15 point buy.
Max starting gold.
Character appropriate feat will be awarded by GM upon character approval.
Ustalav Overview
The Immortal Principality of Ustalav lies on the northern
shore of Lake Encarthan, a grim bastion of civilization
amid the barbarian north, where a harsh landscape and a
history rich in tragedies inspire a wary population with
skepticism, religious devotion, and superstition.
A conglomeration of loosely affiliated counties, each run by
feuding nobles vying for power and influence, Ustalav is
a pitiful shell of its former glory, before it was subjugated
to centuries of slavery at the hands of the Whispering
Tyrant’s undead armies. While the nation’s upper classes
struggle to compete with the very nations that abandoned
them to fend for themselves after the Whispering Tyrant’s
defeat, the average Ustalavic citizen has it much worse.
Hundreds of years of subjugation and the residual
horrors that plague the countryside have left the people
of Ustalav suspicious of magic, religion, foreigners, and
their fellow citizens. Beyond their eccentric and insular
qualities, Ustalavs often have a dour worldview. They
resign themselves to lives of suffering, seeing nothing in
their people’s history to suggest there is any hope for a
better life. Despite the physical and psychological strains
upon its populace, Ustalav nevertheless fosters extremely
hardy and tenacious stock: men and women who firmly
believe that no matter how bad it gets, history shows it
could always be worse.
Although Ustalav has little to offer its rural peasants,
inhabitants of its many metropolitan cities fare somewhat
better, and the centers of learning and culture they
provide draw trade and travelers from throughout the
Inner Sea region. The capital, Caliphas, stands on the
banks of Lake Encarthan, and its fog-shrouded streets
host some of the nation’s most esteemed centers of trade
and academia. In the north, the city of Karcau boasts a
thriving culture of music, theater, and other fine arts,
and its opulent architecture rivals the excess of even
the most exotic Taldan palace. Meanwhile, Ustalav’s
northwestern counties have broken from aristocratic
rule and formed their own local, democratic government
without nobles, calling themselves the Palatinates and
providing a glimmer of hope for the downtrodden people
of provincial Ustalav.
It is here, in the Immortal Principality, that the
Carrion Crown Adventure Path takes place, and as you
travel through the various counties, your character will
rise from a simple pallbearer to the potential savior of the
nation. As internally varied as a nation can be, Ustalav is
your new home, and the possibilities for fame, fortune,
and influence are as thick as the fog that creeps across
the windy moors at night.
