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Bhopan seems like the only option that makes sense from extant canon, but something brand new is always possible.
I'm very curious to see how Alkenstar turns out in this. OoA presented it as pretty straightforwardly "Wild Western cowboy saloon land" with clockworks (and some unfortunate whitewashing of a canon character), but part of me thinks it'll be a fair bit weirder here - which I would prefer. Something to make it feel like a nation in Garund, please.
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Placing my bets on either an upstart kingdom of fleshwarp mutants in Mana Wastes, or an undersea location near Jalmeray.
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Placing my bets on either an upstart kingdom of fleshwarp mutants in Mana Wastes, or and undersea location near Jalmeray.
I'd love either of those, but particularly the latter! Guess we'll see, hopefully next week. :)
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Placing my bets on either an upstart kingdom of fleshwarp mutants in Mana Wastes, or and undersea location near Jalmeray.
I'm really hoping this book is kind to Fleshwarps.
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Jalmeray is known for the Students of Perfection, who practise mastery over the four elements. But there is one element they have overlooked.. the element of surprise! And that's where Surpriseland comes in with the new College of Confounding Revelation, where masters of surprise practise their arts.Aaron tweeted that the book "has a surprise land," which I find incredibly exciting. This could mean that Bhopan is promoted out of being part of Jalmeray... or it could be that those angels on the cover mean we're in Holomog, but that feels unlikely.
Any other options I'm missing? I'm struggling to imagine what this could apply to.
I think that IS the name of the land - "Surpriseland" - kind of like "Newfoundland" or "Switzerland".
The real question is, of course, what is there and who lives there? Does have an overabundance of ambush predators? Is this the land of the infamously eternal versatile heritage known as the "Gotchas"? Is there really something new and unusual around every corner? Are the people living here really, really over-stimulated or are they just really tired of everything and just always have the attitude of "Yeah, been there, done that."?
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I don't think we can get a 3rd preview blog out before subscribers start getting the PDFs, but there is certainly inspiration enough!
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PF S#4-05 has a remarkably... "warm and fuzzy" is the wrong term, but significantly less wretched-than-I-expected take on Quantium that now has me extra curious about how Nex will be portrayed here.
Folks may be curious to know that scenario suggests Quantium gets just shy of 20 pages in this book.
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Art of quantium we have had before is very awe inspiring, but the blog mentioning the "sinewy" stuff with Nex makes me think book will remember stuff like ooze forges and other gross organic forms of magical industry
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I posted some while back about a fleeting mention of a group in 1e, the "Invisible Blades," associated with Nex but undefined. Wonder if they made it in?
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Achom could be the surprise area. Achom is south of Jalmeray in the Obari Ocean and lies in the Yogisa Trench. Deep in the Yogisa Trench, the city-state of Achom is ruled by the gutaki devilfish, Ugash-Iram. Achom is a center of worship for Dagon, and the population includes numerous adaros, sahuagin, and iku-tursos. Achom’s forces are known to threaten the coastlines of Jalmeray, Geb, and Qadira. (Source: From Hell’s Heart)
Achom could be the surprise area. Achom is south of Jalmeray in the Obari Ocean and lies in the Yogisa Trench. Deep in the Yogisa Trench, the city-state of Achom is ruled by the gutaki devilfish, Ugash-Iram. Achom is a center of worship for Dagon, and the population includes numerous adaros, sahuagin, and iku-tursos. Achom’s forces are known to threaten the coastlines of Jalmeray, Geb, and Qadira. (Source: From Hell’s Heart)
Good find! My only skepticism is that PF2 doesn’t have a lot of aquatic support at present, but I hope this locale gets touched on.
It would be interesting if the surprise land turned out to be Holomog. I doubt it... probably Bhopan. But as that was announced, it makes it less of a surprise.It can't be Holomog -- the Impossible Lands are a known specified region of a few specific nations, and Holomog is off the Inner Sea map on the other side of the Mwangi Expanse from the Impossible Lands.
Maybe they are subdividing one of those known nations in the region, or focusing on an island or enclave that just didn't show up on previous maps?
While I don't disagree... we won't know until the book starts going out. And many believe it is Bhopan .. which is currently as much of an Impossible Land as Holomog right now. So.. I dunno.
They never said they wouldn't expand regions. I can think of at least one nation that could possibly get added to the Broken Lands, as an example. Iobaria.
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Oh hey, my name is there now!
I won't steal Eleanor and Luis's thunder too much, but I will confirm that I wrote a bunch of crunch including an ancestry and multiple types of feats, did one highly anticipated update, and contributed a notable chunk of lore that my career at Paizo made me particularly suited to write...
They have Organized Play in the setting ?
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PFS2e 4-05 is going to Nex. Can't recommend enough. A few 1e scenarios in Jalmeray too.
I'm happy this continent is getting some love. In my head, I've just been Homer Simpson style drooling over the potential foods. My very food adventurous Paladin of Mazludeh will go on a quest for snacks.
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I'm happy this continent is getting some love. In my head, I've just been Homer Simpson style drooling over the potential foods. My very food adventurous Paladin of Mazludeh will go on a quest for snacks.
There's an East African restaurant in town here that also hits up the farmer's market as a stall, and their food is killer. The standout favorite? Jerk chicken served over french fries, your choice of sweet or spicy. Their sambosas are divine, too, and I always eye their vegetarian curries.
So I'm imagining all of that, plus magic, plus even more South Asian culinary influence via Jalmeray, plus whatever weird crops grow in the Mana Wastes and Geb... it's quite the mix.
How I would love you mentioning now that is a place in Antwerp now....I'm happy this continent is getting some love. In my head, I've just been Homer Simpson style drooling over the potential foods. My very food adventurous Paladin of Mazludeh will go on a quest for snacks.There's an East African restaurant in town here that also hits up the farmer's market as a stall, and their food is killer. The standout favorite? Jerk chicken served over french fries, your choice of sweet or spicy. Their sambosas are divine, too, and I always eye their vegetarian curries.
So I'm imagining all of that, plus magic, plus even more South Asian culinary influence via Jalmeray, plus whatever weird crops grow in the Mana Wastes and Geb... it's quite the mix.
Close - Southern California!
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Could Aaron, or perhaps a lucky subscriber, let us know what's in the Table of Contents?
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Once I get my copy I can try and do that if someone hasn't already.
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Same!
Close - Southern California!How I would love you mentioning now that is a place in Antwerp now....I'm happy this continent is getting some love. In my head, I've just been Homer Simpson style drooling over the potential foods. My very food adventurous Paladin of Mazludeh will go on a quest for snacks.There's an East African restaurant in town here that also hits up the farmer's market as a stall, and their food is killer. The standout favorite? Jerk chicken served over french fries, your choice of sweet or spicy. Their sambosas are divine, too, and I always eye their vegetarian curries.
So I'm imagining all of that, plus magic, plus even more South Asian culinary influence via Jalmeray, plus whatever weird crops grow in the Mana Wastes and Geb... it's quite the mix.
That's where I am, too. :)
Do we need a separate lore discussion thread for this, as PDFs begin to hit inboxes, or are folks content here in the product page comments? I imagine I'll have a lot of commentary once my subscriber friend can share :>
Do we need a separate lore discussion thread for this, as PDFs begin to hit inboxes, or are folks content here in the product page comments? I imagine I'll have a lot of commentary once my subscriber friend can share :>
If the convo is likely to spin away from the product itself, probably a good call for a fresh thread. I'm certainly down to dish when my PDF shows up.
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Interesting spread.
50 pages on good old Gebby, PERFECT!! Just in time for one of my groups to get this books extra treatment :)
Tom
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I am back from a long weekend with family. Happy to see you got the ToC as a spoiler and can see what I considered an "extra land" that was not in the original solicitation. Some of you know if it, but it looked amazing to me. Let us know what you think.
This book has inspired me to make an "Art of the Impossible Lands" blog with wallpaper for computes and phones. I don't a have a timeline for it yet. In my head December will have several such blogs looking back over the year.
Adventures Ahead!
I’m hearing that the Wyvaran dream is dead. At this point, I’m wondering if they aren’t canon anymore.
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I’m hearing that the Wyvaran dream is dead. At this point, I’m wondering if they aren’t canon anymore.
Keep the dream. I'm sure there will be a future Book of the Dead-style book about dragons... and they'll need ancestries.
I'm glad we're getting new deities from Vudra. Sadly it looks like the main ones Vudravati, Obari and Embaral were left out. Hoping for that Vudra book then.
Someone shared the suggested Rarity tweaks for Ancestries in this, and I was a little surprised to not see Fleshwarps get mentioned in the list. Dropping them to Uncommon in the Mana Wastes and Nex makes good sense to me, but maybe I'm overestimating how many of them exist. Any thoughts?
It does seem like Iruxi are Common across the continent, which is a really fun vibe; there's a timeline out there somewhere where Pathfinder's corebook has lizardfolk right there in it.
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I’m hearing that the Wyvaran dream is dead. At this point, I’m wondering if they aren’t canon anymore.Keep the dream. I'm sure there will be a future Book of the Dead-style book about dragons... and they'll need ancestries.
Seems like I need to start evil plan to become freelance writer just so I can sneak them somehow in ;P
(and this is why I never became freelance writer, because I too readily admit my evil plans xD)
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I'm glad we're getting new deities from Vudra. Sadly it looks like the main ones Vudravati, Obari and Embaral were left out. Hoping for that Vudra book then.
No Obari is a huge bummer, but I'm thoroughly confused by no Nalinivati in the book. Both would've been really good fits for all the inevitable Nagaji Champions we'll see.
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Got my book! If people have some questions I can try to answer. Note, I'm in the middle of work (Wasn't expecting to get mine so soon!)
To start off the hype train:
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hmm, looks like I had a comment removed. Is there a way to check why?
It was because you used a profanity proxy, which is not allowed.
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What is a "profanity proxy"?
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What is a "profanity proxy"?
W 0 rking around the profanity filter like that, usually.
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Like what?
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Like what?
(Edited)The OP used symbols like $, ~, and % as a profanity proxy and hid it in the spoiler. We have specific rules against that:
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The OP may have been trying to be witty, we don't know the intent, but we need to maintain the policy. They can repost to make their point without the proxy.
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Like what?You used symbols like $, ~, and % as a profanity proxy and hid it in the spoiler. We have specific rules against that:
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Sorry, I misspoke. It was not you who made the OP, it was DemonicDem. I did not see the poster had changed.
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...(some unfortunate whitewashing of a canon character)...
Dunno if you've heard from any other locations, but I can confirm the OoA depiction of Trietta Riccia seems to be a fluke. We've got new art of her in IL that hews much closer to previous depictions.
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...(some unfortunate whitewashing of a canon character)...Dunno if you've heard from any other locations, but I can confirm the OoA depiction of Trietta Riccia seems to be a fluke. We've got new art of her in IL that hews much closer to previous depictions.
Awesome!
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Like what?You used symbols like $, ~, and % as a profanity proxy and hid it in the spoiler. We have specific rules against that:
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While certain language may not be offensive to you, please consider that some phrases may have a completely different effect on someone else. Trying to get around our profanity filter or purposefully obscuring profanity/vulgar phrases is not acceptable.You may have been trying to be witty, we don't know your intent, but we need to maintain the policy. You can repost to make your point without the proxy.
Just for the sake of fairness, can you not claim it’s the posters that are trying to get around the No profanity rule when it’s the Paizo site that is obscuring the word?
I flagged the original post because of the content, I have no reason not to believe they didn’t type out the actual word.