Emirikol Environment

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Temperature wise the city never gets too cold - winter is known for nasty storms, not for heavy snowfall - and the Rheel never freezes over. The summers never get too hot, capping out in the high 90's Fahrenheit. It does get humid for half the year, and the mosquitoes coming out of the swamp can get nasty. Really nasty: 'giant' insects are a common monster for heroes to encounter, so stirges are the name for giant mosquitoes, and centipedes the size of boa constrictors and spiders with bodies the size of small dogs are not uncommon. (Though I promise ladegard we'll never have a "she's got 40' of spider on her!" moment.)

Other common monsters are Chaos Beasts, which are hybrids or chimera of one or more existing animals. Kobolds are back to being dog-man, Orks are pig-men and so on, and I'll work an Owlbear into the campaign even if it kills me. The PCs would be well aware of the basics of such things, though ranks in 'Knowledge - Chaos beasts' would mean you'd get more detail.

Days and nights are always of uniform length, as the sun and moon follow consistent paths in the sky. Seasons come from the fact that the sun, like the moon, has phases: for 1 week a year the sun is completely full, marking the beginning of summer; likewise the start of winter is one week darkness, where the sun is visible only in the barest of slivers, with one day that is just a corona. This is all purely magical - don't start wondering what's eclipsing the sun, because it's the goddess of fire dying and being reborn once a year.

More on this later.

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[brianrogers.livejournal.com]

I was jazzed when I came up with it. No question you're living in a magical environment with that floating over your head.