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Campaign Guide
the god’s will, but this is very rare.
Arcane spellcasters are a rare class due to the legal status of
the practice of arcane magic as well as the stigma and superstition that surround the use of such magic. Practitioners
are still found, but they tend to live hidden lives as being
discovered would likely lead to their death. The culture of
the peninsula is highly suspicious of any education that
does not originate from its local temple and, therefore,
most classes that rely on formal education are a rarity (such
as alchemists).
The Issian Peninsula has no strong central government and
conflict is very common between the city states that dot the
landscape. Due to the constant ebb and flow of small-scale
conflicts between villages and cities, the most common
class is the fighter. This unstable political landscape has
also favored those who have a quick wit and are adaptable
to the constantly shifting social world. Rogues are common
and fare well in this environment.
The Rigian Wastes were officially annexed into the Avitian

Rigian Wastes

Empire in the year 11856 AE at the completion of the War
of the Red Stones. Since that time the Rigian Wastes, and
more precisely the vast ore deposits found in the Ironfold
Mountains on the southern edge of the Wastes, have been
supporting the Avitian Empire. This region is now the main
source of metal items such as weapons and armor, as well as
a source of architecture and engineering innovation.
The Rigian Wastes and its largest city of Chandegar are
well known as one of the world’s beacons of light in terms

of education and innovation. The value placed on study
and learning is due not only to the inquisitiveness of its
citizens but also the region’s being buffered from the conservative influence of the empire’s capital city due to desert’s
and badlands. Many come to the cities in the south-west of
the region to study as apprentices in the many guilds and
academies found in the land.

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People from the Rigian Wastes are a moderately religious citizenry; it is common to see clerics and oracle classes
in the cities and wandering the badlands. There are the
occasional inquisitors in the region, but they tend to come
from other regions of the empire.
Classes that rely on advanced inventions, such as the
alchemist and the gunslinger, can be found in this region.

Rikstrns Hammer
North of the Stadji Mountains and the Slaking Sea is the
long peninsula of Rikstrns Hammer. This region once
contained only small fishing villages surviving by fishing
the cold northern waters. After annexation by the Avitian
Empire and exposure to the Empire’s advanced building
and farming techniques combined with the local clan’s
long-held knowledge of the sea, the villages quickly grew
and prospered. Advances made in shipbuilding and the
construction of stone buildings have allowed locals to begin
to fight off raids by both the Ostmen to the east and the
orcs from the mountains to the south. Soon cities and stone
keeps began to dot the land.
Beginning in 12165 AE, Emperor Galabadon XXIII

started to break treaties with the land’s clans and leaders,
ultimately denying them their right for representation
to the empire with the dissolution of the senate. In the
summer of 12168 AE, the clans tired of the Emperor’s
deviousness, united under Jarl Retrivr, and rebelled.
The people of Rikstrns Hammer are in a precarious
position. Only the Avitian Empires’s greater concern over
the Ceravosian Republic, as well as minor rebellions happening across the Rigian Waste, has kept the region from
gaining the Empire’s full attention and the legions of troops
that would soon follow.

Additional Class Details
Alchemists: Alchemists have strayed from the tried and
true sources of knowledge in order to control the forces
of nature. Instead of using the power of symbols to guide
the magical undercurrent of reality, alchemists engage in