The finest ring of them all, brings Life wherever it ends up. You may need its powers, but will you accept all that will be drawn to it?

These are mystic traditions and their attendant sources.

Too many are the spirits of the Spirit World, these are only a few better known types.

To the primitive tribes on the plains of North, life changes rapidly from season to season. In summer, food is abundant. In the winter, death from starving is never far. A natural phenomenon helped one such tribe.

- "Arrr! What scurvy dog seeks the Davy Jones' Locker by comin 'ere?"
- "Oh, shut it, will ya!"

It is a small, lively town like so many others. Do you wonder who are the movers and shakers here?

As if there was not enough siliness around...

The members of this obscure order specialize in growing funghi. Growing, researching and studying many kinds, they even try to create new ones.

A powerful ring of many protective powers, which has its few downsides.

Settled two hundred years before, the people were fleeing war and tyranny. Establishing a comfortable existence in the fertile, but empty valleys, they soon learned who the lands belong to. A mighty dragon called only Death, came and burned the city to the ground, and later again, and again, sending with fire also his (hers?) evil laughter and shouts of pleasure at the destruction. The survivors did not wish to leave, and decided for a new strategy.

Beginning adventurers have a hard time to find the right employment... let us try and help them!

A small valley that leads nowhere... why is it so important to the locals?

This mountain chain was once vast and impenetrable, but had the misfortune to named in the binding spell of a mighty demonic(godly?) being, namely that when the Great Mountains are forgotten, then shall it be free.

Men of wisdom, gathering lore of ways to heal the sick and suffering, these monks are not really different from other orders of the same religion.

Except for their thing with drug-addicts and similar hopeless existences.

Books of all kinds and purposes, their short summaries as well as wide descriptions, come and enjoy.

Perhaps not quite what you would expect. Certainly it is a sword that can produce flames at will.

The tragic fate of the legendary beauty has left traces behind until this day.

What happens if you actually get what you have been looking for, all the time ?

- "What about that one?"
- "They say he was a chipper back then. Took over his whole family and many more. And now, now he's a real zombie."
Fingers snapped before his face, he didn't notice. He just kept shuffling his cards again, that is all he did. A tear ran down his cheek. He missed the Emotion again.

Only a year before, King Stymian's future was firmly in his grasp. Today, he struggles for his own kingdom. But of all things, he is not a man that yields to opposition.