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Ononomad
Last updated 22 Feb, 2025
The Icerunners Guild was founded by a particularly independent and entrepreneurial member of the Returned, who became known as the First Breaker
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Ononomad
Last updated 21 Feb, 2025
The most powerful individuals across The Icerunners Guild network are the harbour masters, known collectively as the Isulo. These individuals are employed by the Chambers of the guild to control access to the various ports that the guild operates in.
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Ononomad
Last updated 11 Feb, 2025
Icewardens are the ships of the Icerunners Guild. They are huge ocean going ships made from iron plating strong enough to slice through the Sea of Black Ice
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Ononomad
Last updated 11 Feb, 2025
The Tokari specialised in distance messaging through the use of kites and other wind-powered instruments.
Skelters are small furry tentacled creatures that are native to the coastal rocks around the harbour at Runners End and a popular pet kept by the members of the Icerunners Guild
The aurochs were massive herd animals that were domesticated during the early years of Age of Exultancy. The Auroch horned skull has become a symbol strength and sacrifice for the common good across the Protectorates.
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Ononomad
Last updated 11 Feb, 2025
The heavily fortified port and naval base owned and run by the Icerunner's Guild, and the primary headquarters for its global operations
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Ononomad
Last updated 11 Feb, 2025
Those who work on the many ships owned by the Chambers of the Icerunners Guild are collectively called Breakers.
The powerful mercantile organisation whose power challenges that of the nations of the world. They control the lucrative ocean trade routes known as the Silver Reaches and the Golden Tides that stretch from the Protectorates to the Gleaming City
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Ononomad
Last updated 11 Feb, 2025
The First breaker and Shadowseer seek information from an ancestor spirit
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Ononomad
Last updated 11 Feb, 2025
The failed rebellion at Kaltstad was aimed at securing independence for the workers of the ice-bound city from the control of the Protectorates
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Ononomad
Last updated 11 Feb, 2025
The ice bergs farmed from the Sea of Black Ice by the icerunners guild and sold to the markets at the Gleaming City
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Ononomad
Last updated 11 Feb, 2025
Non verbal sign language used by the clans to communicate in the cold storms upon the Sea of Black Ice
A shardfall is the term used to describe the uncommon event of a meteor falling from the Nightbridge. They bring shockwaves of magical energy and the resulting crater will be a highly sought after boon.
Seismic activity across Shadowfire can trigger unwanted and uncontrolled manifestations of magic, which can have impacts both great and small.
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Ononomad
Last updated 22 Jun, 2024
Originally the largest of the clan groups of the Uferbrech goblins, the peoples of Clan Tokaru have become a displaced people since the invasion by the Protectorates and the loss of their home island Tokaru
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Ononomad
Last updated 22 Jun, 2024
Ravac works the beaches and bars at Camp Thrifty, spying on all and sundry and selling the truths or rumours he gleans for coin or favours. His secretive ways mask as even darker loyalty to the cult of the Devourer
