With Rage of Elements announced it occurred to me that the Golden Road is a very likely candidate for the next Lost Omens Book region book. It was mentioned during the announcement that there will be genies and new elementals from these elemental planes. That got me thinking that the Golden Road has quite a bit of history with genies and elementals and Rage of Elements and Lost Omens: Golden Road would go hand in hand. If Golden Road is the next region that gets announced I predict we will get a 6 part Qadira adventure path, a 3 part Thuvia adventure path, and a stand alone adventure in Rahadoum. In my wildest dreams I also hope we see a hardcover update and compilation of Legacy of Fire for some Katapesh love, and a hardcover update and compilation for Entombed with the Pharaohs, The Pact Stone Pyramid, Risen from the Sands, and Doomsday Dawn for some Osirion love.
Also, some things we might generally expect in Rage of Elements include Universal Heritages for Metal and Wood, more Lineage Ancestry Feats supporting all the elements, and I would personally love to see the Zhyen come back as an Ancestry.
Did anyone else come up with additional predictions? I love speculating about "what's next" so please share your predictions and theories!
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The Gen Con 2022 predictions thread is going to be your best resource for 2023 Lost Omens guesses. Many are skeptical that we’d see two Garund Meta-Regions in a row, with the dominant theory that Rage of Elements and Treasure Vault are signs of a Tian Xia year next year.
I love your theory, though - the Golden Road could use some revisiting and reframing, and I made a thread that went some really productive places about what folks would like to see!
They'll probably hold off on Golden Road until there is an AP to support it. Enmity Circle might be a test balloon in that case, and Eleanor Ferron said recently that she's like to dig more into the lore of Thuvia. So maybe we'll see something in 2024, since if they were actively working on something, she probably would have answered differently. I think Rage of Elements might be about bringing kineticist in more than providing material for the setting.
I feel like Sodden Lands is next or close. With Firebrands coming out, meta plot with the Red Mantis assassins, the mechanics of naval combat not brought in yet, it feels like a confluence.
I feel like Sodden Lands is next or close. With Firebrands coming out, meta plot with the Red Mantis assassins, the mechanics of naval combat not brought in yet, it feels like a confluence.
The Sodden Lands is part of the Mwangi Expanse. Did you mean the High Seas? We have a good thread for speculating on what that book might look like.
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Since the new books are very heavily revolving around setting lore, even the rules ones, I read the title Rage of the Elements as being centered on the reappearance of the 2 missing elemental planes and everything it entails, both before, during and after, once things have settled.
So, the Sodden Lands and the Golden Road both make sense, considering how heavy they are with elemental undertones.