Knights of Kanday

About the adventure

This is a sandbox/site based game where the players actions drive the story and the action. AdvancedDND 1e Welcome to Hârn Hârn is a large island off the cost of the continent of Lythia. Lythia is the largest continent on the planet known as Kethira. The technology of Hârn and Western Lythia has barely progressed beyond the iron age. There are some examples of plate armor — though these tend to be small pieces for arm and leg protection. Leather, scale mail, and chain mail are all common. Agriculture is rudimentary and inefficient. Hârnic cultures are mostly feudal in nature. The majority of people on Hârn are serfs farming the land for a manor lord. In return, the serfs are given protection. The main exceptions to this are the people of Orbaal in northern Hârn (who follow a viking civilization model) and the various goblinoid and barbarian tribes inhabiting the island. Magic exists and is standard AD&D fare. Hârn is a polytheistic society. The gods of Kethira often intervene in human matters at the request of their followers. Some of these gods are at war with one another, with the conflict spilling over into Kethira. There are several non-human intelligent species on Hârn. Elves are known as the Sindarin. The Dwarven race are the Khuzdul. These are fairly stereotypical examples of Tolkienesque races (elves are secretive forest dwellers, dwarves are excellent miners and metalsmiths, etc.) The small, malevolent goblins/orcs of Hârn are a constant threat. There are many other strange creatures, from dragons to Vlasta (small creatures that rip out the eyes of their assailants.) Location: Restenford, Selionshire, in the Kingdom of Kanday, along the Restin River on the southern shore of the Kingdom . Restenford is the fifth largest town in Southern Kanday. It is about a five day journey from the city of Aleath. Altogether, Restenford is home to 530 households, most of which are human. Virtually every able-bodied adult male or boy over 13 is enlisted in the militia. Sheriff Jens Demilaen, appointed by Queen Mirelael, is distressed by the growing threat of goblinoid attacks on caravans and travellers in the area, and his shipment of iron ore from the Loban mine is long overdue. An old abandoned manor, rumored to be haunted lies a few miles south of Restenford along the coast road, overlooking the sea. It is shunned by the locals, except for children who dare each other to sleep within! The dusty, rutted road is lined with closely-grown hedges of brambles and shrubs. Here and there it cuts through a copse or crosses a rivulet. To either hand, forest and meadow have given way to field and orchard. A small herd of kine graze nearby, and a distant hill is dotted with the fieldstone chimneys with thin plumes of blue smoke rising from them. A road angles west into the hill country, and to either side of the road ahead are barns and buildings — a fortified stone keep sits atop a low hill. Restenford at last! The Year is 720. The adventure begins...