On the Outside

Issues

• Current Issue: The Knights of the Lock & Key
  • Face: Sir Hector Hedgeworth
    • HC: Edge Warden of the Lock & Key.
• Impending Issue: The Jail Breaks
  • Face: Theadonna Monroe
    • HC: Prophetess of the Skull King.

Player Characters

• Corby, the Once-and-Future Raven King; played by Joe
• Helhet, Son of Thrarm, Heir of the Dominion & God-King of Black Lake; played by Chillos
• Riddle, the Hound of Olric; played by Mandy
• Jack, the Devil at the Crossroads; played by Keith

Some Various Realms of the Tapestry

Thread-Map of the Tapestry

• Aubenwrath: A realm in which the citizenry insisted their youths wear veils and scarves to hide their beauty from the Minstrel of Crows.
• Beldenshire: A pastoral realm wherein hedges of whitethorne encircle the villages to make them safe from the winter mists of the Blackthorne Lord.
• Black Lake, The Empire of: Home of Helhet Tum, former God-King and heir to the Dominion.
• Eastern Lands, The: A loose alliance of small, pastoral, threaded realms including Beldenshire, Hanar, and Sargeras. It is a tradition in these lands to steal the mirrors of prideful young maids and smear them with raven’s blood, lest the Mist-Cloaked Man take them away to his wintry tower.
• Fort Prick: The broken ruins of a fortress in a wood choked by blackthorne tendrils. Legend has it that these are remains of the castle from which the Beauty Who Slept was stolen.
• Hanar: A forested realm conquered by the Empire of Black Lake under the rule of Helhet Tum.
• Mistyholt, The: The fae tower of the Raven King. Seemingly threaded to every realm and none, it was accessible only through a strange weave of winter mist and clutching blackthorne. In this tower, the Raven King treated his stolen charges to a never-ending winter revelry.
• Nameless Hills, The: A barren expanse of hills threaded south of Black Lake. Its “strange folk” were exterminated by order of Helhet Tum in a military action of the Empire of Black Lake.
• Northern Sarbenia: A prosperous, arid state at the northern end of the Sarbenic Desert. Home to the scholars of the Bright College.
• Nur: A mountainous realm threaded to the Empire of Black Lake. Its barbarian natives, the Autumn Tribes, invaded Black Lake and weakened the gods of the Dominion before ultimately being driven back into their mountains by Emperor Helhet Tum.
• Sargeras: A forested feif in which the midwives mark the faces of newborns with a knife to keep them from ever being beautiful enough to draw the Corby Man’s eye.
• Sendar, The Commonwealth of: A city-state conquered by the Empire of Black Lake under the rule of Helhet Tum.
• Shambler’s Catch: A blackthorne-ridden swamp which, legend has it, is a holy pilgrimage site for thorne-crones.
• Vorarl, The Magocracy of: The kingdom of Sorcerer-King Olric, the Covetous.
• Vashtinral, The Commonwealth of: An impoverished, agricultural kingdom threaded to Vorarl. Birthplace of Clay Riddle, the Hound of Olric.
• Yranmure: A nomadic realm in which the tribesfolk tattoo the faces of newly-initiated children in their twelfth year to aver the gaze of the Youth Snatcher.

Essays and Articles

• A Memory of Magic