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Honeystone Kennels (Ten Stacks)

Posted on April 2, 2026 in Steel-Realms

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The famous Honeystone Kennels of Ten Stacks in county Dunaine of the Grand Duchy of Rhyl breed top notch ‘witch-smeller’ – dogs known as The Foothounds. These dogs are all for World Watchers, though a few are sold to noble houses each year. The Kennels do all the early training and facilitate the bonding.

Chronicle/Facts of the Agency

Dog Powers (common and Attuned) can be found under Common Knowledge tab.

Knowledge is broken down by ease of discovery/availability & Meticulous Record Keeping may improve usability; Any attempt to know more than what's Pervasive will require a reference, source, knowledge, check, or access to someone who can get or provide either of these. Specific Lores may increase the chance of knowing specific elements.

Pervasive Knowledge / Very Easy Difficulty

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For those native to or long-dwelling in the region, ALL Common Knowledge may be Pervasive.

Rumors About the Agency

Common Knowledge / Easy Difficulty

For those native to or long-dwelling in the region, ALL Common Knowledge may be Pervasive.

i20™ Foothound Details

creates a bonded pair loyalty and bond; Attunement = 1 Essence; Trained to be at the feet and work with the bonded pair’s movement and create a distraction without risking their lives. Against 1 target within 10′:

  • +1 initiative
  • -1 to be Attacked
  • Once during a combat 1 use Resilience if bond has Animal Handling (base 4)

Persistent Effects

  • Sense when the other is hurt within 120′
  • Detect (smell) Hags 120′
  • Detect (smell) Magic 30′ 3/day

iCore iCore™ Foothound Details

Uncommon Knowledge / Average Difficulty

The Kennels were founded in CY 8950.

Rare Knowledge / Very Hard Difficulty

The Foothound Origins: The head dog from the breeding program of Blacknail the Hag gets sold and eventually a descendant gets to be part of the Har Cunetha Pack that patrol the areas on the edge of The Valley of Sighs and the strange things that come from the shattered walls between the worlds. Honeystone Kennels started off as a way to handle the excess hounds.

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Realm's Aptitude Powers: Divine, Occult, and Psychic

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House of Childsend (Klyben; Midwives Order)

Posted on April 2, 2026 in Steel-Realms

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The House of Childsend is a midwife order in the City of Klyben, a guild for all consideration. It was chartered in response to the the events around Blacknail the Hag around CY CY 8950.

Chronicle/Facts of [Thing]

Item Powers (common and Attuned) can be found under Common Knowledge tab.

Knowledge is broken down by ease of discovery/availability & Meticulous Record Keeping may improve usability; Any attempt to know more than what's Pervasive will require a reference, source, knowledge, check, or access to someone who can get or provide either of these. Specific Lores may increase the chance of knowing specific elements.

Pervasive Knowledge / Very Easy Difficulty

Information Sources: Mundane Reference | Associated Phenomenology Only | Specific Lore

For those native to or long-dwelling in the region, ALL Common Knowledge may be Pervasive.

Rumors About the Locale

Common Knowledge / Easy Difficulty

For those native to or long-dwelling in the region, ALL Common Knowledge may be Pervasive.

Uncommon Knowledge / Average Difficulty

There is a short period of illness (Abersand’s Sickness) in newborns in Rhyl and The Wyldes, but the midwives of the north rally to stamp it out within a few years. The newly chartered House of Childsend combines Aerna and Ezrilus midwives to gain a chapter house in City of Klyben in CY 8953 (with Tea House sponsorship – first act in the Tea House Revival), protecting their knowledge, services and rights.

Rare Knowledge / Very Hard Difficulty

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DO NOT READ BEYOND THIS POINT unless a character has the capability to gain such knowledge [through association, organization, or relation] if they do not possess it themselves or the reader intends to participate in scenarios using this material as a PLAYER! GM Narration will typically provide relevant information by check or story.

Realm's Aptitude Powers: Divine, Occult, and Psychic

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Ten Hands Blade

Posted on April 2, 2026 in Steel-Realms

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The Ten Hands Blade is named so because its real name is forgotten. The blade has been held by a set of ten hands (10 owners) and not brought fortune to any of them. For 100 years, the Ducateon have tried to sell the Ten Hands Blade at the Perennial Plinth of Ten Stacks – it has become local legend that it always ends up back with the Ducateon. Now it is a local legend.

Chronicle/Facts of [Thing]

Item Powers (common and Attuned) can be found under Common Knowledge tab.

Knowledge is broken down by ease of discovery/availability & Meticulous Record Keeping may improve usability; Any attempt to know more than what's Pervasive will require a reference, source, knowledge, check, or access to someone who can get or provide either of these. Specific Lores may increase the chance of knowing specific elements.

Pervasive Knowledge / Very Easy Difficulty

Information Sources: Mundane Reference | Associated Phenomenology Only | Specific Lore

For those native to or long-dwelling in the region, ALL Common Knowledge may be Pervasive.

Rumors About the Locale

Common Knowledge / Easy Difficulty

For those native to or long-dwelling in the region, ALL Common Knowledge may be Pervasive.

Item Purpose:

Lesser Attunement (1 Essence total )

i20™ Item Details

Weathering. +1 damage. -2 init. Pommel with oil, pull sparker bonus action and reaction. +1 resilience. Long sword.

iCore iCore™ Item Details

Estimated Value: ? (Silver Crowns)

Item Source: i20™ OR iCore™ #YYYY

Destroying the Item: As an item with inherent mystic nature, it is deeply bound to The Pattern – mere mundane efforts cannot destroy it. It must be melted, disintegrated, or shattered – not merely made Useless.

Rare Knowledge / Very Hard Difficulty

The real name of the sword is “Rundlemans Fury” – A known sword belonging to the Merchant City Rundleman family.. It has been stripped of nearly all identifying signs. The family picked it from the battlefield in the War of Rundleman’s Revenge and sold to the Ducateon in secret so that it would not be known that the Rundleman family worked against the peace of the grand duchy of rhyl. The city of Ten Stacks is where the Ducateon will try and sell it. They gave a ‘mysterious’ history to obscure its real origins. It has become a fixture there for almost a century.

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Realm's Aptitude Powers: Divine, Occult, and Psychic

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Southdrop Tower (Rhyl)

Posted on April 2, 2026 in Steel-Realms

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Southdrop Tower was built as a result of the War of Rundleman’s Revenge in CY 9041. It watches from the top of a valley that faces south, going down to the Beyne River a half mile away. Using this dip, it has a perfect view of almost all traffic on the mighty river. It has a commanding view to the west as well. The primary job of this tower is to light a beacon fire if any enemy forces are seen on the river or on the land. There is a small grain mill and some small farmsteads that surround it.

Rulership/Governance: {Integrity ***} “Southdrop Commander” – a Lt. position

  • Recognized Administrative Center/Seat of Power: The tower proper
  • Primary Settlement Upbringing Experience: Rural

Population: Approx. 120 in the surrounding area of human farmers; the garrison proper has at least 12 soldiers full time but can garrison 3x that.

Rhyl Culture | Territories & Fiefs | Features | North Gate Garrison | Map

Defining Ideal: The Grand Duchy of Rhyl has been "The Shield of the North" in the wars of The Noble East vs. The Broken Lands for thousands of years as well as stradling the crossroads of many powers and maintaining a tense peace. The Chronicle of Rhyl shows it first as many fiefdoms of 'The Lands of Rhylan' (CY 5500's), then a united kingdom (CY 5980), then as a duchy of the High Kings' kingdom of Gladnor (CY 6514). All citizens in the north take the pledge of Rhylan the Living.

Culture: Rhylian ( 'rill', 'rillian') locales have locally flavored experiences, but unless noted, follow general Territories and Fiefdoms properties and all have shared culture - languages used, Character Experience, institutions, Law, etc; Most Settlements includes the basic experience of Characters of the Steel Realms.

Encounters & Dangers in the Area

See Encounters in the Grand Duchy of Rhyl for common potential scenarios of notable events and creatures.

Chronicle/Facts of the Locale

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Pervasive Knowledge / Very Easy Difficulty

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For those native to or long-dwelling in the region, ALL Common Knowledge may be Pervasive.

Southdrop Tower was built as a result of the War of Rundleman’s Revenge in CY 9041. It watches from the top of a valley that faces south, going down to the Beyne River a half mile away. Using this dip, it has a perfect view of almost all traffic on the mighty river. It has a commanding view to the west as well. The primary job of this tower is to light a beacon fire if any enemy forces are seen on the river or on the land.

The tower is 30′ tall with 2 levels in that. A wooden scaffold goes up another 30′ like a crows nest. Given that its built on a 20 rise, it gives the tower a total of 80′.

Rumors About the Locale
  1. The beacon fires are magical.

See the Herald's Quarterly for world updates.

Rhyl Formative Events

CY 7007 The area of North Gate Garrison freed & The Red March created; Money, supplies, armaments, and manpower flow into the north to fight the Lich Lords.

CY 6514 The Grand Duchy of Rhyl is created by the High King. In exchange for the resources and organization that can be brought to bear against the now organized undead armies, the lands become part of the High King's domain.

CY 5980 The Kingdoms of old Rhylan united settled as a single Kingdom of Rhyl to fight the Lich Lords drive south. After centuries of warfare between territories and races, the common cause of the threat to the north secures a lasting peace.

CY 5580 Fall of Dundaria in the North - Frostfang spreads, the Lich Lord power rises. Hordes of the undead, fortunately disorganized (at first), sweep south and west from the heart of old Dundaria.

CY 2330's Fall of East / Rise of the Dark Lands (Orrishai Abandoned); Refugees flee - some cross the Tolkisson Mountain Range into the 'Lands of Rhylan' that would become the Kingdoms of old Rhylan and finally.

CY 1000 (Approximately) The Dragon of Rhyl is killed and its influence ends in the area around the Great Forest of Rhyl and the surrounding territories.

Common Knowledge / Easy Difficulty

For those native to or long-dwelling in the region, ALL Common Knowledge may be Pervasive.

The beacon fires are blue for river forces, red for land. These are manned every hour of every day. The tower has devices with optics to be able to see far.

There is a underground level for storage. The tower hosts a few out buildings, chickens and goats and a few steer help to feed the inhabitants.

The tower can support a half dozen soldiers of the Ducal Guard. Double that in times of war.

Uncommon Knowledge / Average Difficulty

It was built on a spot where the Dragon of Rhyl once had a watch tower and had been smashed to rubble thousands of years ago.

Scarce Knowledge / Hard Difficulty

North Revealed CAMPAIGN CHRONICLE >> The North Revealed is a Living World campaign set in The Northern Hearthlands/Grand Duchy of Rhyl of the [Fantasy] Steel Realms.
** The source of the following material is from this campaign. **

The tower goes 40 feet into the soil and rock. There was a complex under the dragon’s tower that had collapsed. It was not explored or dredged, but the rubble was used as an extra layer against sappers. It was in this that the old creek that vanishes into the ground a half mile away was found. It drains into the river, but all underground. This was re-used to provide a water source for the tower.

Rare Knowledge / Very Hard Difficulty

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Tea Lodge of Saltmarch

Posted on March 31, 2026 in Steel-Realms

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The Tea Lodge of Saltmarch is part of the Tea Lodges of Rhyl tradition that has existed for thousands of years. This lodge was built in CY 9129 as a direct result of the activities that lead to Tea House Revival.

Rhyl Culture | Territories & Fiefs | Features | North Gate Garrison | Map

Defining Ideal: The Grand Duchy of Rhyl has been "The Shield of the North" in the wars of The Noble East vs. The Broken Lands for thousands of years as well as stradling the crossroads of many powers and maintaining a tense peace. The Chronicle of Rhyl shows it first as many fiefdoms of 'The Lands of Rhylan' (CY 5500's), then a united kingdom (CY 5980), then as a duchy of the High Kings' kingdom of Gladnor (CY 6514). All citizens in the north take the pledge of Rhylan the Living.

Culture: Rhylian ( 'rill', 'rillian') locales have locally flavored experiences, but unless noted, follow general Territories and Fiefdoms properties and all have shared culture - languages used, Character Experience, institutions, Law, etc; Most Settlements includes the basic experience of Characters of the Steel Realms.

Chronicle/Facts of the Locale

Knowledge is broken down by ease of discovery/availability & Meticulous Record Keeping may improve usability; Any attempt to know more than what's Pervasive will require a reference, source, knowledge, check, or access to someone who can get or provide either of these. Specific Lores may increase the chance of knowing specific elements.

Pervasive Knowledge / Very Easy Difficulty

Information Sources: Mundane Reference | Associated Phenomenology Only | Specific Lore

For those native to or long-dwelling in the region, ALL Common Knowledge may be Pervasive.

The Tea Lodge of Saltmarch is part of the Tea Lodges of Rhyl tradition that has existed for thousands of years. This lodge was built in CY 9129 as a direct result of the activities that lead to Tea House Revival.

Rumors About the Locale
  1. Rumors say this is a hub of smuggling for the Tea House Lodges in Rhyl.

See the Herald's Quarterly for world updates.

Rhyl Formative Events

CY 7007 The area of North Gate Garrison freed & The Red March created; Money, supplies, armaments, and manpower flow into the north to fight the Lich Lords.

CY 6514 The Grand Duchy of Rhyl is created by the High King. In exchange for the resources and organization that can be brought to bear against the now organized undead armies, the lands become part of the High King's domain.

CY 5980 The Kingdoms of old Rhylan united settled as a single Kingdom of Rhyl to fight the Lich Lords drive south. After centuries of warfare between territories and races, the common cause of the threat to the north secures a lasting peace.

CY 5580 Fall of Dundaria in the North - Frostfang spreads, the Lich Lord power rises. Hordes of the undead, fortunately disorganized (at first), sweep south and west from the heart of old Dundaria.

CY 2330's Fall of East / Rise of the Dark Lands (Orrishai Abandoned); Refugees flee - some cross the Tolkisson Mountain Range into the 'Lands of Rhylan' that would become the Kingdoms of old Rhylan and finally.

CY 1000 (Approximately) The Dragon of Rhyl is killed and its influence ends in the area around the Great Forest of Rhyl and the surrounding territories.

Common Knowledge / Easy Difficulty

For those native to or long-dwelling in the region, ALL Common Knowledge may be Pervasive.

The tea lodge tradition here oversees the only operation of actual vessels by the lodge houses on Lake Caolite.

Rare Knowledge / Very Hard Difficulty

Warning
Obscure/Hidden Knowledge is not generally available in known references; It is not necessarily Forbidden.
DO NOT READ BEYOND THIS POINT unless a character has the capability to gain such knowledge [through association, organization, or relation] if they do not possess it themselves or the reader intends to participate in scenarios using this material as a PLAYER! GM Narration will typically provide relevant information by check or story.

Realm's Aptitude Powers: Divine, Occult, and Psychic

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