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Posted by: Samloyal23 on Apr 10, 2012 at 05:06:28 AM

Where the mighty Kironan Empire had once stretched across thousands of miles and united a hundred kingdoms under one rule, bringing order and the rule of reason to teeming millions, what had been the greatest civilisation ever known, there is now a sea. The tips of mountains toppled in the Age of Cataclysm are now rocky islands that barely break the surface of the roiling waters. To the East is a scant shore where the waves lap against the Shoulders of Atlas, a vast range of mountains few have ever crossed and lived to tell the tale. Northward is the White Waste, an arctic land of savage trolls covered in glaciers. To the South, just past Flint Island, a long finger of rock frequently flooded by the tides, is the Boiling Sea, where the wounds of Gaia still fester, a region of ash and lava

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Posted by: Samloyal23 on Apr 9, 2012 at 07:00:29 PM

This is the start of my new campaign's background material. You can find more of my notes on Enworld and Wordpress. I'll add more here in time... 
 
The centaur tribes of the central plains were late in becoming civilised and forming a nation, but once the great chieftain Kiron, said to the son of Zeus, found his capital and began building a standing army out of the disparate tribes of his savage race it did not take long for the nomadic warriors to start settling into more permanent communities. Over the course of several centuries, the city of Kironos became a kingdom, then an empire, conquering neighbouring powers from mysterious Thosia in the East, to green and fair Albion in the West.

Tying city after city together with roads and fortresses, the Kironans united

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