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

====The Royal family and links to PC's.====

King Verlid has been married twice.

The first time was to his childhood match, Ergyn Afaelin, daughter to Baron Afaelin. She died six years later during labour. Her younger sister is married to the Baron of Andazyn and '''Rosin''' is her daughter. 

'''Daegmund''' is one the Baron's bastards, and thus a half-brother to Rosin.

The king later married Lady Ysibet's mother [Nevelyn Linfar of Hieath keep in Burzyn], a widow at the time [of the previous lord of Erenes, a landed knight in Burzyn] and now the queen.

She had two daughter's in her previous marriage, one of whom is Lady Ysibet, '''Aelfric''''s mother. The other is now Taowyn Legith, wife of the seneschal.

Lady Ysibet married Baron Roberic of Clan Mernii in Thay and has three children with him, the heir Balwyn, Lady Maeri and Aelfric.


====[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]===

===[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Harn_of_the_Divine Of the Divine]===

===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.