Note: Read the Brief Overview of the Shards before perusing these.
1. Overview of Shard Life
a. Coinage
i. Dangers of using Xauphinellean Imperials or Velsephayan Crowns in certain countries
b. Transport
i. Skyships
ii. Skysteeds
iii.
Teleportation and its dangers
1. The Great Maelstrom
c. Languages
i. Shoal Common
ii. Tradespeak (Merren)
iii. High Fioran
iv. Ćlven
v. Tleyan
vi. Shadowtongue
vii. Ozaani
viii. The Templar Languages
1. Auran – The White Tongue
2. Ignan – The Red Tongue
3. Aquan – The Blue Tongue
4. Terran – The Grey Tongue
5. Celestial – the Golden Tongue
ix. Giant
x. Goblin
xi. Abyssal
xii. Infernal
xiii. Sylvan
xiv. Draconic
a. The Matriarch
b. The Grand Tabernacle of the Pentatra
c. The Ozaan Desert and Pilgrimage
i. Desert Monasteries
d. The importance of trade between the Circle Sea, Xauphinelle, and Ozaan
e. The Desert folk, driven out of the oases by the Pentatra and settlers
3. The Empire of Xauphinelle, Homeland of Ćlvenkind
a. The Ghost Cities and the Kinstrife Curse
b. Barrioch, former Imperial Conquest
4. The Free Cities of the Circle Sea, Ports of Adventure
5. The Confederacy of the Shoal Kingdoms, Thinly Veiled Anarchy
a. Shoals of Note
b. Havens of Piracy
6. The Kingdom of Velsephay, Land of New Hope and Bitter Hearts
a. The New Dawn
b. The Avenging Brotherhood
i. The Arcanopath Monks
7. Tleyzu, Dark Realm of Blood and Witchery
a. The Witch-Queens
b. The Slave pits
c. The Jungles of Tleyzu
d. The Dark Secret of Tleyzu’s survival
a. The Seven Houses:
i. House Sparstag
ii. House Heldrake, the drakken house
iii. House Iceheart
1. The merren ice barbarians
iv. House Caerdamon
v. House Gwyren
vi. House Trueblood
vii. House Wyrrding and the Wyrrdinmen
1. The taint of magic?
2. the Wyrd and sorcerous magic
b. The Brotherhood of the Dragon
i. The Serpent’s Tooth and the Monastery of the Dragon’s Heart
c. The Shield Wall
i. The Brotherhood of the Shield
ii. The Honorable Brotherhood of the Shroud
d. The Barrowlands
i. Sidebar: Who were the first settlers of Fioré?
9. The Underlands, Doorstep of Evil
10. The Forbidden Lands, Beyond the God’s Touch
11. The Beneath
12. Drakken Shards
13. Dwarf-Holds
a. Yath, Lost to the Tleyans
b. Karheima
c. Hyllum
d. Damoghast
e. Gneissen