Castlemourn Player's Guide.pdf

A PLAYER’S GUIDE TO CASTLEMOURN

Designers: Ed Greenwood & Jennifer Brozek

Fiction: Ed Greenwood  Additional Design: Sean Everette

Editor: Brian Gute  Fiction Editor: Peter Archer

Project Manager: Sean Everette  Typesetter: Jamie Chambers

Art Director: Renae Chambers  Cover Artist: Gareth Verleyen

Interior Artists: Bruce Colero, Jason Engle, Beth Trott

Cartographer: Sean Macdonald  Graphic Designer : Sean Macdonald

Special Thanks: Jim Butler, Steve Creech, Darrin Drader, Tim Hitchcock,

Tom Knauss, Todd R. Laing, Kevin W. Melka, James M. Ward

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I NTRODUCTION .........................................................................................4

“S EVENTEEN .S HIELDS ”.............................................................................5.

Fiction by Ed Greenwood

A.P LAYER ’ S .G UIDE . TO .C ASTLEMOURN ...............................................14

T he W orld of C asTlemourn ....................................................................................... 14

a C asTlemourn C ampaign ............................................................................................ 15

T he l ands of C asTlemourn ......................................................................................... 15

m ap of C asTlemourn ..................................................................................................... 20

B eyond The B orders of C asTlemourn ..................................................................... 27

r eligion & a sTrology .................................................................................................. 28

m agiC .................................................................................................................................... 30

T he C alaunThra ............................................................................................................... 32

C urrenCy ............................................................................................................................. 32

a s horT h isTory of C asTlemourn ............................................................................ 33

C reaTing a C haraCTer for The C asTlemourn C ampaign ................................. 33

ogl ...................................................................................................................................... 38

S ome folks collect bowling trophies, some rebuild cars in their driveways, and some try not to miss a

single televised moment of football.

I dream up fantasy worlds.

I started worldbuilding in my childhood, imagining what grew into The Forgotten Realms® (now a shared

world that continues to grow through the dreamings of literally millions of readers and gamers). It was just

the irst of over a dozen ‘worlds’ I’ve played with since. This is one of them, and a particular favorite of mine.

Welcome to Castlemourn.

Or rather, welcome to the many petty baronies, merchant confederacies, and kingdoms that were

once, before the Fall, the great and glorious land of Castlemourn. More than a dozen different, and often

warring, territories crowded together between the mountains and the sea, plus nine isles that are all that’s

left undrowned of the lost southern half of Castlemourn. All of these areas are inhabited by Mournans who

no longer know what lies beyond the mountains or across the seemingly endless sea in the world they call

Umbrara.

Like the Realms, this is a shared world: within these pages and in the books to come, many designers and

writers will dive into Umbrara, spinning new tales and revealing new color and details for us all. I’m delighted

that my friends, the gaming veterans at Margaret Weis Productions, have given us all the chance to play in this

new sandbox.

I’ve tried to make Castlemourn “feel real.” In these pages, you’ll ind believable people living in a world

full of mysteries, ancient magics, and lurking intrigues unfolding right now. It’s an ideal home for fantasy

roleplaying campaigns, with power groups, throne-strife, and scheming villains enough to keep things

interesting for years, even to players whose characters elect to spend much of their time reclining on couches,

lagons in hand, watching the world go by! As much as mere curved squiggles of ink on a page can make it,

Castlemourn is alive.

It’s also lexible. Via the estemel characters from other worlds can readily arrive in Castlemourn. Cities,

fortresses, and ‘dungeons’ from other fantasy settings can easily be placed in the surrounding mountains or in

the Mists to east and west of known Castlemourn. Magic from other places and other worlds can effortlessly

be thrust into the castles of Tamrune. Substitute orcs, ogres, or hobgoblins for the golaunt or any really exotic

race of creatures for the thaele—or make such creatures allies of those Mournan races, dwelling with them as

guards and strike forces.

Castlemourn campaigns can focus on particular areas or kingdoms that offer different lavors of adventure,

from piracy on Glamryn Bay to merchants’ strivings in Dragonhead and Luuthaven, from the glittering high

society of Asmrel to the haughty dukedoms and thundering knights of Lyonar—or from the deadly caverns

of the Yarhoon to the sun-dappled farms of Jamandar, and from the mist-shrouded menace of Nighdal to the

hardy mining and ishing life of the Iron Isles. From the beast-roamed woods of the Haunthills to the perilous

mountains where larger, more numerous monsters prowl. From the life of an outlaw in…but my point is made:

Castlemourn offers every style of campaign play. Detailed churches await players who want to play priest

characters; Castlemourn is awash in wizard-riveting tales of old magics from before the Fall being unearthed

in ruins. Thievery and outlawry are rife, and realm after realm is arming or covertly hiring adventurers to

swing swords for them. This bright and pleasant land between the mountains is stirring; it’s a time for heroes.

How swiftly—or even if—Castlemourn slides into widespread war will be different in every campaign.

This book introduces a setting that, if general peace holds, can readily serve as a backdrop for long-term play

concentrating on court intrigue, ruins exploration, or even building a mercantile empire along the caravan

roads and from port to port along the Bay. No fantasy world should be all drawn swords, dragons toppling

castles, grimly onrushing doom, and lurking peril. It should fascinate and soothe, too, offering people and

places we want to know more about and visit. People and places we wish were real. People and places worth

ighting for.

From princes trying to regain their rightful thrones to beggars just trying to survive, and from street

peddlers to rich and ambitious would-be nobles trying to buy titles, Castlemourn holds many colorful

characters for players to meet or even become. Guide your own characters to prominence among them, and

dream your own dreams about them.

Dreams again. Yes. In an increasingly hectic real world, we all need a home for our dreams, an imaginary

world to be our refuge and playground.

So turn the page, and step into our new sandbox.

Make Castlemourn your own.

Make Castlemourn your home.

ED GREENWOOD

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