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MITHRIL: CITY OF THE GOLEM

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Divided City

Chapter 2: History

Chapter 3: The City

Chapter 4: Beyond Mithril

Chapter 5: Adventures

Chapter 6: Characters in Mithril

Chapter 7: Personages in Mithril

Appendix

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PREFACE

Preface

Welcome to Mithril: City of the Golem, the first

regional sourcebook for the Scarred Lands (or

whatever campaign world into which you drop it).

Since the early days of fantasy roleplaying, there has

been an allure to cities that serve as something of a

"keep on the borderlands" — bastions of civilization

set in enemy territory. The kind of place where

trouble finds you; there's little need to go looking for

it. Why, a hero barely has the time to kick back, prop

his feet on the table and enjoy a tall, cold one when

another shady character, complete with hooded robe

and purse full of gold, emerges from the tavern's

darkest comer to make a proposition that can't be

refused. Mithril is just such a city-state, brimming

with enough adventures to keep a whole campaign

running.

The Golem itself is something of a plot device: a

passive deus ex machina that explains how this divine

race city, set in titanspawn lands on the coast of a sea

tainted by a titan's blood, could endure in the midst of

such animosity. Don't you ores from Lede try

anything; you wouldn't want to wake up the big guy,

would you? At the same time, for the city to grow

beyond a few clerics huddled in a temple at the

Golem's feet, someone must forgo the Golem's

protection and sally forth, setting matters right and

pressing the city's enemies back.

Mithril is an ideal starting point for campaigns,

especially for groups that contain paladins, rangers/

vigilants or good-aligned clerics, though characters of

all races and classes will easily find a reason to make

Mithril their home. Characters beginning their careers

elsewhere and traveling to Mithril will find the

journey fraught with danger — a prelude to the quests

laid at their feet once they arrive at Corean's blessed,

but beleaguered, city-state.

So enjoy your stay in Mithril, and don't eat the fish!

Sword & Sorcery Studio

Introduction

Long ago, the legends say, a great metal warrior descended from the

heavens — a machine of nigh-unbreakable mithril,...

In those days, the titans' implacable force pushed the divine races to the

brink, and many fell prey to despair, convinced that the legions of darkness

would inevitably triumph. The titans were ferocious and terrifying, but

none more than Kadum the Mountainshaker.

The coming of the great Mithril Golem changed everything. Titanic

and terrifying, imbued with the strength of Corean and of the other good

gods, it joined the battle and set the enemy to flight, killing hundreds with a

single blow and scattering entire armies in a dramatic, physical display of

divine justice and vengeance.

Some stories claim that the Golem aided in the defeat and

imprisonment of Kadum, holding the titan's tail while the gods gutted their

foe and bound him in chains, imprisoning him in the oceans' depths —

his blood discoloring and polluting the waters around him. In the chaos of

the Titanswar, myth and legend intermingled with truth, the boundaries

between them became indistinguishable — perhaps the mighty

automaton did help defeat Kadum. None but the most devout is certain.

What is certain is that, in the war's aftermath, the divine armies

discovered the giant twisted and damaged from some colossal struggle. It

stood motionless on the heights above the crashing surf of blood-tinted

waters, apparently lifeless — its mission, perhaps, completed.

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