Places, Locales and Features of Benfreyim (Riverdan)

Posted on April 8, 2025 in Steel-Realms

The Places, Locales and Features of Benfreyim cover the notable territorial and geographical areas of the Riverdan.

Common Experience

Characters coming of age in/from this locale will shape their perspective to the primary experience of Cultural Experience of the Riverdans.

Tunblin Hamlet (ruins)

Posted on March 28, 2025 in Steel-Realms

Tunblin Hamlet is part of the abandoned area of The Maithen Plateau. This settlement on the plateau when it was active, had a population in three small connected settlements of about 500.

The north fork of the High Mathien Road runs from Angan Rock, through Treste, and on to the Watch Vault of Kunlay and finally to Tunnlin Hamlet.

Encounters: It has the encounters common to all Places on the Maithean Plateau.

History: Riverdans (History of Dovender Valley and The Dog Fort)

Treste Village (ruins)

Posted on March 28, 2025 in Steel-Realms

Treste Village is part of the abandoned area of The Maithen Plateau. This settlement on the plateau when it was active, had a population in three small connected settlements of about 400.

The north fork of the High Mathien Road runs from Angan Rock, through Treste, and on to the Watch Vault of Kunlay, Blaekpit Mine and finally to Tunnlin Hamlet.

Encounters: It has the encounters common to all Places on the Maithean Plateau.

History: Riverdans (History of Dovender Valley and The Dog Fort)

World Watcher Edifice

Posted on March 24, 2025 in Steel-Realms

A common part of many locales is a World Watcher Edifice; These are empowered to serve the World Watchers – and those of the High King especially. It is a tablet of stone that is mined in the Tolkisson Mountains (The Steel Realms’ Spine), engraved in the Hall of Heroes, at the direction of the Sisterhood of Dohar Jaideen in order to provide an potent tool that is evidence for and supports the power of the High King of the Steel Realms. A World Watcher Edifice is almost always present as part of every Standard Reliquary of the Steel Realms. It is common practice for Sworn World Oath to be made on a World Watcher Edifice.

The powers of the edifices cannot be used except by those bound by the sworn oath of the Way of the Watchers.

World Watcher Edifice Placement

By Policy

• Standard Divine Reliquary of the Steel Realms
• Standard Occult Reliquary of the Steel Realms
• Duty Stations for the High King’s Army
• Knightly Orders of the Steel Realms
• Pacification Garrisons (for High King’s Army)
• Picket Keeps of the Heartlands
• Watch Vaults of the Underlands

Physical Locations

• Beryl, Free City (“Soul of the Borderlands”)
• Church of Meri
• Dunstrand City of County Dunstrand
• Heroes Hall – Reliquary of the High King
• High Temple of Ikribu (“The Dawn Forge”)
• Library of Gaoliath
• Mev Na-Innis (‘Sedadlo’; formal capital of Bar-Innis)
• North Gate Garrison
• Southgate Garrison
• Staghelm (capital city of the Barony of Matchalk)
• The Ruins of the Watch Vault of Kunlay
• Womac Tower

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Edifice Powers

Proximity: World Watchers can sense the presence of the edifices within 100m.

Illumination: A World Watcher may cause the edifice to shed light in 30′ radius for a minute when they are within 30′, requiring no concentration.

Accounting: Every oath/sworn word invoked upon a particular edifice can be reviewed and heard by a World Watcher. They may cause the words, in the owners’ voice, to be heard aloud for all. World Watchers “check in” at these, touching them and uttering their name as they enter and leave the locales they are bound to. Other World Watchers can recall these as well, including the number of sunrises in the past they occurred.

Watchers Bulwark: The World Watchers can draw upon their power to enhance their powers.

• i20™
• iCore™

Way of the Watchers

Posted on March 24, 2025 in Steel-Realms

The Way of the Watchers is the simple charter of every World Watcher that enabled them to tap into the power of the World Watcher Edifices.

The World Watcher Edifice are a stone tablet, engraved with the “binding words of High King’s ever-vigilant watchers”.

I stand vigilant, a light in the dark, guiding the way forward. My path is the High King’s path; My senses stand open, so that I may gather the knowledge and perspective that will safeguard the Lands of Light. In these I sow the seeds of a more just and verdant future, and victory under the banner of the High King and Arlaign’s Charter.