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Dark Sun Campaign Expansion
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Introduction .......................................................... 4
About This Revision ........................................... 4
Who Is the Wanderer?
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6
Chapter 1: The Nature of the World ........................................ 7
A History of Athas .................................................. 9
The Blue Age ................................................... 9
The Rebirth ................................................. 10
The Green Age ................................................ 11
The Time of Magic ............................................. 12
The Cleansing Wars ............................................. 13
The Age of the Sorcerer-Kings ..................................... 14
The Decade of Heroism .......................................... 14
Champions and Sorcerer-Kings .......................................... 15
Supernatural Forces .......................................... 16
Priestly Magic
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16
Wizardly Magic
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18
Psionics
Natural Forces
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A Barren World
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19
The Lack of Metal
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20
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Aarakocra ................................................. 22
Dwarves
20
The Races of Athas
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Half-Elves .................................................... 24
Half-Giants .................................................. 24
Halflings ...........................................
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22
Elves
25
Humans
26
Muls
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Pterrans
27
Thri-Kreen
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28
Chapter 2: The Tyr Region ............................................. 29
Culture ............................................. 29
Geography ............................................. 31
The Silt Sea ............................................. 31
The Tablelands ............................................. 33
The Ringing Mountains ....................................... 38
The Hinterlands ............................................. 42
The City-States ............................................. 44
Tyr ............................................. 46
Urik
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51
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Nibenay ............................................. 59
Gulg ............................................. 61
Balic ............................................. 64
The Villages ............................................. 66
Altaruk ............................................. 67
Cromlin .................................................... 67
Hidden Village ................................................ 67
North and South Ledopolus ..................................... 67
Ogo .......................................................
53
Draj
67
SaltView
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68
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Other Points of Interest ............................................. 68
Silver Spring Oasis
68
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Grak’sPoolOasis ............................................. 68
Islands of the Forked Tongue Estuary .............................................
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68
Changes in the Land
Raam
W alis
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Kalidnay Ruins ................................................ 69
Bodach Ruins ............................................... 69
The Pristine Tower .............................................. 69
Giustenal Ruins ............................................... 69
Dragon’s Bowl ................................................ 70
Black Sand Region ............................................. 70
Estuary of the Forked Tongue .................................... 70
Currency of the Region ............................................. 70
Chapter 3: The Jagged Cliffs Region ....................................... 72
Culture ........................................................
72
Geography .....................................................
73
The Silt Sea .................................
The Barrier Wastes ............................................. 74
The Jagged Cliffs ............................................. 76
The Scorched Plateau ........................................... 82
The Crimson Savanna ........................................... 84
The Lost City-States ................................................ 88
Kurn ................................................ 88
Eldaarich ................................................ 92
The Last Sea ................................................ 95
Saragar ....................................................... 95
Thamasku ...................................................... 99
The Kreen Empire ................................................ 100
G’lathuk Society .............................................. 101
Current Endeavors
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102
103
Villages and Tribes of the Barrier Wastes .......................................... 103
Other Points of Interest ............................................
105
Nexus ....................................................
105
Pyreen Grove ..............................................
106
Godshold ..................................................
107
Winter Nest ................................................
107
Chapter 4: Beyond the Tyr Region ........................................ 109
Culture ....................................................... 110
Geography .................................................... 110
East of the Tyr Region ........................................ 110
W est of the Tyr Region .......................................... 110
South of the Tyr Region ......................................... 111
Eastern Locations ................................................ 111
Ket
TheRoad of Fire
112
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The Silt Archipelago ........................................... 112
The Valley of the Cerulean Storm ................................. 113
W estern Locations ................................................ 114
Pterran Vale and Lost Scale ...................................... 114
The Great Rift ............................................
Si’jidzak
115
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Southern Locations ............................................... 116
Celik ............................................ 116
Durg’sPuddle .............................................. 117
Last Drink ............................................ 117
The Crimson Monolith ............................................ 117
The Dead Land ............................................ 120
Small Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
The City of a Thousand Dead .................................... 121
Chapter 5: Monsters of Athas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Animal, Domestic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Erdlu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Inix ............................................ 123
Kank ............................................ 124
Mekillot ............................................ 124
Dregoth, the Undead Dragon King ............................................ 125
Giant, Athasian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Beasthead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Desert ............................................ 128
Plains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
The Bandit States ...............................................
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Shault ............................................
The Mountains of the Sun
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