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Botanical Studies Campus (Rhyl)
Posted on September 26, 2025
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North District of Klyben (Rhyl)
Posted on September 24, 2025 in Steel-Realms
The North District of Klyben is one of the two districts (separated by Killean’s Stream) of the trade City of Klyben in the Principality of Rhylan of Rhyl. The north is warehouses and services for trade as well as gardens, small farmsteads, and foodstuffs.
Cultural Overview & References for the Grand Duchy of Rhyl
Resource Accord with Rhyl: The active version of the Rhylan Weald Accordance that govern resource management is carved upon a preserved tree stump in the City of Klyben in the North District of Klyben for all traders to be able to reference. Per this accord the elves post signs using bright yellow ribbons (from Ten Stacks) to mark their Weald Boundaries.
Occult Order Presence in Klyben
This locale has a Chapter House of the Narcosan Order of Necromancers in Saltmarch. This does not normally operate as open to the public, but is a refuge for members of the order.
Competing Occultists: The competing occultist specialty shops operate out of separate districts to ensure there is no clash. The Ten Box Chemists (Rhylander Green Conjurists) in the South District of Klyben and Quizman’s of Klyben out of the North District of Klyben. The Gangs of Klyben stay away from both.
Mulen Stables
The famous Klyben Mules are sold here.
Encounters & Dangers in the Area
See Encounters in the Grand Duchy of Rhyl for common potential scenarios of notable events and creatures.
- Normal Settlement Encounters > Patrols | Recruiting | Sellers | Begging | Crime
- The Alley Jammers gang operates in the North District of Klyben.
Willfordshire (Montwold Pass Protectorate)
Posted on September 23, 2025 in Steel-Realms
Willfordshire is sometimes considered part of North Pines Forest and of the Montwold Pass Protectorate – a home of the halflings. While there is no capital of the protectorate, Willfordshire serves as a gathering place – especially when meeting with outsiders is necessary.
Rulership/Governance: Halfling Leadership has no centralized government or formal “fiefs” and does not use peerage titles. When they need to, they send a hetman or mayor to any gatherings that affect all in the community. Humans live among the Halflings, but positions of leadership are all of the small-folk. This makes diplomatic relations difficult at best, and thankfully their good nature offsets the confusion and disorganization.
> Administrative Center (“Capital”): While there is no capital, Willfordshire serves as a gathering place – especially when meeting with outsiders is necessary.
Population: Halflings > Note: There is no official census provided.
Its primary facilities are located on the west side of a fording of the _ River, though the East side is much smaller and a bit off limits to outsiders and for locals only.
The Cobalt Dust Trade Pipeline: Cobalt Pollen Harvest is done by the Halfling of Montwold Pass Protectorate and sold in Willfordshire.
SALE
Crime: Crime” in Halfling settlements is infrequent, mischievous, and mostly petty. There may be a couple dissatisfied locals, but there is no organized crime. The Rhylian Criminal Presence has only the presence of The Dead Hand – they have spent a long time trying to match the culture and never bringing trouble to the region to be allowed to operate on the small scale they do.
Places & things of Note
Stoneforge Valley of Rhyl
Posted on August 29, 2025 in Steel-Realms
Stoneforge Valley is home to the legendary Stonebreaker Company in Spring County of the Grand Duchy of Rhyl. The valley is located in the north of the county, east of the Gaur-Dinuae Forest of the elves, on the edge of the lands comprising North Gate Garrison. The legacy of the retreating giants leaves few who would do anything to this small enclave of their descendants in Stoneforge Valley. None have really had any issue though, even given that. These folk mostly keep to themselves.
Limited Access: Getting to the valley is difficult, their is a path/road that leads upwards, to The Brothers’ Doors.
Rulership/Governance: {Integrity *} Hetman (the place has little real hierarchical leadership, they all seem to get along well in a homogeneous community)
- Recognized Administrative Center/Seat of Power:
- Primary Settlement Upbringing Experience: All
Population: 3000 (though there is no official census provided); Looking at the population, you can definitely tell there is giant blood (Goliath (Half Colossi/Giant-Spawn)) still running deep in their veins. Tall, light gray with sometimes strange almost Rock formation patterns on their skin. These folk normally live twice the lifespan of a normal human.
Cultural Overview & References for the Grand Duchy of Rhyl
Characters: For sure there are more of their kind seeking other adventure outside the The Grand Duchy of Rhyl – their amicability and size giving them an edge over others.
In Service to the Realms Levy
Every year they provide a freebooter band to the forces of North Gate Garrison for only a single year of service as part of the Realms Levy; Those that survive consider it a badge of honor, and they go on to form their own bands or pass on knowledge gained to others soldiers, watchmen, or scouts before joining their ranks or leaving the enclave in search of adventure. Their crafting of the famous Stone Forged Weapons is also considered a contribution from their people in service to the levy.
This locale trains characters in the practice of the Rhylian Undead Hunters.
Legacy of Giant-Kin Relations
It is said they still trade with the giants of Skyhollow (giant-home) in The Sky Stair Peaks to the north. Their crafters make finely made goods that their large hands of giants find difficult. Food, drink, stories & news, and finely made goods on request are traded each year in the spring at a specific place in the giant’s lands to the north. A few have tried to follow or impersonate their representatives over the years, and are never heard of again. The inhabitants of Stoneforge Valley guard the specific knowledge of their interactions from outsiders – though it is well known they interact and trade with them. The DDuke lets them be for now – they serve at North Gate Garrison in their own way fairly, and their interactions with their giant-kin do not bring harm upon others… thus far. The World Watchers are known to keep a distant eye upon such things, but do not attempt to interfere or uncover routes or track and exchanges – the peace is tenuous but works for all.
Encounters & Dangers in the Area
See Encounters in the Grand Duchy of Rhyl for common potential scenarios of notable events and creatures.
- Normal Settlement Encounters > Patrols | Recruiting | Sellers | Begging | Crime
Chronicle of the Locale/People
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.
Trivial Outcome / Very Easy Difficulty & Pervasive Knowledge
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.
Simple Outcome / Easy Difficulty & Common Knowledge
For those native to or long-dwelling in the region, ALL Common Knowledge may be Pervasive.
CY – Original founding of the community.
Minor Outcome / Average Difficulty & Uncommon Knowledge
Giant-Kin of the Stoneforge Valley of Rhyl Origins: Only the Giants of Intellect and Stone have mated with humanoids outside of the south. In the past, in the Chronicle of the Giants – The Walk North, their number dwindled as they were the self-appointed guardians of giant clans, and many of their number were killed in rearguard actions. As they walked north, it was seen as a threat by many, as they often depopulated swathes of herd and domestic animals and plants in their haste. As they came to the north, just beyond The Giants Steps, they met in battle with a clan of Wyldlings. This time the stone giants were in the vanguard, and managed to parley with them, and the Wyldings saw the situation for what it was, and allied with them to escort them.
The stone giants cemented this alliance in a bond of fertility with dozens of the giant women stayed and gave birth, infusing the Wylding bloodlines with earth power and generations of giant-kin. This caused a splintering of culture and suspicion with other Wyldings over time as the bloodline produced more massive half giant-kin. Eventually they were forced to leave The Wyldes of the Heartlands and they found a safe place east in a mountain home of Stoneforge Valley to the northeast, in more ‘civilized’ lands.
Scarce Knowledge / Hard Difficulty
Around CY 3980 – 4228 there is a ‘great walk along the The Giants Steps of many types of giants going north into the great mountains ranges or the Freelands; The refuge of the The Sky Stair Peaks was a place of safety and prosperity for them momentarily.
Rare Knowledge / Very Hard Difficulty
The goliaths have tales of fighting side by side with the Bloodless Herd of Havaelinn Wild Heart that are unknown to outsiders; A group of locals led by some of the Stonebreaker Company fighting on the Autumn Wall in CY 8851 thought to sacrifice themselves tto kill as many retreating undead from a failed Lich Lord offensive when they spied the herd and gave of their own blood to make them flesh. They descended upon the retreating remnants and slaughtered them. Most lived, and it bought a month of respite on the wall. Since then, the ghostly elk have provided warnings to the folk of the valley.
It was also revealed that peak night of the new moon of the slaughter that the Goliath blood became undetectable to the Lich Lord’s minions.
Spider Top (Rhyl)
Posted on August 27, 2025 in Steel-Realms
Spider Top is an area in the Enthavelaugh Weald that is kept fairly dry and the spiders of the area are both its guardians and spin silk for some of their magic items. This is a tree-home of trees woven together at the top by a thousand years of silk from the giant spiders that have been bred and live in the copse. This location bears the Frost-Melded mark an ancient encounter with the Dragon of Rhyl.
Enthavelaugh Spiderin: Spider Top is a large area on top of a knoll with a 1km diameter top that rises about 400 feet and a stream at its eastern base. The woods outside of the knoll are also home to the Enthavelaugh Spiderin. These feed on rabbits bred by the elves and leave other creatures of the Forest alone.
- Spider Top is one of the Sacred Places of Neitht – The Spider Sovereign.
Doget’s Petal: The Doget’s Petal/Doget’s Petal is a thin leather and cloth suit of armor with a hood that is shaped to the body of the wearer. Its composition is unique silks, waxes, and treatments from the area. It appears as a suit of light leather with a vertical set of skirt plates. It is never sold to outsiders, and only gifted to those who perform a high deed for the region or specifically the elves of Rhyl.
i20™ Armor Details
Prestige Mark > It is considered fitted Leather with +3 Resilience (only fits the wearer) and Cold Resistance & the powers of Cloak of Elven Kind. When among the rocks and land of the region of Rhyl, it is treated as a Elven Cloak. Outside, under the sky, the armor can be worn at night and slept in without discomfort – actually helping the character become comfortable; once slept in for a Long Rest cycle and Attuned, it grants the wearer +1 Initiative while it is worn & character can use all three Resilience at once – this destroys it and it cannot be repaired. iCore™ Armor Details
Chronicle 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.
Trivial Outcome / Very Easy Difficulty & Pervasive Knowledge
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.
Simple Outcome / Easy Difficulty & Common Knowledge
For those native to or long-dwelling in the region, ALL Common Knowledge may be Pervasive.
Rumors About the Locale
Rhyl Formative Events
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 6909 The Fall of the Grand Barony of Altair from a curse by the Lich Lords. The main passage of troops and supplies from the hinterlands and nfar north to the The Grand Duchy of Rhyl is sacked by an undead army led by a ghoul king.
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.
> For 3000 years, the Kingdoms of old Rhylan was the primary form of Rulership in the territory of the current Grand Duchy.
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.
Minor Outcome / Average Difficulty & Uncommon Knowledge
While none of these shooting stars of the The Blood Sky over The North (CY 9184, month 12) crashed into the Grand Duchy of Rhyl, the glittering trail of lights did descend upon The Sky Stair Peaks & Altain Mountain Range in general, Montwold Protectorate, even some of the Gaur Dinuae Forest as well as North Gate Pass (with North Gate Garrison).