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The Cult of Pavis I

Posted on May 31, 2024

The Pavis cult is really quite small, likely less than 2000 initiates in the world. Maybe 300 reside in New Pavis, 500 or so reside in the Big Rubble. As many as…

Manside, Big Rubble

Posted on May 31, 2024

Let’s think about Manside in the Big Rubble for a few minutes. About 1,500 humans live in the Big Rubble. Of that number, about 500 live in the Real City, about 350…

How Big is the Big Rubble?

Posted on May 11, 2024

The Big Rubble covers about 1900 hectares of area. To put that in comparison, New Pavis covers only 28 hectares, and even Nochet covers only 600 hectares. For real world comparisons, Ancient…

The Golden Age of Rubble Adventuring

Posted on April 28, 2024

The Golden Age of Rubble Adventuring was 1625-1626, after the Lunar Occupation of Pavis was ended. Argrath, a former adventurer himself, encouraged the restless adventurers and mercenaries that followed him to explore…

Notes on the Big Rubble

Posted on January 15, 2024

The Big Rubble covers about 25 square km. With 6100 inhabitants, that’s almost 250 inhabitants per square km or 2.5 per hectare. In comparison, New Pavis with 28 hectares has 5150 inhabitants…

Notes on New Pavis and the Big Rubble

Posted on January 14, 2024

There are over 25,000 human inhabitants of Pavis County – that’s the broad fertile valley in the northern River of Cradles. Most of them are farmers of Sartarite origins who settled between…

The Night Caravan

Posted on January 9, 2024

The Night Caravan (more commonly called the Night Train or the Argan Argar Chain) is the Argan Argar insect caravans that travel across Genertela at night. They bring goods, insects, and trolls…

The legacy of the EWF

Posted on July 9, 2023

As we think about the legacy of the EWF in the late Third Age, we first need to remember that none of the humans of Dragon Pass are their heirs. All of…

Troll Occupation of the Big Rubble

Posted on February 7, 2023

One important way by which humans survived the Troll Occupation of the Big Rubble was through the Pavis priests. Strategic use of City Harmony, small fire, earth, and water elementals, and the…

Notes on City Gods

Posted on February 6, 2023

Cities have a market, a degree of self-governance, and temples to the city’s patron deity and to the city god. They also have temples to other gods of importance to the people,…

Zola Fel Valley

Posted on December 9, 2022

This is another one of those posts about scale. Pavis County and Sun Dome County are where New Pavis, the Big Rubble, and the Sun Dome Temple of Prax are located. It…

Hidden Shrine to Orlanth Victorious

Posted on June 9, 2022

Around 1619, Garrath Sharpsword aka Argrath Whitebull set up hidden shrine to Orlanth Victorious in the Big Rubble. From this shrine, Argrath and his friends and students regularly explore the Hero Plane…

Cult Demographics for Civilized Prax

Posted on January 21, 2022

I’ve been fine-tuning some of the cult demographic numbers for Pavis County and the Sun County. As of 1626, there are about 25,650 humans residing in Pavis County – this includes Argrath’s…

City Populations

Posted on February 8, 2021

So as we are looking at population numbers and area, it is worth looking at some of the cities: So comparing sizes, Boldhome is a MUCH bigger city in area than Furthest….

The Dragonewts’ Dream

Posted on October 15, 2020

In 1539 the famous Dragonewts’ Dream began, and ended two years later. At this time the real dragonewts seemed to go about their normal business in their cities and outside. But in…

Florian the Gardener

Local minor gardening deity of Pavis. References Page Year Runes Notes Pavis, Gateway to Adventure 11 2012 Runes only

Mani

A spirit cult, part of the Pavic Tradition. References Page Year Runes Notes Pavis, Gateway to Adventure 10 2012 Runes only

Flintnail

Crafter God, God of Stonemasonry Local dwarven God of Stonemasonry in the city of Pavis References Page Year Runes Notes Prosopaedia 40, 98 2023 Pavis, Gateway to Adventure 369Six pages 2012 See…

Pavis

Demigod Founder of New Pavis and the Big Rubble References Page Year Runes Notes Prosopaedia 98 2023 Pavis, Gateway to Adventure 361Seven pages 2012 See Grimoire below Cult Compendium 103 2002 Subcults:As…

CHA4002 Balastor’s Barracks (1978, 2016)

Beneath the ruins of Old Pavis, treasure glitters and the spirit of Balastor Brightaxe, Last defender of the Pure Horse dynasty, impatiently lingers. There waits as well a host of powerful and…

New Map of the Big Rubble (2012)

New detailed map of the Big Rubble from Pavis, Gateway to Adventure. Drawn by Gill Hellion.

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