Major Trivia Challenge - Hol-da-Kiem

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SilverOwl

Mongoose
If anyone knows this, I will be impressed. But this may be the sort of challenge that requires someone like Joe himself to answer (or creative DMs to invent).

I have reviewed all the texts I can find on Shadaki. I admit to not having Book 21 or 22 to check though. People keep outbidding me on those titles for some reason ;)

The question is simple though: in the northern section of Shadaki, sort of like a tiny annex on the north-west border above the desert, is a place that has been on the maps since day one named "Hol-Da-Kiem".

All the grey areas are always fascinating places on those maps - Naaros, Desolation Valley, the unexplored area in the Kelderwastes, Kraknalorg Chasm, etc....

So why don't I know anything about Hol-da-Kiem?

Does anyone?
 
SilverOwl said:
Why is it always me who has the difficult questions? ;)
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I'd offer an answer but untill very recently I only had the first 9 books (and now I've got the first 12). So my knowledge of books 20 and 21 is very limited. I can have a look in the Lone Wolf d20 stuff if you want 'though.
 
Thanks for that offer Balgin...

I already own all the d20 products currently available though. There's nothing in those on the place that I saw.

PS: I have posted two LW rules-based Qs on the "RulesMasters" forum that also have met with zero response...

Should I re-post them here, do you think?
 
if only you'd asked a while ago ... i probably wouldn't have known still ;-) ... i had books 1-28 but sold 21-28 in order to (mostly) fund buying the mega-deal with mongoose (which does appear to be part-customer, part-proofreader at the mo, sigh). i don't recall that area in particular, and i don't think there's much in greystar or the magnamund companion but i might check tonight (yep got them still ) - the world was originally created by joe as his d&d world i think, and i suspect he threw in 'cool' sounding names of some areas to tempt his players with ... slightly off-topic i guess why that is the kai ranks etc map onto the d&d level structure so well ... :D 8)
 
There is no information on Hol-da-Kiem in Lone Wolf 21 or 22.

The closest you get is a city called Zahrloum with lies in Shadaki along the Tentarias, albeit too far to the east.
 
I didn't see anything in the Companion, but I have a theory... the last few books are still unwritten and rumour has it that Lone Wolf and Grey Star will team up... so maybe we'll all find out in book 32!
 
... looks like I can put anything I want in that area. Which is cool, because to my mind it's perfectly situated for a few nice key plot threads to be placed in :)

Since you guys seem to be responding while the RulesMasters are all asleep, I'm gonna repost the Q's I put in the other forum here too for you to think on.
 
Sunfire said:
I didn't see anything in the Companion, but I have a theory... the last few books are still unwritten and rumour has it that Lone Wolf and Grey Star will team up... so maybe we'll all find out in book 32!
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Oh, that's a good idea! It has been made public on other forums that (HUGE SPOILER) a new Kai Monastery will be build in Southern Magnamund, so why not in that region? An alliance between GS and the Kai Order?
 
... if it were me going to build a new Kai Monastery, and in Southern Magnamund... there are a large number of places I would build it that were not in Hol-Da-Kiem, which is tactically not very well placed for either attracting recruits or reaching other areas of the continent.

I would, personally, be wanting to build it in Naaros :) Possibly using the power of the Lorestones to slowly reverse or counteract the devastation caused before and heal the land slowly.

Or perhaps somewhere around the outside of it's wall, in Lunarlia, Siyen or Lissan, simply to have a central location to operate from. But then, that's just me :) Should be fascinating to see where they actually choose to build it.
 
Remember how little of the darklands got reclaimed in five years with the efforts of the BCS, elder magi and herbwarnens - I imagine the seat of Agarash the damned, infested for so many millenia longer, would be harder to shift!
 
I agree. I don't think that "it" will be built in that region, but it offers plenty of opportunities for an adventure, e.g.

1. Open Portal to a world that Naar has control of (like the rift in Way of the Tiger)
2. Previously destroyed city of the ancients, hiding some super treasure / monster / skyship
3. A special character (e.g. a dull coloured magician) is lost / taken prisoner in this region.
 
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