Oldskull Overlord Chronicle
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Thousands of Hyborian secrets and Cthulhoid adventure hooks at your fingertips ...
The Oldskull Overlord Chronicle is the first Grand Concordance and Domesday Book for the World of Oldskull. It is a system-neutral treasury of deep and mythic lore that will enrich the epic scope of any fantasy role-playing campaign.
Herein¸ following after the events in Exiles of the Scarlet Tabard¸ we return to the revelatory auspices of Damian Prester¸ Plague Patriarch in service to His Overlordship of Grimrook.
In the Year of the Skull 1399 (Anno Calvariae)¸ one year after the devastations wrought upon Grimrook by the dark elves and the Serpent Folk¸ His Fearsomeness the Overlord Imperious Khom Orthruul commands his sages and plague doctors to gather all known legendry¸ myths¸ and sagas into a single Domesday Book chronicling the known ages of man¸ god¸ demigod¸ and monster in a single Compendium of Destinies. This volume represents the beginnings of Plague Patriarch Damian Prester's efforts in this exhaustive endeavor.
Of massive and never-ending scope¸ Kent David Kelly's aeons-spanning and mythos-unifying World of Oldskull fantasy role-playing campaign brings together mythology¸ medieval chronicles¸ and the many epic world building tales spun by Henry Cornelius Agrippa¸ Dante Alighieri¸ Ludovico Ariosto¸ William Beckford¸ Robert W. Chambers¸ Ingatius Donnelly¸ Lord Dunsany¸ Sir James George Frazer¸ Herodotus¸ William Hope Hodgson¸ Homer¸ Robert E. Howard¸ Henrik Ibsen¸ H. P. Lovecraft¸ Arthur Machen¸ Pausanias¸ Jacques Collin de Plancy¸ Edgar Allan Poe¸ Plato (Atlantis)¸ Marcel Schwob¸ Edmund Spenser¸ Jonathan Swift¸ Jules Verne¸ Virgil¸ Sir E. A. Wallis Budge¸ Horace Walpole¸ and many more besides.
All of these scattered tales are united into a single world¸ under a comprehensive and ever-growing master timeline of adventures¸ secrets¸ and evocative mysteries. If you are in need of vast and deep lore for adventure hooks¸ arch-villains¸ mysteries¸ lost kingdoms¸ devils¸ artifacts¸ or dungeons deep¸ look no further.
The Oldskull Overlord Chronicle compendium includes detailed random adventure hook tables and thousands of untold revelations. Many secrets from this enormous campaign are revealed here for the very first time¸ citing the yet-unpublished Secrets of the World of Oldskull. Join us for an unparalleled adventure¸ spanning the rise of R'lyeh and Great Cthulhu to the first founding of the Ushirian Manor¸ later to be known as Castle Oldskull. A world of dark glories and heroic intrigue awaits!
Another fine release from Kent David Kelly and Wonderland Imprints¸ Only the Finest Works of Fantasy. (38¸500 words¸ 117 pages¸ 112 illustrations.)