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, [...]

February 4, 2009 Tags: Aethworking, Arshay, Cairngloom, City of Sceptres, cliffs, Coldstar Mountains, Dograan Cliffs, Dograan Tablelands, Dragonforces, dryads, Erllands, fey, floodplains, forests, goblins, Great Hoarwoods, harpies, humans, Imperam, Impralnors, kelshay, Lluranal, mountains, Ogres, Parhim, plateau, prigam, River Saroth, satyrs, Sharhim Peaks, shay, slaves, Sovereignty, swamps, Tablelands, Twelverisings, United Clanholds, washay, Wildlands Posted in: Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Medium-Books, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, Medium-Role-Playing Games, World-Bulwark Pulps, World-Kharndam, World-Silver Age Comics No Comments

Kharndam Guide: Tsarnus

Tsarnus

Once called “Kharndam’s Katar” due to its pointed shape, the Lartharn Peninsula was home to very few crowns until Tsarn the Patient took control of the land from Naak-Ost-Chyl-Nyit the “Sablewyrm” in 89 OD. Tsarnus became a state in 93 OD, and it took over a century before Tsarnus became the ruling authority for the [...]

February 2, 2009 Tags: Aronan Shoals, Divine Commonwealth, Drakesfall, Drass Highlands, Eaglelands, giants, goblins, Grynall Skerries, Hriak Peaks, humans, Huntersrise, Impralnors, Imprator, katar, Knife’s Edge fjord, Lammok, Lartharn Peninsula, Lluranal, Naak-Ost-Chyl-Nyit, pearl, pearls, Pegasus Sovereignty, Plaevcrag, Prinicipality, rhamathi, River Elting, Rokhal, Sablewyrm, ship, ship-building, ships, Shokunate, slaves, Straits of Chamuk, Tsarn, Tsarn the Patient, Tsarniot, Tsarnus, wine, wines, World-Kharndam, Xral Archipelago Posted in: Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Medium-Books, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, Medium-Role-Playing Games, World-Bulwark Pulps, World-Kharndam, World-Silver Age Comics Comments Closed

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 [...]

January 20, 2009 Tags: After Fall, After Flight, Agmarrn, Aurum Alliance, Before Flight, Bheddar, Calendar, Descending Flight, Dharual, dragon, Drakereckoning, Drakereckoning Ornaoth, drives, dwarf, Dwarftime, dwarves, Eaglereckoning, Eagle’s Cry, Eagle’s Path, Eighth Age, Elementime, Erldawning, First Forge Vision, Firstmarch, Flight Years, Graal, Great Throne, Gyrthorn II, Highsummer, Highwing, Imperam, Impraltory, Impramark, Impramense, Imprator, Imprator’s Throne, In Flight, Khiilm, Klath-Urus-Dhor-Solm, Lahax, Lahaxan bloodline, Lastmarch, Lluranal, Low Race, Manthar, marches, Onim, Ornaoth Dragonslayer, Orpak, pegasus, Pegasus Sovereignty, Pralkesh, Rarlhann, rhamathi, Rhamathreckoning, Rokhal, Searle the Pious, smith, Som-Aril-Dhar-Chrys, Sovereignty, Summath, Thrax, Thrax III, Trogulpak, Tsarniot, Tsarnus, Ulach IV, Underdrake, World-Kharndam, wyrm, Xonorhil Posted in: Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Medium-Books, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, Medium-Electronic Games, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, Medium-Role-Playing Games, Uncategorized, World-Bulwark Pulps, World-Kharndam, World-Silver Age Comics No Comments

Kharndam Guide: Khotomak

KHOTOMAK
Khotomak translates as “test of heads” (Khot (test) o (of/among/between) mak (heads; maak singular)). The khotomak is a standard ogrish dance nee ritual combat in which both dancers maneuver and weave close to each other and eventually head butt each other fiercely. While female ogres do dance the khotomak, they rarely mix genders, as the [...]

January 8, 2009 Tags: battle of wits, Daysblaze, Dharual, Impraltory, khot, khotomak, Lluranal, Magdom-Rohok, mak, o, ogre, Ogres, ogrish, ritual combat, Rokhal, sculpture, Three-Spires, Twelve Dancers, wyrdoor Posted in: Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, Medium-Role-Playing Games, World-Kharndam, World-Silver Age Comics No Comments

Kharndam Guide: Shay

Shay
One of the Four First Races of the world of Dharual, the shay bristle with elemental powers but never grow taller than young human children. The four natural shay are the arshay, flying wind-shapers; the ershay, hard-edged rock-melders; the firshay, blazing-haired fire-wielders ever-wreathed in heat mirages; and the washay, wan water-breathers and wave riders. [...]

January 2, 2009 Tags: Arlha, Arshay, Bulwark Publications, BULWARKS & BASILISKS, Divinity of Tsarnus, Eagle, Eagle’s Path, ershay, firshay, glators, Jhural’s Leap, kelshay, Kharndam Tales, Khiilm, Kobek Nine-Stars, Lluranal, Markisles, rhamathi, Sagas Supernatural, Skyheight, Star-Mages, Straits of Chamuk, Summer’s Bend, Tales Terrific, Tsarnus, Twelvelands, washay, World of Kharndam, World-Kharndam Posted in: Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Genre-Heroic Fiction, Medium-Books, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, Medium-Electronic Games, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, Medium-Role-Playing Games, World-Kharndam, World-Silver Age Comics No Comments

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 [...]

November 21, 2008 Tags: A.J. Soltare, Blake Montgomery, Bulwark Publications, Charles Clay, Clanwilds, Editing Thrills, Edward Page, Imperam, John Farnsworth, Kamlar, Kamlar Ogrescourge, Kamlar Outcast, Kamlar the Hawkmage, Kharndam Four, Kharndam Tales, Lluranal, Mark Shore, Markisles, Parhim, Parhim in Peril, Redressor, Sagas Supernatural, Tales Terrific, Tsarnus, Twelvelands, World-Kharndam, World-Vanguard Posted in: Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Medium-Books, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, World-Bulwark Pulps, World-Kharndam, World-Vanguard No Comments

Bulwark Publishing: Kharndam Collected (#2)

INTERNAL MEMO–FOR EXECUTIVE EYES ONLY–BULWARK PUBLICATIONS, INC.
To: oscar.kharm@bulwark.com,
CC: larry.kharm@bulwark.com, susan.vance@bulwark.com, betsy.childs@bulwark.com
From: scott.tarrish@bulwark.com
RE: Kharndam Collected
Date: July 15, 1999
Mr. Kharm (and assorted department heads), your office had requested the initial breakdown and base catalog copy for the Kharndam Collected book series. While the catalog copy still rests in Legal awaiting full approvals, here is the projected series [...]

November 19, 2008 Tags: A.J. Soltare, Betsy Childs, Bheddar’s Climb, Blake Montgomery, C.K. Gill, Drakesfall, Eagle, Eagle’s Fury, Eagle’s Serenity, Eagle’s Wrath, Edward Page, Giant’s Bane, Hawkmage, Imperam Rising, Impramense Cycle, John Farnsworth, Kamlar, Kamlar Ogrescourge, Kamlar Outcast, Kamlar the Hawkmage, Khaor Jungles, Kharndam Tales, Kharndam’s Fall, Larry Kharm, Lluranal, March of Peace, Mark Shore, Nobelth Steppes, Oscar Kharm, Outlands, Pegasus Sovereignty, Pegasus Throne, Sagas Supernatural, Scott Tarrish, Shokanate, Sorcereigns, Sovereignty Cycle, Straits Cerulean, Susan Vance, Tales Terrific, Thomas Roy, Tsarnus, Twelvelands, Twelverising, Winged Resistance, World-Kharndam Posted in: Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Medium-Books, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, World-Bulwark Pulps, World-Kharndam, World-Vanguard No Comments

Bulwark Publishing: Kharndam Collected

Kharndam’s Past & Present:
The Plan for Kharndam Collected
I’m Scott Tarrish, a senior editor for Bulwark Publications. I’d like to welcome you to step into a world you thought you knew only to discover more depth than ever.
Most of you reading this are fans come to Kharndam through the Sovereignty Cycle and two Impramense Cycle [...]

November 11, 2008 Tags: A.J. Soltare, Bheddar’s Climb, Blake Montgomery, Drakesfall, Eagle, Eagle’s Fury, Eagle’s Serenity, Eagle’s Wrath, Edward Page, Giant’s Bane, Hawkmage, H’Kariphati, Imperam Rising, Impramense Cycle, John Farnsworth, Kamlar, Kamlar Ogrescourge, Kamlar Outcast, Kamlar the Hawkmage, Khaor Jungles, Kharndam’s Fall, Lluranal, March of Peace, Mark Shore, Nobelth Steppes, Outlands, Pegasus Sovereignty, Pegasus Throne, Sagas Supernatural, Scott Tarrish, Second Impramense Cycle, Shokanate, Sorcereigns, Sovereignty Cycle, Straits Cerulean, Tales Terrific, Third Impramense Cycle, Thomas Roy, Tsarnus, Twelvelands, Twelverising, Winged Resistance, World-Kharndam Posted in: Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Medium-Books, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, World-Bulwark Pulps, World-Kharndam, World-Silver Age Comics No Comments

Kharndam Guide: Lluranal

Lluranal
Formerly the breadbasket of Kharndam and the heart of its populations, Lluranal has fallen on harder times the past few centuries. While still a relatively peaceful agrarian society, Lluranal has long been the westernmost province of the Imperam and a much-taxed provider for less-fecund areas of the empire. For more than 30 years, it has [...]

November 10, 2008 Tags: Cairngloom, flags, goblins, Guide, humans, Impraltory, Jholwater, kelshay, Kharndam Reaches, Lluranal, Nabel Hills, Ogres, principality, rhamathi, River Anoal, River Saroth, Seamounts, Sharhim Peaks, shay, slaves, Summer’s Bend, Three-Spires, washay, World-Kharndam Posted in: Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, Medium-Role-Playing Games, World-Kharndam 4 Comments