Does anyone have any info on how old Cauldron is? or at least how long humans have lived there?
Anykind of a brief history of the city?
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Does anyone have any info on how old Cauldron is? or at least how long humans have lived there?
Anykind of a brief history of the city?
The Shackled City hardcover has a full timeline of the region, but I think I can let a couple details go early here... ;-)
–710 Years: One of the greatest wizards of the time, Surabar Spellmason, receives a vision from Nidrama, who has become concerned about the growing demon infestation in the region. She gifts Surabar with a potent magic weapon named Alakast, and charges him with the task of settling the region and driving out the demonic taint in the Demonskar.
–700 Years: Surabar leads a small army inland from the newly founded city of Sasserine, on the pretense of founding a new city of his own. He founds Redgorge in the shadow of a great volcano, and raises the Basalt Bastions to protect his men from attack while they begin building.
–680 Years: Discovery of numerous profitable mines in the region attracts hundreds of prospectors and adventurers. Redgorge quickly outgrows its walls. Surabar determines that the nearby volcano is extinct, and that its cauldron would make an excellent natural defense against attack from Nabthatoron’s armies. Many of Redgorge’s inhabitants relocate to this region—Cauldron is founded. Over the centuries, the discovery of many large underground complexes and caverns below the city draws the attention of dwarves and gnomes from far and wide. Two of these regions become Jzadirune and the Malachite Fortress.
Somehow I knew when I saw you had replied to my post you were going to tell me the hardcover had the answers i sought. Yet one more reason for me to purhcase the hardcover.
Thanks for the tidbits! You Rock!