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tal’dorei campaign guide

religionS: Majority:
Wildmother, Lawbearer,
Platinum Dragon. Minority:
Stormlord, Everlight,
Ruiner, Strife Emperor,
Chained Oblivion
importS: Fish, gold, silver,
arcane components
exportS: Wood products,
lumber, grain, produce,
cobalt, iron, livestock

The Dividing Plains

Tal’Dorei’s vast heartland, framed by the Stormcrest and Cliffkeep Mountains, contains miles and miles of rolling hills,
tallgrass prairies, sky-blue rivers, and fertile farmlands. Within these plains, the hardworking people of the realm tend
to their fields and businesses while the armed protectors of civilization battle back the wild beasts and wandering bandits
looking to prey on these points of enduring society. The Silvercut Roadway meanders across the endless plains, connecting
the coasts and bringing caravans between with fresh trade and intrigue to the industrious pioneers of central Tal’Dorei.
A caravanner’s life is though not without danger, though. Warbands of Ravagers, a chaotic horde of orcs and goblinoids
rove the grasslands, slaughtering and pillaging indiscriminately. Packs of nomad gnolls also steal from humanoid caravans,
though diplomats have recently begun to broker a peace between humans and gnolls to unite against the greater threat of
the Ravagers. Beyond the grassy plains, owlbears and other arcane monstrosities stalk the wooded regions. Tribes of wild
centaurs also gallop across the open plains, delivering the Archeart’s justice as they see fit.

the bramblewood Without the plentiful game and timber the Bramblewood
provides, the nearby city of Westruun would likely not exist.
A trading city with nothing to trade rarely lasts long in this
Surrounding the base of the southernmost stretch of the
part of Tal’Dorei. In recent years, it has become difficult to
Cliffkeep Mountains is the dark and tangled forest known
exploit the forest’s resources; the feral creatures that call the
as the Bramblewood. Named for the indigenous trees that
Bramblewood home have grown territorial, and people have
brandish jagged thorns across their bark, the Bramble-
started to go missing within it. For those brave enough to
woods’ impenetrable canopy and thick, gnarled roots only venture into the Bramblewood, a pair of well-tread paths
add to its ominous appearance. Streams of snowmelt from have resisted its overgrowth; one leads to the iron-rich Mur-
the Cliffkeeps trickles down to form streams that spider- doon Mines at the base of the Cliffkeeps, while the other
web across the forest and into the plains beyond. winds upward to Gatshadow’s storm-wreathed peak.

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