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History and Mythology
What legendary artefacts are believed to exist?
1: The Bronze Arms of Kuhetzib
2: The Seat of Power
3: The Ark of the Dwarf-Maps
4: The Halfling Cornucopia
5: The Elven Compass
6: The Tome of Enkram
7: The Sacred Treasure of the Dragonborn
8: The Bardic Conch of Heroes
9: The Girdle of the Trickster
10: The Chalice of the Healer
11: The First Law
12: The First Lie
13: The First Tomb
14: The First Wine (or a recipe for it)
15: The First Song
16: The First Book
17: The First Treasure
Geography
What is the state of seafaring and maritime trade?
1: There is only riverine and coastal traffic. No-one even crosses the Inner Sea directly without some urgent purpose.
2: The elves and the wayehi-speakers have limited high seas capacity; lands further around the Inner Sea are known primarily from seafaring.
3: All coastal nations have some high seas capacity; a number of other lands, separate from the main continent, are known and visited.
4: Most of this side of the world is known, mapped, and visited by seafarers. Only the dreaded waters towards the edge of the world are shunned.
5: As 4, but the elves also have a credible, if untested, plan to cross the edge.
Politics and Society
Who, in theory, is the ruler of the orc kingdom of Brugo?
1: A descendant of the pre-imperial lords of Brugo.
2: Someone who claims to be descended from Kuhetzib the Conqueror, but is not believed outside Brugo.
3: A descendant of one of Kuhetzib's generals.
4: A member of a family that has risen to prominence more recently.
And in practice, who runs Brugo?
1: The monarch, an adult orc.
2: A single regent, in the name of an infant ruler.
3: A regency council, in the name of an infant ruler.
4: A royal steward, as the actual heir has been missing for a long time.
5: A chancellor, consort, or other senior court member, for a ruler who takes no interest in matters of state.
6: The court wizard, the senior local representative of a rival mage guild to the one which was overthrown in Gartihann, who manipulates the monarch.
7: Autonomous tribal chiefs run their own tribes with varying degrees of settlement or wildness; the High Monarch is essentially a figurehead.
8: No-one much is in charge; individual clans mind their own business, and the title of monarch has all but withered away since the empire fell.
Miscellaneous
What is the status of the undead in Axalvo?
1: Despite legends, undead are very rare in practice.
2: Mindless undead are seen as tragic; free-willed undead are scarce.
3: Mindless undead are seen as equivalent to vermin; free-willed undead are seen as tragic.
4: Mindless undead are seen as potential foot-soldiers for fiends and the like; free-willed undead exert secret political power.
5: Small enclaves of undead mark battlefields and mass graves; such places are shunned as major hazards.
6: Undead are generally rare; the appearance of large numbers of them is taken as a bad omen, provoking fears of a new flip.
7: Undead are seen as divine punishment, with mindless undead being punishment on the living for failure to perform religious duties, and free-willed undead as being punished for their own misdeeds in life.
8: Undead are rare except in legendary cursed locations, with specific tales explaining their presence.
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History and Mythology
What legendary artefacts are believed to exist?
- The trappings of the old empire: the weapons and armour of Kuhetzib, presumably something suitably archaic (to the current era) like a bronze spear and shield.
- The Seat of Power - a stone seat enshrined in a larger throne, said to have belonged to the rulers of the last nation to speak Old Mystic as a first language.
- The dwarven map of the underworld which they used to travel during the last flip - carved into a series of stone tablets and sealed into an ark of the covenant style casket.
- The legendary halfling cornucopia - which they say fed them during a time of famine.
- The elven compass - the only one known in this setting which magically charts the route to the safe way to navigate the falls at the edge. Currently kept on board the flagship of the elven boat-city.
- The original tome in which Enkram wrote the words stolen from the divine tongue. Kept locked away as just to look upon those words will drive most mortals insane.
- Sacred items of the dragonborn, said to come from the hoard of the last true dragon (many counterfeit items also exist, only certain dragonborn priests know how to tell the real from the fake artifacts).
- A magical conch shell, said to be the first ever musical instrument & held in the main bardic college in the country where wayehi hails from. It is said that if you hold it to your ear you can hear the echoes of the song that created the world, but also that if you blow on it in a time of great need then the ghost of one of the great folk heroes will appear to guide you.
- The girdle of the Trickster. Appears to be a simple rope belt. Magical identification reveals it to be a cursed belt of gender changing. In fact it is neither of these and putting on the belt actually has the same effect as if a card were picked at random from a Deck of Many Things (the gender changing ID is actually an epic level casting of Nystul's Magical Aura with Permanance).
- The Chalice of the Healer, with which Lises-Huvnamunu healed the priest-queen Moburene.
Geography
What is the state of seafaring and maritime trade?
1: There is only riverine and coastal traffic. No-one even crosses the Inner Sea directly without some urgent purpose.
2: The elves and the wayehi-speakers have limited high seas capacity; lands further around the Inner Sea are known primarily from seafaring.
3: All coastal nations have some high seas capacity; a number of other lands, separate from the main continent, are known and visited.
4: Most of this side of the world is known, mapped, and visited by seafarers. Only the dreaded waters towards the edge of the world are shunned.
5: As 4, but the elves also have a credible, if untested, plan to cross the edge.
Politics and Society
Who, in theory, is the ruler of the orc kingdom of Brugo?
1: A descendant of the pre-imperial lords of Brugo.
2: Someone who claims to be descended from Kuhetzib the Conqueror, but is not believed outside Brugo.
3: A descendant of one of Kuhetzib's generals.
4: A member of a family that has risen to prominence more recently.
And in practice, who runs Brugo?
1: The monarch, an adult orc.
2: A single regent, in the name of an infant ruler.
3: A regency council, in the name of an infant ruler.
4: A royal steward, as the actual heir has been missing for a long time.
5: A chancellor, consort, or other senior court member, for a ruler who takes no interest in matters of state.
6: The court wizard, the senior local representative of a rival mage guild to the one which was overthrown in Gartihann, who manipulates the monarch.
Miscellaneous
What is the status of the undead in Axalvo?
1: Despite legends, undead are very rare in practice.
2: Mindless undead are seen as tragic; free-willed undead are scarce.
3: Mindless undead are seen as equivalent to vermin; free-willed undead are seen as tragic.
4: Mindless undead are seen as potential foot-soldiers for fiends and the like; free-willed undead exert secret political power.
5: Small enclaves of undead mark battlefields and mass graves; such places are shunned as major hazards.
