Kalarol

To the citizens of the Valley of the Kobold King, the Age of the GIlded Dragoness is synonymous with Kalarol. Its discovery forty years ago by an archaeological expedition under contract of the Haversworth Trading Company has catapulted the once modest Senjari Kobolds into an age of unthinkable technological and economic development. Both the Andran Empire and the Senjari Kobolds have come to rely on the now-ubiquitous fuel, which drives airships, firearms, lighting and yet more applications by the year. The golden, highly luminescent fluid is so-named by the Andran archaeologists who discovered it, in reference to Kalos, a hero prominent in ancient Andran legend. Kalos is revered by many of the Andran Empire and said to guard the thresholds of homes against the demons and spirits which roam dark nights. Most famously, bards tell of the Slaying of the Forty Fears, wherein the weak but clever Kalos masquerades as a frail old man and ambushes a cadre of demons terrorizing a small town. The famous painting "Trick of the Light" portrays Kalos and the legendary light-wreathed Vidal blade, as he emerges from behind a black curtain in ambush of the first of forty demons. Little is known of the exact origins and nature of Kalarol, for the fuel is provided only by the Haversworth Trading Company (HTC) under strict secrecy. It is said that the information is magically sealed, permitted to be known only by the most senior of the HTC and the monarch of the Senjari themselves. Rumors tell of a clandestine Research and Development arm of the HTC, which delivers the pure fuel directly to one of several publicly-known refineries which process the fuel for public sale. The refinement is necessary to reduce the fuel's magical potency to safe levels for handling - more pure forms of the fuel are known to cause greater and greater degrees of illness and contamination. One such ailment is bloodcharring, a condition related to direct exposure to Kalarol which causes the blood to turn black and can significantly reduce a user's constitution (this can also be manifested through use of incorrectly prepared or used Kalarol Medtech syringes).

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