Introduction
This campaign guide contains information about the ongoing old-timey fantasy games1 set in the lands east of the Imperial walled fortress town called Eagle Pass. Eagle Pass is the eastern-most settlement in The Empire. Several generations ago, under the ministrations of the mad Padishah Emperor Darius the Just, the Empire was forming a strong position extended from Eagle Pass. Then Darius was … removed from power. In the resulting disarray, the Empire suddenly had to contend with solidifying its military positions on borders not in the east. Now, things east of Eagle Pass are a mostly lawless wilderness: an opportunity for adventure, fame, and glory. There still remain a few hardy villages and farms in the woods and hills near to Eagle Pass, homesteaded by generations of Imperial citizens, too stubborn to leave their patch. Their trade, and even trade from native barbarian tribes-folk, has kept the modest market in Eagle Pass a going concern.
Despite the empire’s fitful present in the region, they were not the first civilized people to inhabit the east marches. Although now mostly ruled over by beast-folk and barbaric tribes, at one point in the distant past, these lands were within the dominion of the ancient Eld who were powerful, well versed in the arcane, decadent, corrupt, and very, very fond of a style of architecture that penetrated deep underground.
Footnotes
Old-time fantasy games laregly means games derived or remixed or built on the chassis of “the original edition(s) of the world’s most popular RPG”.↩︎