Vecna’s Reign (rumored to be ruled from the Isles of Woe) īattle between Elves and Ur-Flannae. First year of Flannae Tracking system (1 FT). I’m sure you will find something to your taste. There are a whole host of others, including the fiction of Mystic Scholar and Greyhawk Stories. I encourage you to peruse: Canonfire!, Greyhawk Online, Jason Zavoda’s Hall of the Mountain King, Joe Bloch’s Greyhawk Grognard, Mike Bridges’ Greyhawkery, and Maldin’s Greyhawk. I’ve detailed these events in this blog, much as others have before me. If you would like to learn more, there is a wealth of source material out there. Some reach far back in the annals of time, but you can’t have the present without the past, can you? I present a list of dates noted in Steve Wilson’s Greychrondex_42 to illuminate what is considered canon in the world of Greyhawk concerning Ratik and its environs, most notably those dates regarding the Barbarians, Stonefist, the Bone March, and the North Province as they concern Ratik. Those missives have been expounded upon since, though. Each nation was given a paragraph or two, enough to spur the imagination, no more. Sadly, he wrote even less on the dwarves and gnomes, even less still of the halflings. If only Gary Gygax had penned more about those bygone elven civilizations, we’d have had a far richer setting. What we do know is that the Grey elves had cities in the Griffs, that Vecna fought the Grey and High elves, and that Vecna destroyed the City of Summer Stars. There are exceptions, none set in the nation of Ratik, or the Thillonrian peninsula. There were elves there, surely, and dwarves, and gnomes too, but their arrivals are not set in the annals of the canonical text of Greyhawk but the World of Greyhawk setting was always a human-centric setting, wasn’t it, and although those races would most certainly have influenced and guided those human nations that came after them, very little has been said about how. Ratik is a relative newcomer in the history of Greyhawk and the Flannaess. They carried him to his brother Falon'Din.“This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it.” In elven legends, Dirthamen found and subdued two ravens in the Fade: Fear and Deceit. The hawk and the hare are Andruil's sacred animals, and the sun is the father of Elgar'nan.
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