Category:The Verdurous Lands
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A Cluster composed of Saragoss, Sri Raji, and the Wildlands, The Verdurous Lands are sweltering, tropical domains where the lush vegetation grows dense and wild. The heat and humidity are unrelenting, drenching travelers in sweat. In these muggy lands, torrential rains define the years, deluging the verdant landscape with an annual wet season. The wilds are shadowy and menacing in the Verdurous Lands, stalked by vicious predators and choked by toxic plant life. Where humanity has slashed back the strangling vegetation and toiled to survive, nature seems to scrabble and claw at his handiwork. In these lands, the savagery of the wilderness is unremitting and terrible.
The Verdurous Lands cluster does not have a moon with potentially interesting consequences for lycanthropes having some part of the lunar cycle as their trigger condition. Equally, there should be no tides.
Chronology
- 658 BC - The Wildlands forms as an island of terror.[1][2]
- 670 BC - Sri Raji forms as an island of terror.[1][2]
- 728 BC - Saragoss appears as an island of terror.[1][2]
- 732 BC - In this approximate year, monks in Sri Raji construct Picalinni's Palette upon commission by Jaspor Picalinni. However, Jaspor gravely offends them, and they curse the palette.[3]
- 740 BC - The Verdurous Lands is created from the combining of Sri Raji, the Wildlands, and Saragoss.[4][5]
- 740 BC - An expedition of adventurers set out from Sri Raji to the Wildlands. They meet unfortunate ends there. Raja Singh becomes the victim of a wereleopard.[6]
- 743 BC - Carnival travels through the Wildlands, and a group of wereleopards attack. Isolde defeats their attackers, and the Hideous Man-Beast is taken alive. Carnival cages him and puts him on display, only to later discover he reverts to human form during the full moon. It is the first time in three years.[7]
- 755 or earlier (likely a few years) - A Rajian scholar named Sidrathi discovers Ravana's Bane. He commissions Kopa to melt it down and reforge it into a statuette. An agent of the Dark Sisters named Tega steals it, but she is felled in the jungle, and Ravana's Bane falls into unknown hands. Once more, Kopa is commissioned to turn it back into a bolt. After that, it falls into unknown hands again before resurfacing at a hidden temple in the jungle. There it is protected by monks.[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ravenloft Third Edition p.17
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ravenloft Player's Handbook p.19
- ↑ Children of the Night: Werebeasts p. 74; "almost two decades ago" from 751 BC corresponding in game date to publication
- ↑ Ravenloft Third Edition p.18
- ↑ Ravenloft Player's Handbook p.20
- ↑ Carnival p. 21
- ↑ Carnival p. 21-22
- ↑ Web of Illusion p.8-9, 27-28; Van Richten's Arsenal p. 54-55
Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue
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The Steaming Lands Verduous Lands, The Verduous Lands |
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Pages in category "The Verdurous Lands"
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