Spiritgrav: A district of Five Fingers noted for its production of alcoholic spirits, a major source of income for the city.
Steamjack: A steam powered mechanikal construct designed in a variety of configurations and sizes, used for both labor and warfare throughout the Iron Kingdoms, Cryx, and Rhul.
Tarna: Southern Ordic city on the Dragon’s Tongue River, the site where the first sorcerers were discovered during the Rebellion against the Orgoth.
Thuria: Ancient human kingdom conquered by Tordor centuries before the arrival of the Orgoth, presently divided between southern Ord and northern Cygnar.
Thurian: A cultural group of the people of southern Ord and northern Cygnar who share common ancestry.
Tordor: Ancient human kingdom renowned for its great fleet.
Tordoran: A cultural group of the people of northern Ord, including among them the most powerful land-owning nobility and the royal line.
Trollkin: A hardy race related to full blooded trolls. Trollkin live both in their own communities on the fringes of civilization and amongst the cities of man.
Uldenfrost: A small city of trappers and hunters on Khadors northern-most, western-most fringe.
Umbrey: Former human kingdom centered in what is now eastern Khador and formerly northwestern Llael.
Urcaen: A mysterious cosmological realm that is the spiritual counterpart of Caen, where most of the gods reside and where most souls pass to experience the afterlife. It is divided between protected divine domains and the hellish wilds where the Devourer Wurm stalks.
Veld: Iosan name for Urcaen.
Void: Two different meanings: the emptiness surrounding Urcaen from which undead banes arise; and where skorne souls are cast after death if not preserved in sacral stones. It is unknown if these two uses describe the same place.
Warcaster: Arcanists born with the natural ability to control steamjacks with their minds. With proper training warcasters become singular military assets and among the greatest soldiers of western Immoren, entrusted to command scores of troops and their own battlegroups of warjacks in the field. Acquiring and training warcasters is a high priority for any military force that employs warjacks.
Warlock: An arcanist with the ability to bond to and mentally control savage or enslaved beasts.
Warbeast: A savage beast bonded to a warlock.
Warjack: A highly advanced and well armed steamjack created or modified for war.
Zu: Little explored continent south of Immoren, engaged in lucrative trade with the Immorese for certain exotic goods.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Miles Holmes is a game designer with experience in the industry going back more than fifteen years. He’s worked on a lot of games, including well known franchises like Mass Effect, Sonic the Hedgehog and Full Auto. He has also played tabletop games since he was a kid, and has spent far too much money on games like WARMACHINE. He writes fiction on his website, www.infinitygate.com, where he offers free content for interested parties. He’s currently putting the finishing touches on the manuscript for his first full novel, Tales of the Invisible Hand.
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Table of Contents
MAP
PROLOGUE
PART ONE
PART TWO
PART THREE
EPILOGUE
IRON KINGDOMS INDEX
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