This meeting is chronicled in the first arc, " The Rise of the Winter King." They meet the scoundrel Bargle, foil one of his schemes, only to become entangled in another, and the true nature of their mysterious companion comes to light. They met up with the druid called Thorn in the mountain pass between Darokin and Karameikos, lending aid to two dwarven brothers and their charge, a pale, mysterious girl with hair like spun gold and eyes the same silver as moonlight. Demons long banished still haunt the world, their shadows longer and darker than that of even long lost Blackmoor.īut what good are villains without heroes to oppose them? Thus was the band of adventurers thought up: The fighter Varis, recently released from service in the Grand Duke's Mountainguard the bowman Gilliam, one to bet on just about anything the shy servant of the Silver Flame, Ana, bid by the Keeper of her order to travel the lands of Brun. My take on Mystara is perhaps a bit darker.
I have been working on this project since mid-to-late 2008.
The familiar Karameikos of Gaz 1, but with my own spin. Maybe, I thought, I'll write about the travels of a druid in Karameikos.
It was also an effort to maybe do a bit of tinkering, a-la Bruce Heard's Voyage of the Princess Ark series from Dragon Magazine. Thorn's Chronicle began as an effort to gather together several years' worth of notes and thoughts about how I'd like to work my own version of the nations presented in the D&D Gazetteer series.