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, [...]

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: 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: 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

Kharndam Guide: Ogres

These lands have always had ogre problems, even at the height of the Pegasus Throne’s power. They have always been a threat to more civilized races, whether they were the mottled ogres of the southern plains, the web-fingered marsh ogres, or the gray-furred stone ogres. The massive creatures are almost half again larger than the [...]

November 8, 2008 Tags: Dorrek'thar, Guide, Lluranal, Ogres, Three-Spires, Twelvelands, World-Kharndam Posted in: Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, Medium-Role-Playing Games, World-Bulwark Pulps, World-Kharndam 4 Comments

CHASE: The Torhanti

“The Venusian ogre was an ugly creature—its coal-like hide glistening with sweat and the fetid waters of the swamps. It seemed like the bastard child of a snake and a gorilla, its massive hunched form hairless, noseless, earless, but with wide gaping eyes like a fish and a mouth carrying razored fangs. Tree trunk arms [...]

November 8, 2008 Tags: Adventures Celestial, Anarchon, CHASE, Corps Cosmica, Gilded Guide, Gregory Douglas, Griffin Thomas, Ogres, Sgt. Nax, Space Thrills, Torhanti Posted in: Genre-Science Fiction, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, World-Bulwark Pulps, World-Silver Age Comics 8 Comments