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Tarianok

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Tarianok was the third bearer of the Durbuluk title and the first true ruler of the cave goblins. Taking advantage of th…

First cultures and kingdoms

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After the long events of the biological division of the races, there was a period on Ulvenor in which the main role was …

Dwarves and the Stone Crown

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…ut deep inside the mountains. From huge underground halls and city complexes, the first dwarven kingdoms arose, which after long wa…

Stone Crown

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The Stone Crown belongs among the most stable political systems of Ulvenor and at the same time represents the most impo…

Stone Crown › Stone Crown Mountains

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The Stone Crown Mountains on the surface feel like a hard and unkind land of cold, rocks, steep slopes, and deep passes.…

Stone Crown › Former Dwarven Realms

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… dwarven kingdoms, family holdings, and underground power blocks. Some grew wealthy through gemstones, others controlled important …

Eric I. The Scholar › Riches underground

ruler

The greatest significance of Eric's reign lies not in the wars, but in the economic turnaround. Towards the end of his l…

The opening of the Empire's mining era › Knowledge that lay underground

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Erik I was not one of those monarchs who sought glory in constant warfare. Rather, he listened to advisors, scholars, an…

Frozen Stones › Birth of the Underground Kingdom

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…. Dwarves who had learned to survive in underground shelters began expanding, connecting, and transforming their halls into full ci…

Age of the First Empires

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…dwarves in the mountain halls formed an underground kingdom and established the Stone Crown after devastating strife. The Old Norse…

Frozen Stones

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…ns gave the dwarves safety and room for underground cities. In -18500 the Kingdom of the Frozen Stones arose here, one of the nine …

Frozen Stones › Buried Cities of the Frozen Stones

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The buried cities are the greatest secret of the Frozen Stones. Thousands of dwarves from many periods are said to be en…

Tarianok › Child of darkness

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…light. Unlike other goblins, he saw the underground as a home, not a hideout. This made him something more than just a fighter.

Cerbert

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…beginning of a new era of danger in the underground.

Cerbert › A war he didn't know

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…hat didn't play by the known rules. The underground war was different - unpredictable and full of traps.

A community of stone and wood › The mining dwarves enter the war

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…ength lay in mobility, knowledge of the underground and the ability to react quickly. When their mines began to be attacked and tra…

A community of stone and wood › A community of stone and wood

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… brought technical skills, knowledge of underground routes, and the ability to operate where others were lost. Together, they creat…

A community of stone and wood › War of two worlds

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…routes. This combination of surface and underground pressure gradually weakened the goblin tribes and prevented them from regaining…

Expanding the Stone Crown

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…es began to systematically expand their underground empires until they controlled almost the entire mountainous north. However, it …

Expanding the Stone Crown › Hunger for the deep

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…e borders of the original kingdoms, and underground passages extended to depths that earlier generations could not even imagine. Th…

The First War of the Dwarves and Cave Goblins

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…rbuluk - the unifier of the orcs in the underground.

The First War of the Dwarves and Cave Goblins › War under the mountains

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…lds. However, there was no front in the underground war. The enemy could come from anywhere - from the ceiling, from an unknown cor…

The First War of the Dwarves and Cave Goblins › The birth of the third Durbuluk

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…or the first time in the history of the underground tribes, a leader appeared who was able to unite the fragmented groups into a si…

The opening of the Empire's mining era › Wealth that transformed the court and the province

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…ssibility of extracting wealth from the underground changed the way clans thought about their future. New sources of power began to…

Fall of the West Stone Gate

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…rol of the entire western part of their underground kingdom.

Fall of the West Stone Gate › The Lost West

battle

…oblins gained a stable territory in the underground that they could hold. Under the leadership of Tarianok, they created their own …

Eric I. The Scholar

ruler

…everyday problems of the empire. Riches underground The greatest significance of Eric's reign lies not in the wars, but in the econ…

Age of the First Empires › Why is the period called the Age of First EmpiresZ

period

…lves created a sacred monarchy, dwarves underground hall kingdoms, humans the first dynastic states, kobolds an urban culture, and …

Age of the First Empires › Dwarves and the Stone Crown

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…, which gradually evolved into separate underground kingdoms. However, growing wealth also brought wars. The dwarven kingdoms vied …

Age of the First Empires › The importance of the period for further history

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…oms, borders, cities, free territories, underground empires and inter-racial wars arose. This period also showed that no power is e…

Secret Tunnels › War, Army, and Defensive Systems

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Hidden underground passages.

Continent of Ulvenor › Lands, Peoples, and Old Roads

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…warves to the mountainous north and the underground roads of the Stone Crown, centaurs and kobolds to the Great Plains and their su…

History › Age of Tribes and Clans

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…es and mountain shelters into the first underground homes. Goblins adapted to wastes and lands of scarcity. Kobolds survived in wet…

History › Age of the First Empires

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…es in the northern mountains built vast underground worlds, halls, mines, and kingdoms that eventually became the Stone Crown after…

Important Places › The Stone Crown - Realm Beneath the Mountains

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… to families, craft, oath, and survival underground. Symbolic authority shifts among places such as Kauranvyr, Rautakallio, and Akm…

A community of stone and wood

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…ength lay in mobility, knowledge of the underground and the ability to react quickly. When their mines began to be attacked and tra…

The opening of the Empire's mining era

event

… Render rulers drew. Knowledge that lay underground Erik I was not one of those monarchs who sought glory in constant warfare. Rath…

Gnomes

race

…ve mostly in smaller communities hidden underground or in remote areas far from major cities. Their mansions are filled with strang…

First cultures and kingdoms › The first cities and the first order

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…ire. The dwarves pressed her into their underground halls. People later took it over and reshaped it in their own way. Other nation…

Dwarves

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…itude, low pressure, and long-term stay underground. Their shorter, stocky bodies, extraordinary endurance and high muscle density …

Development of forms of government › Dwarves and the stability of stone

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…mountains. Cities were created in these underground halls, which were fortresses, workshops and homes at the same time. Each hall …

Albarit › Dragons and the Northern Ruin of Ulvenor

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…s such as the Frozen Stones to build an underground world and to understand mountains not only as a home, but as protection from th…

Gnome Kingdom › A Workshop Under the Old Border

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… swallowed by Magnursia, an old gnomish underground workshop dating from before the Great War has been discovered. Inside there may…

Stone Crown › The Stone Crown

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…rves, but in truth it is a many-layered underground civilization that stretches beneath the mountains, the passes, the old mines, a…

Stone Crown › Birth of the Crown after the Last Dwarven Quarrel

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…flict that engulfed a great part of the underground north. The war did not end with the simple victory of a single kingdom. The thr…

Stone Crown › Alliance with the Empire

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… to threats from the north and from the underground. This alliance is one of the most important supports of the present political o…

Stone Crown › The Fall of the Western Stone Gate

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…alls, the trade routes, and the western underground spaces. The fall of the Western Gate meant more than the loss of a fortress. Th…

Umbra Profunda › Water as Supreme Power

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…th is not gold, but water. Every oasis, underground spring, seasonal lake, or cistern carries strategic weight. Some oases belong t…

Umbra Profunda › Sha'Khalir and Nyr'Azhar

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…their view, run through the desert like underground water. To foreigners it is perhaps the most beautiful of the drow cities, but a…

Frozen Stones › The Northernmost Land of Ulvenor

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…ance of the region, however, always lay underground, where dwarves found space, safety, and wealth that made the inhospitable north…

Frozen Stones › Prehistoric Settlement and the Age of Monsters

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…rthern monsters taught them to build an underground world, hide their settlements deep in the rock, and understand mountains as a s…

Frozen Stones › Fall of Hvorzo and the Buried Cities

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…es, landslides, and the collapse of old underground structures. Hvorzo was buried, and with it the last true remnant of the old nor…

Fellowship of the Silver Hand

guild

…d regions of Ulvenor laboratory towers, underground workshops, university chambers, secret cellars, traveling research caravans, an…

Order of the Ancients

guild

…bold magical communities hidden towers, underground archives, closed studies, forgotten sanctuaries, sheltered libraries, and secre…

Pilgrims of the Endless Path

guild

…Forgotten Passages Old mountain trails, underground corridors, overgrown pre-imperial roads, ruined bridges and fords that are not …

Brotherhood of Warriors

guild

…odgings for members, and sometimes also underground spaces meant for interrogations or the storage of sensitive gear. main hall tra…

Magnursie — Silk Kings

period

… their time, magic was still being born underground or on the fringes of society. peak of business growth the creation of state ban…

Continent of Ulvenor

story

…warves to the mountainous north and the underground roads of the Stone Crown, centaurs and kobolds to the Great Plains and their su…

History

story

…es and mountain shelters into the first underground homes. Goblins adapted to wastes and lands of scarcity. Kobolds survived in wet…

Important Places

story

… to families, craft, oath, and survival underground. Symbolic authority shifts among places such as Kauranvyr, Rautakallio, and Akm…

Other races

race

…ve mostly in smaller communities hidden underground or in remote areas far from major cities. Their mansions are filled with strang…

Water

story

… is concentrated in oceans, rivers, and underground streams, but trace amounts are present everywhere—even in the air and in living…

Blackness

story

…y the most skilled practitioners—in the underground cities where darkness reigns, they have learned to control it with surgical pre…

Ancient History of Oiy

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…itude, low pressure, and long-term stay underground. Their shorter, stocky bodies, extraordinary endurance and high muscle density …

Development of forms of government

story

…mountains. Cities were created in these underground halls, which were fortresses, workshops and homes at the same time. Each hall …

Albarit

place

…s such as the Frozen Stones to build an underground world and to understand mountains not only as a home, but as protection from th…

Gnome Kingdom

place

… swallowed by Magnursia, an old gnomish underground workshop dating from before the Great War has been discovered. Inside there may…

Northeastern Hroidetur Mountains

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…nsive tunneling and the construction of underground halls. For dwarves, the Sharp Rocks were therefore more an obstacle than an opp…

Northeastern Hroidetur Mountains › Sharp Rocks

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…nsive tunneling and the construction of underground halls. For dwarves, the Sharp Rocks were therefore more an obstacle than an opp…

Umbra Profunda

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…th is not gold, but water. Every oasis, underground spring, seasonal lake, or cistern carries strategic weight. Some oases belong t…

Frozen Stones › Hvorzo

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Hvorzo buried_underground_city ruined /images/locations/hvorzo.png buried city dwarves Venrak III Winter …

Elves

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…re dangerous and quick assassins living underground. stealth +2 to Stealth reflexes +2 to Reflexes Alertness A drow cannot be surpr…

How to Run the First Session and the First Campaign in Howl of Eternity

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… rare ingredients. Ilkar knows about an underground trade in relics. Taviel is tied to the symbol of the Black Tower. The symbol on…

How to Run the First Session and the First Campaign in Howl of Eternity › Shadows over Woulden

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… rare ingredients. Ilkar knows about an underground trade in relics. Taviel is tied to the symbol of the Black Tower. The symbol on…

How to Run the First Session and the First Campaign in Howl of Eternity › On the Trail of the Stranger

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… to a dungeon. The mine is not a random underground. It is the reason the village exists. There is a creature or danger in the shaf…