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Layout of the Big Rubble

Posted on June 21, 2025

The Big Rubble is about 15 square km or 1500 hectares. That’s basically the Upper Westside of Manhattan or little bigger than Kensington plus Chelsea in London. Another way of thinking about…

The Fall of Lunar New Pavis

Posted on June 20, 2025

This is something I put together for Andrew Cowie (and also Tiffany Rose Nickel, Dan Zappone, and Andy Cowley), but realized it might be interesting for the rest of you all. In…

Three-step Isles

Posted on January 29, 2025

About 600 km south of the Rightarm Islands are the Three-step Isles. Since 1610, this small archipelago has been the main port for the Wolf Pirates. With decent winds, it takes about…

Overview of 1626

Posted on January 26, 2025

Here’s a quick visual map of the events going on in the early 8th Wane, say 1626 to 1628.

What are barbarians?

Posted on December 15, 2024

As described in the Lightbringers book, the Theyalan pantheon spread from its Dawn Age hub in Dragon Pass across the Pelorian hills to Ralios, Maniria, and even southern Fronela. The lowland Pelorians…

Trolltown in The Big Rubble II

Posted on December 14, 2024

We often forget that the Big Rubble can actually be viewed as a troll city with a human minority. First some comparisons of size. New Pavis is 28 hectares, and I think…

Making the Maps of the Dragon Pass Book

Posted on October 15, 2024

The Dragon Pass book was the result of Matt Ryan and I needing to create “official maps” of Dragon Pass, Prax, the Holy Country, and the Lunar Provinces. We started with Greg’s…

The Pavis Road

Posted on September 11, 2024

The Pavis Road runs from Torkan’s Last Fort across Prax to New Pavis. It is the shortest direct path from Dragon Pass to New Pavis – one can do it in a…

A Glimpse of Dragon Pass

Posted on September 9, 2024

Although the new Dragon Pass book is available for sale on October 9, a few lucky souls managed to get their hands on it in Australia. Here’s Jason lee’s reveiw. Dragon Pass…

The Plans of King Pharandros, Fire Season 1626

Posted on July 7, 2024

In Fire Season of 1626, King Pharandros of Tarsh makes his play to reconquer Dragon Pass. Pharandros has spent his treasure and the last two seasons rebuilding the Provincial Lunar Army. By…

The Lightbringers in New Pavis

Posted on June 29, 2024

There are some 1200 initiates of the Seven Lightbringers in New Pavis, fully a third of the adult residents in the city. Now more than half are Orlanth initiates, and Orlanth is…

The Zola Fel Cult in New Pavis

Posted on June 24, 2024

The Zola Fel cult in New Pavis is fairly small, perhaps only 200 or 300 initiates. Nonetheless, their importance in providing food and river transport makes their cult very significant in the…

The Biggest Cults in New Pavis

Posted on June 22, 2024

By far, the biggest two cults in New Pavis are Orlanth and Ernalda. Let’s start with Orlanth. Since the city’s liberation, the Air Temple has been restored and is at the center…

The Kaleidoscopic Big Rubble

Posted on June 20, 2024

So putting it all together, the Big Rubble is kaleidoscopic. We have Sartarites and Sun Domers adventuring in a Big Rubble filled with Black Fang cultists, trolls, and Chaos. We have elves,…

A Few Notes on Adari, Northern Prax

Posted on June 16, 2024

Adari is a frontier town between Shadows Dance and Prax. It was first settled in the Dawn Age and is also the birthplace of Pavis, but since has been razed and rebuilt…

Pavis County and Sun County

Posted on June 16, 2024

If we look at the settled population of Pavis County and Sun County together, we see that the six largest cults are: To me this explains how Sun Dome County manages to…

Underground in the Big Rubble

Posted on June 9, 2024

The Underground City in the Big Rubble is largely networks of cellars connected to other cellars. For example, the following shows a network of six cellars connected together through a central cellar….

Levels of The Big Rubble

Posted on June 9, 2024

SPOILERS AHEAD! If we think about the Big Rubble as a sprawling collection of dungeons, it has four basic levels: From a design and play perspective, the Big Rubble lets you introduce…

Planning Pavis

Posted on May 23, 2024

The foundations of the original city of Pavis was laid out by Lord Pavis himself around 830. The city as originally planned had two main areas, laid out in grids. The first…

Conversions to the Lunar Way

Posted on May 15, 2024

So lets look at how the Lunar religion spread and who joined and how quickly Lowland Peloria. The Seven Mothers cult spread quickly here. Remember the Seven Mothers are Friendly to most Solar…

Why did Pavis build his City?

Posted on May 14, 2024

Big picture – We all know the basic story – in 830 after many years and preparations, Pavis and his companions snuck deep into Dagori Inkarth and animated the Faceless Statue. He…

Why was Old Pavis so big?

Posted on May 13, 2024

Now I don’t mean why were the walls so big – that was Paragua‘s doing. He smashed the little settlement of Robcradle (which was probably around 3 hectares or a little bigger…

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…

Foundations of the Lunar Empire

Posted on May 6, 2024

When you think about the Lunar Empire, remember it is built on ancient foundations. The Lunar Empire is the most recent (and most successful) dynasty ruling the broad Pelorian grasslands, but there…

New Pavis and the River of Cradles 1625-1626

Posted on April 29, 2024

If we think about what is going on big picture in New Pavis and the River of Cradles 1625-1626, we can see some of the following: And if you can’t find plenty…

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