Angorath¶
"Nobody knows what started the Earthblight." — the survivors of the coast (S328)
Angorath is a kingdom of the Callat region north of Dalmar, reached from the mountains of Dru'Bazan by going "down-mountain (North-east)". In the Fourth Age it is "a fallen kingdom beset by banditry", its capital Redallion in ruins and its land eaten by Earthblight; "nobody knows what started the Earthblight. 20 years ago ... cataclysmic 5 years ago." In the Fifth Age it reappears as a land fought over by draconians and the Northern Kingdoms.
The land¶
The gazetteers of the Age of Magic name Angorath among the regions of the West and place it in Callat, "a region covering northern Dalmar, Angorath and the southern coast of the Sea of Rhovun". The way in from Dru'Bazan runs six days through the mountains to the mouth of a canyon, then into the Dead Forest, a ruined land of "clicks, screeches, screams" at night, where the Earthblight makes Fleshmonsters of the living. A palisade of thirty cannibals, "almost all young fit males", stands in the forest; a coastal village lies five days away. Angorath's coast faces the ocean, and fifty miles north of it over the sea hangs the Flying Ziggurat.
Redallion¶
"Ruined Capitol of Angorath", half a day on foot from the Dead Forest. In its market square stands a twenty-foot statue of a king, with a ladder down to the sewers. About 120 survivors hold a colony at the Temple of Khardas, "led by Council of 3": Brugid Oregrain, dwarven High Priestess of Khardas; Henry Yallovi, an ex-City Watch sergeant whose squad "helped secure the temple district"; and Livia Descorta, "former thief, cat burglar ... now head scavenger". Beneath the market a necromonger named Eggrin built a Drain Spike Room, where "24 'spiked' individuals" had red energy "drawn out of them towards a black sphere", guarded by a demonic abomination and dormant wights, and a Portal Room whose one active portal led "to a town on the river a day's journey south".
The Temple of Khardas¶
The temple compound of Redallion, where Khardas is "worshipped by humans as the god of industry and labor". Its gates are destroyed but barricades rebuilt; a cavern under the temple "leads to the Underdark", itself "filled with twisted abominations". The district's temples are to Aria, Kalar, Khardas, Orandos and Quitas.
Castle Bluethorn¶
"2 hours from Redallion", on two hills, "palace + temple", and once home to the wizard Muralyon.
Uran'Syvalla and the Caerylas Tree¶
"The Caerylas Tree - Elven Shrine (Aria, Aric) in the elven forests of Uran'Syvalla to the west." Two hours inside the forest's edge stands "a quarter mile perfectly circular, pristine marble wall 15' high. Covered in large Silver Elven Runes. 3 Tall arched entrances - Spring (Birth), Summer (Life) and Winter (Death). The grass inside the wall seems healthy, green and devoid of any corruption. However, the same cannot be said of the Tree. The massive 600' tall tree (about 80' diameter trunk) is leafless, black and covered in red pulsing pustules." Thousands of corrupted elven husks, abominations and two Wicker Giants surround the wall; inside lie "about 300 elven corpses", rangers, civilians and priests, cut down by "long 3-clawed slashes" from "something very large, perhaps a dragon", and a small village of foresters. A holy symbol found there bids its bearer "Seek the Seed".
The elven Shrine of Caerylas in the forbidden forests of Arne'Athosia, guarded by a priestess kept alive by the Seed of Caerylas, may be the same place under another age's name; the sources do not connect them.
The Flying Ziggurat¶
"Floating Pyramid. Floating City accepting refugees", sought "North-North East ... 200 miles" from Redallion and later "50 miles north over the ocean" from Ornwell. Those captured by Redallion's necromongers were to be "transported to the flying city ... in the dungeons".
The Kingdom of Brundal¶
Through Redallion's portal lies Ornwell, a "seaside market town: part of Kingdom of Brundal (Capitol Wellhorn)", with a manor just outside it. The Earl of Ornwell, Jorek Ellster, has been charmed by his chief advisor Salaran, who is Eggrin under another name, into building a spike room and portal room under his manor, "convinced ... this project will protect Ornwell from the encroaching Blight"; "plans for another site in Wellhorn" were found there. Ornwell has an orphanage, a town council on which the merchant Langsten Horngrell sits, a magistrate and arbiter, a jail, and a hunting lodge five miles out. Elleston, a town sacked in the years before, is remembered by one of its survivors. Brundal's position relative to Angorath is not given beyond a day's journey south along a river.
Gap
No source says when Angorath fell, who ruled it, or where Brundal lies on a map. The Fourth Age notes are a running play record; many of their figures are named once.
The Sanctuary Age¶
In the Faewild Wars of the 400s SM the draconian power of Pherox "strikes south into Rhovun and Angorath" and "expands to take control of Rhovun and Angorath in 451 SM". By 535 SM "the Northern Kingdoms have reasserted control in Dalmar, Angorath and Faragond. The draconians retreat to Pherox." In 704 SM the Knights of Ex-Malefica keep a Lord Commander of Angorath beside those of Arnyr and Dalmar.