Tales from Beyond the Spider Moon

Chapter Seven: Sea Stories Ceru and Mookee were looking at the blazing sun in the distance, trying to spot the tiny world of Ashen, somewhere in its orbit when the bell rang and the halfling bid her good night. She climbed down from the rigging and stretched a little, turned her head to crack her neck and headed below deck. There she found Oquee, Bob, and the other regulars on her watch, lounging around, playing cards and shooting the breeze.     She fell in with the other humans, who dealt her into their game. After losing a fair bit of coin over the past few nights, she was ready to make it back tonight. Someone chuckled at that. Oquee sat in the corner, on his bedding, drawing on his pipe, snout stuck in one of the large tomes he often carried down from the great cabin. After a while, and into her second cup, someone asked about Ashen - the planet to which they were sailing.     “I know Ashen,” the half-orc Bob said. “The old sages called it Cindre, and it’s the...

 In the skies above every world, one red star shines brighter than the rest. The Wanderer. Madinat Alnnahas, the City of Brass. No one knows when the Efreet City broke away from the Pyre ; but the Flaming Spires float through space in their own orbit around the sun, where the Efreet host Spelljammers from throughout the 'Verse. The City of Brass is the largest Spellport in PyreSpace, and a center for commerce and shipping for many interplanetary guilds. Climate & Terrain Madinat Alnnahas is a portal from the Elemental Fire of the Pyre, floating in orbat around the Source of all Flame. An enormous, beaten curtain of brass, some 40 miles across, surrounds the city. Massive sluice gates allow the flow of molten fire from the Source Gate to escape the city, where it collects along the bottom before dripping and burning off into the void.     Throughout the cosmopolitan city, the dangerous effects of the Pyre are suppressed by the will of the Grande Sultan , in an effort t...