Raid Leader Simulator

Powers

Aether: The shoreless sea of light the world was sung out of.; Told in Book I, The Silence and the Song
Corvane: Kindler of the winds. The ravens are her eyes; the Ravenmother answers for her.; Told in Book IV, The Ravenhold March
Deepmother: A dream of the Deep given flesh, living in the cistern of Tidegrave Hold.; Told in Book VIII, Tidegrave Hold
Hollow: What lies beyond the edge of the Aether: not darkness, but the absence of anything to be dark.; Told in Book I, The Hollow Beyond
Ignaroth: Also: Wyrm Eternal; Eldest of dragons, born of a drop of Orun’s fire. Bound atop the Wyrmspire, and back every week.; Told in Book II, The Wyrm in the Root
Ilun: The silver moon, Seren’s daughter, who draws the tides. The only moon left.; Told in Book I, The Sun and the Two Moons
Kindlers: Also: Kindler; The singers who made Aetheria, then went down into it and sleep there, holding it together.; Told in Book I, The Silence and the Song
Lysa: Kindler of growing things, gone down into the roots of Whisperwood.; Told in Book I, The Going-Down of the Kindlers
Maelis: The Mender, in every hand that binds a wound. What is broken can be made whole.; Told in Book IX, What the Wise Hope
Morrow: Also: Shadow Moon; The dark moon, whose moonshadow grew hidden things. Nhal took it on the Night of the Missing Moon.; Told in Book III, The Night of the Missing Moon
Nhal: Also: Starving Dark; The hunger in the Hollow, "the mouth that is never full". It eats the stars, and it ate a moon.; Told in Book I, The Hollow Beyond
Orun: Also: Forgefather; Kindler of fire and stone. He sleeps curled around the fire under the mountains.; Told in Book I, The Going-Down of the Kindlers
Seren: The Watcher. She set the stars as watchfires on the walls of the world, and alone stayed in the sky.; Told in Book I, The Hollow Beyond
Thal: Kindler of the sea, asleep in the southern trench. A splinter of the Hollow sours his dreams.; Told in Book II, The Sanctum and the Lullaby
Vesk: The Laughing, who sang out of time: weeds, weather, cats and luck. The goblins revere him.; Told in Book I, The Silence and the Song
Xal'zarith: Also: Dreamer in the Deep; The dream that dreams itself: Thal’s sleep, soured by the Hollow. Woken in the Abyssal Sanctum.; Told in Book IX, The Three Seals

People

Admiral Veyne: Commander of the Drowned Spire, still at his post at the bottom of the sea.; Told in Book VIII, The Drowned Places
Aelthir: First Listener of Vaelmere, who silenced the Lullaby to wake a god, and drowned a kingdom.; Told in Book II, The Drowning
Aldric: Captain of the Hundred Keels and first king of Highcrest. The years are counted from his crown.; Told in Book IV, The Hundred Keels
Elspeth: The practical queen who gave the Charter of Banners in 1102 YC.; Told in Book IV, The Charter of Banners
Gorvath: Also: Chainbreaker; Jailer of the Sanctum, who wrapped its chains around himself and went down into the dark.; Told in Book II, The Drowning
Grukk: The ogre who keeps the Wyrmspire’s gate. Paid a year in advance, twelve hundred years ago.; Told in Book III, Vel'Thuran and the Black Tower
Kel and Vor: Also: Bound Wardens; Two guardians of Starfall sworn to one oath and one life, holding the fallen thing in its crater.; Told in Book III, The Night of the Missing Moon
Morvane: The marine captain who went into the Sunken Crypt and came out a lich, bringing the Grey Tithe.; Told in Book IV, The Grey Tithe
Nyx: Priestess of the Shadowmoon Temple, keeping faith with a moon nobody can see.; Told in Book III, The Blight and the Faithful
Odran Vell: Also: O. V.; Archivist of the Highcrest Athenaeum, who gathered the Annals and wrote in their margins.; Told in Book IV, The Age of Banners
Ravenmother: A raven the size of a woman, or a woman the colour of a raven, who keeps Ravenhold’s rookery.; Told in Book IV, The Ravenhold March
Seraphel: Last queen of Vaelmere, who lives among the reflections of her drowned city in the Mirrorhall.; Told in Book II, The Queen in the Glass
Siren of the Hold: The prisoner who sang Tidegrave Hold under the sea, and is singing still.; Told in Book VIII, Tidegrave Hold
Solara: Also: Nocturne, Twin Seers; Vel’Thuran’s apprentices, who gave half a soul each to the binding and share one still.; Told in Book III, Vel'Thuran and the Black Tower
Sorrowveil: Isolde, abbess of the Order of the Hush, still grieving at the bottom of the sea.; Told in Book II, The Sanctum and the Lullaby
Thrain: Also: Ashen King; Last king of Hammerdeep, turned to ash at his anvil in the Burning. He is still working.; Told in Book III, The Burning of Hammerdeep
Varric: Lord of Ravenhold, who bargained to hold the wood until it was quiet, and holds it still, a century dead.; Told in Book IV, The Ravenhold March
Vel'Thuran: The greatest magister of his age, who raised the Wyrmspire to bind Ignaroth, and was bound to him instead.; Told in Book III, Vel'Thuran and the Black Tower
Vellum: The Archdruid who stayed when the moonwell soured, and has become mostly swamp.; Told in Book III, The Blight and the Faithful
Veyra: High Stormcaller of the Stormspire, who raised the veil of storms over the Stormreach.; Told in Book III, The Veil of Storms
Ysmera: Also: Twilight Seer; Senior Observer of Starfall, who foresaw the Missing Moon, was disbelieved, and went into the crater.; Told in Book III, The Night of the Missing Moon

Places

Abyssal Sanctum: Also: Sanctum; The Order of the Hush’s cathedral over the trench, sunk in the Drowning. It opens when the Wyrm falls.; Told in Book II, The Sanctum and the Lullaby
Aetheria: The Ember of the Aether: the world.; Told in Book I, The Silence and the Song
Ashfen: Once the orcs’ grassland, now marsh, since the moonwell soured.; Told in Book VII, The Ashfen Marshes
Athenaeum: Highcrest’s house of scholars and magisters, where the Annals are kept.; Told in Book VII, Highcrest, the City on the Crest
Blightmire: The druid sanctuary the swamp took back when the Shadow Moon was lost.; Told in Book III, The Blight and the Faithful
Corsair Reaches: Also: Reaches; The sea beyond the sea, on no mainland chart, reached only by a guild’s own ship.; Told in Book VIII, The Sea Beyond the Sea
Drowned Spire: The old Admiralty lighthouse the Maw swallowed. Its lamp still turns at the bottom of the sea.; Told in Book VIII, The Drowned Places
Emberforge: Hammerdeep’s great forge, heated by the root-fire. Its fires still burn, without fuel.; Told in Book III, The Burning of Hammerdeep
Frostspire: The northern peaks over Hammerdeep, with the Wyrmspire on the highest crag.; Told in Book VII, Frostspire Peaks
Greenmeadow: Rolling hills, farms, and an alarming number of boars. Every guild starts here.; Told in Book VII, Greenmeadow Vale
Hammerdeep: The dwarves’ kingdom of nine halls under Frostspire, burned in a night.; Told in Book II, Hammerdeep
Highcrest: The city on the crest above Greenmeadow, seat of the Crown and of a thousand guild halls.; Told in Book VII, Highcrest, the City on the Crest
Hollowbrook Cellar: A farmhouse cellar near Highcrest, full of kobolds and stolen candles. Every new guild’s first job.; Told in Book IV, The Rent of Bread
Maw: The storm-belt round the Drowned Caldera, born in the Drowning: the Dreamer’s breathing.; Told in Book VIII, The Maw
Mirrorhall: Seraphel’s palace of mirrors in Whisperwood, holding the reflection of drowned Vaelmere.; Told in Book II, The Queen in the Glass
Mistveil: The fog-wrapped tops of drowned Vaelmere’s towers.; Told in Book VII, Mistveil Isle
Ravenhold: The keep on the Whisperwood March where every guild learns to raid.; Told in Book IV, The Ravenhold March
Rumhollow: The pirates’ own port in the fogs of the Blackwake Strait.; Told in Book VIII, Rumhollow and the Brethren
Saltmarrow: The Crown’s walled harbour in the Reaches, home of the Admiralty and the guild berths.; Told in Book VIII, Saltmarrow and the Admiralty
Saltwind: The coast where the Hundred Keels came ashore: wrecks, smugglers and crabs the size of carts.; Told in Book VII, The Saltwind Coast
Shadowmoon Temple: The temple of Morrow’s priests, who refuse to believe their moon is gone.; Told in Book III, The Blight and the Faithful
Starfall Observatory: Also: Starfall; The gnomes’ observatory on the highest peak, where something fell out of the sky and stayed.; Told in Book III, The Night of the Missing Moon
Stonegate: The dwarven quarter of Highcrest, given to the kingless dwarves after the Burning.; Told in Book III, The Scattering of the Dwarves
Stormreach: The highlands under a veil of storms that has not lifted in nine hundred years.; Told in Book VII, The Stormreach Highlands
Stormspire: The citadel on the Stormreach cliffs where the callers hold the endless storm.; Told in Book III, The Veil of Storms
Sunken Crypt: The bog-crypt in the Ashfen where the Grey Tithe began. Bring a towel.; Told in Book IV, The Grey Tithe
Sunscar: The smoking atoll where Orun’s fire breaks the sea; home of the trolls.; Told in Book VII, Sunscar Atoll
Thornwood Hollow: A druid grove in Whisperwood gone hungry after the Missing Moon, ruled by Old Mother Oak.; Told in Book VII, Whisperwood
Tidegrave: The Admiralty fortress the Siren sang under the sea.; Told in Book VIII, Tidegrave Hold
Vaelmere: The elves’ city of a hundred white towers in the sea, drowned in a single night.; Told in Book II, Vaelmere of the Hundred Towers
Whisperwood: The first forest, where the elves woke and the trees gossip.; Told in Book VII, Whisperwood
Wyrmspire: Vel’Thuran’s tower of black stone above Frostspire, with a dragon on top.; Told in Book III, Vel'Thuran and the Black Tower

Peoples

Tidekin: The dream-born of the Corsair Reaches, children of Thal’s sleep before it soured.; Told in Book V, The Tidekin
Unquiet: The dead of the Grey Tithe who woke with their own minds and broke the Lich-Captain at the Leechwater.; Told in Book V, The Unquiet

Orders and companies

Admiralty: The Crown’s navy in the Reaches, which hunts the Brethren.; Told in Book VIII, Saltmarrow and the Admiralty
Brethren: The pirate brotherhood of Rumhollow, with a code they keep and a hatred of the Navy.; Told in Book VIII, Rumhollow and the Brethren
Choir of Whispers: Also: Choir; The three voices of the Lullaby, drowned mid-verse, still trying to sing the next line.; Told in Book X, The Lullaby of the Hush
Church of the Lamps: The faith of the Kindlers in Highcrest, whose priests pray to Seren and Maelis.; Told in Book VI, Priests
Listeners: The loremasters of Vaelmere, who heard Thal dreaming under the sea.; Told in Book II, Vaelmere of the Hundred Towers
Order of the Dawn Lamp: The Crown’s holy knights, the paladins, who carry Seren’s light in the oath.; Told in Book VI, Paladins
Order of the Hush: The Sanctum’s order of monks, who sang the Lullaby every night for two thousand years.; Told in Book II, The Sanctum and the Lullaby
Siren Choir: The drowned singers in the gallery of the Drowned Spire, nothing to do with the Sanctum’s.; Told in Book VIII, The Drowned Places

Events

Burning: Ignaroth’s passage up through Hammerdeep, twelve years before the Crown.; Told in Book III, The Burning of Hammerdeep
Concord of Highcrest: Also: Concord; The pact of 412 YC that made every people who signed it free folk of the realm.; Told in Book IV, The Tusk Wars and the Concord of Highcrest
Drowning: The night the Lullaby stopped and Vaelmere sank, about 3,200 years before the Crown.; Told in Book II, The Drowning
Grey Tithe: The plague of 389 YC that took one in five, and raised many of them again.; Told in Book IV, The Grey Tithe
Hundred Keels: The fleet that brought Men to Aetheria from a land the sea took.; Told in Book IV, The Hundred Keels
Leechwater: The ford where the Unquiet broke the Lich-Captain’s army in 391 YC.; Told in Book IV, The Grey Tithe
Long Doom: Ysmera’s prophecy: the Wyrm falls, the Dreamer wakes, the Dark comes down.; Told in Book IX, Ysmera’s Last Letter
Night of the Missing Moon: The night Nhal took Morrow, about 290 YC, and a piece of it fell on Starfall.; Told in Book III, The Night of the Missing Moon
Turning: The world’s slow breath, every seven days, which mends what the guilds have broken.; Told in Book IX, The Turning of the Week
Tusk Wars: Three wars between the Crown and the orc clans and their troll allies, won by nobody.; Told in Book IV, The Tusk Wars and the Concord of Highcrest

Things

Book of Lamps: The oldest book of the Kindlers’ faith.; Told in Book I, The Silence and the Song
Chains: Nine chains of moonsilver let down from the Sanctum to hold the Dreamer’s dreams.; Told in Book II, The Sanctum and the Lullaby
Charter of Banners: Queen Elspeth’s decree of 1102 YC that handed the realm’s old wars to the guilds.; Told in Book IV, The Charter of Banners
Lullaby: The endless hymn that kept the Dreamer asleep, until it was stopped mid-verse.; Told in Book X, The Lullaby of the Hush
oath-stones: Also: oath-stone; The pillars of Hammerdeep on which every oath was cut. They cracked in the Burning.; Told in Book II, Hammerdeep
Orrery Engine: Starfall’s great clockwork model of the heavens, wound too tight.; Told in Book III, The Night of the Missing Moon
Rent of Bread: A loaf per household per year, owed to the goblins of the Warrens forever. They now want butter.; Told in Book IV, The Rent of Bread
Rolls of Renown: Where the guilds’ deeds are written, first kills at the top.; Told in Book IV, The Charter of Banners