Topic: Shadow World: The Land of Xa-ar now available!

[NicholasHMCaldwell]

Guild Companion Publications has released its first full-scale setting module for Shadow World.

Terry Amthor makes a triumphant return to the Shadow World in this all-new region module for The Land of Xa-ar and Northern Saralis on the continent of Jaiman.

"Jerrin is King in Haalkitaine, and while he claims to be Emperor of all Jaiman, he is far away to the east and the Phoenix Crown holds no real power here. Xa-ar and Saralis are fractured lands, trying to recover from the last occupation by the Lord of Ulor.

But powers ?both new and very ancient rising again? threaten the fragile peace over much of the region. Perhaps the greatest threat is an artifact from before recorded time, asleep but ready to be awakened?"

Xa-ar includes:

• A dozen new layouts including a vast constructed cavern complex, the tomb of Ugus Fost, and the Aalk Athimurl, home of another Arnak priesthood.
• New material about the Earthwardens, the Coral Roads, Jewel Wells, and all-new cults including the mysterious Order of the Elder, the Winter Light, and the elite fighters of the new Lord of Ulor.
• Detailed history of the region.
• Sixteen adventures, including three in the town of Rapata (introduced in Guild Adventurer #2), several more scattered across the region, and six in the isles west of Xa-ar, the Aargirpiri, once home to the Blue Dragon.
• New 3D renders, and beautiful color illustrations from William Tibaud
• Stats for both Rolemaster Classic and RMSS/FRP!

128 pages in all and a bonus 11-page volume of player handouts.

Price: 15 US dollars for PDF version, available from guild.ironcrown.com and our other ecommerce outlets.

Best wishes,
Nicholas

[Koraq]

Dead tree version?

[NicholasHMCaldwell]

Dead tree version?

Hopefully in due course but it requires a discussion with ICE about various practicalities.

Best wishes,
Nicholas

[markc]

Nice, new products to read and digest.

MDC

[Koraq]

I hope the practicalities will get sorted out soon. I only buy dead tree stuff.

[Terry K. Amthor]

A note about the PDF:

Some of you may not be aware that there is a 'bookmarks' tab in Acrobat, which will open a sidebar with links to every chapter that I created for easier navigation. Also I did include a couple of hyperlinks on the credits page. I'd like to hear any feedback on whether these are helpful, and if you'd like to see even more use of navigational aids and hyperlinks in the future.

'Dead Tree' editions are nice, but PDFs sure are great when searching for specific things. And more eco-friendly!  ;-)

TKA

[fac]

I always use the left sidebar, and links inside the text are fine if the printed text has same color and format than the rest.

Usually I use PDF to write the adventure and the book while I'm running the adventure (with lots of post-its  )

[Terry K. Amthor]

Thanks to all who have purchased Xa-ar so far, and special thanks to those who have posted a review. I encourage anyone else who purchased it to please take a moment to post a brief (or lengthy if you feel so inclined) review at the product page. I appreciate the feedback! Thanks!

Terry

[Witchking20k]

Great book.  I finally got to read my way through last weekend.  I love the tone of the updated material.

[Erik Sharma]

Have only skimmed through it, but so far it seems very good. Loads of interesting things and locations you should be able to loot even for a non SW campaign. Love to see more books like this with combined background material and the adventure suggestions.

Very Good so far is my rating.

[Terry K. Amthor]

There is an updated/corrected version of the Aalk Athimurl Upper Halls at

http://homepage.mac.com/terbob/FileSharing1.html

The file name is Aalk_athimurl_upr_updated1.pdf

[Michael Petrea]

On page 73:

On
the back two sides of the slab are two acorn indentations matching the Mah-ilari amulets.

On page 47:

The Twelve Amulets: They are of a bluish silver alloy of white eog, three inches in diameter with a raised symbol
of a pinecone in the center.

This Sunday I kept reading acorn off of the adventure page though I had described the PC's amulet as a pinecone.  My players questioned me repeatedly as to whether is was a acorn or pinecone.   

Of course, it is supposed to be pinecone.

[orhy]

Hi, I recently bought this book and I liked it very much, but I have a couple of questions:

The Storm Wizard is a K’ta’viiri? so Aldaron and others, who were them? I thought that Storm Wizard and Aldaron´s people came from the same place, isn´t that true?

Thank you and I´ll be waiting for Emer III, Urulans book and "Powers of Light and Darkness of the East", hurry up Terry, we can´t wait!

Sorry for my poor english.

[Vince]

The Storm Wizard is a K’ta’viiri? so Aldaron and others, who were them? I thought that Storm Wizard and Aldaron´s people came from the same place, isn´t that true?

Try to read the Shadowstone Chronicles in eidolonstudio.com . You will find a lot of interest topics about SW. The chapter 25 gives a big description about Thule (The Strom Wizard) , and it is given by Andraax himself, so is pretty acurate 

[orhy]

Try to read the Shadowstone Chronicles in eidolonstudio.com . You will find a lot of interest topics about SW. The chapter 25 gives a big description about Thule (The Strom Wizard) , and it is given by Andraax himself, so is pretty acurate 

Gràcies Vince, but I have already read it and it doesn´t answer the question. Perhaps the Storm Wizard is an Althan but not a K’ta’viiri? because at Powers of Light and Darkness description of the Storm Wizard doesn´t contain any reference in it to K’ta’viiri´s usual powers.

The Storm Wizard intrigues me...

[Witchking20k]

Storm Wizard is Athlan if I remember correctly.  He and his servants are a remnant of an ancient empire from Haestra that were powerful after the lords of emer I believe

[egdcltd]

Apparently the Storm Wizard is neither K'ta'viir nor Althan. From Powers:

In fact, the Storm Wizard is not of the same race as Aldaron, but is one of a small group called Elder Ones, a group of Immortals who have been on Kulthea since the First Era and are linked to the Earthwardens.

I don't recall any other mention of the Elder Ones anywhere. That's certainly the only mention in Powers.

[vroomfogle]

I'm pretty certain that there was an earlier reference, somewhere, to the Storm Wizard being an Althan...however, that was superseded by the mention of him being an Older One in 'Powers'

[Vince]

In that chapter it seems clear to me, that they are a different race , an Elder One. There are a lot of races that comes from the genetical experiment made from Althans, this is another one.

The Storm Wizard tried to balance the world helping Aldaron and his people(who seems to come from another planet), and that worked for a time.

About descriptions in other books, i remember something about the storm wizards and his Heralds. But it seems that has changed completely, so this is what we got now as "canon". It seems clear and right to me...

[orhy]

At "The Land of Xa-ar" book:

The Earthwardens were, in fact, a small cult of the K’ta’viiri.
...
...
...
Some like to refer to themselves as ‘The Elders.’ One is the Storm Wizard; he was always the most talented at creating magical golems.

So, my logic: Storm Wizard->Elder->Earthwarden->K’ta’viiri

But, I´ve read the 25th chapter (I thought you were saying the 28th chapter -interview between Thule, Andraax and Voriig- and because of it I told you I´ve already read it) and you are right, the answer is there. Thank you.