Tropan: The Northern Reaches

[Diamond]

Hey all! This is another redesign of my homebrew world, Tropan. This is a planet deep in the grip of an ice age, populated by the decadent remnants of once world-spanning empires, and smaller alliances of independent city-states. There are two main continents, each centered on one of the poles; the one shown here is part of Noctiland, the northern continent. Tropan rotates far more slowly than Earth; each day and night lasts about 72 hours each. This may not have always been the case, as only some of the flora and fauna are adapted to this extended day/night cycle.

Magic and science co-exist uneasily here: the blood necromancers of Githlia use bits and pieces of the Old Science to power the lights in their cities; the nomadic Gannakazzer tribes ride the descendants of genetically-engineered war-rats; the spider-mages of Lorkan use remnants of an ancient DNA codex to create their unholy fusions of spider and man. Tropan's native race, the insect-like Qol, dwell deep within the earth; they are the stewards of much of what remains of the Old Science.

There are legends and prophecies that a hero will come to deliver the world from the grip of Father Ice, but who that hero may be and where they come from remains a mystery...

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This is a labor of love for me; I must have redesigned, tweaked, and altered this setting a dozen times in the last 20 years. Someday I hope to have it nailed down to a shape I can live with. In the meantime, it's fun to add to my Grand Codex, an encyclopedia of all things Tropan which is currently running at more than 500 individual entries.

Credits:

Background Parchment: Torstan
Font: Hammerhead Regular
Compass: rpgmapmaker