“Our soul is sometimes a king, sometimes a tyrant.
An
uncontrolled, over-indulged soul is turned from a king to the most-feared
tyrant.”
―
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| Orvung, King of the Schnai |
The first was a mere mention in the World of Greyhawk Box
Set:
Kingdom of Schnai (Snow Barbarians): Orvung, F 16 [WOGG
– 17]
The other was this in the Living Greyhawk Gazeteer:
A major raid into Stonehold was mounted several years
ago by a combined force of Schnai and Cruski, though they were ultimately
driven back. Since then, the young king of the Frost Barbarians has finally
declared his nation's independence from the Schnai, Old King Orvung might have
gone to war over such an action, but the current king is more circumspect.
History, he realizes, often repeats itself. [LGG – 106]
That’s not much to go on. What is known, must be
inferred.
Let’s begin with what we know about the Schnai.
They are Suel. They are Rhizians. Schnai is their name for
themselves, the name of their clan, in fact, a name that dates back to the very
dawn of the Suel Imperium. Few know that. They themselves would not, if it were
not for the Scarlet Brotherhood having told them so. To most nations, they are
the Snow Barbarians.
The Frost, Ice and Snow Barbarians are perfect
specimens of unmixed Suloise blood; the nearly albinoid Snow Barbarians are the
best example. [WOGA – 13]
The Snow Barbarians are the strongest and most
numerous of the northern peoples. [WOGA
– 35]
They are descendants of the Suel Houses of Pursuit, long
ago tasked to seek out are return Zellifar and those who fled with the prince from
that long ago burned and buried Imperium. They failed in that task, stripped of
their memory by Slerotin, the last mage of power, and left to wander without
purpose afterwards.
Slerotin’s spell did not purge all from their hearts and
souls, though. They remembered that they were the people of Vatun, and that He had
decreed that His people should be the steel He wielded. It was He who led them,
they believed, to the land that would forge them thus.
To what sort of land did He lead them? A cold, bleak
land, some would say.
They would be wrong.
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| Rhizia |
Those bitter winters blow long and viciously, but in
time, they pass, as all things do, and the spring reveals a very different
Rhizia. Sea birds wheel above rocky coasts. Beyond those, golden grasses flow
with the wind’s ever-present flow. Hills rise higher and higher, until heather
abounds. Moose roam, beavers dam, and bears angle the snowmelt that rush back
to the sea in torrents. A panoply of colour blankets the rolling hills, in
contrast to the stark white peaks of the Corusks that soar in the distance.
Theirs is a dangerous land, for all its beauty.
The Corusks form a bow. the backbone of the
Thillonrian Peninsula which runs from the Solnor Ocean in the east, north and
west and then southwest where the range terminates (Hraak Pass). While the
lower parts of the mountains are inhabited by humans, various bands of evil
humanoids and monsters of all sorts dwell in the central fastness. It is
thought that this range possesses little in the way of valuable ores or gems. [WOGA
– 52]
Spikey Forest: This smallish woodland divides the
lands of the Frost and Snow Barbarians. Its tall pines are used by both peoples
for ship masts and spars. [WOGA – 59]
Schnabel: This river falls from the high Corusks north
of Soull and runs into the deep Schnafjord. [LGG – 152]
This land moulded its newfound children, much as it had
those Flan who preceded them.
The Cold Tongue: This dialect, also known as Fruz, is
primarily Suloise with Flan admixture. It is spoken commonly by the Ice, Snow.
and Frost Barbarians. It has no relation to Common, and even speakers of
Suloise find it hard to understand. [WOGA – 16]
These northern Suel share a common language, but little
more.
The Schnai have not always been the most powerful of
the Suel barbarians, but they have never come under the rule of either of their
cousin states. Perhaps this is due to the superior seamanship of these
barbarians, for they have never been attacked by land. They have always
participated in the summer raids southward and are as successful as either of
their neighbors. Yet, they have also journeyed farther on the sea than perhaps
any in the Flanaess, despite the claims of the Sea Barons.
While the Fruztii were historically the most
persistent in their raids upon the Aerdy, the Schnai explored the seas and the
northern isles. Their discovery of Fireland during the early years of Fruztii
raids southward was a great distraction. Rather than seek conquest in the
Flanaess, they chose to explore the Lesser and Greater Isles of Fire, while
they built settlements on the more habitable islands of Sfirta and Berhodt.
They would inevitably return home with tales of monsters and giants, and of
treasures almost obtained. Real treasures, in the form of gold and jewels, were
meanwhile being won by the Frost Barbarians in northern Aerdy. The attention of
the Schnai soon returned to their southern neighbors, as they joined the Ice
and Frost Barbarians in sea-raids on the Great Kingdom.
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| The Schnai |
The Schnai also made war on the Ice Barbarians,
wresting the Ustula region from them and holding it for several decades. They
never conquered the Ice Barbarians as they did the Frost Barbarians, however,
for the Cruski are nearly as able seafarers as the Schnai. The Ice Barbarian
warriors were also extremely fierce, particularly the berserkers of Llerg, who
know no fear—nor much of anything else, being little more than human beasts.
[LGG – 106]
315 CY
One should not that the emissaries of Shar have long
since inveigled their way into Schnai politics, first making contact with their
northern “kin” 175 years ago.
By 5831 SD, relations were established with the Suel
tribes of Schnai, Fruztii and Cruskii in the northern lands. […] The
southerners’ gifts of exotic woods and fine weapons eventually won over
barbarian kings. [SB – 4]
490 CY
Orvung Eldgrimsen is born. Conjecture on my part, as he
is referred to as Old King Orvung in the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer, and
to be old, he ought to be…well…old.
522 CY
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| Orvung Tigerclaw |
[A note on
nomenclature: I would hazard the guess that every Rhizian is born with the name
of his father, and eventually earns the right to take a name of his choosing
when he comes of age, usually something earned. Not all do so. But the option
is there.]
He has proven
himself in battle, raiding the southern coasts, and as a captain of renown,
having navigated far into the Solnor Sea.
Their greatest
kings and jarls have all been seafarers, beginning with Schoffmund the Strong,
who defeated the Kraken of Grendep Bay. Since his day, all dead Schnai kings
are interred in ships, which are ignited and set adrift on the sea. [LGG –
106]
He had the
support of the berserkers, and he still claims the same status as they, having
undergone the same rites of passage as they. Insofar as that, I submit that
Orvung is, himself, a Berserker.
Old King
Orvung might have gone to war over such an action [….] [LGG – 106]
But tempered.
Advised. Manipulated by his allies, those distant kin from a distant south.
532 CY
Ingemar Hartensen
is born, scion of chieftain Harten Fenrirsen, when the Schnai king is 42. Conjecture.
He is not Orvung’s son, else he would be named Orvungsen.
I have placed his birth before Hundgred Rälffson’s
(placed by me in 549 CY), as Hundgred is referred to as the “young” king of the
Fruztii in the Living Greyhawk Journal.
Ingmar is all noted as a CN male human
Bbn16 in the same work, and I would imagine that it should take a number of
years to gain that level of experience.
550s CY
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| Orvung |
The Fruztii had
never recovered from their folly of having fought the Great southern Kingdom on
its own terms, wasting the fullness of their strength against the walls of
Spinecastle in 108 CY; fruitlessly, the emissaries of Shar said. Because they
had, they could not hope to repel the Aerdi when they had invaded the Timberway
Forest. And for the decades and centuries since, the Fruztii had crippled
themselves as they sought to avenge that defeat, for decades upon centuries. To
what gain, the Red Robes asked? The Fruztii were a beaten people now, they
said, a defeated people, barely able to defend themselves against the Fists
that hammered them from the north when they were away, raiding the coasts to
the south. They ought to have been patient, the Red Robes had said, as the
Schnai were patient. And they were right. When Ovrung offered the Fruztii his
aid in the defence of the Kelten Pass, the fools accepted, and Ovrung flooded
their lands with his shields and his berserkers; and the Fruztii could do
nought but watch.
The Frost
Barbarians are the weakest of the three nations (of Suel peoples) inhabiting
the Thillonrian Peninsula, called Rhizia by these peoples. They have never
recovered from the Battle of Shamblefield, and have been under the suzerainty
of the Schnai for the past two decades - and several times previously as well. [WOGA
– 21]
560 CY
Orvung is 70,
when [in] 560 CY hordes of humanoids (Euroz, Kell, Eiger, and others) began
making forays into the Bone March, and these raids turned into a full scale
invasion the next year. [WOGA – 20]
In 560 CY, the
Great Kingdom's northernmost province Bone March was invaded by humanoids from
the takers: it fell three years later and has been in a barbaric state since.
[PGTG – 10]
In 560,
nonhuman tribes from the Rakers and Blemu Hills struck into Bone March,
subjugating the land in 563 and slaying its leaders. [LGG – 91]
The Fuztii
demanded that the Rhizians fall upon the Ratikians, en mass; but Orvung knew
better. Their distant kin had informed him that the orcs would attack, and that
he should wait to see the outcome before committing his forces. The walls of
Ratikhill and Marner are tall and strong, they said, and he would accomplish
little more than bleed his peoples’ strength in such a venture. It was better
to wait, Orvung told the Fruztii, and watch as the Aerdi and Euroz destroyed
one another. When they had tired, if they tired, then Ovrung would see what
might be done, if anything.
563 CY
Bone March fell
to the humanoids, but not Ratik. Orvung knew that he had been wise to wait. What
did his people have to gain in such a venture, anyway? Ratik would have been
the Fruztii’s prize, not his; and why should he risk all for their gain?
In 563 CY,
orcs invaded Spinecastle by secret ways that offered its defenders little
warning or means of preparation. [LGG – 36]
But the emissaries of Shar were far from
pleased. Orvung wondered why. They had declared that it had been their wish
that the Aerdi’s march should fall. They should have danced a jig, to Orvung’s
reckoning.
In 563 the
[Bone March] fell to these invaders. its lord was slain, and its army slain or
enslaved. Humans in the area were likewise enslaved or killed, and the whole
territory is now ruled by one or more of the humanoid chiefs. [WOGA – 20]
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| Rälff, King of the Fruztii |
Ratik and its
baron, Lexnol III, had been forewarned and deflected most of the invaders, but
could not prevent the disaster that befell the march. Lexnol, a skilled
leader and tactician, realized that he was now isolated and no succor would be
forthcoming from the south or the court of Overking Ivid V. He approached the
lords of Djekul, who had grown less wary of the proud Aerdi in the intervening
years and were even grudgingly respectful. With the Fruztii, Lexnol forged an
affiliation called the Northern Alliance. Ratik subsequently became fully
independent of the Great Kingdom and had the might to both hammer the orcs and
gnolls of Bone March and dissuade an invasion from North Province. [LGG –
91]
The blunt but
popular Lord Baron of Ratik is a ranger: a woodsman, tracker, warrior and scout
who has fought for years against the Bone March humanoids raiding his lands.
Lexnol’s cool, hilly realm is rich with natural resources. He is on good terms
with local gnomes and dwarves, and he has made a treaty for mutual defense and
trade with the Frost Barbarians to the north. [PGtG
– 25]
Ovrung seethed at the cheek of that Fruztii upstart. That
“King” Rälff
should treat with the enemy of the Rhizians as an affront to Ovrung’s very suzerainty.
But before Ovrung could act, the Ratikians had already poured its legions onto
the Fruztii’s southern shores. To repel them now would be a costly venture. There
was no need to, the Red Robes advised; the Ratikians and the Fruztii were stretched
thin, guarding the northern pass and defending the Loftwood. It was only a
matter of time before they collapsed and were left reeling under the swords of
the orcs. That was when Orvung should release his berserkers.
But that time did not come.
575 CY
Orvung is 85 years young.
The Ratik-Frutzii alliance had not broken, much to
Orvung’s annoyance. It had flourished, and continued to do so as it defeated
the hordes of humanoids howling out of the Griff Mountains at Blufang-Kelten
Pass, and made headway into the Loftwood.
The newly proclaimed Archbaron of Ratik frantically
organized his forces after the joint Ratiker-Fruztii foray into the
Bluefang-Kelten Pass. The humanoids so soundly defeated in the campaign of 575
were again raiding over the border, and the gnomes of the Lofthills (west of
Loftwood) were being continually besieged. Losses from the campaigns in Bone March
and with the Frost Barbarians could be replaced by mercenaries and volunteers
from foreign lands only. [Dragon #57
– 14]
576 CY
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| Orvung |
[WOGG – 17]
His Bellicose Majesty, King of the Schnai
Capital:
Soull (5,400)
Population:
90,000 +
Demi-humans:
Some
Humanoids: Many (in mountains)
Resources: copper, gems (L II)
[WOGA – 35]
Orvung worried. What if that upstart Rälff
began to have thoughts that Schnai might be better suited under his
suzerainty. Ratik had sent emissaries to Krakenheim to discuss their “future.” Indeed,
Ratik had sent emissaries to Soull, as well, and spoke those same divisive
words, that the Rhizians should look to them and not each other for strength
and security. That Fruztii should do so worried Orvung, so much so that Orvung
did not consult the emissaries of Shar when he began talks with the Cruski,
suggesting a new co-operation to safeguard their own mutual continued
sovereignty, despite knowing that Shar had never spoken well of the Cruski, and
Cruski spoke of Shar not at all.
Several decades ago they
captured the west coast below Glot and have managed to hold it since. For a
time the Frost Barbarians were under the thumb of the King of the Schnai, but
the Fruztii are now free except in pledge. This has not affected general
concord with either neighbor, as all three consider the Great Kingdom and the
Sea Barons as their most natural source of easy loot and profit. Although
fighting invading humanoids has become a national pastime, there are sufficient
men left to man the longships when campaigning season in the south is at hand.
It is rumored that the Baron of Ratik has sent messages to the King of the
Schnai proposing four-way cooperation to take the Hold of Stonefist and the
Bone March. Supposedly this proposal offers Glot and Krakenheim as possible
gains for the Schnai, while the Fruztii and Cruski would divide the Hold, part
of Timberway would be returned to the Frost Barbarians, and Ratik would rule
Bone March. The reaction to these proposals can not be guessed, but the Schnai
are undoubtedly keeping an eye on the joint Fruztii-Ratik ventures of late. [WOGA
– 35]
Orvung worried that he had miscalculated.
Ratik and Fruztii had yet to tire; in fact, they continued to make gains
against Euroz of the Bone March.
The alliance
between Ratik and the Frost Barbarians against the humanoids of the Bone March
has born fruit over years of cooperation. The forces of Ratik now occupy the
Loftwood and are preparing for a major assault on the city of Johnsport, backed
by a naval attack along the coast to the east. [WGS1 – 4]
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| Striking Against the Hated Stonefist |
The Snow
Barbarians, or Schnai, are the most powerful and populous group, dominating
Grendep Bay and the northern Solnor Ocean with their longships. Their marauding
armies, with those of the Ice Barbarians, have also made themselves into a
major force in the land.
The other
joint operation of these states has been against the Hold of Stonefist. Fruztii
forces have now secured the pass south of the Hraak forest and control the land
for some 20 miles around. [WGS1 – 4]
Of late [the
Cruski] raiders have joined with Frost and Snow barbarians in order to counter
the growing strength of the coastal defenders of the Great Kingdom and the Sea
Barons. [WOGA – 26]
They will raid
their cousins to the south, the Snow and Frost barbarians, or raid with them
into Ratik or the more tempting Great Kingdom. [WOGA – 26]
577 CY
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| Raiding The Hold of Stonefist |
The Fruztii and Cruski raids against Stonefist and the
Great Kingdom were going well, and Orvung was willing to venture further afield,
although he kept most of his warriors in reserve.
Cruski and Schnai treaty. Schnai give up the lands
south of Glot along the east coast to Cruskii.
Events amongst the Schnai were quite similar to those
of their cousins to the north, in that they generally raided southwards and
carried heaps of goods back to towns of their realm. Unsettled conditions in
the Great Kingdom made for rich loot; coupled with the payment made by the
Cruski for the return of Ustula, the men of the region were pleased indeed with
their wealth in currency, goods, and slaves (thralls). Mutual cooperation
between the Schnai and Fruztii, and the Schnai and Cruskii as well, was at a
high level, and the raids from the Hold of Stonefist at a very low level. [Dragon
#57 – 15]
There was little to be had in the far north, furs, walrus
and mammoth tusks, blubber and oil. The real wealth was to the south; and the
Sea Barons had proven themselves incapable, as yet, to guard against the
longships that ravaged the Solnor coast each and every season. Orvung sent more
ships, expecting their best season yet.
During the season of 577, much minor activity took
place along the coast of North Province and off the northern end of the Island
of Asperdi. Some raiders were met and actions were fought; some slipped
through, some turned elsewhere. Reportedly a squadron of seven Schnai longships
were set upon whilst sinking the hulks of two provincial merchants, the vessels
Marntig and Solos. Guided by the smoke and flames, a flotilla of Baronial
warships surprised the barbarians. Three of the Schnai were rammed and sunk. In
hand-to-hand action, the flagship of the barbarians’ fleet was captured, but
the three remaining longships escaped after jettisoning all of their captured
cargo.
The flagship was occupied with the help of prisoners
who broke free during the confused fighting and set fire to the vessel’s sail.
Jarl Froztilth, leader of the Schnai, many of his men, and the captured ship
were all taken to Asperdi. News of this success was said to have greatly
heartened the Herzog.
This event notwithstanding, many of the vessels from
the cold north did manage to avoid patrolling warships and successfully raid
North Province and the Baronial Isles. Captured cargo and undesired weapons are
said to find a ready market at Dekspoint (at the easternmost tip of Loftwood
Peninsula) or at Marner in Ratik. [Dragon #63 – 16]
Where Orvung’s main force was being bloodied to the
south, the northern campaign was more successful. But there was little loot to
be gained from the venture.
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| Against the Stonefist |
It is rumored that the King of the Snow Barbarians was
not taken with a plan for the three barbarian groups to ally with Ratik—not
because he didn’t trust the Baron of Ratik who proposed the plans—but for
simpler reasons. Major invasion of the Bone March would drive humanoids in
their tens of thousands into North Province and might precipitate an all-out
attack from the Great Kingdom. The King, being wily and crafty, prefers more
opportunistic and piratical actions. [WGS1 – 4]
The King, being wily and crafty, prefers not to
attract the Great Kingdom’s full attention just now. [WGS2 – 6]
Orvung was ever mindful of the true intent of the Fruztii
and Cruski. Why should they desire that he send his strength against the
Stonefist, he wondered? What would they gain there? Did they truly wish to put
an end to the Fist’s raids; or was it that they hoped to lure his berserkers
away from Soull? The Red Robes thought that might be their design.
A major raid into Stonehold was mounted several years
ago by a combined force of Schnai and Cruski, though they were ultimately
driven back. Since then, the young king of the Frost Barbarians has finally
declared his nation's independence from the Schnai, Old King Orvung might have
gone to war over such an action [….] [LGG – 106]
Had Orvung’s fleet
not received the blow it had, and had Stonefist not thrown his armies back, Orvung
might then have taken the young Rälff to task, but had Orvung moved against Rälff then, weakened, he
would surely have left his eastern border open to the Cruski.
Even the high country around the head of the Jenelrad
River was peaceful, and its Jarl swore an oath of fealty to Ralff. Without
actually declaring independence from Schnai overlordship, the King of Fruzti
showed that he was again capable of fielding an army capable of either
defending his territory or taking another’s. The Schnai conveniently ignored
the resurgence, probably hoping that the involvement in Ratik would again
reduce the Frost Barbarians to vassal status. [Dragon #57 – 15]
578 CY
It was not the Euroz, the Vile Runes, who carried the day
in the Loftwood, it was the Ratikians. Much to Shar’s annoyance. They had said Ratik was weak, Ratik will
fall. But it hadn’t, had it?
The site of a great Ratikkan victory over Bone March
orcs (578 CY) [.] [LGG – 141]
Reports reached Orvung’s ears that Fruztii battle tactics
had changed. They no longer rushed into battle with nought by skins and furs
and dyed with woad, with only their cries to Kord to protect them; they
employed breastplates and great shields, and they knit them together into the
shell of the turtle. Individual glory had fallen victim to the phalanx. They
were fighting like the Aerdians.
The Fruztii sent raiding bands to sea with the Schnai,
but due to careful urgings, numbers of mercenary troops also moved southward
into Ratik and joined the Baron’s troops there. These Fruztii returned with
knowledge of organized warfare and good-quality arms and armor and formed the
core of a new standing army organized by King Ralff II in 578. [Dragon #57
– 15]
579 CY
It would seem,
much to Orvung’s amusement, that the Fruztii were no longer in need of their
brethren. Orvung knew better. If the Fruztii continued to fight in others’
wars, they would, in time, come crawling back on hands and knees, wounded,
spent, defeated, begging for succour. As they had for centuries. It was only a
matter of time, but they would again. Until then, the spoils of the seacoasts
were his for the taking.
CY 579 is likely to be particularly good for the Snow
Barbarians, for with their northern neighbors looking elsewhere, and the Frost
Barbarians busy with Ratik, the choicest areas for raiding will be left to the
Schnai. [Dragon #57 – 15]
580 CY
In 580 CY, intruders from Bone March attempted an
audacious act of treachery by stealing the Seal of Marner, an object blessed by
the gods of the Suel barbarians that was the symbol of the new Northern
Alliance. The plot was foiled when the raiding party was captured in Kalmar
Pass before making it back to Spinecastle with their prize. [LGG - 36,37]
[The]
Seal of Marner was stolen by agents of Bone March, an effort by the nonhumans
to quash the alliance between Ratik and the Frost Barbarians. The document was
recovered before it was secreted to Spinecastle, but not before news of the
theft drove a small wedge between the Fruztii and Ratikans. [LGG – 91]
Orvung was pleased. He had disliked the Fruztii’s
alliance with Ratik; but he had to admit that it wasn’t until Lexnol had
entered Rälff’s
Hall that the young upstart had the notion of throwing off the Schani’s yoke.
Prior to then, the Fruztii were a beaten people. Ratik toughened them. And gave
them the confidence to presume independence.
Ratik, it seemed, had its use. The old king wondered if he
too could make use of it. Maybe Ratik would instruct the Schnai in its
accoutrements of war. That knowledge would be invaluable if Rälff
should one day presume to strike his people.
What had Shar done for him, he thought as he thumbed the
fine steel they had once brought his people, long ago. So long ago. All they brought
now were whispers. They seduced his young to their southern climes, never to be
seen again. Yet these Ratikians….
Orvung thought long on what he might say to the
emissaries of Shar should he invite Lexnol into his Hall.
c. 580 CY
Lexnol had been working on a treaty with the Schnai to
shore up his position against Bone March and its allies in North Kingdom [….]
[LGG – 89]
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| Whispers in the Dark |
No longer. Orvung began treating with Ratik, potentially
undermining Shar’s influence on the peninsula. The old man had to go. They
panned for potential gold, and discovered Ingemar Hartensen waiting in the wings. He
is old, Shar whispered in Ingemar’s ears. Ancient, they said. Past
his time, they said.
He’ll die soon, Ingemar had said.
Not soon enough, Shar coaxed.
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| The Old Tyrant's Fate |
[Orvung is king
of the Schnai as of 576 CY, as noted in the Greyhawk Boxed Set, and Ingemar
Hartensen is king in 584 CY, as noted in the from the ashes Boxed Set.
References in the Living Greyhawk Gazetter hint that the Fruztii and Cruski
thrones are passed down through the ruling family, and I would assume the
Schnai no different. No mention was made of Ingemar’s ancestry, so I took the
liberty to add a little drama to the succession.]
Few rejoiced at
the old king’s passing. Fewer still protested. Even fewer took measures
afterwards. To no avail. Few mourned their passing, either.
Rälff reeled at the news. And worried.
His spies in Soull hinted at who might be behind the assassination. And why.
What might this young hothead on Schnai’s throne might do, he wondered?
More importantly,
he wondered what his supposed distant kin to the south might be planning
concerning his own succession.
SNOW BARBARIANS (KINGDOM OF
SCHNAI)
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| Ingemar Hartensen |
The Snow
Barbarians […] claim suzerainty over all the barbarian peoples, especially the
Cruskii, and are rather patronizing toward them. However, they have allied with
their fellows against the Great Kingdom for many decades and have been known to
make occasional forays against the Sea Barons.
Their alliance
with Ratik is less cemented than that of the Cruskii, but Ingemar seems
amenable to continued cooperation after the events of the Wars. He also has
great hatred for the Stonefisters, and wishes to mount a joint expedition with
the other barbarian races through the Griff Mountains to lay waste to Kelten.
Time will tell if this comes to fruition.
The Snow
Barbarians share many characterittics with their brethren, but are the palest
of all, many being almost albinoid. Platinum-blond hair is not unusual. Their
womenfolk have an unearthly beauty and are often found as a trainers (dogs and
dog-wolf hybrids), scouts, rangers, druids, or the like, despite the dominant
chauvinism of their men. This is a proud and strong race. [FtAA – 37,38]
One must always give credit where
credit is due. This piece is made possible primarily by the Imaginings of Gary
Gygax and his Old Guard, Lenard Lakofka among them, and the new old guards,
Carl Sargant, James Ward, Roger E. Moore. And Erik Mona, Gary Holian, Sean
Reynolds, Frederick Weining. The list is interminable.
Special thanks to Jason Zavoda for his
compiled index, “Greyhawkania,” an invaluable research tool.
The Art:
All art is wholly owned by the artists.
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WGS1 Five Shall be One, 1991
9377
WGS1 Howl From the North, 1991
9577
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11374
The Scarlet Brotherhood, 1999
11743
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Magazine 57,63
Oerth
Journal #1, as found on Greyhawk Online
Greyhawkania,
Jason Zavoda
The
map of Anna B. Meyer
DAnnnnng Orvung is epic. I had used him in my old 2E wars, but as always your research and conjecture have illustrated this character perfectly. Orvung's name should be sung more often!
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