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: 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 [...]

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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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Manthar’s Notes: Kharndam Calendars (Part II)

[Continued—Calendars of Rokhal’s Progenitors]

Blazetime (BT) is the solar-calendar of the giants, started with the rise of First Kalsiddar on the continent of Shael. There is one Sunkeeper for each tribe or clan of giants whose sole job is to record history for that clan or state. Sunkeepers also map the sun’s changes and details and [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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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