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Setting reference — places, factions, and recurring people. Not session plans or play logs.
Places & notes
- Almenor Country where the adventures begin — Axirian peninsula, south of the central mountains.
- Axirian peninsula — regional context Reference maps: ../maps/axirian-peninsula.png (detail) · ../maps/continents-world.png (whole world).
- Ethium The whole plateau is Ethium — not a settlement on the high ground, but a huge ancient city that once covered it.
- Ethium — map lineage Three versions of the plateau map exist in the archive. Use the Nimozaran labelled parchment for the novel and at the table.
- Ethium stonework Building stone from the Ethium plateau — towers, roads, shrines, pools, and carved work.
- Healing pool — ritual levels (filed from inbox) > [!NOTE] > DM Secret / History: The pool water was originally tainted centuries ago by the ancient wizard's dark experiments (using captured adventurers as …
- Plot hooks (session-era notes, filed from inbox) *Source: inbox/Gaming/Ruins of Ethium/Nerd Herd/Secrets.md. Related secret lore: secret-demon-and-the-water.md.*
- SECRET — Demon and the mountain water DM / author only. Do not put this in published chapter prose until the party learns it in play.
- Sunfall Capital of Almenor (★ on the Axirian peninsula map). South of the heartland, on the river.
- The Hammers Newer street gang within the Gang of Four — mostly youths; dominance through thuggery. Hammer pendants.
- The Town of Fallcrest !Fallcrest town map
- Untitled > [!IMPORTANT] > DM Secret: The Gang of Four was secretly commissioned by agents of the Axirian Empire (a powerful foreign empire to the south/east) to inves…
Characters
- Player characters ## Active party (at the table & in the novel)
- Party backgrounds > Willow Starbloom is Peter's daughter's character — not in the campaign yet.
- Mara Courier from Fallcrest. Carried a map recovered from Ethium’s outer ruins, meant for Nimozaran.
- Tobbs Quickfoot Halfling apprentice to Nimozaran. Cheerful, untidy, often carrying papers and quills; worry shows under the patter.
- Nimozaran the Green Elderly wizard of Fallcrest; self-styled High Septarch. Lives in the Septarch’s Tower (pale green stone; old mages’ guild seat).
- Sergeant Murgaddin Dwarf veteran of the Fallcrest Guard. Grey braid, battered armour, dented helmet; dry humour; takes Fallcrest’s safety seriously.
- Garnel Stoneblender Gnome ally. Young adult gnome illusionist & Ethium researcher. Rescued in the ruined tower (Session 3+).
- Mala Stoneblender Garnel’s grandmother. Researched Ethium and the stones.
- Maelis Varn Third Hand of the Valnaran family (tiefling trade racketeers; one of the Gang of Four).