(Georic) The Forward of the Georic Gazetteer

Forward of the Georic Gazetteer, by Riknl Kannex,

My first encounter with Georic was brutal, as if one was violently awoken from a peaceful trance.   Once I overcame the sudden pain that wracked my body, I threw myself into the study of the primitive language and investigating the peculiarities of this world.  Unlike my own homeland, a trove of knowledge was available on each kingdom, with acceptable gaps for invasions, uprisings, and the general ineptitude of civilization in general.

Once I gained a stable foothold in this realm, I began to explore across the lands, covering thousands of miles.  I travelled vast seas, stumbled through ruins of long-lost civilizations, and bizarre races of man who rivalled the subhuman barbarians that plague us from the Wildlands. 

You hold in your hands the results of my travels: The Georic Gazetteer.  I have attempted to describe all that I have seen, along with some notable, yet notable facts and statistics to compared them with other regions.  

Riknl Kannex,Written 1150. 

Riknl Kannex of Anon-Maxis

Notes from the Editor: 

As a response to our great celebration, the Krugraf has deemed it necessary to publish new editions of older tomes of great import, so that their knowledge spread throughout the educated classes.   The Georic Gazetteer by Riknl Kannex is such a book.  Widely regarded as a geographic primer for nearly 200 years, in spite of some inaccuracies, it was the best collected source of history of the continent of Talaishia since the fall of the Ancien Empire. 

The Kannex clan were rife with power brokers and power users.  Part Senzaran, possibly with elvish blood, their kin stood as magical advisors or kings, powerful alchemists, and one ancestor of Riknl Kannex even held the throne of Senzar for a short while.  

Riknl appeared to have been hit with the wanderlust and travelled the most of this world we call Georic, although funding of such an ambitious expedition was never explain.  Herein this Gazetteer, the sorcerer recounts the tales of his travels throughout the strange and mysterious corners of realm, focusing primarily on the northern continent of Talaishia, the home of most of the worlds knowledge and wisdom.  While portions of the text are quite encyclopedic, it is widely believed that Riknl had a penchant for exaggerating myth and legend of the regions, yet downplaying other important facts. I

According to his accounts, Riknl Kannex spent the greater part of one dozen years exploring the Talaishian continent, before moving on to other distant shores. During this time he often traveled alone, typically in the guise of a collector of odd artifacts, though there is some evidence to suggest that Tamerlin may have attempted to pass himself off as a quack doctor or charlatan when the mood suited him. On occasion, he was accompanied by a motely crew of associates ranging from the Agenmoor Revolutionaries, Akana Heretics, Argivian Technologists, and folks passing themselves off heirs to many thrones, including the King of All Dwarves and a God of the Oceans.  

Within the writings are odd refences that historiographers have been unable to piece together.  Perhaps they are references to the culture of the distant pre-Imperial Aegyptian and Parthian civilizations.  Still, there is to be considered a possibility that the mentions are beyond that, during the primordial ages of Georic, before not only the founding days of the Ancien Empire, but before the first recorded rulers of Senzar itself.  Consider this a warning to the reader of the text.

Cedric Fruvous, Publisher, Greyhawk Press

City of Verbobonc, Kingdom of Ras-Prythax, 1350.

The GM Comments:  This post begins an ongoing series looking into the nations that make up my World of Georic.  The world has been used in one twisted form or another over the last thirty year, and it is high time to codify the basics structure and expectations.  

The world has gone through three drastic cartographic overhauls, and I openly admit to taking material from pre-existing books and using it to my own devious plans.  

The goal of this projects is to review the mis-mash of campaign notes over the years and to publish a synopsis on one country on the last Thursday of every month.  This will based on the campaign chronology of my own personal gaming, starting with the Lost Dispatches, and ending with the Burning Trogs Redux up to and including the year 1148.   Emeron Unleashed, which my friend Hoyce runs, deviated from my one geography and timeline around the year 1069.  However, everything he posts is considered canon in a yet to be determined future.  I will be reviewing those entries and will at least be setting those regions to properly reflect the future adventures that will take place.  

-Vis