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Dowerbridge Bystander
The industrial revolution has come to the lands of Arnham, and where “machine” and “motor” are becoming more and more common phrases to the everyman, knowledge of myth and magic slips ever more into the esoteric. Rarely now do the people spin tales of the devil who stole a piece of the sun, fewer still make it their life’s work to find the lost dwarven city of Thorinar, and no one alive even knows the name Sho’durah anymore.- The Antiquarian, Lord Aldric Motworth
What is the Dowerbridge Bystander?
For over 100 years the Dowerbridge Bystander has been an internationally renowned newspaper. Known across the baronies for its wide ranging coverage of topics such as culture, geography, politics, technology, wildlife and occasionally even the arcane.Where to start
If you're a first time reader we recommend the following articles to start:| The continent of Arnham is ancient and these hard lands have birthed a variety of varied peoples. Spread across the lands and each forged by the terrains they inhabit. | The last century has seen a whirlwind of change after the creation of the steam engine opened the floodgates of innovation. Now across the nations, technological marvels are being mass created and distributed, vastly changing the day to day lives of many people. |
| Roughly 1 in 100,000 people have innate magical abilities, but until very recently all forms of magic casting was considered illegal and punishable by death. These days things are somewhat better as magic-users (known as arcanists) are protected by laws, tenuous as they are. | Learn all about the city of Dowerbridge, the home of the Bystander and the innovative heart of the nation. |
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