The weather in New York today is perfect for a winter in Boulderoth: cool, rainy, and kinda gross.  Thanks, god of storms.  This week I've been tweaking maps and patching up a few things with the history of the Empire.

Watching a half dozen documentaries about ancient Athens and Mycenaean shenanigans, as well as a few about Edo period Tokyo helped me develop a more fleshed out city on the barren rocks that were the Grey Crag.  Think Manhattan, but with Greco-Roman archiecture and the tight quarters of Tokyo.  Also, quick change, the Grey Crag is now no longer the refuge of a fleeing elven prince trying to hide a sacred text.  It is now the secret stronghold of a ruthless elven warlord prince who sets up a military outpost on this small cluster of islands and develops a "magical weapon", which he then uses to destroy the islands and most of the people living in the city that has developed around the outpost.  But there is still a book.  Elves love books.  The people who survive the category 11 hurricane and the volcano that rises up from the sea floor and boils most of the people before launching them into space and junk...they wash up on the beaches of Tarkinos and the southern coast.

 

From there it's all zombies, kingdom, war, peace, war, empire, civil war, civil war, civil war, barbarian conquest, military revolution, civil war, political upheavals, creedence clearwater revival, and The Blackening bringing us to the home stretch with the Sacred Band (Paladins) and the fall of the Eastern Empire just like always.  Also, I'm toying with the idea of the "elves" being called the "immortals".  They're not really elf-elves, they just have pointy ears and live forever...pretty much.  They're way more like samurai.  I'll get on that.

Earth, sea, empire.  =)

-NDF