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The Black Zone

Chaos's equivalent of the Golden Circle — favoured Shadows near the Courts. Trading partners, potential fiefdoms, and the raw manpower their armies are drawn from. Just as Amber has Arden, the Black Zone holds private hunting preserves for the Lords of Chaos.

What it is for

Trade · fiefdoms · levies · hunting

Realms on file

4, all of them ours

Fire Gate
The geography that matters
Fire Gate

Black Zone realms do not sit on a map. They sit along the ways that lead to the Courts — numbered exits, converging ways, and a count of towers you walk toward.

Chronicle invention

Canon names essentially nothing out here, which makes it wide open. The realms below were built for this chronicle from canon function rather than canon names. None of it is Zelazny. Modify freely — and if you want another, write it.

4 Realms
Sawall
Sceld
Beautiful, forested, and owned. Sceld is a hunting preserve. Its people are permitted to live there and to serve when a Chaos lord comes to hunt. They are not permitted to hunt.
Autonomy
Reached by
31 left
Hendrake
Corrash
Grim uplands under a permanently bruised sky. Corrash has supplied Hendrake with soldiers for longer than anyone counts. Corrash exports command, not bodies.
Autonomy
Reached by
6 left
Jesby
Ghyre
Ghyre grew up around a way-exchange the way a town grows up around a river crossing. Guides, brokers, translators, moneychangers, and the inns where travellers between Shadows sleep badly.
Autonomy
Reached by
7 left
Chanicut
Ossary
Close enough to the Abyss that the sky is wrong. Ossary's trade is going over the Rim on a line and coming back with something that did not exist before someone made it.
Autonomy
Reached by
2 left