Citadel Beyond the North Wind (Legend)
Roleplaying game
The game 'Citadel Beyond the North Wind (Legend)' is a sandbox expansion for classic sword & sorcery adventures. It takes place in the world of Xoth, where a land lies north of the black hills of Lamu and beyond the frozen moors of Tharag Thule. It is a land of mist and thunder, where the white people of Yg have lived since ancient times. In this land, on the hilltops and beside the fog-shrouded lakes, stand the somber granite castles, and therein dwell the princes and tyrants of Yg with their countless thralls and slaves and subjects. The greatest and oldest of the tyrants of this primeval land is Arkanth Mal, the witch-king of Galuga, grand master of necromancy and alchemy. In the smoke-filled taverns of Tartuun, drunken bards dare to sing the forbidden song of the witch-king and his first consort, Eliyh. In his youth, the bards say, Arkanth Mal left the land of Yg and wandered east of the mountains to study sorcery. Among the Easterlings he met the witch Eliyh and was enchanted by her charms. The two dwelled in the east for several years, sharing many earthly pleasures and sorcerous secrets. But when Arkanth Mal returned to Yg in the west, he was alone, for Eliyh was not by his side. Soon thereafter, Arkanth Mal took as his wife Verina, a princess of Lamu. Using the plentiful gold from her dowry, he purchased the loyalty of the grim hill-men of Natla. Arkanth Mal and his army conquered vast tracts of the land of Yg in a series of bloody battles and protracted sieges. In the end, Arkanth Mal reigned supreme among the tyrants of Yg from his citadel of Galuga, and the princes were forced to pay tribute to the witch-king. However, at the moment of the sorcerer's triumph, while he was away on his last campaign, Verina fled from Galuga for unknown reasons, and returned to the realm of her father in the south. And now, the bards of Tartuun whisper, the witch-king of Galuga seeks a new queen. For the minions of Arkanth Mal sweep across the borders of Tharag Thule and Lamu, slaying men and taking only young women as slaves back to Galuga, the Citadel beyond the North Wind!
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