[Age of Giants] The Fall of Castle Hammerfire

[Havard]

Actually, yeah, I misread that. There I was thinking, "where were those references in DA3?"

Sure. I am not a purist in that sense. I would like to incorporate everything ever published about Blackmoor into one coherent setting. Putting all those puzzle pieces together is what's fun to me. I haven't gone through the two versions of the City of the Gods in detail to see if they contradict eachother. DA3 is set in 1025 and I recommend the d20 version to be set probably around 1035. You wouldn't want to run that as the first installment of a D20 Blackmoor Campaign anyway as the adventure is designed for 9th-10th level characters. The 10 years between the two adventures could explain some changes. And actually there are Fire Giants in both adventures.

In the case of the Sword Ember and its backstory, there is no particular reason why that would not work with both versions, even though it was likely an invention of Harley Stroh.

I think the dwarven kingdom south of the North (*drumroll*) was more than a random reference, though.
Either we, you and I, talked about the concept at some point, or someone else suggested it.

Perhaps you are thinking about the Dwarven Duchy of Evedhur? Yes, a Dwarf Realm to the South makes sense. Uberstar and his followers would have had to come from somewhere before they arrived in the North in Year 525. I just got the impression that the passage was talking about "The North" as in the region of the Blackmoor Campaign Map.

Anyway, back to the Ember Blade. Perhaps I can keep this closer to what the module stated. Perhaps Thorwien Dur’Hail was one of Uberstar Khazakhum's companions in the early days and that he befriended the Peshwah and aided them against the Fire Giants then living near Dragonia.

This would mean I couldn't directly link the Ember Blade to the Age of Giants, but it would certainly be a scourge of their descendants. It would also allow us to add another story to the history of the Peshwah.

-Havard