- 04:07, 5 December 2025 Cold Moon (hist | edit) [1,512 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{InSettingTextNote}} {{InSettingTextInfo|title=Cold Moon|author=unknown|extra=A story commonly retold by Akwarai dwarven mystics}} {{Quote|Into the darkness the Exile walked, the moon above as cold as the desert night. Lights played at the shadow of his vision, campfires always out of reach and never in focus. They would not accept him regardless. He had no camp of his own, no tent to which he could return, only his walking staff and his sandals. They we...")
- 04:33, 4 December 2025 Batu (hist | edit) [831 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Batu''' {{Pronunciation|BAH-too}} is an immense caldera on the southernmost major islands of the Nests, an archipelago within the Wounds. The volcano is not active, and has never been within the time of any oral history, but any approach to it is perilous nonetheless. The barren expanse of black igneous rock that surrounds Batu holds an invisible danger, as the air there is laden with toxic fumes released from the ground that will quickly fell any person or cr...")
- 00:42, 3 December 2025 Baurastana (hist | edit) [983 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{CityInfobox |name = Baurastana |image = |nation = Abanir |ruler = - |government = Tribal monarchy |demonym = Baurastanan |adjective = Baurastanan |population = ~17,000 |demographics = Various ancestries, primarily humans, dwarves, orcs, half-orcs, and kobolds }} '''Baurastana''' {{Pronunciation|bar-ah-STAH-nah}} is a city in Abanir, located on the western shores of Tomb Lake where the Blue River meets the lake. It...")
- 02:37, 2 December 2025 Sytaka (hist | edit) [690 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{OrganizationInfobox |name = Sytaka |image = |type = Targai tribe |leader = Heroe |scope = Abanir }} The '''Sytaka''' {{Pronunciation|sigh-TAH-kah}} are a targai Abaniri tribe. They reside primarily in the southern steppe, within the Broken Wheel Hills, where they survive by hunting and trading with passing caravans along the Hundred Days Road. In {{Year|6976}} the Sytaka suffered an attack by nindoru hiding in caves...")
- 19:06, 30 November 2025 Catfolk (hist | edit) [1,167 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Catfolk''' are one of the major ancestries found on Kishar. == Appearance == While the basic physiology of catfolk is universal, that of humanoid felines, there is much variety in the details. They vary widely in fur color and length, or whether they have fur at all, just as they do in the traits exhibited by their ears, tails, and other typical cat-like features. Broad collections of traits in catfolk populations tend to be, but are not always, regional in natu...")
- 20:25, 28 November 2025 Togarmah (hist | edit) [867 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{CityInfobox |name = Togarmah |image = |nation = Viridia |ruler = - |government = Mayorship |demonym = Togarmahn |adjective = Togarmahn |population = ~21,560 |demographics = Various ancestries but primarily orcish and human }} '''Togarmah''' {{Pronunciation|toh-GARR-mah}} is a small city in the Viridian province of Andera. Located on the northern shores of the lake of the same name, the settlement is one of the largest...")
- 02:00, 27 November 2025 Rain-walker (hist | edit) [762 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Rain-walkers''' are creatures only seen during the wet season in the Wounds. With bodies made of the space between falling raindrops, rain-walkers can be remarkably difficult to spot, but should one encounter a rain-walker they will grant wishes to the best of their abilities. They are benevolent on the whole, though if one's wishes show signs of greed this can quickly change. The Keleta-Ru gnomes and many Fanakaran peoples value and re...")
- 01:46, 27 November 2025 Severn (hist | edit) [907 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{CityInfobox |name = Severn |image = |nation = Viridia |ruler = - |government = Governorship |demonym = Severni |adjective = Severni |population = ~98,400 |demographics = Various ancestries but primarily human }} '''Severn''' {{Pronunciation|SEH-vern}} is a city in the Viridian province of Attalea Major, located on the shores of a small bay in the Sea of Ersas. It was supposedly the hometown of Merulus Numida, the legendary founder of th...")
- 02:28, 25 November 2025 Avil moss (hist | edit) [932 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Avil moss''' {{{Pronunciation|ah-VEEL}}, sometimes known as '''lunar moss''', is a type of plant that grows on the moon Abashmu and on small asteroids captured by the moon's orbit. There it survives on sunlit patches of rock, subsisting on the sunlight alone, which its dark green leaves are well-suited to absorbing. The only creature known to eat avil moss is the culichnan, a squid-like animal. Oddly, avil moss seems more adapted to terrestrial life than to...")
- 02:21, 25 November 2025 Culichnan (hist | edit) [1,663 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Culichnan''' {{Pronunciation|coo-LEECH-nahn}} are a type of squid-like creature that lives in space near Kishar. First encountered by Eitan elven explorers, culichnan are most common around the orbit of Abashmu but can more infrequently be found closer to the planet as well. Culichnan are deceptively large. Though their bodies are only roughly three feet long, each of their ten tentacles can be up to fifty feet in length. Their overall mass...")
- 02:20, 20 November 2025 Rhax (hist | edit) [1,763 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{CityInfobox |name = Rhax |image = |nation = Viridia |ruler = - |government = Martial law |demonym = Rhaxian |adjective = Rhaxian |population = ~50,430 |demographics = Primarily humans, dwarves, tengu, half-elves, undine, tritons, and locathah. }} '''Rhax''' {{Pronunciation|RAX}} is a large fortified city within the Viridian province of Ertan. Located on the northern shores of Paralis Island, roughly 70 miles south of...")
- 01:29, 19 November 2025 Hero's Peak (hist | edit) [1,706 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{CityInfobox |name = Hero's Peak |image = |nation = Viridia |ruler = - |government = Dwarven council |demonym = None |adjective = None |population = ~27,020 |demographics = Various ancestries but primarily dwarven }} '''Hero's Peak''' is a city in the Viridan province of Tumunzar. It is built on and within the mountain of the same name, part of the broader Pike Mountains, and is the tallest in western Thadria, though it still pales...")
- 02:41, 18 November 2025 Cadaver worm (hist | edit) [691 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Cadaver worms''' are a type of giant carnivorous worm native to Kea Racha. Known for their keen senses and propensity for seeking out recently buried bodies, which they consume whole, each cadaver worm is ten to fifteen feet long. Their pale bodies are covered in small, backwards-pointing bristles, which they use both for defense and to help move themselves through the earth. The endemic presence of cadaver worms across Kea Racha has led to many peoples of the isl...")
- 20:47, 16 November 2025 Lurker in the Tall Waves (hist | edit) [806 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Lurker in the Tall Waves''' is a creature known to many peoples of the Wounds, with many tales and legends telling of its existence. Though they vary across cultures, most describe the Lurker as a formless entity, or else one that takes the structure of water, that resides in the depths of the ocean. In times of strong storms, however, it ventures closer to shore, where it waits to swallow those who venture too close to the water. While to s...")
- 16:32, 16 November 2025 New Era (hist | edit) [1,686 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{CityInfobox |name = New Era |image = |nation = Lelwani |ruler = Divine Inheritors |government = Theocratic council |demonym = Sangiran |adjective = New Era |population = ~200,400 |demographics = Highly cosmopolitan }} '''New Era''' is the capital of Sangiran. Located on the eastern shores of the Lake of All Futures, New Era was constructed as a planned city in the seventh millennium following the precise instructions laid out by the Eternal Suzerain...")
- 01:46, 16 November 2025 Harera-Paro (hist | edit) [9,276 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{NationInfobox |name = Harera-Paro |capital = Kota-Re-Wa |ruler = Fera-Varumina-Ke |government = Monarchy |demonym = Harera-Paro |adjective = Harera-Paro |languages = Sea-Speak; Hikunza; Zabarshan Elven |religions = [Ancestor worship]]; Ta-Lasau-Kori; Beating Heart }} '''Harera-Paro''' {{Pronunciation|hah-REH-rah-PAH-roh}} is a realm in the eastern Wounds inhabited by the Fanakaran people of the same name. Rather unique views...")
- 18:01, 15 November 2025 White Rose cults (hist | edit) [614 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''White Rose cults''' are a small sect of followers of the Blind Witness. A divergent group from the Black Rose cults and similarly esoteric, the cults of the White Rose split over questions as to the nature of the Consuming Maw. Whereas the Black Rose cultists hold the Maw to be a unitary part of the Blind Witness, followers of the White Rose believe it is an entity split from the Witness that now lives in the stars. Also unlike the original cults, they wea...")
- 17:57, 15 November 2025 Black Rose cults (hist | edit) [928 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Black Rose cults''' are a small sect of followers of the Blind Witness. One of the more esoteric of the Blind Witness cults, adherents of the Black Rose believe the void to be a place two deities inhabit - the home not only of the Black Rose, which is their name for the Witness, but also that of the Consuming Maw. Though innately destructive, they do not hold the Consuming Maw to be necessarily evil, as by devouring existence it makes room for the void of...")
- 04:42, 15 November 2025 Kana-Bere (hist | edit) [990 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{CityInfobox |name = Kana-Bere |image = |nation = Rashareka (former) |ruler = None |government = Theocratic monarchy (former) |demonym = Kana-Bere |adjective = Kana-Bere |population = None |demographics = None }} '''Kana-Bere''' {{Pronunciation|KAH-nah-BEH-reh}} was a city on the southern island of the Old Twins within the empire of Rashareka. Along with the rest of the major settlements of the Twins, it was rapidly depopulated after the demonic invasion of...")
- 03:04, 14 November 2025 Karosha-Vaeno-Ne-Ta (hist | edit) [1,267 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Karosha-Vaeno-Ne-Ta''' {{Pronunciation|kah-ROH-shah-VAY-noh-NEH-TAH}} is an ancient and semi-legendary Ha-Kolawa matriarch. Though she has hatched no young in decades, she nonetheless spends half the year visiting the Nests, where she seems to maintain a vigil over the sea while the younger pterosaurs tend to their aeries. More striking, though, are her actions the other half of the year, through which she has earned the respect and awe of many peoples of the...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 02:53, 13 November 2025 Itzazadar (hist | edit) [981 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{CityInfobox |name = Itzazadar |nation = Bakari |ruler = None |government = None |demonym = Itzazadari |adjective = Itzazadari |population = ~1,000 |demographics = Bakari locathah }} '''Itzazadar''' {{Pronunciation|it-zah-ZAH-dahr}} is a Baraki locathah lagoon-village, located roughly 200 miles east of the Nests within the Wounds. The largest Bakari settlement by quite some margin, it also serves as the closest thing this isolationist people...")
- 05:12, 12 November 2025 The Old Storyteller (hist | edit) [2,988 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{InSettingTextNote}} {{InSettingTextInfo|title=The Old Storyteller|author=unknown|extra=A traditional Langkhan parable}} {{Quote|An old storyteller visited the garden-fort one day. All who spare the time set down their tools and gathered around him in the shape of the trees near the fields. They awaited the entertainment he was sure to provide. They awaited the wisdom he was sure to share. The old storyteller began. He told of p...")
- 04:57, 12 November 2025 On the Nature of History (hist | edit) [1,118 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{InSettingTextNote}} {{InSettingTextInfo|title=On the Nature of History|author=|extra=Collected from incomplete notes written around the year {{Year|6910}}}} {{Quote|}} Category:Written works Category:Written works/In-setting perspective")
- 18:53, 9 November 2025 Araziash (hist | edit) [1,009 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{CityInfobox |name = Araziash |image = |nation = Amshan |ruler = Inda clan |government = Autocratic triumvirate |demonym = Araziash |adjective = Araziash |population = ~360 |demographics = Primarily humans, catfolk, and orcs }} '''Araziash''' {{Pronunciation|ah-RAH-zee-ash}} is a settlement in northern Amshan, located where the Peroz River meets the Titan's River in the southern Aban Steppe. Though quite small, Araz...")
- 18:28, 26 October 2025 Warha (hist | edit) [932 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{CityInfobox |name = Warha |image = |nation = Viridia |ruler = - |government = Martial law |demonym = Warhan |adjective = Warhan |population = ~5,640 |demographics = Primarily humans, orcs, half-orcs, and half-elves }} '''Warha''' {{Pronunciation|WAR-hah}} is a small fortified city in the Viridian province of Talliastu. It is located on the coast of the Chaska Sea at the mouth of the bay in which the city of Malhassal can...")
- 02:14, 26 October 2025 Daru rice (hist | edit) [1,227 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Daru rice''' {{Pronunciation|DAH-roo}} is a popular street food in Pela Huban. Prepared in immense batches that can feed hundreds if not thousands, teams of cooks are required to make the dish. Its name comes from the signature dish in which it is prepared, called a '''daru''', which is a large, rather flat pot that gently slopes from the bottom into a concave shape. Each vendor has their own recipe for daru rice, yet nearly all start from the same base of fried a...")
- 01:04, 25 October 2025 Quill Rock (hist | edit) [726 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{CityInfobox |name = Quill Rock |image = |nation = Brightmarch |ruler = None |government = None |demonym = None |adjective = None |population = ~1000 at any given time |demographics = Primarily humans, elves, half-elves, and anadi }} '''Quill Rock''' is an encampment in southern Brightmarch, located on the easternmost tributary of the Zaliyan River. It is most famous as where the Vine-Emperor first amassed their followers, though they...")
- 22:05, 14 October 2025 Star-Bearers (hist | edit) [1,112 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Star-Bearers''' are a minor cult of the Blind Witness. They are primarily found in the northern coastal reaches of the Eastern Chaskan city-states, with a relatively strong presence in Anaharath and Sarepta. The cult remains quite small, however, with no more than a few hundred followers even in these cities. As recorded in one of their primary texts by an anonymous author, the cult believes they must "grab hold of the stars before they pass into...")
- 21:49, 14 October 2025 Sea of Sand (hist | edit) [932 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Sea of Sand''' is a region within the eastern Sarrag, the desert that covers most of the island of Angan. The dunes move like water there, forming waves that lap against the shores of more firm land. At times they form immense tsunamis that crash against the Shemshelen Mountains, slowly grinding down the peaks. The exact mechanism that drives this motion is unknown. Both the eusarrag and the wind-traders alike avoid the Sea of Sand as much as...")
- 00:54, 10 October 2025 Ux (hist | edit) [539 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Ux''' {{Pronunciation|OOKS}} are a type of herbivore native to the southern Stormlands. Commonly kept as herd animals by the hobgoblin tribes of Akatzar, ux are most closely related to bison, though much smaller in size, rarely larger than a goat. Their nearly pure black wool is considered one of the best materials to use in the construction of clothing warm enough to keep one comfortable in the often frigid conditions common across the Zkher Steppe....")
- 14:42, 4 October 2025 Patchwork house (hist | edit) [1,445 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''patchwork house''' is a type of Viridian senatorial family that relies heavily on political adoptions to maintain their senatorial rights. The term is typically used in a disparaging manner by other houses who look down on the practice. Adoptions for political purposes are not uncommon or frowned upon in Viridia. Should the head of a senatorial family not view any of his heirs or extended relatives as worthy of representing the famil...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 00:05, 30 September 2025 Dasuwattan Passage (hist | edit) [1,059 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Dasuwattan Passage''' {{Pronunciation|dah-soo-WAH-tahn}} is a gap between the mountains of the Northern Wall and the Cage that connects the Aban Steppe with the Monumon, linking together the peoples of the Three Great Seas with those of the Land of the Sun and Moon. It is relatively temperate and verdant compared to the steppe to the east and west, with many creeks and rivers running down from the mountains into a largely forested landscape...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 16:36, 28 September 2025 Akatzar (hist | edit) [10,531 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{NationInfobox |name = Akatzar |image = |capital = None |ruler = Multiple |government = Tribal monarchs |demonym = Akatzari (tribal or city preferred) |adjective = Akatzari (tribal or city preferred) |languages = Uulam; Aanar; Qaani; Ukkarak |religions = Ezun; Qenga visitants; ancestor monoliths }} '''Akatzar''' {{Pronunciation|ah-KAT-zar}} in the southern Stormlands encompasses much of th...")
- 15:52, 28 September 2025 Fayarannon Sea (hist | edit) [1,424 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Fayarannon Sea''' {{Pronunciation|FIE-ar-ann-non}} is part of the southern Monumon, the steppe that stretches across most of the northern Lands of the Sun and Moon. The Fayarannon Sea is quite low-lying and generally remarkably flat, and as a result becomes flooded for roughly half the year after the winter ends and the glacial melt from the Mulgaranyaran Mountains combines with the torrential spring rains to inundate the region. Though this water rare...")
- 00:21, 28 September 2025 Silverwood (hist | edit) [716 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Silverwood''' is a type of wood harvested from a tree of the same name that grows in the Silverwood Hills in southwestern Thadria. A type of hornbeam, silverwood trees are prized for their lumber, which when dry has a light gray, almost metallic appearance. Despite the difficulty of working this extremely hard wood, it is a valuable material for many purposes, though rarely used for carpentry due to cost. Not only are specialized axes of metal more durable tha...")
- 23:37, 26 September 2025 Trade coalition (hist | edit) [783 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''trade coalition''' is a type of merchant guild found around the Chaska Sea. They are particularly favored by Tamkaranu merchants, but coalitions formed in other lands are not unknown. These organizations of merchants with shared interests are generally aligned either along geographical lines or by what they trade. They exercise sweeping authority throughout Tamkaranu, its colonies, and even in the ports of foreign nations, providing their members with mutual...")
- 23:29, 26 September 2025 Opiter's Folly (hist | edit) [1,277 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Opiter's Folly''' {{Pronunciation|OH-pih-ter}} is an immense stone bridge near the Tela River within the Eastern Chaskan city-states. Now crumbling and in disuse, this bridge was built in the early years of the tenth millennium by the order of Opiter Iallius, scion of the Iallius senatorial family of Limyra. He intended to use the bridge to drive caravans traveling west along the Golden Path to Yurza rather...")
- 03:54, 16 September 2025 Enne (hist | edit) [660 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{CityInfobox |name = Enne |image = |nation = Independent |ruler = - |government = Chiefdom |demonym = Ennen |adjective = Enne |population = ~250 |demographics = Primarily human, orcs, and half-orcs }} '''Enne''' {{Pronunciation|EH-neh}} is a village on Black Glass Island, the northeastern-most island in the Salt Spring Archipelago in the southeastern Wounds. Though quite small, it is the largest settlement of the Fjarri, a Fanakara|Fanakar...")
- 18:14, 14 September 2025 Knarag wrestling (hist | edit) [1,641 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Knarag wrestling''' {{Pronunciation|NARR-ahg}} is a sport played by ratfolk of many cultures. It is especially popular amongst the Etti of the Depths, who often hold massive tournaments of the sport that can pull together packs from quite some distance. Knarag wrestling is a group event. Each match consists of anywhere between ten and thirty participants - the number varies by the availability of contestants and local preferences - who together enter a ri...")
- 17:57, 14 September 2025 Black Sky Prince (hist | edit) [2,556 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{DeityInfobox |name = Black Sky Prince |image = |type = Cult |adjectives = Black Sky |plane = Material |areas_of_concern = Redemption for past misdeeds owing to actions not taken |worshipers = Small cults in the Western Coast |domains = Time, Vigil, Void |divine_font = Heal |divine_skill = Occultism |divine_ability = Constitution |favored_weapon = None |symbol = Two comets moving downwards, their tails twisting together into a helix |sacred_animal = None |sacred_co...")
- 23:47, 13 September 2025 Skull-wand (hist | edit) [715 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Skull-wands''' are a type of magical item created and used by some peoples of Brightmarch, particularly in the south and east where the tropical grasslands transform into the Laqto Rainforest. Skilled mages amongst these peoples take the skulls of their deceased and, through placing magical components within, render them capable of storing magical effects and later releasing them as spells. This is done primarily as a means of honoring the respected dead, and...")
- 01:10, 10 September 2025 Shimsasa (hist | edit) [320 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''shimsasa''' {{Pronunciation|shim-SAH-sah}} is a common word for a spice merchant in Dalbanu. They typically sell their wares in the markets of large cities along the River Qaro and River Qes, where they are never short of customers. Category:People Category:Dalbanu Category:Dalbanu/People")
- 01:08, 10 September 2025 Nuluha (hist | edit) [1,378 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Quote|text=For the truce-feast of the next full moon, go to Kissura and acquire the following in the markets:<br/><br/>At least 48 fine sheep<br />At least 24 cows<br/>At least 32 goats<br />At least 96 peacocks<br /><br />And do not forget the 16 baskets of nuluha. Kunvakarkan will forget how to fly and agree to every demand once my chefs apply it to the meat. |sign=Instructions from the dragon-lord Tzemezarin to an unknown servant}} '''Nuluha''' {{Pronu...")
- 23:07, 8 September 2025 Observatory of Horns (hist | edit) [1,592 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Observatory of Horns''' is a complex in Rovakhad where the Ether Council, the rulers of Rovakhit, both reside and convene for their prognostications and augury. Almost entirely sealed from the outside world, only a small slit in the otherwise permanently locked outer doors and a secret tunnel for supplies connect those inside to the nation in which they govern. Its tall, perfectly smooth onyx walls are protected by automated magical ballistas. Only thr...")
- 02:33, 7 September 2025 Wailing lights (hist | edit) [1,827 bytes] Gronk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Quote|text=As I gazed upwards, it was as if a great howl from above wormed its way into my head. I covered my ears to no avail, I stuffed them full of wax in a futile attempt to return to the silence of the night. Yet still the wailing continued, exhorting me without words to do foolish things, violent things, actions of grave nature towards my traveling companions I would never otherwise consider. And so we each passed the night in our own torment, then sleeplessly se...")