Whaleden, the Frozen Port

Whaleden
TN Large City

Corruption +4, Crime +4, Economy +6, Law -4, Lore +5, Society +2

Qualities academic, prosperous, strategic location
Danger 10

Demographics

Government Secret Society (Silver Fangs)

Population 11,053 (4,089 humans, 2,210 halflings, 1,989 elves, 1,102 dwarves, 1663 other)

Notable NPCs

Mayor Bedric Wilfrod (LN halfling aristocrat 3)

Father Kisran (NE human cult leader mesmerist 6)

Tathan Longhook, Head Librarian (TN dwarf expert 5)

Marketplace

Base Value 11,200 gp; Purchase Limit 75,000 gp; Spellcasting 6th

Minor Items 4d4; Medium Items 3d4; Major Items 2d4

The largest city in the known regions of Sylvanor, Whaleden rose to prominence entirely by happenstance. One of the first of the Sylvanor colonies, it was founded as a whaling settlement. Today it is the single largest trading port on the continent.

Behind the Screen: Fancy Festivals I

Tomorrow my fellow Americans and I will be enjoying Thanksgiving. As such, I thought it appropriate that this week's Behind the Screen be about festivals and celebrations.

There are a few key aspects to consider when putting together a festival for your game world: events, reason, and size. Events are fairly self evident, reason is why the festival is held, and size is both how many people come and how long it lasts.

Race: Rantar

So here's the first non-aquatic race native to our setting. The rantar are a race of, as a member of the Dungeon Master's Block called them, angry tiny gadget crafting creatures. Art is by the talented Leon.

Rantar

Behind the Screen: Divining Divinities I - Vaanti Wisesword

This week's Behind the Screen looks at one of the, in my opinion, most enjoyable parts of world-building: creating the gods. This time will contain my favorite method when I need a god and don't have anything that I need to tie into: randomly generated portfolio. While this can be used for any edition, the page that I will be utilizing is a list of domains from D&D 3.5.

On the Beast-Men of Sylvanor: Rantar

When going through the office of my predecessor, the late Professor Vergilius, I stumbled across materials from around the rise of the hobgoblin empire detailing a curiosity from an excavation in Sylvanor. The earliest piece was by now famed scholar Professor Brunton, a letter from his days as a field researcher: