<em>The Time of Dying Stars is upon us!<br/><br/>In the sky, the shining lights wink out one by one, leaving the night blacker than the monoliths upon the Plain of Giants. From Altmaar, the land beyond the north wind where the barbarous sea-reavers quaff and listen to skald-songs, to the southernmost Jungles of Yodogo where degenerate head-hunters lurk and the man-apes of the Jewelled City of Zinj howl; from wicked Alyah, capital of the Electrum Empire in the west to the endless steppes of Krymm in the east, the night darkens, and the lights of mankind's civilisation gutter low. It is a sword-age. A wolf-age. A time not for scholars and philosophers, but for men and women of bloody action and fierce courage! <br/><br/>Seize what you will – keep what you can!</em><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">Setting</span><br/>For simplicity's sake, I'll paint the setting broadly and lightly, only giving a hint of what's around until it need to be detailed. Feel free to use your own knowledge of the genre and imagination to fill in the blanks - tone is more important than details. In other words, we'll create it as we go. Or you can always ask me to come up with anything you need to reference.<br/><br/><strong>Altmaar</strong>: Hyperboreal land of Viking raiders.<br/><strong>Gauri</strong>: Highlands of Pictish / Celtic barbarians.<br/><strong>Stahl</strong>: Region of Gaulish / Saxon / Teutonic barbarians.<br/><strong>Kryym</strong>: Vast steppe-land of Mongol / Hun hordes.<br/><strong>Yona</strong>: Senegal / Ivory Coast kingdom.<br/><strong>Electrum Empire</strong>: Corrupt Romanesque empire.<br/><strong>Heliod</strong>: Strange Grecian city-states.<br/><strong>Otamarluk</strong>: Vast Ottoman empire of slave-soldiers, seraglios and treacherous viziers.<br/><strong>Darukash</strong>: Mountainous pass region, gateway from east to west.<br/><strong>Khazara</strong>: Central Asian region conquered by nomadic horde.<br/><br/>