{"id":134,"date":"2024-09-30T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunnhrafn.com\/caw\/?p=134"},"modified":"2024-10-09T10:03:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T14:03:01","slug":"ruins-of-malbeth-the-micel-kingdoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gunnhrafn.com\/caw\/2024\/09\/30\/ruins-of-malbeth-the-micel-kingdoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruins of Malbeth: The Micel Kingdoms Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is part of a series of posts on about an old D&D campaign world called Malbeth.
Go to the original\u00a0Ruins of Malbeth<\/a>\u00a0post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Malbeth was an entire continent, the focus of my Malbeth-based setting was the Micel Kingdoms. As with the Malbeth map<\/a>, the embedded map to the left is a scan of a pencil drawing I intended to eventually use to make a hex map with Hexographer<\/a> hex map software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Referencing the Micel Kingdoms map as needed, I hope this summary overview of the Mickel Kingdoms will make some sense. As I consider what I might want to take from Malbeth for future D&D campaigns, in future posts I’ll look at specific locations within the Micel Kingdoms. In this summary, I used all-caps to mark political entities such as a kingdom and italics to mark geographic entries such as a forest or mountain range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overview of the Micel Kingdoms<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The campaign is set in the western half of continent of Malbeth in the lands in and adjacent to the\u00a0Micelgeflowan River<\/em>\u00a0valley, one of the most continuously settled regions of Malbeth. The lands of the\u00a0Micel Kingdoms, all of which once belonged to the\u00a0MICEL EMPIRE, include a number of human, dwarven, gnomish, elvish, and halfling kingdoms, duchies, and communities along the\u00a0Micelgeflowan River<\/em>\u00a0as well as the\u00a0Cir Gap<\/em>, the\u00a0Western March<\/em>, the\u00a0Western Wilderness<\/em>, parts of the\u00a0Eastern March Forest<\/em>, and a few islands in the\u00a0Southern Sea<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0Micelgeflowan River<\/em>\u00a0valley is bordered by the\u00a0Onnar<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Fullangr Mountains<\/em>\u00a0to the north. Between them lies the\u00a0Cir Gap<\/em>, a broad cleft in the mountains that is dominated by the\u00a0Cirelin Lake<\/em>\u00a0from which the\u00a0Micelgeflowan River<\/em>\u00a0begins. The\u00a0Cir Gap<\/em>\u00a0is also home to the high elf island kingdom of\u00a0CIRTOL and the independent city-state of\u00a0CIRLONN, which includes the mountain dwarf and rock gnome community of\u00a0CIRABLE. North of the mountains and the\u00a0Cir Gap<\/em>\u00a0is the\u00a0Lambuletal<\/em>, a tropical rain forest, and beyond that are the\u00a0Hringtor Mountains<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0Northern Sea<\/em>. Along the northern shore of the\u00a0Cirelin Lake<\/em>\u00a0is the sparsely populated\u00a0LAMBULETAL FRONTIER, in which the only permanent settlement of note is the town of Cliff on the northern shore of\u00a0Cirelin Lake<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South of the\u00a0Onnar Mountains<\/em>\u00a0and west of the\u00a0MICEL KINGDOMS\u00a0is the\u00a0Galarr Forest<\/em>, a vast forest home to various goblin races. South of the\u00a0Galarr Forest<\/em>\u00a0is the\u00a0Bay of Nor<\/em>, and below that is\u00a0Norwood<\/em>, another vast goblinoid-dominated forest. The far northwest of\u00a0Norwood<\/em>, along the southern mouth of the\u00a0Bay of Nor<\/em>\u00a0is the high plateau known as the\u00a0Ruins of Nor<\/em>, home of the Lich-kings who ruled the\u00a0EMPIRE OF NOR. Little is known of the\u00a0Gallar Forest<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Norwood<\/em>, and even less is known of the\u00a0Ruins of Nor<\/em>, although tales and legends of its powerful artifacts and wondrous magics almost outnumber the tales and legends undead armies, dragons, deadly monsters, and all manner of nameless horrors that reside there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stretching south of\u00a0Norwood<\/em>\u00a0along the coast to where the\u00a0Western Sea<\/em>\u00a0meets the\u00a0Southern Sea<\/em>\u00a0is the\u00a0Western Wilderness<\/em>, a sparsely populated frontier region dominated by the three coastal city-states of the\u00a0WESTERN LEAGUE, the\u00a0CITY OF NOR,\u00a0VINDSVAL, and\u00a0SYNDALA. Between the\u00a0Western Wilderness<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0Micelgeflowan<\/em>\u00a0valley is the\u00a0Western March<\/em>, a region also lightly populated except for the hill dwarf\u00a0Kingdom of DVARLINN, unique in that it spans a number of underground dwarven holds along with a number of surface dwelling halfling and human farming communities, all connected by a network of fortified and surface roads.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The northeast region of the\u00a0Micelgeflowan<\/em>\u00a0valley is bordered by the\u00a0Southern Fullangr Mountains<\/em>. The eastern region of the\u00a0MICEL KINGDOMS\u00a0south of the\u00a0Southern Fullangr Mountains<\/em>\u00a0is the\u00a0Eastern March Forest<\/em>, home to the wood elves of\u00a0THILCAMA\u00a0and the forest gnomes of the\u00a0EASTERN BURROWS. It is also home to the\u00a0Gwathimlad<\/em>, once the elvish homeland of ALCARINBAR, destroyed some 4,000 years ago in a cataclysmic event the elves call the Uplift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Off the southern coast of the\u00a0MICEL KINGDOMS are the halfling island\u00a0KINGDOM OF KALBATHNOSS and the magocracy of\u00a0OSSE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is part of a series of posts on about an old D&D campaign world called Malbeth.Go to the original\u00a0Ruins of Malbeth\u00a0post. While Malbeth was an entire continent, the focus of my Malbeth-based setting was the Micel Kingdoms. As with the Malbeth map, the embedded map to the left is a scan of a pencil … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dnd","category-ruins-of-malbeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gunnhrafn.com\/caw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gunnhrafn.com\/caw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gunnhrafn.com\/caw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gunnhrafn.com\/caw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gunnhrafn.com\/caw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gunnhrafn.com\/caw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/www.gunnhrafn.com\/caw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gunnhrafn.com\/caw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gunnhrafn.com\/caw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gunnhrafn.com\/caw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}