Where the chronicle happens

Locations

Ordered the only way the Courts order anything: by distance from the Abyss. Amber sits at the top because it is the furthest thing from falling.

Order Neutral ground House space The Abyss

Amber Amber · Amber Before Chapter I

Random's court. Where PCs were briefed. Trump contact destination.

Begma Shadow Chapter 1

Agricultural, prosperous, bureaucratic, and — by the standards of everyone else at this table — the only party that works. Begma has ministries. They function.

The Courts of Chaos Neutral Courts Before Chapter I

The broader Courts beyond any House's space.

Sawall Grounds House Space · Sawall Chapter 1

Includes Mandor's byway — hospitality that also means surveillance.

Hendrake Halls House Space · Hendrake Chapter 1

Martial reception space. Demonstration of fighting arts here in Chapter 1.

Chanicut Chambers House Space · Chanicut Chapter 1

Full formal protocol. Dense and unwarm. Where the protocol document was presented.

Helgram Quarters House Space · Helgram Chapter 1

Deliberately informal. Dinner party atmosphere. Real information shared freely.

Fire Gate Shadow Before Chapter I

A high promontory of white stone. Black sky, black sea below, and two semicircles of pale flame bracketing the place where you land. It is where the Pattern puts anyone it cannot deliver any closer.

Sceld Shadow Chapter 1

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.

Corrash Shadow Chapter 1

Grim uplands under a permanently bruised sky. Corrash has supplied Hendrake with soldiers for longer than anyone counts. Corrash exports command, not bodies.

Ghyre Shadow Chapter 1

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.

Ossary Shadow Chapter 1

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.

The Abyss Road Neutral Courts Before Chapter I

Transit/arrival space. Formal boundary where Chanicut herald met the PCs.

The Abyss The Abyss Before Chapter I

Nobody has been and come back to file a report. The page exists because the Cathedral has no far wall and you can stand at the edge of it.