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Summary
North by Northwest started in November 2022 and is an ongoing storyline running in the area around Wehnimer's Landing. It focuses heavily on the new Barony of Darkstone being established in the region just outside of the Landing, as well as the many conflicts around the Barony's creation. Chapter 1: Settlers of Darkstone, ran from November 2022 to February 2023. Chapter 2: Of Rooks and Reivers began in March 2023.
Map
Here are the proposed borders of the new Barony of Darkstone, land now claimed by the Turamzzyrian Empire:
Chapter 1: Settlers of Darkstone
- Earl Jovery, the Northern Sentinel, has declared an expansion of the Turamzzyrian Empire. The new territory, aptly named the Barony of Darkstone, will take up land north and northwest of the current imperial border, inching closer to Wehnimer's Landing and some of its wilds. An imperial settlement has temporarily been established in the southern edges of the Lower Dragonsclaw forest, where several refugees from Talador, along with countless settlers from other imperial regions, have come to make a new life.
- Elidal Dhenin, the son of a wealthy river trade family out of Riverwood, was appointed to become the new Baron of Darkstone. Joining him as trusted advisors are his twin brother Enisius, who is a Magister of the Hall of Mages and known for illusions and not liking people or crowds. Sablo Marsh is the Commander of the fledgling Darkstonian army, and spent most of his young life hunting barbarians and monsters in the cold north of Hendor's wilds, where some argue he's lost some of his own humanity and struggles to readjust to civilization. Lady Aronia has also arrived, a member of the Green Sisters who has close, old ties to Elidal and has come to help ensure that nature is not wasted or thrown out of balance as the expansion of the empire stretches north and northwest. The final advisor is Iliyaas, a mysterious sylvan seer who Elidal personally asked to travel with him, but she remains within the woods and will not approach the town or camp.
- A stone giant named Gnul, who appointed himself King of the Mountain Alliance, formed an army of monsters from the Thanatoph, Glatoph, Wehntoph and Sentoph. He waged a months-long war against Wehnimer's Landing and the imperial settlement. He eventually had a trove of plinite shards stolen from beneath the Hendoran outpost, and after failing to use them properly on his minions, he applied other plinite shards to his own body and turned into a 300 foot tall creature that the combined heroes eventually defeated. His decapitated head, the size of a boulder, is visible on the path to the Abandoned Inn in the Upper Trollfang.
- Magister Enisius opened up applications for magic users in the local area to apply to join his Magical Research Team, who would focus on studying the abnormalities of both Melgorehn's Reach and Darkstone Castle. One of their main goals was to ultimately try to break the curse of Darkstone Castle. He is expected to announce the accepted candidates in Charlatos. (March)
- Commander Sablo disobeyed Elidal's public orders during a raid against Gnul's forces, and as such was dispatched to travel back to Riverwood where he would escorts several new caravans to the new settlement, including Elidal and Enisius's parents.
- Iliyaas has warned that while the recent winter storm was brutal, that another storm of worlds was fast approaching and danger was growing on the horizon, and indicated that Melgorehn's Reach may be involved in such things to come.
- Mayor Thadston has tasked the local heroes to devise a safe method to pry the kroderine shards from his arms once and for all. They were originally implanted there during the final battle with Raznel, when he helped close a portal that connected Wehnimer's Landing to the Bleaklands.
- A member of the Blue Water Brigade, imperial Captain Bodohal, had brought his ship the Shiver to the bay outside of Wehnimer's Landing, where both he and his crew have gotten into trouble, even once firing upon the town when they were threatened. He seeks a member of his crew, Tolmis, who escaped his ship and is rumored to know some information about the captain and the possibility of Bodohal having imprisoned Remuliad, a Magister of the Hall of Mages, said to be a captive on the Shiver.
- Mother, the leader of the Brotherhood of Rooks, threatened the imperial settlers and warned that they had until the beginning of Charlatos to tear down their tents and return home or there would be potential violence and starvation thrown at them.
- In the final days of winter, two young settlers in love went missing from the imperial campsite. It was eventually discovered that they were murdered out by the mountain range of Luinne Bheinn, presumably by Reivers who had warned against further imperial incursions and had been growing agitated by the growing conflict.
Chapter 2: Of Rooks and Reivers
Cast of Characters
For more information, see the North by Northwest NPC Primer or the individual NPC pages.
- Amos - Leader of the Darkstone Bay Consortium
- Ardenale - Displaced Madam of the Honey Mine Brothel in Talador before its fall
- Aronia - Member of the Green Sisters
- Bodohal Gallanst - Captain of the Shiver
- Casiphia Malatina - "Mother" and leader of the Brotherhood of Rooks
- Cordarius Hodges - Regional Envoy of Wehnimer's Landing
- Elidal Dhenin - Future Baron of the Barony of Darkstone
- Enisius Dhenin - Magister of the Hall of Mages
- Gnul - Self-proclaimed King of Thanatoph
- Haidan
- Iliyaas - Seer
- Juramis Du'Lasfeur - Merchant from Brisker's Cove
- Larsya Caulfield - Commander of the Imperial Outpost outside the Landing
- Octaven - Grand Magister of the Hall of Mages
- Rheshay
- Rodnay - Orphan of the Wellington home, now a hybrid creation of Human and Ithzir
- Sablo Marsh - Commander of the Darkstonian Army
- Samfelt
- Talmaris
- Thadston Andrews - Mayor of Wehnimer's Landing
- Tolmis - Ex-member of the Bluewater Brigade
- Torcadall Bhodhsa
- Tydina Wiley
- Tyeid
Official Vignettes
- Prologue - 11-02-2022
- Wehnimer's Merchants Admonish Black Thorns - 01-23-2023
- Chapter 2 Prologue - 02-17-2023
Character Vignettes
Logs
In-Depth Summaries
- NPC Primer - This has been established to provide a quick reference for some notable NPCs that will play some role in the storyline North by Northwest. This information was originally shared and updated by GM Kenstrom. It's also worth noting that over half of the NPCs listed are brand new or new-ish, so a player does not need to have knowledge of years of previous storylines in order to engage the NPC's and become involved. For complete information on each NPC, please see their individual character pages.
- Player Contest - Darkstone Crest - A contest ran from 12/19/22 to 1/15/23 for players to design a crest for the new Barony of Darkstone.
Pages in category "North by Northwest"
The following 166 pages are in this category, out of 166 total.
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- Barony of Darkstone
- Black Thorn Resistance
- Black Thorn Resistance/Free North News Issue 1
- Black Thorn Resistance/Free North News Issue 2
- Black Thorn Resistance/Free North News Issue 3
- Black Thorn Resistance/Free North News Issue 4
- Black Thorn Resistance/Free North News Issue 5
- Black Thorn Resistance/Free North News Issue 6
- Black Thorn Resistance/Free North News Issue 7
- Black Thorn Resistance/Free North News Issue 8
- Bodohal Gallanst
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- North by Northwest (storyline)/2022-11-04 - Imperial Approachments (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2022-11-05 - Gnul in the Action (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2022-11-07 - Absence Makes the Upstarts Stronger (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2022-11-09 - Knightly Respite (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2022-11-13 - Just Troll With It (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2022-11-16 - Bodohal Gallanst Galavants (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2022-11-16 - Elidal On, Future Baron (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2022-11-18 - Assessments (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2022-11-19 - Caravan Scramble (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2022-11-19 - Four Questions with Bodohal (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2022-11-21 - Settling and Unsettling (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2022-11-23 - Food Forethought (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2022-11-28 - Over the Counterproposal (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2022-11-29 - Aeritorial Dispute (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2022-12-02 - The Rodnay Not Taken (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2022-12-03 - The United Fates of Elanthia (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2022-12-05 - Fire Up the Planning (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2022-12-08 - Concessions, Regrets, and Overdue Debts Will Rally the Alleys with Still More Rooks Yet (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2022-12-09 - Stop, Rock, and Roll (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2022-12-11 - Like Sheep to the Slaughterhouse (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2022-12-12 - A Head-to-Head Kind of Knight (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2022-12-13 - Obsidian Tidings (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2022-12-14 - Scouts' Horror (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2022-12-15 - A Cannonfire Talk and a Fireside Talk (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2022-12-19 - Finance and Filanci (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-01-03 - Through a Mirror Darkstone (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-01-04 - Log it Down (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-01-06 - Digging Deeper (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-01-07 - Supply Run (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-01-10 - Hire and Higher Walls (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-01-12 - Another Form of Combat Drill (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-01-15 - Freepudiation (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-01-16 - Shiversity of Options (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-01-17 - The Light in the Fight (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-01-18 - A Forgery of Kobolds (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-01-19 - Familial Dispute (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-01-20 - Badger of Honor (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-01-23 - Goblin Sappers (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-01-24 - Sablo Sendoff and the Plinitaur Problem (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-01-25 - Thoughts and Plans for Plots of Land (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-01-27 - Thornabout is Their Way (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-01-27 - Word to Your Mother (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-01-28 - The Earl Unfurls (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-01-30 - Iliyaas Swipes Left (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-01-31 - Iliyaas Sees Sand and Stone (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-02-01 - Calm Before the Stone (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-02-04 - Ethan More Rae-calcitrant (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-03-10 - The Itsy Bitsy Spiders Went Up the Hunters and Out (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-03-11 - An Attacker's Aroni-ous Assumption (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-03-14 - Shadows of the Empire (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-03-16 - Concerns of Concert (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-03-16 - Iliyaas in the Faendryl Garden (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-03-17 - Of Sheep and Slaughter (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-03-18 - No Runnin', Yes Haidan (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-03-23 - Wehnimer's Town Hall (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-03-24 - Extending an Embertation (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-03-25 - Intentions Unvaled (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-03-27 - Arms of the Maw (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-03-28 - A Simmering Lot (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-03-29 - Not Us or Them, but Us or Us (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-03-31 - Cain as a Rough Knight (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-04-01 - The Affront of Their Front is His End (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-04-03 - Scarabesque Designs (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-04-04 - The Crest and Yet to Come (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-04-07 - What a Tangled Web we Cleave (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-04-08 - Medical Emergencies or Heretical Deterrencies (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-04-10 - Back On Tyrrax (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-04-11 - And it Burns, Burns, Burns, His Mind's on Fire (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-04-12 - Conflict, Conflation, and Conflagration (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-05-04 - Ordinance, Ordnance, and Ordlynce (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-05-05 - Rise of the Remnants: Chain Reaction (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-05-06 - Rodnay and the Danger Field (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-05-08 - The Mayor of Darkstone vs. the Councils of Rooks (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-05-10 - Samfelt's Shift, Thadston's Tactics, Jeshiah's Job (Rooks' Representation), and Alendrial's Aims (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-05-11 - Alendrial Asserts An Aspirational Alternative (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-05-12 - Connections Loosely Tyeid (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-05-13 - Dikirk and the Clan-Destined (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-05-16 - Candidate Amos' Town Hall (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-05-17 - Candidate Alendrial's Town Hall (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-05-18 - Candidate Thadston's Town Hall (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-05-19 - Embers and the Vale (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-05-22 - Cold Flames and the Bleak Peaks (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-05-24 - Trial of the Rooks, Night 1: Beginner's Pukk and a Second Just In Kayse (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-05-25 - Trial of the Rooks, Night 2: Kiyna Get a Testimony and Look Back on it Chandy (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-05-27 - Trial of the Rooks, Night 3: The Drektor's Cut of Turning a New Leafi (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-05-27 - Trial of the Rooks, Night Ending: The Pollyanna Principle (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-05-31 - Thad's All, Folks (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-06-01 - Dusk, Ruin, Nairena (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-06-02 - Parley For Off Course (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-06-09 - Oh, Rheshay, Can You See (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-06-10 - Getting Tyeid in Nots (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-06-12 - Will Elidal Wisely or Sablo It (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-06-13 - Envoys get RYSKy (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-06-13 - Learn His Name, Burn His Game (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-06-14 - Underhill, Under Investigation, Under Fireflies (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-06-15 - Duplication and the Sincerest Form of Collateral (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-07-05 - Riverbend (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-07-06 - Shake It Up, Elidal, Twisting Route (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-07-07 - Arranging Exchanging (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-07-11 - Close to Listicuffs (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-07-12 - Firebrandidates (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-07-20 - Curious Casignment (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-07-25 - Carefully Measured Stephs (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-07-26 - Poisonous Ponderings (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-07-30 - Brace to the Finish (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-08-02 - Whether Faireve Fares Even on a Fair-Weather Eve (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-08-03 - Tyrrax, Trust, and Tact (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-08-04 - Dilly-Elidally (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-08-07 - Shore Up, Shore Enough (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-08-08 - A Clash of Idolonegical Differences (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-11-07 - Machine Learning (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-11-13 - Prison Terms of Negotiation (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-11-15 - Lakeside Tribute to Bellaja (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-11-16 - A Lesson in Icy Conflict (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-11-22 - Season for Feastin' (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-11-27 - Cordarius' Curious Conjecture On Octaven's Odd Operations (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-12-01 - Rodnay Issues a Recall on Melgorehn's Products (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-12-11 - Darkstone's Pustulation (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-12-13 - Octaven Reaches Out After Dual Deaths (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-12-19 - Shining Northern Knight (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2023-12-21 - The Supervisions of Darkstone (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2024-01-09 - See, Ma, 'Plodin! (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2024-01-16 - Tyrrax's Tour Time and Talon Talk (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/2024-02-06 - Burning Up For You (log)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/Chapter 2 (vignette)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/Chapter 2 Prologue (vignette)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/NPC Primer (summary)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/Prologue (vignette)
- North by Northwest (storyline)/Wehnimer's Merchants Admonish Black Thorns (vignette)
- North by Northwest - Safely Navigating the Darkstone Bay Area, a Guide for New Settlers