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Weapons And Armor: Edged weapons, blunt weapons, pole blades, shields, armor, ammunition, and siege equipment.

Tools And Kits: Craft tools, climbing gear, alchemist's tools, poison-making tools, medical tools, writing tools, musical instruments, and other practical equipment.

Mounts And Vehicles: Riding mounts, flying mounts, swimming mounts, wagons, chariots, ships, rowboats, canoes, rafts, airships, zeppelins, and gliders.

Materials And Goods: Reagents, components, crafting inputs, commodities, trade goods, coins, supplies, and valuables.

Consumables And Magic: Food, drink, medicines, poisons, potions, scrolls, charms, relics, foci, ritual articles, and other magical or expendable objects.

And Much More: ...and much more.

Crossroads Of The World: Every culture is welcomed here, and everyone leaves a mark. This makes the Middle Kingdom the easiest place to bring together a diverse party and from which to launch a new campaign.

Intricate Diplomacy: Ambassadors from around the world are ever present, and ever scheming.

Constant Struggle: Border skirmishes are frequent as the southern hordes, and other opportunists, look for weakness while stirring alarm and causing tension.

A Bountiful Safe Haven: The Middle Kingdom's bountiful harvests and benevolent rulers make it a safe space for political and other refugees fleeing some lost faraway feud-that-went-wrong.

Access To The World's Powers: This is the region for characters who want open doors to the halls of power and all the politics, travel, intrigue, and moral consequence that come with it.

The Eyes Of The Seven: The dark elven seats of power watch and manipulate from cities of silence and cruelty.

The Forge Of The One: Dwarven craft is not merely industry; it is faithful tenet, law, memory, and world-shaping labor.

The Gateway To All Below: This is the gateway to a region as vast as the surface itself. It is marked by ancient grudges, subterranean politics, lost halls, sacred craft, terrible discoveries and unimaginable wealth...but only if you can take it.

City Of Diversity: On the largest island sits a massive city tenuously ruled by the 9 dragon houses. Each house has its own court, customs, dangers, secrets, and ambitions, and every visitor enters a game already centuries in motion.

Thrones Of Intrigue: More so than anywhere else, the rulers here have desires they seek to fulfill. Dragons covet like no other, and these dragons learned to build up true power long ago. This power they are willing to exercise quickly, but not with their own claws; now they work through the claws of the great houses that serve them.

Dragon Houses: Each dragon has built a great house of fealty, patronage, commerce, duty and worship according to their own spheres of interest. While the House of the Gold Dragon stands watch on the city walls, the House of the Blue Dragon plies the underworld for vice, leverage and coin, and the House of the Green Dragon conducts unknown business in the forests and islands beyond the walls.

Island Conflicts: Whereas the big island and capital city is considered neutral ground where for one house to openly fight another house is a crime, the surrounding islands are unburdened from such rules. Each island is a distinct realm of alliances, rivalries, tribute, and forbidden knowledge; friends on one island may be enemies on another, all as posterity and opportunity demand.

Fifty Feudal Crowns: Human ambition is fractured, brilliant, petty, heroic, and dangerous. There has never been unity in these lands, and while most believe there are as many as fifty separate rulers here, some say it could be hundreds. The only thing known for sure is that some crown somewhere changes every day.

Restless Faiths: These lands are scarred by the feuds between the old gods, and the rise of the new. Temples, saints, zealots, doubters, and holy orders all compete to define what must be done. Religion, the good and the bad, dominate these lands.

One Crusade: Although in its infancy, it is stirring. The rise of the One True God, and the waning of the old. Will trumpets blare as the heavens open? Will magic recede? It is rumored the high elves, the first to this land, may be the first to leave, accompanying their deities to some faraway place. This is the region for knights, priests, nobles, spies, soldiers, and anyone caught between duty and conviction. Only one side can prevail as this type of conflict does not end in compromise. Your duty, and your very survival, depend on your strength at arms and just maybe, the strength of your faith.

Fortune At Sea: All the wealth of the world, both coin and cargo, moves by ship. And so does war, plague, secrets, and revenge.

Plying The Lanes: The goblin gem mines in the south, the wheat fields of the north, the dwarven industrial machinery from the near east, the spices of the far east, the magic artifacts from the west, and nearly one hundred other trade goods all create highly lucrative trade opportunities. It is said a merchant can increase his wealth one-hundred fold in a single voyage; but to increase that kind of wealth, one has to take the fastest routes, triangulate the most lucrative stops, and all of that means travel by sea. And these sea routes aren't a secret; they are fertile ground for everyone...and everything...that wants what you have.

Law And Piracy: A single commission can turn an outlaw into a sailor, a thief into a prince, and an outcast into a hero. The Law is a force in and of itself, and worth learning to manipulate.

The Open Water: Outside the commonly travelled sea lanes is the wide open sea. A vast liquid wilderness containing never before seen sea magic, strange islands, and the strange creatures who inhabit it all. Do you hear the call?

The Black King: A gathering darkness gives the hordes an unheard of unity, and the region its terrible gravity. The Black King's lieutenants seek to unite all the monstrous forces under a single banner, and to do so presents a grave threat to life everywhere.

Rebellion Of The Free: Not every monster is the same, not every enemy is simple, and not every survivor is innocent. These lands have their share of creatures who only want to live free and to not be enslaved under the terrible yoke of the Black King. The denizens of the Chaos Lands are not feeble, are not afraid of death, and are not easily controlled.

Hope Under Fire: This is the region for desperate battles, harsh alliances, brutal survival, and for many, some small measure of redemption.