Author: Ben Overmyer

What follows is an excerpt from the Eiridia campaign setting. It describes the people of both Rekellia and Redami. Players looking to get more insight into how Rekellians and Redami act will find this useful. Also, it serves as a good primer on the people in and around Summerfort (and, by extension, Fortress Fairling).

Fortress Fairling is two days’ ride northwest of Summerfort. Like Summerfort, it was once a simple border outpost. Unlike Summerfort, it became a staging area for military campaigns into Redami.

With A Darkness at Summerfort officially released, the way is clear for the next adventure for Ingenium. This will be Dawn at Fortress Fairling, a heavy-hitting survival scenario that puts the player characters in a very sticky situation.

Normally at this time of the week, I’d be writing a post about Summerfort and sharing it with you. However, recent events bear a bit of explaining, so instead I’ll be writing about that. If you were excited to hear more news about Summerfort, don’t worry, there’s a tidbit of news about that hidden in…

Count this as the official announcement – A Darkness at Summerfort, the long-awaited first adventure for both the Eiridia setting and Ingenium, will be released next Sunday. This adventure, for all that it’s a relatively short 25 page dungeon romp, represents an informal launch of Eiridia itself. And here’s the next big announcement …

In Eiridia’s continent of Galtharion, where Summerfort is located, some civilizations have harnessed magic in ways that improve the quality of life of everyday people. Chief among these are Rekellia and Nardora. Summerfort, being nominally a Rekellian city, enjoys some of these comforts.

The city of Summerfort is big enough to support several temples to various gods of Eiridia. Each of these represents a particular “cult,” to use the Ancient Egyptian connotation of the word. Patron gods in Eiridia are not like those of other popular fantasy settings; rather than being a spell flavor, each deity’s followers have…

Eiridia, and by extension Summerfort, does not focus on the undead. They’re just not a big part of the original concept; in fact, it was only in the last couple years that I finally broke down and added the possibility of such creatures to the game world. When that happened, though, I started asking myself…

Summerfort is based on the border of two kingdoms. The first is Rekellia, largest and longest-lived of the countries in Galtharion. The second is Redami, youngest kingdom in the world. Rekellia is the remains of a continent-spanning empire that once united Galtharion. Its culture and history are rich and full, and though its time of…

Summerfort being a border town of appreciable size has attracted a handful of scholars from the Imperial capital. These scholars hope to discover, investigate, and catalogue traces of lost civilizations. Their mandate from the Empire comes from an Imperial desire to recover weapons to use against its enemies, and so their support is dependent on…