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Honeystone Kennels (Ten Stacks)
Posted on April 2, 2026 in Steel-Realms
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
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Rumors About the Agency
Simple Outcome / Easy Difficulty & Common Knowledge
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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™ Foothound Details
Minor Outcome / Average Difficulty & Uncommon Knowledge
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.
House of Childsend (Klyben; Midwives Order)
Posted on April 2, 2026 in Steel-Realms
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]
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Trivial Outcome / Very Easy Difficulty & Pervasive Knowledge
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Rumors About the Locale
Simple Outcome / Easy Difficulty & Common Knowledge
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Minor Outcome / Average Difficulty & Uncommon Knowledge
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.
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.
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Rumors About the Locale
Simple Outcome / Easy Difficulty & Common Knowledge
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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.
Southdrop Tower (Rhyl)
Posted on April 2, 2026 in Steel-Realms
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 – one of the few places in the South Reedland Stretch that borders the Beyne River. 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 for support. These were destroyed in the War of Rundlemans Revenge in CY 9401 and all the inhabitants driven off. Back then it was known as just “Southdrop” hamlet.
Rulership/Governance: {Integrity ***} “Southdrop Commander” – a Lt. position
- Recognized Administrative Center/Seat of Power: The tower proper
- Crier Platform (announcements) – near civic hall, jail, and/or mayoral (equiv.) office; usually near market & gathering areas; Chartered policy, procedure, and laws posted here.
- 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.
Cultural Overview & References for the Grand Duchy of Rhyl
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/Facts of the Locale
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Trivial Outcome / Very Easy Difficulty & Pervasive Knowledge
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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.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
- The beacon fires are magical.
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.
Simple Outcome / Easy Difficulty & Common Knowledge
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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.
Minor Outcome / Average Difficulty & Uncommon Knowledge
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
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.
Letiy Mineit Lending House (Ten Stacks)
Posted on March 31, 2026
The Letiy Mineit Lending House in the town of Ten Stacks opened in CY 9130 serving only women for business opportunities and safety.
Cultural Overview & References for the Grand Duchy of Rhyl
Chronicle/Facts of the Lodge
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This lodge was built in CY 9129 as a direct result of the activities that lead to Tea House Revival.
Rumors About the Locale
- Rumors say this is a hub of smuggling for the Tea House Lodges in Rhyl.
Simple Outcome / Easy Difficulty & Common Knowledge
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A safe house is funded connected to the lending house, using its extended barracks of guards.
Minor Outcome / Average Difficulty & Uncommon Knowledge
A swaying a group of women connected to the Old Rhylian families – the “Old Rhylander Coalition” happens in CY 9130. In a meeting with political wives to turn them (and their husband’s) away from a particular course of a political power play their families are involved in. This power play could have de-stabilized the duchy; The leader of the (somewhat secret) Old Rhylander Coalition is talked out of pushing her husband and other nobles to influence their husbands in attempting a coup.