tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661586007540952599Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:32:28 +0000Jarthenpediacharactersminor charactersother sundry things of notefigures/flora/faunaplaces of interestsupporting charactersauthor's noteBorder Warsracesculture of elothninfigure of notemagical localesmajor characterspopulated regionscities of notefaunaforeign history and customsprovinces of Elothninfloramagicologyjarthen foundationmundayne localesTale in a Nutshellan indexblog stuffhttp://jarthenpedia.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Bee Alisandre)Blogger155125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661586007540952599.post-1641565465820041301Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:04:00 +00002009-01-05T01:14:34.998-05:00charactersJarthenpediaminor charactersEralus, a red elf living in Susselfen, possesses many of the traits characteristic of his race: he is quite friendly, has a deep love of ale and pipeweed, and is perhaps too chatty for his own good. It is this last trait that tends to get Eralus into hot water most often (although it is, of course, exacerbated when he is drunk and stoned). Though not a member of the Rebel Army himself, much of http://jarthenpedia.blogspot.com/2009/01/eralus.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee Alisandre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661586007540952599.post-4878543460446239138Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:41:00 +00002009-01-01T02:26:54.634-05:00Jarthenpediamagicologyother sundry things of notea theoretical map of a human's aether in the 4th dimensionA war currently wages in the field of magickology concerning the actual physical properties and manifestations of magick itself. A good amount of descriptive analysis has been conducted on the expressions of magick, allowing for the classification of different types of magick and the establishment of magick-related neuroanatomical http://jarthenpedia.blogspot.com/2008/12/flumpertist-vs-eirellian-theories-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee Alisandre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661586007540952599.post-4977041979525954138Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:47:00 +00002008-12-28T04:28:42.276-05:00charactersJarthenpediaminor charactersElshin, a member of the Rebel Army who ran with Jellihondor's battalion for a short time, is a man internally at war with himself. Though he identifies as a red elf, it is quite clear to those who meet him that there is more to the story: he has the rosy skin and ease with social magicks of an Athenorkos elf, but his black hair, brown eyes, and muscular build betray his mixed heritage.Elshin washttp://jarthenpedia.blogspot.com/2008/12/elshin.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee Alisandre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661586007540952599.post-2578507637216395581Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:11:00 +00002008-12-28T03:46:01.496-05:00charactersJarthenpediaminor charactersAvadon Grundlethump is part of that group whom war cheat the most - fine young lads drawn into the fray not of their own volition who are senselessly cut down before they have the chance to be men. Avadon was born in the Fethil grew up with his brothers Rundleton, Lemonius, and Malmont on the family's Fethil sheep farm. It was a bucolic childhood, among the swaying wheat and floating sheep, thathttp://jarthenpedia.blogspot.com/2008/12/avadon-clarence-grundlethump.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee Alisandre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661586007540952599.post-4734891837290793440Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:06:00 +00002008-12-28T03:10:52.413-05:00charactersJarthenpediaminor charactersMajor Ambrose Pearson is a spy in the Imperial Army stationed in Susselfen along with Nelhoepher, Lem, Bertronius, and McNab. Pearson is a thin, narrow man in his early thirties and is highly regarded by his fellows as a spy, but not well-known by any of his comrades.The flat Fethilian drawl he has adopted and the drab, somewhat dingy wardrobe he wears daily masks Pearson's comparatively http://jarthenpedia.blogspot.com/2008/12/major-ambrose-pearson.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee Alisandre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661586007540952599.post-7594654422172773914Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:20:00 +00002008-12-28T01:59:57.584-05:00charactersJarthenpediaminor charactersthe immense Sylon Goill frightening small childrenSylon Goill is one of the lucky few who benefited from the Border Wars: always larger and brawnier than those around him (by adulthood sporting a size 42 waistline, most of which was muscle) and always a more brutal and vicious fighter than his peers. Goill isthe type of man who would be performing the same actions regardless of context and just http://jarthenpedia.blogspot.com/2008/12/sylon-goill.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee Alisandre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661586007540952599.post-7385654662269422079Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:45:00 +00002008-12-28T00:15:19.183-05:00Jarthenpediamagical localesplaces of interestOne of the many mysteries surrounding the Erkenheld Forest are the tales of magickal paths tracing their way through it. Little is known about the forest except that mundayne beings cannot find or use them, and that the Rebel Forces have been using them as a base of operations since the Red Grain period. According to rare first-hand reports and the maps drawn up by tortured elves supplied to http://jarthenpedia.blogspot.com/2008/12/magickal-paths-of-erkenheld.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee Alisandre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661586007540952599.post-3526092109103958693Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:07:00 +00002008-12-27T17:10:52.001-05:00figure of notefigures/flora/faunaJarthenpediaan artist's conception of the mythical SemadraIn contrast to their blue and red cousins, silver elves have a much less narrative creation story. Silver elves believe that at the beginning of time, the magickal and mundayne realms were unified, and that their splitting was the result of some unforseen, unknown force. They further believe that when this disconnection is understood and resolved, http://jarthenpedia.blogspot.com/2008/12/semadra-first-tinker.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee Alisandre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661586007540952599.post-5726070492251628782Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:04:00 +00002008-12-27T17:14:47.882-05:00foreign history and customsJarthenpediaother sundry things of notean artist's conception of the mythical AthenorkosThe red elves of the Fethil believe that their existence is proof of the magickal realm meddling in the mundayne realm's affairs. Red elves explain that the magickal realm is far older than the mundayne one, and that the deities and spirits that reside in it, bored of on another, grew increasingly curious about the mundayne realm - a place withouthttp://jarthenpedia.blogspot.com/2008/12/origin-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee Alisandre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661586007540952599.post-3354704717266254403Sat, 27 Dec 2008 03:58:00 +00002008-12-27T17:15:33.905-05:00foreign history and customsJarthenpediaother sundry things of notea portrait of Queen Svava as the mythical VinkentiThe blue elves of the forest believe that the magickal and mundayne planes, while generally quite distinct and separate, are inextricably joined in the Erkenheld. This great forest (which was proven by Dr. Phineas Flumpert to be a major source of magick) unites Magick and Reality in a fundamental and unique way, unseen anywhere else in either http://jarthenpedia.blogspot.com/2008/12/origin-of-vinkenti-elves.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee Alisandre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661586007540952599.post-799862423261211619Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:22:00 +00002008-12-26T02:03:09.014-05:00Border WarsJarthenpediaother sundry things of noteartist's conception of the horrid experience endured by a survivor of Randle's FollyIn 1032 OC, the Imperial Army was in a very difficult spot: for 60-odd years, the rebels had had the upper hand by forcing the Imperial soldiers to hover close to the Erkenheld-Fethil border where they would be mercilessly picked off by the rebels guerrilla tactics. Army leaders were also feeling the impatience http://jarthenpedia.blogspot.com/2008/12/blog-post.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee Alisandre)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661586007540952599.post-8535257578966443762Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +00002008-12-26T02:04:17.969-05:00Border WarsJarthenpediaother sundry things of noteThe Great Green Wall is a colloquial term given to the Erkenheld-Fethil border by Elothnin's soldiers. A few years after the quiet that followed the Years of Red Grain, the red elves emerged from the eastern edge of the Erkenheld Forest to fight with the Imperial Army once again. After a few battles two things became clear: that the red elves had allied themselves with other strange forests http://jarthenpedia.blogspot.com/2008/12/great-green-wall.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee Alisandre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661586007540952599.post-5002716091871965567Fri, 26 Dec 2008 04:29:00 +00002008-12-26T00:47:43.304-05:00Border WarsJarthenpediaother sundry things of noteIn the 950s OC, during the peak of the Red Grain period, the Imperial Army had an unprecedented and undeniable upper hand in the Border Wars. The tactic employed by the queen following the victory at Alamodour, however, required a large number of Imperial troops to overwhelm and cut off rebel bases.As more successes followed, it became clear that army needed to attack and contain compounds in http://jarthenpedia.blogspot.com/2008/12/service-and-loyalty-act-of-953.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee Alisandre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661586007540952599.post-2462359052723698658Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +00002009-01-31T16:44:56.626-05:00Border WarsJarthenpediaother sundry things of notethe commemorative monument erected at the battle site by the Fethilian sculptress, Lendnisa WorthisAlamadour was a large and well-known red elvish farming compound situated near Neerhemfeth. Perhaps the nearness of such incursions caused these particular elves (including the famed elvish leader Valiyon) to be among the fiercest fighters among the rebels.Alamadour was destroyed in the dead of http://jarthenpedia.blogspot.com/2008/12/alamadour.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee Alisandre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661586007540952599.post-6657709718460421170Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:02:00 +00002008-12-24T23:53:47.183-05:00Border WarsJarthenpediaother sundry things of noteone of the few Fethilian compounds that survived the Years of Red GrainThe Years of Red Grain is a term given by the Athenorkos rebels to the period between the fall of Alamadour in 937 OC and the formation of the Rebel Army roughly around 970 OC. While technically a discrete war in and of itself, the Years of Red Grain are typically thought of as a period of the Border Wars. This period is http://jarthenpedia.blogspot.com/2008/12/years-of-red-grain.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee Alisandre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661586007540952599.post-3411266968248606626Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:22:00 +00002009-01-31T16:44:14.076-05:00Border WarsJarthenpediaother sundry things of notean artist's conception of this most auspicious occasionFew would suspect that Neerhemfeth, a sleepy and sparsely populated hamlet in the Fethil, has played such an important role in Elothninian history.Around the Otellian calendar year 850, right at the start of Queen Lilhelndine's reign, Elothnin was beset by a severe famine. As her subjects starved, Lilhelndine had no choice but to make http://jarthenpedia.blogspot.com/2008/12/burning-of-neerhemfeth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee Alisandre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661586007540952599.post-5175114906666669780Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:34:00 +00002008-12-07T02:27:53.435-05:00charactersJarthenpediasupporting charactersReni works as a prostitute at The Blushing Loaf, those she often helps out with the bar when it is understaffed. It comes as no surprise to newcomers of the Blushing Loaf that Reni, a fine-looking lass with a lean willowy and vibrant red hair, is a red elf (whores of her kind are highly sought after in Susselfen because of a number of unfounded assumptions about their sexual abilities). She washttp://jarthenpedia.blogspot.com/2008/12/reni-whore.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee Alisandre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661586007540952599.post-2543055744142363911Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:33:00 +00002008-12-07T02:34:09.560-05:00charactersJarthenpediaminor charactersMayhew, just having finished eating some delicious fruitGraz Mayhew is a fixture of the seedier side of Susselfen society, and has been for quite some time. Mayhew primarily earns his way by running regular card games and as a part-time bookie for the undrground, illicit Fethil sheep fights that are so popular in the city. Mayhew is respected for the high professional level of his activities http://jarthenpedia.blogspot.com/2008/12/graz-mayhew.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee Alisandre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661586007540952599.post-1193092185802923725Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:33:00 +00002008-12-07T02:31:01.951-05:00Jarthenpediamundayne localesplaces of interestsome of the more ardent patrons attempt to entice the staff to open shop earlyThe Blushing Loaf is a well-respected brothel right in the heart of Susselfen. It is housed in a lavishly decorated three-story building, where the first floor serves as a bar, the second of the romps supplied by the clientele, and the third serves as an office and living quarters for Madame Ondine Weatherby.Since the http://jarthenpedia.blogspot.com/2008/12/blushing-loaf.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee Alisandre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661586007540952599.post-3305525492804262626Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:32:00 +00002008-12-24T02:14:36.324-05:00Jarthenpediamundayne localesplaces of interestDunkler's Tavern has the distinction of being one of the most unsavory, grimy, and all-around shady establishments in Susselfen - a city that certainly has its fair share of disreputable pubs.This particular tavern - a small, unassuming building whose clapboard sides have been weathered to a dark gray and from whose eaves a large sign in the shape of a stein hangs - is located just off an http://jarthenpedia.blogspot.com/2008/11/dunklers-tavern.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee Alisandre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661586007540952599.post-6311083970609424018Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:34:00 +00002008-12-07T02:41:40.800-05:00charactersJarthenpediasupporting charactersArna Clinder, a barmaid (and barmaid only, she is quite quick to add) at The Blushing Loaf, wears her 30-something years well. She's retained the curvaceous physique of her youth and few, if any, gray hairs are noticeable in blonde locks. Though the small crows feet around her eyes and smile lines around her mouth do betray her age slightly, many think that they make her smiles and laughter http://jarthenpedia.blogspot.com/2008/11/arna-clinders.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee Alisandre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661586007540952599.post-3119270029820865108Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:46:00 +00002009-01-05T00:17:03.945-05:00charactersJarthenpediasupporting charactersVathorem is an elf in Jellihondor's north-bound battalion. He is a little older than most of the other elves in the group, and is closest in age to Rethnaki. Vathorem is firmly committed to the ideals of the Rebel Army, but has begun to question whether he can best serve the Rebels' interests as a footsoldier in the army - in the last few battles he has (barely) lived through, Vathorem has http://jarthenpedia.blogspot.com/2008/11/vathorem.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee Alisandre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661586007540952599.post-5797645311585657199Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:15:00 +00002008-11-29T14:43:49.549-05:00charactersJarthenpediaminor charactersOertemis is one of the untimely casualties of the Border Wars, who fell in a battle with the nybbas of the Dark Lands. The red elf had not been part of the Rebels very long - 10 years st most - before being commissioned to join Jellihondor's party to travel northward.When Oertemis was extended this invitation, he was suprised and gleeful - tales of Jellihondor's bravery and fierceness had http://jarthenpedia.blogspot.com/2008/11/oertemis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee Alisandre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661586007540952599.post-3462522806215810464Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:05:00 +00002008-11-30T12:36:12.464-05:00charactersJarthenpediaminor charactersGorn and a young friendHephaestion Gorn, though now a fixture of the West Fethil garrison of the Imperial Army, has not always led a life of acceptance and ease. Gorn was born in the fronteir town of Fennilmar, in the province of Perejin to a stern, disapproving father, and his cowed wife. Although his mother loved Hephaestion and his four siblings a great deal, she was unable to defend them http://jarthenpedia.blogspot.com/2008/11/quartermaster-hephaestion-gorn.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Author)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661586007540952599.post-608373591426221560Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:05:00 +00002008-11-29T14:44:20.997-05:00faunafigures/flora/faunaJarthenpediaOf all the strange and menacing things in the Dark Lands, none is more feared than the nybbas - a species of psuedo-sentient bloodthirsty apes that feast on travelers. The creatures are quite large, standing at a muscular 4 1/2 feet tall on their back legs and covered in reddish-brown fur. They are strictly carnivores, and use their pointed, razor-sharp teeth and claws to rip their prey http://jarthenpedia.blogspot.com/2008/11/nybbas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee Alisandre)0