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The Two Most Interesting People in Slaan, and How they Got to Be that Way Obviously the previous pages set down the most important people in the city, such as the Ministers of Trade and Water and the High Priest of Io, but Slaan has many ...

Article - Mechalich - 2009-10-06 12:09 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

Slaan Part 2 - How Slaan Runs Introduction This place isn’t like Sigil; it hasn’t got a Lady of Pain to straighten out all the inconvenient messes that happen when you throw a bunch of races together into a mix and ask them to t ...

Article - Mechalich - 2009-10-06 11:57 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

So, this is the further development of an idea I proposed elsewhere, about how easy it would be for someone to fake Vlaakith not actually being dead, and it is also my take on how the Githyanki liches are choosing to exert their power. Feel free t ...

Forum Topic - Mechalich - 2008-07-04 23:17 - 15 comments - 0 attachments

Slaan - City of Paraelemental Smoke Introduction There are many ways to describe a city, glowing poetry, epic histories, great paintings, and many more, but to describe the lizard-man city in the Paraelemental Plane of Smoke a s ...

Article - Mechalich - 2009-10-06 12:39 - 9 comments - 0 attachments

Well, I've been throwing this around lately, and I'll see how far it goes. I'll post it here for now since this seems the best place and the actual articles are in flux. Fair Warning: the following story is set post-Faction War and post-Incur ...

Forum Topic - Mechalich - 2009-10-04 01:47 - 4 comments - 0 attachments

The Anatomists “Pass me that scalpel will you Jeren.” A cold voice, all business, requested. “Which one? There’s four in the tool kit.” Jeren returned, all nerves and jitters. “Only one of them cuts through elemental f ...

Article - Mechalich - 2009-10-13 00:43 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

Some people may have seen this when I posted it at RoE, but since it got axed with the last forum upgrade I figure I might as well repost it. This is one of my better planescape short pieces. Strings over Dark And whomsoever shall devot ...

Forum Topic - Mechalich - 2008-07-04 23:14 - 8 comments - 0 attachments

So in the Rrakkma project thread Nemui compared githyanki generals to the Japanese shogun. I got to thinking about it and came up with some stuff that may hopefully be useful. Comparison of the Githyanki and Japanese culture of the Sengoku pe ...

Forum Topic - Mechalich - 2008-07-04 23:17 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

Foreword It has been said, by quite a few people including shamelessly flattering colleagues who really ought to know better, that I know more about the subject of dragons and dragonkind than almost anyone else. This is assuredly pat ...

Article - Mechalich - 2008-07-07 17:10 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(Town) Character: Life on the ice is hard, and the people who’ve got the strength to handle it are in charge. As for the rest, endure and keep working, there’s prosperity aplenty, so long as you don’t ask for freedom or happiness and keep you ...

Article - Mechalich - 2008-07-04 20:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments