Orcs, goblins and their rarer (albeit, more beastly cousins) are a common sight on Post-Cataclysmic Earth. From hordes of raiders preying on the peripheries of human civilisation, to valuable members of law enforcement and the military, the Children of Gorgmonn are here to stay on Earth. But how did they get here? And what exactly …
There are many aliens who threaten the fringes of human space, and many who live within the confines of humanity’s vast, disunited empire. But no alien empire, even the totalitarian Imperial Council, deserves the title of alien more than the Xank Empire of the Outer Reach. Background The Golden Age of Human Exploration, post-recovery, was …
“An unfathomable, grey void, inhabited by the dead, the cosmic and the unknowable.” – That is how a surviving riftborne human from the distant realm of Stradgorf described the realm between realms. A place that is physical, yet unreal. A place that ignores all our petty laws of physics and common sense. A place between …
Vampires have existed in human lore for millennia before the arrival of the Vortex. Creatures of night, preying on humans and animals. Often, consuming flesh like a beast, but more often than not, content to suck only the blood of a hapless victim. Draining them dry. And then raising them as one of their own. …
When the Vortex opened in Siberia in 1991, it was almost a side-show to the other events happening in the world. For the United States, the ongoing collapse of the Soviet Union and the Gulf War were far more concerning than a light show happening in a far-off tundra. Things changed when sorcerers began to …
At first, the Vortex didn’t do much. On an otherwise uneventful day in 1991, as the once gargantuan Soviet Union was reaching its final dissolution, a blue, swirling Vortex appeared in the middle of Siberia. Scientists flocked to the scene. Some called it a weather anomaly. Many news stations excused it as a hoax. And …
“Even as I spoke, an immense shape Materialised in the night air, Grotesque and enormous stature With heavy jowls, and an unkempt beard Scowling from shrunken, hollow eyes Its complexion earthy and pale, Its hair grizzled and matted with clay, Its mouth coal black, teeth yellow with decay.” – Camoes, The Lusiads, Book V, describing …
Magic flows through the world. Even before the Cataclysm, and before the Vortex sparked massive flows of magical energy on Earth, there existed a sense of magic in all things. The flow of this magic, named after the Sintari word for magic (Wey), became weylines. Weylines are crucial to understanding magic in the world of …
The big baddies of the Warpmancer Universe, like any three-dimensional entity, isn’t some basic evil formed in a vacuum. Like in reality, everyone and everything finds its inspiration and origin in a philosophy. The Imperial Council and their founding races are no different. It is very rare for the villain to think of themselves as …
“The basis of all Trooper power is that of security. The Troopers are not builders. They are not bureaucrats. They are soldiers. And like any enlightened military – they know better than intervening in the affairs of peace.” – High Protector Winston Mengel of Mars. The Trooper Order is not only a military, but also …