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It is difficult to talk of the Gods of Gorgh without first adressing the nature of the world. Gorgh lies on the Material Plane, a nexus of various other planes of existence that lie alongside it like tiles in a mosaic. Between the planes is the Astral Plane, a spiderweb of interplanar channels. In the…
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The goblins were not included in the god’s plan for the world. They were dragged to Gorgh from Somewhere Else at the height of the Elven Schism, a living weapon as a dead man’s switch vomited from some dank part of the Feywild to infest this world. Goblins have no illusions about being the favorite…
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Dragons have been around since the dawn of time. Most theologians hold that dragons were the first creations of the gods, drawn up from Formless Chaos and pressed into a series of ideal coalescence by divine hands. They were inherently magical, using the natural energies of Gorgh to sustain their innate sorcery and fly (for…
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The end of the Elvish Dominance in the bloody days of the schism gave rise to the beginning of the Age of Man. Human spellslaves and elvish thinbloods picked over the demon-haunted ruins of the great cities and began to rebuild. The slave races were generally spared most of the horrors until the very tail…
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Every culture roaming the face of Gorgh (cf. proto-Common “to enclose”) has its own version of where they came from, who made them, and who exactly has a valid territorial claim over a particular piece of land. Most generally agree that the Gods were involved somehow, but theological differences in the exact timeline can become…
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Welcome to my attempt to build an OSR-adjacent D&D world and also learn how to webpage again. This is intended to be a resource for my players as well as hopefully some session write-ups.
Tales from Gorgh 