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Realmscapes: The Realm of Beasts

May 2022·pp. 82–87

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The Ghurish Heartlands contain predatory landscapes as dangerous as their inhabitants, with shifting territories and monstrous migrations undermining every claim to permanence. Thondia, Excelsis and the ruined land of Carcass Donse place current campaigns within a wider geography energised by Kragnos and the Era of the Beast.

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