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I submit for your interest, entertainment, and constructive feedback, my personal project of the past year or so. The title, 'Ascendency: Numeria after the Iron Gods' is really a placeholder ... but it's the one I've been working with.

For more details, background, and a short list of acknowledgements, go here:
https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/2017/12/04/acknowledgements-for-asc endency/

To be clear, I have taken some liberties with the placement of characters, locations, events, etc. partly to ramp up the difficulty for a high level party, partly because I entered the module from a different direction, and partly because I considered things panning out in a different fashion.

This is the entire work, 21 'sections' (although the first 10 'sections' as I've come to call them add up to about the same length as two of the latter 'chapters'). It's just shy of 80K words and covers the events just after the end of the Iron Gods adventure path through the first module of The Wrath of the Righteous, The Worldwound Incursion:
https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/category/ascendency-numeria-after-t he-iron-god/?order=asc

Here are the 'sections' in order:
https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/2016/09/21/the-iron-prophet/
https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/2017/07/29/sparks-of-numeria/
https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/2017/08/03/the-herald-of-bronze/
https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/2017/08/15/a-shells-anatomy/
https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/2017/08/18/recounting-the-future/
https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/2017/09/15/a-short-clarification-on -demonic-invasions/
https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/2017/10/04/xau-4-un-7-data-log-exce rpt/
https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/2017/10/26/medal-on-metal/
https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/2017/10/31/rebuilding-starfall/
https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/2017/11/06/a-golden-pin-in-the-dark /

Here the 'sections' become longer, what I call 'chapters':
https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/2017/11/09/dreams-within-a-nightmar e/
https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/2017/11/11/finalities-without-end/
https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/2017/11/15/songs-in-the-ruins/
https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/2017/11/25/amid-the-ruins-part-1/
https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/2017/11/25/amid-the-ruins-part-2/
https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/2017/12/04/the-heart-of-a-defender/
https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/2017/12/12/a-glimmer-in-the-dark/
https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/2018/01/10/winding-paths/
https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/2018/01/22/dreaming-under-the-stars /
https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/2018/02/02/a-swallowed-homecoming/
https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/2018/02/18/the-graves-of-three-moth ers/
https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/2018/03/07/gold-in-transformation-p art-1/
https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/2018/03/07/gold-in-transformation-p art-2/

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For your consideration I give you this ... https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/2017/11/28/mendev-kenabres-defender s-heart/

I haven't yet done the floor plans so I'm not entirely sure if it's the right height, but the horizontal dimensions match those in the maps. As I noted in the article, I think the building could also have basement levels, but I suspect that would be mainly for storage; to make sure it could fit 200+ people relatively comfortably, I'd have to figure out how many I can fit per floor, then likely add floors to compensate.

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For your consideration I give you this ... https://davidthomasdevine.wordpress.com/2017/11/16/mendev-kenabres-church-o f-selyn/

It's a quick work up of a zoomed in section of the pre-destruction Kenabres of the only building of interest in Northgate, which I figured was the Church of Selyn, as they're known for their beautiful architecture.

I suspect the southern two towers should be equal in height/diameter as the other tall towers, with only the towers at north end being shorter, but as I said, it's a first pass.

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I was looking at the "What if Allevrah Wins?" and wanted to plot out what the impact would look like on a map of Golarion rather than just go by the narrative description ... but I ran into a bit of a snag.

After using these sites ...

http://simulator.down2earth.eu
https://www.purdue.edu/impactearth/
http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/cgi-bin/crater.cgi

... to figure out the outcome, I was met with two contradictory issues. If the impactor results in 'Kyonin (being) transformed into a massive crater', the overall blast would be immense ... while if it only destroyed 'many of the neighboring nations' (but not all of Avistan), it couldn't simultaneously turn all of Kyonin into a crater.

Apologies in advance for switching back and forth between metric and imperial.

To break down the numbers, for both impactors I used a dense rock (3000 kg/m^3), falling at 30 km/s at a 90 degree angle to the surface hitting crystalline rock (as Kyonin seems to be in the middle of it's plate, unlikely to be sedimentary rock).

For the large crater scenario, we have a crater 127 miles in radius (I assumed that was when all was said and done, not merely transitory). When I worked out the numbers, that meant the impactor had to be about 18 miles in diameter and the crater would end up being about 1.1 miles deep. Everything within 1100 miles would be buried in ash and debris up to at least 10 feet ... if it could burn, anything within 1500 miles would be alight (including people, so if you're this close, you're dead) ... multistory, wall-bearing buildings (bread and butter of castles and stone/masonry construction) collapse within 3800 miles ... and wood frame buildings collapse at 4900 miles.

I tried initially to overlay this over a map of Avistan alone ... but it was too small ... then over Avistan and Garund ... still too small ... so I used this:

Fan Made Golarion Map

And produced this as a result:

Second Darkness Huge Impact

As you can see ... this impact would, in my opinion, be on the scale as Earthfall, wiping out all life not immune to fire on Avistan and destroying all civilization in the neighbouring continents. The earthquakes would likely destroy Zirnakaynin alongside much of the Darklands.

So I put together a more reasonable result:

Second Darkness 'Reasonable' Impact

Here, while Kyonin isn't turned into a crater, it is completely buried under ash and debris (to at least 10 feet), with Druma and Razmiran being completely wiped out and Galt and the River Kingdoms suffering massive damage. Now you may wonder why, while the circles for building construction are similar between the two maps but the ignition radius is quite different ... that's because in the larger impact, the curvature of the planet gets in the way of cooking everyone.

I believe this latter scenario is far more reasonable ... even Nirmathas (and Zirnakynin beneath it) is mostly untouched.

Visable here: Zoomed out Worldwound Expansion map on Alitari's Tumblr

Using this … Worldwound Expansion from City of Locusts … overlaid on this … Large map of northern Golarion … with my own work to add in the 2, 4, and 5 month ranges.