* Vivane Province: Travel and Encounters

* We're wrapping up our sixth year!

* Great Roads: Heavily traveled

* Some elemental earth built into them to help ease travel

* Real world parallel: Roman roads

* Vivane is (overall) more developed than Barsaive

* Real world parallel: Pioneer-era United States West vs East

* River travel

* Vivane t'skrang compared to the Serpent River aropagoi

* Musing on Riverboats and t'skrang culture

* Piracy

* Theran military patrols; where and how often

* Reasons for military encounters

* Typical patrol composition

* Non-military members: Kedate and Praetori

* Coaching hostelries

* Earthdawn equivalent of a "truck stop"

* "Not Tolkien" sidebar

* What you can find at a hostelry

* Outlying areas around the cities

* Reactions to adepts walking around armed

* Thoughts on updates for Fourth Edition

* Highlighting differences between Vivane and Barsaive

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* Blades: Grave Wisdom

* Interlude: In Search of Knowledge

* Timeline and time limit discussion

* No specific location; just in a library

* Connected NPC: Vanyk Auldsinger

* Like the previous interlude: Points the PCs in the direction of the answer.

* The Adventure: Travel to Cara Fahd to find the Hold of Courage

* Suggested travel encounters.

* How post-Krathis Gron Cara Fahd can change things

* Finding the Hold of Courage

* Entering the Hold

* Problems with the "rules" of entering the Hold

* Statues and Soul Stones

* Description of other aspects of the Hold

* Attack by corrupted spirits

* Answering the question

* Destruction of the Hold

* Capsule review: Straightforward location-based encounter

* Possible tweaks and expansions

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* We're back!

* Post-hiatus update on Josh's latest theatrical production

* Legends of Barsaive chapter 13 should be released soon!

* FreedoniaCon: February 28-March 1

* Overview of Theran Provinces from Vivane boxed set

* Great Thera: Island in the Selestrean Sea (aka the Mediterranean)

* Present-day Santorini/Thira

* Creana: South of Great Thera; city states along river and up along eastern coast of the Selestran Sea

* Inspired by ancient Egypt; desert, ancient tombs

* The groundwork for the Theran Empire sourcebook was laid in this supplement.

* Indrisa: Far to the east/southeast of Great Thera

* Indian sub-continent

* Brief descriptions of orks and trolls feels like Barsaive rehash

* Marac: West/southwest of Great Thera

* Inspired by Arabian Nights and similar materials

* Talea: Due west of Great Thera

* Italian peninsula; fell to Thera due to internal squabbles

* Multiple city-states

* Vasgothia: Northwest of Great Thera

* Dense, haunted forests and forbidding mountains

* Inspired by Roman interactions with Germanic tribes, Black Forest, etc.

* Other areas

* Araucania: Amazon Basin

* Aznan: Sub-Saharan Africa

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