed by four fiends, and only four, and they are demons.

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55xp
4 replies
4979 views
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These Are Our Gods By: CaptainPenguin

Across the Thousand Thousand Worlds, there are many gods. We, the Knowers of All Worlds, shall now endeavor to list all of the gods of a few select worlds.

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230xp
28 replies
57717 views
1 HoH
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Roman-themed Gods By: CaptainPenguin

Gods for the Roman-themed nation of Imperial Arcturus.

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130xp
19 replies
10046 views
1 HoH
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Dogpick By: CaptainPenguin

This heavy iron war-pick is was common in the the Pretender Wars

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90xp
5 replies
5631 views
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Tyrnithi Arrows By: CaptainPenguin

A bundle of Tyrnithi arrows. Rare and highly prized by Archers in this Lands.

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160xp
7 replies
6773 views
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Ghollish Wide-axe By: CaptainPenguin

The Ghollish Wide-axe was a design of axe popular a few decades ago in the southern provinces of (insert kingdom), especially among peasants involved in the Sickle of Justice rebellion (though these favored sickles to axes).

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70xp
3 replies
6020 views
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Tree-of-Blades By: CaptainPenguin

The Tree-of-Blades (along with the infamous dragonsword, with which we are not concerned here) is the signature weapon and symbol of the Dragonfighters of Mount Taris. It is also known as the Dragonfighter axe, or as the txarian (this name, pronounced 'char-EE-ahn', comes from Txarian Tapolosthes, the feared Chilliarch of the Dragonfighters, who led the his people in a series of short but vicious wars against the Mysians).

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110xp
6 replies
6034 views
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Khawarezmian Papersword By: CaptainPenguin

Some call the Khawarezmians primitive. Paperswords are not made of paper or parchament. They are made of thin sheets of bone laminated together. It takes expert craftsmanship to make them. They are anything but primitive.

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170xp
11 replies
6460 views
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The Sons of Charshaf By: CaptainPenguin

First he becomes sweaty and feverish. Then the boils begin. The boils are beautiful. After that, he finds it difficult to breath, then move, then he drowns in his own blood. Is that sufficient?

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60xp
5 replies
6753 views