Dominions: Icereach Domains

The domains of the western mountain wall, founded south of Lake Alinor where the weather is milder, with Denagoth beyond the range to the west and the Wyrmsteeth to the east [Alm-Icereach]. Stat blocks are from the AC 1019 Almanac entries.

Barony of Arcadia

Almanac AC 1019 · arcadia5.html

See the Barony of Arcadia for the narrative; the AC 1019 stat block:

• Location: Brun, west of Oceansend, in the Icereach Mountains on Lake Gunaald.
• Area: about 500 sq. mi. (1,295 sq. km.).
• Population: 300 (250 dwarves, 50 humans).
• Languages: Alphatian, Heldannic, Dwarvish.
• Coinage: Alphatian Standard; gold nuggets or barter common.
• Taxes: none; folk give goods to the baron for protection from dragons.
• Government: “a barony in name, with no real government”; independent, loosely allied with Alpha; member of the Norwold Confederacy.
• Ruler: Baron Arcadius, Magic-User 20 [Neri-RBP].
• Important figures: Sandryth, draconic envoy (gold dragon); Tark Takkras, Clanlord (dwarf Fighter 10) [Alm-Arcadia].
• Economy: fishing, gold mining, goldsmithing, weaponsmithing.
• Recent history: none to report.
• Further reading: CM1 Test of the Warlords; previous almanacs.

Efreet Kingdom of the Arch of Fire

Almanac AC 1019 · archfir6.html

See the Arch of Fire for the narrative; the AC 1019 stat block:

• Location: Brun, in the northeastern Icereach Range.
• Area: about 5,000 sq. mi. (12,950 sq. km.), roughly 2,500 around each volcano.
• Population: believed 2,400 efreet, 1,000 fire elementals, 400 sollux.
• Languages: unknown tongues of the Plane of Fire.
• Coinage / taxes: unknown, if any.
• Government: efreet duchy with a sollux resistance front.
• Key figure: Feudelance, “Brother of the Sun,” leader of the sollux Sun Brothers (Fighter 14) [Alm-ArchFire].
• Flora & fauna: small plants and animals in the south; lava lizards, fyrsnaca, fire salamanders, and elemental beings.
• Recent history: none to report.
• Further reading: CM1 Test of the Warlords; Dawn of the Emperors; previous almanacs.

Baronie de Chevas

Almanac AC 1019 · chevas4.html

• Location: Brun, west of Oceansend, on the southeastern shore of Lake Alinor.
• Area: 498 sq. mi. (1,290 sq. km.).
• Population: 500.
• Languages: Heldannic, Averoignian.
• Coinage: adik (gp), glyph (sp), florin (cp); gems or barter common.
• Taxes: none in name; the land is the baron’s and aristocrats’, and serfs keep only subsistence.
• Government: barony; independent, loosely allied with Alpha; member of the Norwold Confederacy.
• Ruler: Baron Adik de Chevas, Magic-User 16, Lawful Good, a Glantrian scholar and poet [Neri-RBP].
• Important figures: Gilbert de Fausseflammes, aristocrat; Roger Dumas, Seneschal.
• Economy: fishing, agriculture, mining.
• Flora & fauna: cultivated plains and rolling hills on Lake Alinor’s sandy beaches; evergreen hills giving way to bare rock; wyverns and griffons in the caverns; dragons overflying from the east.
• Recent history: none to report.
• Further reading: M2 Vengeance of Alphaks; previous almanacs.

Barony of the Lake

Almanac AC 1019 · barlake4.html

• Location: Brun, in the Icereach between Lake Alinor (north) and Lake Gunaald (south).
• Area: 498 sq. mi. (1,290 sq. km.).
• Population: 1,000.
• Languages: Heldannic.
• Coinage: Alphatian Standard (mirror, etc.); gems or barter common.
• Taxes: 15% income, collected yearly.
• Government: barony; member of the Norwold Confederacy.
• Ruler: Baroness Winnefred of the Lake, Cleric 15 [Neri-RBP].
• Flora & fauna: a broad valley between two cold, fish-rich lakes; amphibious monsters, giant fish, and winged predators from the Icereach.
• Recent history: none to report.
• Further reading: M2 Vengeance of Alphaks.

Tyrannie de Mory

Almanac AC 1019 · mory3.html

• Location: Brun, west of Chitine and Landfall, near the Arch of Fire.
• Area: 498 sq. mi. (1,290 sq. km.).
• Population: about 500: 100 humans, 100 fire giants, 300 hobgoblins.
• Languages: Averoignian, Hobgoblin, Giant.
• Coinage: barter.
• Taxes: none; all land is the tyrant’s, granted for permanent fealty and army service.
• Government: independent barony, loosely allied with the Efreet Kingdom.
• Ruler: Tyrant Coiger de Mory, the renegade cleric of M2 [Neri-RBP] [M2].
• Flora & fauna: a near-treeless mountain of extreme heat; cave lichens and fungi; rocs, marauding dragons, red worms, fire salamanders, lava lizards, slimes, rare phoenixes; rival hill and stone giant bands; most hobgoblins and giants live in a cave-and-tunnel complex below.
• Recent history: after his defeat in Chitine, Coiger sought revenge on Archduke Ney, on Lambert Bohn, and on the sollux, and schemed (manipulating Alak Dool and Viktor Zhucharnov) to seize the gnomish Earthshaker.
• Further reading: M2 Vengeance of Alphaks.

Barony of Two Lakes Vale

Almanac AC 1019 · 2lakes4.html

See the Barony of Two Lakes Vale for the narrative; the AC 1019 stat block:

• Location: Brun, northwest of Landfall, in the Icereach near the Denagoth and Heldannic borders.
• Area: 498 sq. mi. (1,290 sq. km.).
• Population: 800.
• Languages: Heldannic.
• Coinage: Alphatian Standard (crown, judge); gems or barter common.
• Taxes: 20% income, collected yearly.
• Government: barony; independent, loosely allied with Alpha.
• Ruler: Baron Maltus Fharo, Fighter 19, Lawful Good [Neri-RBP].
• Flora & fauna: two lakes with giant fish; hippogriffs, rocs, manticores in the mountains; hydras in a small western swamp.
• Recent history (AC 1018-1019): the Death’s Ride crisis of CM2, the Shadow Lord Ulslime, the elf-vampire Sylarion, and Prince Morphail Gorevitch-Woszlany worked to extend the Death Stone and bring the Immortal Nyx’s dominion over Norwold; the barony lay overshadowed by the artifact and its undead [CM2].
• Further reading: CM2 Death’s Ride.