Posted on January 11, 2026
Important Families and NPCs of Tranmere
Posted on January 9, 2026 in Steel-Realms
Krastivir’s Orblivat is an item designed to produce good will and positive feelings to those around it. A boost to festive occasions – originally for the nobility of Dundaria (The Fallen North).
The Orblivat appears as a full perfect sphere, cut in half. The bottom of the flat side is rough and streaked. When light is shone on it, there appears to be small motes that dance around inside it.
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It pulls the attention of the viewer. After several seconds it starts to hum and vibrate slightly.
Item Purpose:
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.
Krastivir was a magus of Dundaria before the fall. When the Lich Lords swept out of the capital of Odekrik, Krastavir went with the general Lord Heatherguard, and was wounded defending him. He tried to escape over the Tolkisson Mountain range and died somewhere in there where he met a World Watcher and told his tale before succumbing to the infection of the Lich Lords power. The World Watcher brought the tale forth, and adventurers have been searching for it since.
In CY 9130 the Order of the Black Gorgon looking for Krastivir’s Orblivat. Somehow its return to the settled lands of the Noble East was leaked to them.
Krastivir was a diviner and one of the Far-Speakers. They were a collection of independent magi that were once apprentices of a powerful mage named Archusea. When he died, the apprentices went their ways but remained in contact. Krastivir’s son was a young herald in the king’s service assigned to the Lord of Heatherguard.
Krastivir’s son took the powerful item and some of his fathers’ works and fled over the Tolkission mount range using the _ trail. The Frostfang nipped his heels the entire way. He hid the Orbivlat somewhere along or near the trail, thinking he was going to die and be found by the agents of the Lich Lords. He dragged himself out the far side into the _ stretch. He recounted the tale before dying. Since then, adventurers have sought the item and never found it.
All of the apprentices of Archusea settled on the edges of the Valley of Sighs, in south Dundaria. They all sought an object their master had spoken of, a powerful object that was left upon the battlefield of the godsrage plain the The Valley of Sighs. Each of them pursued it, a race to find it, secure it, and return with it. For decades they sent mercenaries, spies, strike forces, and adventurers. Many died in this ‘friendly’ competition. Until, in CY ___, right before the Fall of Dundaria, a group sent by Krastivir managed to find it. Somehow the others found out, and the race to secure it was on. Several groups were hired and sent, attacking each other, only to be ambushed by another. Krasivir finally went himself, despite the personal peril. He managed to wrest it from one of his competition’s groups and return north out of the valley.
As part of the efforts of the Tea House Revival, CY 9129, the remains of Krastivir’s Orblivat goes into a snow globe lamp in the Tea Lodge of Sheffet the county of Dunaine. There, it goes to serve in swaying a group of women connected to the Old Rhylian families.
Posted on January 9, 2026
The Darkstone Security enclave in The Town of Baratriae is their known headquarters. While Darkstone Security are not technically a mercenary band, they often act like one and hire them to supplement their own ranks.
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10 Darkstone Security has a large (dark) stone block building in the City of Rhylan, they are security experts;
10 They like to stay out of the headlines, using word of mouth for referrals.
15 They hire mercenaries to supplement their numbers and capabilities, and tend to leave no witnesses – rather leave a trail of bodies than a trail of clues.
15 Preferably they hire veterans off The Autumn Wall when they need excessive force or muscle.
20 The group is believed to have a series of fake companies that come and go and to hide their operations under.
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Posted on January 6, 2026
Wickern Village
Rulership: Hetman
Population:
Hidden Knowledge > One of the Children of Blacknail is a helper to the pine tribes of The Wyldes at the Village of Wickern.Posted on January 6, 2026 in Steel-Realms
The Children of Blacknail is a Steel Realms Timeline Tale; recorded knowledge.
THIS IS HIDDEN KNOWLEDGE >
There are several humunculi of Blacknail the Hag still alive. These special creatures can detect a hag by smell, at a distance of over 100 feet, probably even double that or more directly downwind.
The highly useful ‘children of Blacknail’ still have a connection to the Faeywyld, and can sense both its energies and creatures that dwell there by smell. Their small bodies have a human face of the child they replaced when stolen. They speak the faerie tongue of Feyloise in addition to Gladnorian. They can touch & wield a cursed item, sense that it is cursed (though not its details), and remain unaffected by it. All of these were once examined by the Rhylander Green Conjurists & Quizman’s magi, as well as priests of Darupet and Gaia in order to see if their connection to her could be revealed and tracked. Instead of killing them, they were ‘rescued’.
Hidden Knowledge > One of the Children of Blacknail is a helper to the pine tribes of The Wyldes at the Village of Wickern. Hidden Knowledge > One of the Children of Blacknail is in The Schan-Karr of Haivelaugh. Hidden Knowledge > One of the Children of Blacknail serves the Rhylander Green Conjurists at Ten Box Chemists in the city of Klyben.