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Avathar Ruins

The Toxic Jungles are often made impassible by thick foliage and broken terrain, but the trails can still be found where denizens of this place forced their way through the underbrush. Following these trails can often lead to more than the traveler has ...

Avathar Scorpion Blades

Avathars wield an impressive array of unusual weapons, but their "Scorpion Blades" are perhaps the most fearsome and lethal yet devised. At first glance, "Scorpion Blades" resemble an edged weapon of some type that has been styled to look particularly ...

Avathar Warding Amulet

Thoth purchased this amulet from Basharat as a "ward against undead" and gave it to Keddyn, priest of Mrmym. The amulet is a hand-sized *adamant* trapezoid carved with the image of a leering vampiric face. Keddyn has mentioned that this amulet aids in ...

Avathar Amulet of Health

This black adamantite gorget appears much like a piece of armor. The amulet is obviously of Avathar make, as it is of fine workmanship and the hard metal is etched with skulls. Thoth found this collar on an ogre captain in the service of Tavik, and has ...

Tark, Lord of Flies (Avathar)

Tark is the Avathar "Winged Messenger" in its dark aspect as a bearer of false messages. While he is called the "Lord of Flies", that likely refers to his ability to trap men in webs of intrigue and deceit. It is said that Tark was the god who tricked ...

Kurg, the Blood God (Avathar)

Kurg is the Avathar dark "Sun King", a sun god for a culture who hates the sun. Thus, rather than a god of justice, Kurg is the god of bloody battles, war, and conquest against those who dwell in the sun. Known as the god of dooms, Kurg is portrayed as a ...

Tyaa, the Winged Maiden (Avathar, Southmaren)

*"Winged Maiden", "Lady of Birds", "Maiden of Omens", "Lady of Luck", "Lady of Ill Omen"* Tyaa is the goddess of night birds, fate and omens in the Avathar and Southmaren faiths. She is said to provide the faithful with a glimpse of their future with ...

Hyakki, the Huntress (Avathar, Alorn, Kith)

Hyakki is the Avathar goddess of nature's wrath, blighted forests, and the hunt. She is symbolized by an implacable antler-horned huntress with her pack of howling wolves. Hyakki hates her sister aspect of Lunara, and the sacred white owls and white ...

Hypsiglena, the Serpentmother (Alu, Avathar, Linnorm)

Hypsiglena is the Avathar dark "Earth Mother" and She is also the mistress of snakes, depicted as a snake-haired woman (gorgon) or two-headed venomous serpent. She is a cold, cruel goddess who found the first Avathar child born inside the egg of one of ...

Reshuk, the Maggot God (Alu, Avathar)

The dread god of darkness, rot, plague, and pestilence is symbolized as a diseased corpse beset with locusts, flies, maggots and other unwholesome parasites. The "Lord of Flies" has few worshipers, though Avathars, necromancers, and undead have served ...

Nan-Avathar (The Cradle of Vampires)

Straddling the Silver River and nestled at the feet of the Wintercrown Mountains, the former heart of Alornea is now a harsh realm held in a grip of tyranny and superstition. This land is no longer a proper nation, but a wilderness territory known by ...

hal'Avathar (the language of the dead)

Avathars have an ancient language taught to them by their necromancer priests. Alorns say it is the language of the dead. Avathar has rudimentary similarities other Eldar languages such as Baal, Alu, and Ithilrhi.

Kurg'Rhi ("Vampire Lords")

The Kurg'Rhi are the priest-kings of Nan-Avathar, more commonly known as the "Vampire Lords". There are no beings in the northlands so feared as the Kurg'Rhi. They are not merely extremely powerful warlords, or cruel rulers, but high-priests of Kurg ...

Illych

Illych is the capitol of Nan-Avathar, in the heart of "inner" Nan-Avathar where the mountain shadows are strongest. The dread city was the place where the thirteen Kurg'Rhi were anointed by Kurg to rule Nan-Avathar and built their grim thrones on heaps ...

Alornea

This vast and ancient region is the heart of human civilization in Ambar, encompassing the lands of Alglondor, Anduran, Alahan, Istaria, Lyonesse, Pelador, and Dorthonien. The most central lands of this region are dominated by the ash-laded mountains ...

Nechushtah

Nechushtah is a mountain fortress that guards the short northeastern border that Nan-Avathar shares with Belerion. The fortress is the forward staging point of campaigns against Belerion and Hrivlyggdor and is constantly manned by large standing armies ...

Csethe

Csethe is a wide river valley that forms the southern pass of the Ephel Duath into inner Nan-Avathar. Csethe is the main staging area for Avathar armies and military reserves, which can move directly east, south, or west to the three borders. The river ...

Lyonesse (Lothian)

Lyonesse is a vast borderlands on the western coast of the Dragon Sea, northeast of Nan-Avathar and southwest of Belerion and Hrivlyggdor. The north reaches of Lyonesse are the ancient battlegrounds of Nan-Avathar and Belerion, and the region has long ...

Lyonese (Lothians)

The Lyonese are the famous mercenaries who live in the border region of Lyonesse between Nan'Avathar and Belerion. The Lyonese come from a long line of warriors, and are renowned for their strength, adaptability, and bravery. Properly speaking, ...

The Necrodraconic Wars (2,000 years before)

The reach of the Avathar "Necroalchemical Empire of Arh'Tolth" increased over time until it brought the Avathars into contact with the Baal "Draconian Empire". Terrible wars ensued for hundreds of years, during which much of the lush Vokrazum jungle ...

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