Kharndam Guide: Brief History

Kharndam: The Ages of Reason
Consider how the day is long to a child awaiting a parent and that is how long history truly reveals a world. Consider how the day is short to a child reveling in play, and that too is how short history spans a world. To view a world through only the [...]

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Kharndam Guide: The Phendarm Protectorates

The Phendarm Protectorates became a monarchy in the Sixth Age when Phendarm the First drove all his enemies from these lands and received the crown as his divinely-inspired reward. He built his royal castle Lantor by 207 OD upon the Connarin Plateau and ruled from on high, his capitol of Mervan growing around him over [...]

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Kharndam Guide: Twelvelands

Twelvelands

The Twelvelands, while founded in 1,360 OD, have only the most tenuous of political foundations as a state. Still, the military might and independence of its people are well marked by the Dragonforces in Lluranal to their south. The bowl-shaped depression of the area creates a large freshwater lake at the heart of the Twelvelands, [...]

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Manthar’s Notes: Kharndam Calendars (Part III)

The Low Race Calendars:
Dwarftime (DT), Rhamathreckoning (RR), Drakereckoning (UD/OD), Sovereignty Flight Years (BF/IF/AF), Impramark (IM), and Eaglereckoning (ER)

While there have been more than nineteen major calendars or ways to mark history by the many non-progenitor races, only six have any major relevance or dominant use on Dharual today (even to scholars). While the centaurs of [...]

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Kharndam Guide: Human Calendars

There have been many calendars across the continent of Rokhal, but only three are still in common use around the lands of Old Kharndam and the Imperam by the rulers and most peoples.
Draketime: Most follow a common calendar that marks the start at Ornaoth’s slaying of his first dragon—the wyrm Som-aril-dhar-chrys—as Year 1 Overdrake (OD), [...]

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Bulwark Publishing: Kharndam Collected (#3)

Kharndam Collected: The Twelvelands—Volume One
Introduction by A.J. Soltare a.k.a. “Mark Shore”

Today—August 26, 2000—is my 90th birthday and, by sheer happenstance, the 56th birthday of one of the stories within this collection. I wrote “Parhim in Peril” in one sitting as dawn rose on this day in 1944. I delivered it that evening, trading my [...]

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Kharndam Guide: The Rhamathi

Rhamathi are stocky humanoids similar to dwarves in stature and musculature, though their hooves and ram-like horns prove they are not members of that extinct race. Their pelts and hides seem to adopt coloration similar to the terrain in which they live for camouflage purposes (after two generations in one settlement).
Rhamathi are considered the strongest [...]

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