Map of the Quill Coast

Thanks! I tried to pack it full of little details, like the city maps.

Well intuited on Sabbath! It’s an ally of Hex, founded by witches who fled from Erubescence after the Night Queen expelled all non-undead spellcasters from the Red Realm and began confiscating sorcerous children showing signs of magical talent from their parents for “adoption” into the vampiric court. Although never as academic and institutionalized as the wizardly academies of Hex, the Red Realm used to have a flourishing folk-tradition of magic, but the Sanguine Lords and Ladies became concerned that the witches might lead an insurrection against them. Sabbath became a refuge for the persecuted witches, and has now become a flourishing city state in its own right that defends itself from Erubescence with weather magic to wreck any fleets that come too near the shores of Greymalkin Isle. This makes it highly isolationist, but it has often found common cause with Hex due to their frequent mutual antagonisms with Erubescence. It’s somewhat matriarchal (most powerful witches are female), but in contrast with Erubescence it’s deeply anti-hierarchical and communitarian. Like Hex it has close ties with the Commonwealth of Hell in Pandemonium, while the Red Realm backs the monarchist insurrection in Dis seeking to restore the ancient Demon Princes to their thrones.

The Witchrealm is at first glance a much more pleasant place to live than Erubescence or even Hex, but the witches are insular and xenophobic, with a particular hatred for undead. They consider humanoids born without magical ability to be pitiable, and wizardly magic unnatural and somewhat ill-advised, entrusting magic with those who nature clearly did not “intend” to possess it. Its one major beef with Hex is Hex’s treatment of familiars, homunculi, and conjured creatures, who are considered chattel in Hex. Consequently, some conjured beings seeking their freedom make a break for Sabbath from Hex. This has occasionally led to diplomatic snafus and tensions, but the two powers recognize that they need one another to help check the power of the vampires.

Pellucid is an extremely mysterious city constructed be aliens from the Luminiferous Aether (i.e. space), generally called Aetherians, claimed by some to be ancient enemies of the Librarians of Hex. Why they created a colony on this planet is not fully known. The city has its own micro-climate produced by the machines of Pellucid, and appears to be a lush paradise despite its remote location in the frozen wilderness of the Weeping Plain. Almost no terrestrial beings have ever entered the city and left, and the Aetherians don’t seem interested in expansion or trade. Every few centuries, however, the city sends out an army of incredibly powerful automata that terrorize the lands to the south, abducting hundreds of people before returning to Pellucid. There are also rumours and legends that the Aetherians are experimenting on the planet, and they are often blamed for plagues, earthquakes, and other disasters, with witnesses claiming they saw Pellucid automata in the vicinity of such catastrophes. Every attempt to destroy the city or even treat with its inhabitants has failed, often specutacularly.

Thanks! They’re not currently available, but I’ll definitely post if that happens. I do have a smaller book available through drivethrurpg, Genial Jack: Volume 1 (see top right of the blog for a link) and plan to publish a lot more of this setting, and I think high-res map files will likely be a part of that for sure.