Editing A Darker Age

*Roadscholars game of Iron age MRQII
*[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?p=12248550#post12248550 IC thread ]
*[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=517478 OC thread]
*[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=514131 recruitment]

===Characters===
*[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Bastard_Knight Daegmund 'The bastard hound of Andazyn'] Iskallor's hunter turned [http://i1026.photobucket.com/albums/y322/iskallor/daegmund.jpg knight]. Bastard half brother to Rosine. Nephew to the king.
**[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Godfrey Godfrey his retainer]
*[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Aelfric Aelfric of Clan Mernii]. Herbmaster and cousin to Rosine and Daegmund, played by Jarulf
**[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Rhin Rhín] is his young servant.
*[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Rosine Rosine of Lerenil] King's niece, played by Mandacaru
*[[Osgar]], a landed mercenary knight, played by Pseudoephedrine
*[[Krallion]], a Shamanistic warrior played by ThaGuy
*[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Corbin_The_Crow Corbin the Crow] played by Chalkline

====[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/The_royal_family_and_links_to_the_player_charactersThe Royal family and links to PC's.]====


====[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Osgars_settlers Osgars settlers]====

===House Rules===
*[[Abilities and Spells]] not found in the books.
*[[Sunsigns]] affect skills in different ways.
*[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/A_darker_age_armour Armour]

===Links===
*[http://www.lythia.com/2008/02/lerenil/  Lerenil]

===Maps===
*[http://www.harshlands.net/Images1/harn.jpg A ‘poetic’ map of Harn] . It’s the only one you need, and all named features will be ‘canon’ for this game. what they mean might be vastly different, however.

*[http://i1026.photobucket.com/albums/y322/iskallor/Picture2.png  The island keep on the lake ]

*[http://i1026.photobucket.com/albums/y322/iskallor/manor.png  land grant Map of the land grant] This is adapted from a small portion of a map from the Columbia Games Harn module Chybisa, and the original is copyright. Please do not use for commercial purposes. This is altered and adapted for a personal game only.
*The legend is pretty self explanatory. As you can see, only a few hundred acres are currently 'clear'. Osgar will have plenty of timber for a time...

===Setting===
The small kingdom of Chybisa, once a crossroads for trade and major cavalry centre in the Remull holdings on Harn. Now, its an isolated collection of small manors centred round the formidible Burzyn keep [which looks remarkably like Harlech castle]. The current king has taken the peaceful times of the last six years as a good omen - and looks to reclaim some of the fallen manors to the north of the river. Meanwhile,the Baron of Lerenil pursues his aim of establishing Lerenil as a seagoing port. To do so requires a settled north bank to the river...but the greatwoods are populated by Setha And worse, wolf riders and forest-orcs.
Rumors speak also of Trolls and Ogres, not seen since the Remuli drove them out.

===A sense of Scale===
This p-Harn is cinematic in scale. What would be the extreme in naturall features is the norm here. Caves are commonly as big as the largest caverns of our world, waterfalls are longer, trees larger, mountains higher. Animals can be much larger and are generally more intelligent.
This applies to the superstitions, folklore and stories of our Earth as well. People do see ghosts, true love and innocence are powerful forces, there are little people and monsters and old laws that even gods must obey. Riddling games, bets and wagers, hosting laws, oaths all have power. So do rightful positions…true kings, godmother/father, clanhead, kings champion all bestow a modicum of Power.

===Major holdings of Chybisa===
*Burzyn. Seat of the King, Verlid II. His seneschal is his queen.
*Onden. Seat of the Kings older sister. Her Seneschal is the crown prince Balesir. 
*Lerenil, Seat of the kings younger brother, Aernadh. Salagys Legith is Seneschal. His wife is Aelfrics Aunt.
*Geda, seat of Chaliss of Kanday. 
*Aeraban, seat as is. Baron Afaelin.
*Andazyn, seat of the Kings sister in law [by his first wife]. Baron Vastair.This is '''Rosin'''s family.
*Caermal seat as is, Baron Rythal.

===Setting assumptions===
*Magic - Common magic will become the province of specialist users. The average person, while not superstitious about magics use, will regard it as a dangerous pasttime.
*I'll run all the magic systems as is - with the main change being the general unavailability of common magic. Sorcery with have a particular mode or approach - there are alchemists, astrologers, enchanters, power word mages and necromancers rather than sorcerers. Crunch wise, this simply means that different 'grimoires' require a mundane as well as magic skill to enable. The mundane skill must always be greater than the magic one.
*Common magic becomes the province of the church and divine initiates, witches, warlocks and shaman/druid types. Most magic specialists will also pick up a little. It is 'low magic', but you must have the gift [or divine/spirit backing] for it.
*Technology - Due to Remuli and Dwarf influences, there is a wider range of arms and armour technology on Harn, but getting fitted plate [or fancy helmets] is, on the other hand, not going to be easy. Inheriting grandpas Equestrian war gear, being very good mates with a dwarf [remember, they have withdrawn from the lands of men largely] or being a noble from Melderyn [for thoe unfamiliar with a Harn map, the southeastern Island kingdom] would be about the only way to access that sort of gear.
*For cultures, assume picts on too many sacred herbs for the Setha, a general gaulish feel for the Anadhe, and more germanic for the Hodiri [who are mounted].
*The hodiri are pretty much Goth/Alans, if you are looking for an analogy.

===[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/A_Darker_Age_background Background]===

===[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/The_Cwll_or_forest_folk The Cwll or Forest Folk]===

===[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/The_Hodiri_and_their_traditions The Hodiri and their Traditions]===

===[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/A_brief_history_and_culture A brief history and culture]===

===[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Fantastic_and_unusual_places_in_Harn Fantastic and unusual places in Harn]===

===Of the Divine===
There are only three spiritual movements on Harn. The Church, the Old Ways and the worship of Ilvir. 

*The church of the child of light. Founded over 600 years ago, the Church follows the teachings of a young boy born in the middle empires of the mainland long ago. He revealed that all previous gods were part of a pattern and that this pattern was the Child of Light, offspring of the Great Mother and Grand Father. He was slain by the Geat Evil, but cast his purity and light out into the world creating a huge and intricate pattern out of his purity and essence, everywhere making light and life. So incensed was the Great evil that it had been denied the Childs purity and essence that it flung itself into the world, losing most of its strength and power to do so. That is why there is a potential for the good in all things to be turned to evil, but only the potential.It is only possible to have pure Evil in the 'other worlds' that the church speaks of.

The church has a series of orders and sects, based on the later teachings of other children, born as speakers for the Child every 100-200 years. These have always brought tremendous disruption to the church.
Think of a monotheistic church that gets a divine audit every couple of hundred years and you have the Church of the Child.

Church orders
*Hermetic orders.
*Mendicant orders.
*Fighting orders.
*Monastic orders.
*Arcane orders.
*Spiritual orders.

*The Old Ways. The Old Ways are the ways of believers in the many gods with greater gods above them. The primal figures are the Great mother or triple goddess and the Grand Father. There are also three clever figures who aid the primal pair, one the master of nature, one the master of spirit, and one the master of magic. Between them and their contests with the Great Evil, all the world, gods, spirits and creatures are created.
Think of a mix of animism, celtic gods, welsh, irish and Scottish folklore and bon shamanism and you have theOld Ways. Depply tied to natural, spiritual and magical cycles, their orders and covens and myriad and local, but all ascribe to the same basic tenets.

Druids,Bards, witches and warlocks, Seers, Grain Queens and Sun Kings all follow the old ways. 

*Ilvir the God. The wild beasts, wild men and orcs all worship Ilvir as a living God. This is, of course, contested by both the church and the Old Ways.

===Other gods===
There are various other divine beings or concepts worshipped by smaller groups or individuals on this Harn. Goblinkind has the Crom Cruach, Baelor and the cauldron mother Annig. There are dark or old things that answer to a few who dare to call them...demons, entities of Chaos or dark Intent. Rethem and especially the city of Golotha are famous for their open worship of darker gods and forces.