Magae

Who has not heard rumors of the lost city of Arden Vul? During the glory days of the Archontean Empire , now 1,200 years in the past, Arden Vul was a small, but important, wealthy and secretive imperial center located atop a 1,500’-tall cliff at the head of Burdock’s Valley. Dominated by the imperial administration itself, as well as by the great temples of Thoth and Set, the city attracted alchemists, scholars, priests and sorcerers by the droves. Alas! The terrible civil war that rent the Archontean Empire, that is, the war of Sortians and Theosophs (see Archontean Empire), led to the utter destruction of the city and the withdrawal of the imperial legions from the western continent of Irthuin.     The ruined city of Arden Vul exists in a world that has been shaped, for the past 3000 years or so, by a dominant human empire. That empire is known as the Archontean Empire after its capital city, shining Archontos. Arden Vul is located outside the current imperial borders, in a portion of the western continent that millennia ago was an integral province of the empire. As a former religious and sorcerous center of the old empire, it is a site of intense interest for imperial authorities, those interested in lost lore, and those looking for fortune.   After three hard days’ march from the town of Newmarket, the setting sun illuminates a thunderous waterfall pouring down the fabled cliff face of Arden Vul. Two colossi carved into the cliff to the right of the waterfall stare stonily across the valley. A twinkle of sunlight catches on the rocks ... is it the spray from the falls? or could it be the glint of metal moving up the cliff? There’s only one way to find out ... Adventure awaits!