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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 wars unit…

Stone Crown

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…ies a vast world of halls, mines, forge cities, trade routes, old tombs, and fortresses. After the bloody Last Dwarven Quarrel, the three …

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 great d…

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 sa…

John II Builder › Palace, cities and the new heart of the empire

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…-evident. He devoted the same energy to cities, especially those that had been affected by war or rapid growth in previous decades. John s…

John II Builder › The laws of great cities and the symbolism of the coat of arms

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…ed. also to the administration of large cities. He issued new laws that directly dealt with their management, the responsibility of city r…

Eric I. The Scholar › Riches underground

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

Magnus VIII. Hungry › Cities and stagnation

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…us often visited the other lords' large cities and tried to help them keep their growth curve above the dangerous limit. He believed that …

Untred IV. Correct › Reform of cities, provinces and states

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…. He regulated the relationship between cities, provinces, states and the empire. He gave the cities more freedom, but at the same time st…

Endoret › The Unification of the Three Cities

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Endoret united the rebellions in the cities of Coulim, Tarakulina, and Fire Rock. In doing so, he created a threat that the imperial co…

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…

Laws of the Great Cities › Laws, Reforms, and Institutions

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City laws governing life in the great centers.

Nations and Realms › Trade Routes, Cities, and the Edges of Civilization

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…onnection and an invitation to danger. Cities sit at the center of this movement. Magnur, Soumun, gnome workshops, kobold cities, dwarven…

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 nations, on t…

Umbra Profunda › Drow Cities of the Desert

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…ic seats of Umbra Profunda are the drow cities. They do not stand against the desert; they rise out of it. They are carved into canyons, s…

Great Plains › Cities of Artifacts, Rites, and a Different Society

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Kobold cities are different from human, elven, and dwarven centers. They often grow up around marshes, ro…

Great Plains › Hirch, Javorica, and the Variety of Kobold Cities

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…the striking difference of their kobold cities. Hirch lies beneath the great crags of Kuilor and acts as a harder, more commercial, and mo…

Green Sea › Coral Reefs and Underwater Cities

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… here that the naga kobolds built their cities. To land races they seem almost impossible: seats among the corals, carved into the cliffs,…

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 cities. O…

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 northern k…

John II Builder

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John II he came to the throne at a time when the empire finally stopped living in the shadow of a long war and could foc…

Henry II Passionate

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Henry II he ruled formally from 344, but he took over the actual exercise of power several years before the coronation, …

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…

Administrative reform of Untred IV.

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…. it regulated the relationship between cities, provinces, states and the empire. It established clear rules for the flow of taxes and the…

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 Empire…

Lost Place › Roads, Maps, and Trade

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A place forgotten, hidden, or erased from the ordinary maps.

Elves and the First Kingdom of Ulvenor

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The Elves were the first race to go beyond a purely tribal society to form a true kingdom with a dynasty, territorial ad…

Naga and underwater cities

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…and coastal waters they built their own cities and turned their gaze further, to unknown currents and distant continents.

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 passes,…

Umbra Profunda

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…leys, lonely oases, savannas, and stone cities that stretch south of the Great Elven Empire. To the north and northwest it borders the Anc…

Umbra Profunda › Drow Story of Umbra Profunda

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…r, their culture grew harder, and their cities became a monumental fusion of elven elegance, sandstone, black stone, shadow, and deep mist…

Green Sea

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…hey can live in underwater seats. Their cities are hidden among coral reefs, sea caves, and deep currents. Many humans, elves, and dwarves…

Green Sea › Naga Kobold Settlements

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…rwater seats, lagoons, sea caves, coral cities, and hidden fortresses that stretch along the western coast of Ulvenor. The naga kobolds ha…

Stone Crown › The Stone Crown

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…s mined, and some of the most beautiful underground cities of all Ulvenor came into being. The dwarves in these mountains learned to under…

Philip I. The Thinker › The single currency and the birth of banks

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…ted a common economic framework for all cities and provinces. This move strengthened confidence in trade, made prices more transparent and…

John II Builder › Heir of peace, not ruins

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…nto the everyday life of the provinces, cities and roads. It was here that John showed himself to be a monarch extremely suitable for his …

Richard IV Friend of the elves › The emperor of the growth period

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…umber of inhabitants, the importance of cities and the movement of people across the provinces. While previous generations were building r…

Richard IV Friend of the elves › Migration and new laws

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As cities developed, so did internal migration. People and people of other races migrated for work, s…

Richard IV Friend of the elves › Death Friend of the Elves

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…ackled the complex issues of migration, cities and dynastic symbolism fell because of too worldly excess. Yet his legacy remained strong. …

Ferdinand III Retreating › The waning east and the orc mercenaries

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…ger fully manage the situation. Several cities in the east were lost, and the Imperial Court seemed increasingly like a late-reacting and …

Henry II Passionate › Richard's plays for the whole empire

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…tion associated with the most important cities or the imperial court. Henry wanted the games to become a true imperial holiday that would …

Henry II Passionate › Sewage, grain and surplus

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…lives of his subjects. In several large cities, the foundations of the sewage system were created, which significantly improved hygiene, p…

John III Prolific › New Settlement of the South

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…lation while also relieving overcrowded cities in other parts of the empire. This process required additional investment. Cities in the so…

John IV Childless › A war of brothers

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…ith Albert. He won four castles and two cities, but at the same time he immediately stripped every defeated relative of their titles and p…

Frederik II Tough › The emperor who turned fear into a system

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…e Emperor, infiltrated the nobility and cities, tracked down suspicious connections, and created a web of fear that stretched beyond the r…

Valendor I Steward › An empire handed over to the lower levels of power

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…the provinces with their governors, the cities with their mayors, and the villages with their elders. Governors were given greater powers …

William II Unifier › Calendar, sewers, and enchanted armor

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…panded the sewage system to other large cities. At the same time, he supported the spread of enchantment as a new and increasingly common …

William II Unifier › A war he couldn't win

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…ion was initially successful, capturing cities and castles, but then came the fateful decision to besiege the capital in winter. Poor logi…

Valendor II Besieged › The first power war and victory without reconciliation

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…ness and gradually occupied castles and cities until the non-rebels formed a more coherent army against him. The decisive moment was the B…

John V. Usurper of the throne › Restoring the land amid ruins and storms

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…o with new entities such as some goblin cities. He directed all available funds into the repair of the empire. He had all three lines of d…

John V. Usurper of the throne › Schools, post office and the new face of everyday life

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…ular schools for children. First in the cities, later also in the villages, children learned basic skills such as reading, writing, counti…

Magnus VIII. Hungry

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…nt markets and efforts to support large cities.

Theodore III Tough › Endoret and the Battle of Malga

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…rd Endoret united the rebellions in the cities of Coulim, Tarakulina, and Fire Rock, took control of some of the border towers, and summon…

Lich of the North

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…nor. His research led him to the buried cities of Frozen Stone, where generations of dwarves lay dead. There he created the first true nec…

Lich of the North › Journey to the Frozen Stones

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…ven then. The mines were exhausted, the cities buried, and most of the dwarves had long ago retreated back to the safer regions of the Sto…

Lich of the North › A threat to Ulvenor

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…ages to take full control of the buried cities and awaken enough of the dead, he can become an isolated threat into a force capable of thr…

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.

Pender the Strong › A ruler without a system

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…extension of his will. He could conquer cities, unite tribes, and lead great campaigns, but he could not create a system that would outliv…

Enhih › Protector of the elves

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…elf. He settled in one of the conquered cities and ruled here under the protection of the elven empire. He lived the rest of his life in r…

Hatur

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…ed Hirch into one of the most important cities of Ulvenor.

Endoret

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…he steppe. He subdued rebellions in the cities of Coulim, Tarakulina, and Fire Rock, captured some of the border towers, and called for he…

Blackness

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

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 trade rout…

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 created a fo…

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 greate…

The Rise and Fall of the First Goblin King › Birth of Durbuluk

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…Constant failed raids on goblin and elf cities showed that the fragmentation of the orcs was their greatest weakness. Pender understood th…

The Rise and Fall of the First Goblin King › A campaign against the elves

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… campaign, he conquered several western cities and gradually penetrated to the borders of elven territories. Here, however, the weakness o…

The Rise and Fall of the First Goblin King › The collapse of the empire

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…pire fell apart almost immediately. The cities were liberated either by Elven armies or by rebellions of the local population. The morals …

The Rise and Fall of the First Goblin King › Link Enhia

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…ler. He settled in one of the conquered cities and ruled under the auspices of the elven empire. He lived the rest of his life without eve…

Goblin adoption of human magic › War, practice, and the rise of kobold mages

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… interests—centaurs, humans, and Nordic cities alike. By constantly testing their knowledge in practice, they improved it faster than nati…

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 was at …

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. The stone…

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 corridor, …

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 single fo…

The transformation of Richard's plays into Imperial plays › From dynastic celebration to imperial ritual

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…on. The inhabitants of the more distant cities were suddenly not just passive recipients of reports of imperial greatness, but became dire…