In the waning days of the Great Kingdom, folk who were faced with debts they could not pay or disagreements with the legal authorities that ...

Art by Keith Parkinson The barbarians swept out of the hills in a ravening horde, without warning, and stormed Venarium with such fury none ...

Tenh (the nh diagraph is pronounced as a voiced palatal nasal like the Spanish ñ ) as the heir to the proud culture of the Flannae. Its pe...

The area known as the Pale, as the name would suggest, once served as the border of Aerdy with the holdings of the Flan and the humanoid tri...

 In thinking about Greyhawk for my recent posts, I've been inspired by Anna Meyer's great maps. Particularly her climate map which h...

Ket sits astride a major route of commerce between the Oeridian East and the Baklunish West. Its people are a mixture of those cultures, tho...

Rel Astra is one of the major port cities of the Great Kingdom. It is an old city of the Aerdy, the original seat of the early Aerdian Churc...

The See of Medegia is a territory ostensibly within the Great Kingdom of Aerdy that is under direct sovereign rule of the Holy Censor of the...

by Anna Meyer The Iron League was a separatist alliance formed in 447 CY for mutual defense against the Great Kingdom. While the members mad...

My recent trip to Alaska brought to mind this old post from 2011... An arctic of only (melting) ice is sort of boring, don’t you think? At l...

Pohjal or in older texts Cinis Pohjal is a large island of volcanic origin within the Lake of Vermilion Mists. It is a desolate place of as...

Shreev Seg Molok (art by Jason Sholtis) Phaelorn Gap is a town near the Lake of Vermilion Mists along the Panarch's roadway heading eas...

The Thono Inn and Baths are a famed, but aging attraction near the Lake of Vermilion Mists , which offer "gas baths" of the pecu...

What follows is excerpted from the journal publications of the scholar Nura Glismod who was sent by one minster or another of Ascolanth (the...

Uranus figures prominently in the Captain Future story The Magician of Mars published in 1941 . Here are some details on Hamilton's ver...

The Heavenly Mountain, rises majestically and alone from a tranquil sea, which itself is separated from the astral only by a thick, silvery ...

The city of Gith is dead and fallen, save for the walled monastery. The looming ziggurat at its center can be seen from some distance across...

On shores of the Lake of Vermilion Mists nearly-naked, female divers inspect their haul of rare, ultramarine scintilla. Here and there their...

The original version of this post appeared in 2018. These settlements go in this world , but certainly could be placed elsewhere. Tuskin...

The original version of this post appeared in 2014...   An email from a friend  on every Russian's favorite holiday destination (not ...