Tag: duc-weathering
Ten Hands Blade
Posted on April 2, 2026 in Steel-Realms
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]
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Rumors About the Locale
Common Knowledge / Easy Difficulty
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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™ 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.
The Perennial Plinth of Ten Stacks
Posted on September 22, 2025
The Perennial Plinth of Ten Stacks is a raised stone base that each year is used as a site where Ducateon merchants come once during the fall and set up shop to sell goods from their enclaves in the north and specifically to trade with elven traders nearby in Ten Stacks.
Open for Business: Once a year, a large opening appears on the top of the plinth. The Ducateon live in the chamber(s?) below for the duration of their stayu and set up a merchant shop atop it.
Chronicle of the Locale/Operation
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CY 8600 approx = first time merchants showed up.
The “plinth” is closed for the rest of the year it is sealed up. No one has ever gotten in and the few glimpses documented have indicated it is nothing more than a single large living chamber. They arrive at night and depart at night. They sell some mundane goods but also sell Ducateon Weathering armaments. This later material is a tradition that is hundreds of years old at this point.
Common Knowledge / Easy Difficulty
Although just a trading post, the plinth grounds are treated as if it were an embassy of sorts for the Ducateon. In times past, it has been used to issue some communications from.
The specifics of the annual trade between elves of the Haivelaugh Weald and Ducateon that come to the The Perennial Plinth of Ten Stacks is kept between them. Nothing untoward has ever seen to come of it, but the primary business that happens there every year has remained a secret for a thousand years.
Uncommon Knowledge / Average Difficulty
For 100 years, the Ducateon have tried to sell the Ten Hands Blade at the Perennial Plinth of Ten Stacks – it was become local legend that it always ends up back with the Ducateon. Now it is a local legend.
Scarce Knowledge / Hard Difficulty
For the last 100 years, the Ducateon put forth the Ten Hands Blade, and thus far it has not sold or been returned to them (apparently).
Rare Knowledge / Very Hard Difficulty
The elves trade with the Ducateon at The Perennial Plinth of Ten Stacks for maintenance of resonance stones that help to guard and alert the Three Blades of Ceith Grebatain against undead, Orrish, and supernatural creatures. These are unexpected by those thinking the elves defend their lands using their traditional mystic means of detection.
Mizras Temple of the Bone Breakers (Rhyl)
Posted on June 9, 2025
Mizras Temple of the Bone Breakers is here at the start of The Red March, in the City of Redmark.
Heroic Weapons: The temple purchases Ducateon Weathering armaments for their followers and adherents to purchase on their journey or perhaps even as a reward for heroic deeds in the north. Duxamet can be purchased here for triggering the effects – at a discount to followers of course.
Forge Wax: The warmth of the forges of the Mizras Temple of the Bone Breakers and Redbrand Armory of Redmark supply year round warmth and inspiration for the Forgewax Apiary of Mizras maintained by clergy of Mizras; It is made for the special Redbrand Doublet. Additionally, the Mizras Temple of the Bone Breakers produces more Forge Sweat than any other place in the realms for the defense of North Gate Garrison.
Chronicle of the Locale
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Common Knowledge / Easy Difficulty
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Scarce Knowledge / Hard Difficulty
It is said Sir General Hadmiren‘s bones are buried in the blessed soil of his homeland of Rhyl at Home Garden at North Gate Garrison – an honor afforded a rare few in thousands of years.
Rare Knowledge / Very Hard Difficulty
One of the minor Orbs of War was drained into the apiary of the bees which create Forge Wax. It is whispered that there is a special Redbrand Doublet made ONLY for special followers of Mizras.
Cragteeth Holt (of the Ducateon)
Posted on April 23, 2024 in Steel-Realms
Cragteeth Holt is one of the major settlements of the Ducateon of the Steel Realms. Access to it is overland to the Outholt or through a small port in Drakange Bay. It follows standards of design and layout of the normal Ducateon Settlements of the Steel Realms.
Rockholm/Rockholme, Ducateon Kingdom
Posted on July 1, 2021
Located along the Tolkisson Mountain Range. The physical location in the heart of the mountain range is now referred to as The Barren Halls – the Ducateon abandoned all old settlements. The kingdom of Rockholm grew in the mountains, overlooking the Greyfoam Sea – The first King Dalmagen (The Unbroken Claw) swore that as long as the river flows, so too will their clan descendants sow their seed. For thousands of years or more, the Ducateon reaped great benefits and ignored the power confounding their seeking of the source. The Great Hall of the Collective was near the point at which Anumha Falls poured into the Greyfoam Sea from an underground source within the Tolkisson mountain range. After the cataclysmic Befoulment of the Gloaming in CY 5656, the settlements carved into the cliffs around the drained inland sea were christened Rockholme. Almost all trade with the southern heartlands flow through the merchant city of Pomata.
When the east fell, the headwaters of the falls – the heart of Rockholm – became the scene of centuries of constant bloody battles between the Orrish and Ducateon, with a small contingent of Dwarven allies.
About/Chronicle
Common Knowledge / Easy Difficulty
Most Recent History
Commonly Understood Origins
The original settlements of the Ducateon
Commonly Understood Development
The presence of the Ducateons is now known to pre-date the arrival of The Blood of Saemon, though how it became settled and grew is still a mystery to those outside The Collective.
General knowledge…
- Key Places: Tolkisson Range (known to the Ducateon has Copper-Dwelt), Anumha Falls, Dalmagens Spire, Copragon Holt, Boulder Bane Holt, Shadowroad Holt, Cold Thunder Holt
- Key Entities: Dalmagen “The Unbroken Claw”
- Key Concepts: Original Ducateon home in the Steel Realms.
CY 8477 The Battle of Three Deep: The Ducateon and their allies fought off wave after wave of Nurth who were attempting to gain entrance to their dragon ally’s lair of Deep Nest under the Tolkisson range.
CY 5656 Befoulment of the Gloaming: The old kingdom of the Ducateon was sundered and the ancient inland sea drained. The Ducateon made new settlements and christened the new kingdom as Rockholme in the walls of the basin and its floor, mining incredibly rich deposits of minerals.
CY 2361 Founding of Gladnor: The Ducateon agree to the pact of The High Kings’s Sanctuary and mutual defense. The Ducateon agree to supply quality weapons and armor for elite forces, and a levy to defend where needed.
CY CY 2332-2357 Battles of the Forge: For years the Orrish try and push through Bloodhook Pass and over the Tolkisson range – men and Ducateon stop them time and again with aid from the Grollen – the faerie races are in decline and have little representation on the lines of battle.
CY 2317 The Warriors Wall: – A string of forts of men and out-holts of Ducateon are built in the Tolkisson Mountains. In the passes east of the Fhayln Marches.
CY 591-1421 Leading the Second Fellowship: The Ducateon lead the Second Fellowship. Some Fallen lands in the east are re-captured. War rages in the north and between the lands of Al Drunar and Orishai. There is a concerted drive to wipe the Orrish and their allies out. The Orrish breed as fast as they can be eliminated. In CY 1418 The Sun-Bane is enacted is enacted. The Ducateon transfer power as the Second Fellowship ends a couple years later.
CY 344-591 The Interloper casts its Shadow: The Orrish begin to cross the Belnok Mountains in the north and reclaim their lost lands, sacking the every Ducateon Holts on their way.
CY 8; The Ducateon claim to try and find homes in the Tolkisson Range (as humans call it). In fact, they return to their own Holts warily, not trusting any of the other races but afraid of the endless host the Unholy Trio can field and the Collective concedes it is better to maintain friendly and helpful relations.
CY 6 Battle of Helca’s Children: The gods of darkness walked the land in physical form, casting down the sun and turning all to ash in their crusade. Their followers continued to pour through the gateway, killing everything in their path. When all seemed lost, the Green Host finally arrived to aid the Blood of Saemon. Faerie, Ducateon, and Human races united under the banner of their new adopted home to save it from destruction. It is at this time the Ducateon make themselves known to the Blood of Saemon. They claim to have been swept up in some planar disturbance, and ended up on Helca.
Uncommon Knowledge / Average Difficulty
CY 2528; The Ducateon make peace with the dragon house Maphazel; the dragons prowl the Gurtan Tunnel-Ways and the Ducateon attack the Orrish host from behind in a coordinated attack with men, giant, elf, and grollen – driving them back across the mountains.
CY 3516 – 3947 Troll Wars: The Orrish allies organize a concerted attack upon only Ducateon defenses. Trolls devastate Ducateon forces in the darkness of deep earth no other species can help. The Giants of the west band together – for they can see heat in the darkness and have the strength and size to follow the trolls into their tunnels and into the under-dark. Many a clan of giants is driven to extinction through the constant ultra violent and aggressive warfare.
Rare Knowledge / Very Hard Difficulty
CY 3949 Giants retreat: All giants retreat to the far north, north of Dundaria, They swear eternal hatred to the Ducateon – whom they blame for their near-extinction. They withdraw from the bonds of the High King’s Sanctuary and declare the wintery far north to be theirs – enter on pain of death.
CY 3947; The Ducateon bargain with a sibling of the dragon house and end the war – the dragon cleansing their homes and rooting out the trolls – the blood line of trolls is nearly wiped out.
CY 2931 The One Kingdom Reign: The insanity of the usurper king of Dundaria reigned for 60 years over 5 kings. Umbak held out against him, allying herself with the exiled forces of Gladnor, the faeries of the north and even the Ducateon, for his Shadow Spawn had infiltrated several holts, poisoning the colonies and warping their dead spirits.
Obscure Knowledge / Near-Impossible Difficulty
CY 7900 The Dead Storm: The Chaos Storm hits Umbakian Peninsula and all the way up the river. New Rockholme floods and tens of thousands of Ducateon are killed.
CY 1277: Low Gurtan tunnel cut by the Ducateon in the south Tolkisson Mountains. The initial vein of copper is uncovered while mining, leading to Deep Nest and eventually an alliance with House Maphazel in CY 2528.
CY 935: Mid Gurtan tunnel cut by the Ducateon in the heartland Tolkisson Mountains.
CY 645: High Gurtan tunnel cut by the Ducateon in the north Tolkisson Mountains. This will be used by Ducateon and other races later to launch attacks to the east. It is the only tunnel which will be known by the other races.