TSR 2500 Karameikos Kingdom of Adventure.pdf

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Table of Contents

Verge ........................................................ 49

Vorloi ....................................................... 49

Vandevicsny ............................................ 49

Chapter I: Overview ..................... 4

The Lay of the Land ................................ 5

The Hand of Man .................................. 10

Using the Maps....................................... 12

Appendices.............................. 112

Creating Karameikan Characters ....... 112

Backgrounds: Human.......................... 112

Elves ...................................................... 115

Dwarves and Gnomes......................... 116

Halflings ................................................ 117

Kits and Proficiencies.......................... 117

The Karameikan Calendar .................. 124

Encounter Tables................................. 126

Chapter V: Personalities............. 50

The Royal Family of Karameikos ........ 51

The Court Major:

The Ministers ...................................... 62

The Clergy............................................... 66

Mirros ...................................................... 72

Beyond the Walls of Mirros.................. 79

Ambassador’s Row ................................ 92

Chapter II: History ..................... 16

Karameikos at the Dawn of Time ....... 16

The Dark Age ......................................... 17

The Thyatian Invasion .......................... 18

Stefan Karameikos ................................. 18

Recent History........................................ 20

Sidebars

What a Campaign Setting Does ............. 7

The Song of Halav ................................. 17

Devices, Clan Markings,

and Coats of Arms ............................. 29

The Shearing Ceremony........................ 30

Formal Clerical Dress ............................ 33

The King’s Law ...................................... 41

What the Numbers Mean ..................... 51

Time Line of Karameikos ..................... 56

The Black Eagle Barony........................ 61

The Order of the Griffon ..................... 68

Calling Out the Guard........................... 72

The Legend of Koriszegy Keep ........... 85

Fealty ........................................................ 98

It’s Money that Matters ....................... 103

The Hutaakans ..................................... 109

Trials and Errors .................................. 110

Where Adventurers Fit In................... 113

The Nature of the Immortals ............. 115

Dragons ................................................. 123

The Karameikan Calendar .................. 124

Chapter III: Society .................... 22

Classes of Society and Noble Titles..... 27

Matters of Faith...................................... 33

A Society of Rogues............................... 35

Chapter VI:

Beyond the Borders .............. 100

Aengmor ............................................... 100

Atruaghin .............................................. 101

The Broken Lands ............................... 102

Darokin ................................................. 102

Ethengar ................................................ 103

The Five Shires..................................... 103

Glantri .................................................... 104

The Heldannic Territories................... 104

Ierendi .................................................... 105

Minrothad ............................................. 105

Ostland, Vestland,

and the Soderfjords.......................... 108

Rockhome ............................................. 108

Sind ........................................................ 109

Thyatis ................................................... 109

Wendar .................................................. 110

Ylaruam ................................................. 110

Chapter IV:

Cities and Towns .................... 38

Mirros ...................................................... 38

Threshold ................................................ 44

Dmitrov ................................................... 46

Fort Doom.............................................. 47

Highforge ................................................ 47

Kelvin ...................................................... 47

Krakatos .................................................. 47

Luln .......................................................... 48

Marilenev ................................................. 48

Penhaligon .............................................. 48

Rifllian ..................................................... 48

Rugalov .................................................... 48

Sulescu ..................................................... 49

This watercolor shows a view of the town of Threshold from

the northern tip of Fogor Isle, looking south into the city

itself at dusk. The skyline is dominated by the bell tower of

the town hall.

Chapter I:

Overview

Karameikos, a very young kingdom in a very old

land, lies on the southern coast of the continent of

Brun on the planet Mystara, in a region its inhabi-

tants call the Known World. As kingdoms go, it is a

small one. A rider on a fast horse can travel from

Karameikos’s capital, Mirros, to its westernmost

settlement at Fort Doom in a day,

to its easternmost village of Ru-

galov in a day and a half, and to

King’s Road Keep in the Altan

Tepes Mountains to the north in

two days. Yet within its bounda-

ries any group of enthusiastic he-

roes can find enough adventure,

danger, treachery, and excite-

ment to satisfy them.

In many ways Karameikos still

exists as a frontier nation cut out

of an ancient wilderness. Unin-

habited forest covers a great ma-

jority of the kingdom – uninhab-

ited, that is, by humans. A popu-

lation of elves, humanoids, and

monstrous creatures thrive

within its borders. Further, these

wildlands cover the ruins of an-

cient kingdoms and buried cities,

the lairs of fell beasts.

Humans have always lived in

the land now called Karameikos.

The earliest known people, the

Traldar, were a traditional, rural

folk. (Evidence exists indicating

the presence of an even more an-

cient civilization, now lost, of

people who called themselves the

Nithians. However, few present-

day folk are aware of the

Nithians, so the history texts do

not include them.) The descen-

dants of the Traldar, the Tralada-

rans, were conquered over 100

years ago by their neighbor, the

empire of Thyatis.

Karameikos has had but a sin-

gle ruler, King Stefan I. Stefan

was originally the Grand Duke of

Karameikos, ruling in the name

of the Thyatian Emperor. Stefan

I declared Karameikos an inde-

pendent state seven years ago.

He seeks to unite the native

Traladarans and now-exiled Thyatians into a single

unified nation, taking the best of both groups to

forge one identity for all. Traditionalists in both

camps resist him, which often makes the Royal

Court of Karameikos as dangerous as the wildlands.

Mirros, the capital of the nation, is the sole major

community in Karameikos and houses the royal

court. This vibrant, new city strains at the seams

with refugees from other war-torn regions. It is also

the home of competing thieves’ guilds, secret plots,

and hidden dangers. The most civilized star in the

Karameikan crown can be as deadly to the unwary

Overview

ountains

to the

north,

sea to

the south, and eve-

rything else built on a

woody slope between

the two.

—Joshuan Gallidox,

halfling adventurer,

on the nature

Karameikos

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