Dyson's Dodecahedron

Marked on maps as “The Crown of Gaveth”, this burnished copper tower sticks out of the rocky outcroppings of the burning lands, a jagged-tipped shining spear aimed at the heavens. The Smith-Priests of Gaveth send teams out into the burning lands to acquire the metals and minerals used in their sacred rites. The utter lack of plant life within the burning lands makes survival ...

The gaol known as the Pit of Despair was an open pit mine now converted into a prison. But there used to be more extensive mines beneath it that were all collapsed when the mine was repurposed. Well, all but one. While the entry to this mine was indeed collapsed, the rest of this section of the mines remains. A group of prisoners recently reopened the collapsed entrance but t...

“The Pit of Despair” is an excellent name for a prison. It drives the point home that this isn’t a place for rehabilitation. It is a sentence of its own – to be left here in the pit to work away your sentence in hard labour in the many tiers of the pit… or worse. The worst are taken all the way down to the bottom of the pit – to the sump. This is the floor of the old open pit...

The bloomeries and ironworks in the City of Copper Bowls have been supplied by a hundred mines in the Corft Hills. A huge variety of mines support the city, from open pits to deep shaft mines ...

Mistakes were made. And mistakes continue to be made.

Numerous goblin slaves escaped the razing of the Giants Hearth. Some were from communities that had been wiped out and ha...