Lore Compendium
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Companion’s Guide to Eldareth
The Companion's Guide to Eldareth is the starting point for players entering the setting. It brings together the character options used in the campaign with the everyday knowledge needed to understand where those characters come from and how they move...
Explorer’s Guide to Eldareth
The Explorer's Guide to Eldareth provides an overview of the known regions of the Material Plane, from the surface world to the Hollow Depths. It establishes where each region sits within the wider setting and gives the context needed to...
Guildmaster’s Guide to Eldareth
Across Eldareth, guilds, orders, and other factions hold influence over trade, magic, religion, and politics. Some regulate arcane practice or control valuable resources, while others operate through commerce, espionage, or the criminal underworld. This guide introduces the major factions players...
Grand History of Eldareth
From the earliest recorded ages to the fractured world of the Age of Resurgence, the history of Eldareth follows the events that shaped its peoples and nations. These records trace the rise and fall of empires, wars between mortals and...
Faiths & Pantheons
The divine has shaped Eldareth since its earliest history. Gods and demigods appear throughout its myths, conflicts, and traditions, and their influence remains part of everyday life even when they cannot act directly. Through temples, sacred texts, and the people...
Manual of the Planes
Beyond the mortal world lies a wider cosmology of planes, each with its own nature, inhabitants, and place within creation. Some exist alongside Eldareth, others form the elemental or spiritual foundations of the multiverse, while still stranger realms lie beyond...
Esoterica & Apocrypha of Eldareth
This section gathers some of Eldareth’s least accessible knowledge, including unusual forms of magic, rare materials, and phenomena that are poorly understood outside specialist circles. It also covers accounts of the Great Powers and other beings whose histories are incomplete,...
Crafter's Compendium
The Crafter's Compendium brings together the rules, materials, and techniques used to make things in Eldareth. It covers ordinary D&D crafting alongside Eldareth's expanded systems for gathering resources, working with Special Materials, and following specialized Recipes and Formulae. The guide...