Day 8: Scarred Lands Campaign Setting: Ghelspad

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Myth is ingrained deep into the soil of Scarn: divine visitations, ancient monsters, unknown lands, and glory-seeking heroes. The Scarred Lands are a place of magic, mystery, and horror on a properly epic scale…. vengeful creatures roaming eldritch landscapes; divine entities leading armies against one another; catastrophic weather and violent, sometimes phenomenal storms…; and myths and legends taking place all around. The Scarred Lands as a setting are the perfect environment to run a mythic-tier campaign, using the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Mythic Adventures rules. It is not at all mandatory to use the Scarred Lands in this way, but GMs should find plenty of tools at their disposal for making their player characters into legendary heroes.

I don’t want people to get the wrong idea: The new Scarred Lands won’t look like Exalted. But this is a world where, more or less, Zeus has literally just overthrown Kronos and sent him to Tartarus. For many PCs, the Titanswar occurred within living memory, or at most just a few generations ago, so its impact cannot be overstated. Iliad, Odyssey, Metamorphoses, Bullfinch’s Mythology, the Golden Bough, these things have all influenced how I see the Scarred Lands.

Given the debts the setting owes to our own mythology, we have really tried to capture the feel of a young world, where gods and monsters are a part of everyday life, and with rich cultures that might resemble those of classic antiquity a little more than you remember from the original Scarred Lands.

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