Tal'Dorei Campaign Guide PDF

76 Chapter 2: Gazetteer of tal’Dorei

Beynsfal Plateaus

Where below there is life and freedom, above there is naught

but death and tyranny. In the high, southern plateaus of

Rifenmist, verdant jungle gives way to a cracked, volcanic

landscape, its basalt fields interrupted only by towering struc-

tures of crude iron. This hellish place is the home of the Iron

Authority, and one of the last battlegrounds of the Calamity.

It is here that the Betrayer God known as the Strife

Emperor and his goblinoid legions clashed with the Wild-

mother and her Free Children. Though the Wildmother

was victorious and the goblinkin were freed, the site of

the Strife Emperor’s defeat was reduced to rock and ash, a

place where plants would never again grow.

The goblins left behind in the wake of Strife Emper-

or’s defeat have run wild across Rifenmist and even into

the rest of Tal’Dorei for centuries. Hobgoblins asserted

their authority over the squabbling tribes, launching

grand military campaigns across the blasted plateau and

growing as large and powerful as they could before they

collapsed under their own distrust and greed. But ninety

years ago, something unusual happened. When the Iron

Authority conquered the plateau, their empire never

stopped growing. The Iron Tide never broke, and within

a decade it had engulfed all other hobgoblin kingdoms,

uniting them under Tz’Jarr, the Iron Emperor.

While the entirety of Beynsfal is firmly controlled by the

Iron Authority, the hobgoblin empire has pushed into the

jungles below, and are locked in a decade-long war to subju-

gate the native creatures. Five major city-states comprise the

core of the Iron Authority, though all swear fealty to the Iron

Emperor in its capital of Tz’Arrm, the southernmost city of

the plateau. From south to north, the other imperial city-

states are Rybad-Kol, city of the Forge Lords; Hdar-Fye, the

The Rifenmist Peninsula

South of the dividing lines of the Stormcrest Mountains and the Verdant Expanse, the touch of greater civilization does

not quite reach, allowing a number of autonomous communities to exist outside the tangled wilds of the Rifenmist Jungle.

Many who fled the rule of Drassig joined with outcasts of Syngornian society to establish a life away from larger politics,

forming the outsider colonies of the Mornset Countryside. However, with freedom comes isolation in resources to defend

against the vicious denizens of this primal territory.

Enormous, ancient beasts stalk the vine-twisted paths of the jungle that consumes the majority of the peninsula’s coast-

line. A hidden culture of savage wood elves call the rainforest region home, keeping outsiders away and skirmishing with

indigenous tabaxi tribes. An expanding morass of fungus spreads from a mysterious, corrupt source along the eastern

depths of the underbrush, while a secret society of naga-worshippers bring bloody offerings to their snake-queen. This land

lies on the fringe of Tal’Dorei, and is mostly avoided for that very reason.

reliGions:
Majority: Changebringer,
Lawbearer, Strife Emperor.
Minority: Wildmother,
Moonweaver,
Cloaked Serpent

iMports: None

exports: None