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The Northwest

A Regional Accessory in 4 Volumes

 

Bookmarked PDF Documents

License Model:  Open Game License 1.0a

Jörðgarð Campaign Setting, Book 5

 

Accessories available:

 

Editable Open Source Reference Document in OpenOffice.org® Writer

and Microsoft Word® formats.  (.odt and .doc)

 

Editable maps in Fractal Mapper™ 8 format (.fmp)

 

The Menu:

 

·      Volume 1

·      Volume 2

·      Volume 3

·      Volume 4

·      Open Source Resource Documents

·      PDF and OSRD Downloads

·      Map Downloads

 

Volume I:

The Northwest – Ása: Continental Origins and Slovania

Open Source, Open Gaming illustrated bookmarked PDF-File, 648 Pages, 490 MB Download

NOW AVAILABLE

 

This volume begins with a 50-page historical background for game masters on the continent of Ása and then continues with a highly detailed description of the Kingdom of Slovania.  No other volume is as detailed as this one.  Slovanian serves a very special purpose in the Jörðgarð campaign setting.  It is intended first and foremost as a base region for PC groups who are adventuring in other parts of the Northwest.  Slovania is a relatively (and only relatively) safe land where PCs can recuperate from adventures, obtain supplies, gain information, etc.  Only the border regions have problems with orcs, undead and other monsters.  Despite all of that, there is plenty of ground for adventuring inside of the kingdom too when one begins to look into the rampant corruption of Slovanian nobility or the evil secret society that is growing there or the disguised devils in the important population centers or hidden servants of the Darkness.

 

 

Volume II:

The Northwest – Ása: The Ruins of the Fallen Æsir Empire

Open Source, Open Gaming illustrated bookmarked PDF-File, 254 Pages, 183 MB Download

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Most of the Fallen Empire of the Æsir is a largely abandoned desolation of ruins occupied by the nine evil dark draugs – the Jörð's most powerful undead – and their minions as well as various bands of mutants (i.e. monsters).  The potential for adventure on all experience levels in this region is almost unlimited.

 

 

Volume III:

The Northwest – The North Kingdom and the Dreadlands

Open Source, Open Gaming illustrated bookmarked PDF-File, 174 Pages, 82 MB Download

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This volume describes two entirely different by neighboring realms in the remnants the Fallen Empire of the Æsir  The North Kingdom was established in the Æsir ruins of the Sunset Hills by Slovanian adventurers from Windland upon the southern continent of Blueland.  However, after establishing the new kingdom, the king and his nobles willingly became vampires to escape death.  The population of the kingdom is trapped within its borders.  Flight into the mountains in the West leads only to orcs.  Flight into the ruins of the Æsir Empire in the East is nearly impossible.  Barrow and swamp draugs (undead) block the border.  However, as bad as life is in the North Kingdom, it is nowhere near as bad as in the Dreadlands.  This corner of the old Æsir Empire was not touched by the Great Wars and is not in ruin.  The oppressive and utterly evil dark draug Duke þráinn – the most powerful undead in the Western Hemisphere – still rules here.  His human population lives under the worst of conditions, under the collective thumbs of þráinn's orcs and other minions.  For those who stand up to the duke's evil, there always is room reserved in his dungeon, known as the Depths of Darkness and Hopelessness.

 

 

Volume IV:

The Northwest – Ása: Karelenland, Northland, Gold Coast, Auðarhome and Orchome, Data for Game Masters

Open Source, Open Gaming illustrated bookmarked PDF-File

AVAILABLE IN THE 1st QUARTER, 2014

 

Volume 4 differs considerably from the first three.  It includes the last two lands upon the Jorð where elves still can be found upon the Dimension of Life.  The remaining elven lands have moved to the Middle Dimension, which is all but impossible for mortals to enter.  However the Ganndar light elves still rule in Karelenland, and Luohi, the Witch Queen of the dark elves, still rules upon the Northland Isle.  Neighboring lands include not only the Fallen Æsir Empire, the Dreadlands and the North Kingdom but also the Gold Coast, Auðarhome and western Orchome.  The Gold Coast is a sparsely settled human land troubled by the orcs in the Foggy Mountains.  Auðarhome is the last vestige of the Auðar stone giants in the Midworld Mountains.  Orchome is nothing more than a name to describe the areas of the Foggy and Midworld Mountains where thousands of orcs lair without governmental structures.  This volume is the least detailed of the four.  It is intended as a base where game masters can develop their own material without fear of having it contradicted by later official Jörðgarð products.  This volume is the first and only Jörðgarð product that will deal with these areas.

 

 

The Open Source Resource Documents

 

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The Open Source Resource Documents give you all of the Open Game Content contained in the four PDFs above, but in the .odt text format that you can load into such word processings programs as OpenOffice.org Writer, LibreOffice.org Writer or modern versions of Microsoft® Word.  These gives you the ability to edit texts or to extract texts and JPG graphics for your own use.

 

Volume I:

The Northwest – Ása: Continental Origins and Slovania

Open Source, Open Gaming illustrated ODT-File, 627 Pages, 345 MB Download

NOW AVAILABLE

 

 

Volume II:

The Northwest – Ása: The Ruins of the Fallen Æsir Empire

Open Source, Open Gaming illustrated ODT-File, 237 Pages, 158 MB Download

NOW AVAILABLE

 

 

Volume III:

The Northwest – The North Kingdom and the Dreadlands

Open Source, Open Gaming illustrated ODT-File, 163 Pages, 66 MB Download

NOW AVAILABLE

 

 

Volume IV:

The Northwest – Ása: Karelenland, Northland, Gold Coast, Auðarhome and Orchome, Data for Game Masters

Open Source, Open Gaming illustrated illustrated ODT-File

AVAILABLE IN THE 1st QUARTER, 2014