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Distant Lands: Yoth, the Pilgrim’s Path Part 1

By Castor on May 12, 2021 • ( 0 )

On 9th Feverind The boat landed at Mechol on the Coast of Masar, a beach stretching some 227 miles unbroken even as the wind crosses its length. There the caravan I traveled with traded their metals and bullion for the… Read More ›

Distant Lands: City of Cannibals, Part 3 (final)

By Castor on December 2, 2020 • ( 0 )

Of the City’s Fate, and it’s Current State, and how it came to be known as the City of Cannibals When I was a boy in Gharox, before even my pageship, my father took me to the columbarium of the… Read More ›

Distant Lands: City of Cannibals, Part 2

By Castor on November 30, 2020 • ( 0 )

On the City’s Districts and Surrounds and the Isles of the Shaded Bay Being that I came upon the city only in its current dilapidated state, the once six districts of the city have been reduced to two of regular… Read More ›

Distant Lands: The City of Cannibals, Part I

By Castor on November 29, 2020 • ( 0 )

The City’s Founding and Earliest History, and its General Character The City of Cannibals, known also as Kataifa, was founded near the end of the Era of the Dead. It is said by the chronicles that then a dead lord… Read More ›

Distant Lands: Previews

By Castor on November 3, 2020 • ( 0 )

My day job leaves me with a lot of downtime, and to prevent myself from going mad, I’ve taken up practicing writing with my left hand. Of course, I need some content to write, and I found myself defaulting to… Read More ›

Distant Lands: Half-Light

By Castor on May 19, 2018 • ( 1 )

“…and there the author found himself staring west into the great maw of Nuria, the purportedly endless caves that wind beneath these parts of the Earth, or the whole Earth as some claim. Carved into the base and the walls… Read More ›

Distant Lands: Elhugardh

By Castor on April 23, 2018 • ( 1 )

“…from my time with the Dwarrows of that citadel Irmen-Barad, the author learned that to the far north of the mountains exists a series of valleys most isolated from the rest of the world. Only one pass into this land… Read More ›

Distant Lands: Arluntalath

By Castor on October 1, 2017 • ( 1 )

“… in the south of the great lands East of Cataclysm and of the Great Black Mountains, there is a land of great riches and fertile fields the like of which the author has rarely seen, this land being ARLUNTALATH…. Read More ›