World of Arkara: Gazetteer of the Canterbury Isles
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This is the second book in Vigilance Press' World of Arkara setting for the OSRIC system! The World of Arkara is the type of setting you remember¸ an open-world sandbox with its pulp roots intact. The Canterbury Isles are an idyllic region¸ once the western edge of the mighty Kingdom of Damask¸ they were set adrift when that empire descended into the flames of anarchy. Since then¸ the largest human settlement in the region¸ Bondaea¸ has become a city obsessed with order¸ dominated by the priests of lawful deities¸ the Duke has turned the city into a police state¸ with random identity checks and the gates separating the four quarters of the city locked at night. Worse¸ the Duke has fallen under the spell of Therran the White¸ god of racial purity and forced all demi-humans in the city into the slum quarter. This action¸ combined with the clear-cutting of human loggers on the island has move the humans and elves to the edge of a race war that will devastate the isles forever. Now is the time for heroes. But will they decide the conflict in favor of one side or the other or find a way to prevent a senseless war before it can begin?