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	*[http://www.seankreynolds.com/rpgfiles/ghostwalk/ Ghostwalk with Sean Reynolds] The story of Ghostwalk and how it came to be, along with other information.		*[http://www.seankreynolds.com/rpgfiles/ghostwalk/ Ghostwalk with Sean Reynolds] The story of Ghostwalk and how it came to be, along with other information.

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Non-Human Nations

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	===Non-Human Nations===		===Non-Human Nations===
	*'''Coil''': Everything is snakes. The sky, the ground, the trees, the air itself... Okay, not really, but there are snakes everywhere. It is a demiplane roughly 50 miles long and 30 miles wide, surrounded by a wall of petrified snakes. Snakes grow out of the ground, swim in the lake, and form a mighty river. Every living creature on Coil is either a snake or a snake-like abomination, and the [[yuan-ti]]<sup>TM</sup> live in cities of stone that writhe like snakes. At their heart is Tragaash Daur, a yuan-ti cleric/sorcerer of... [[Orcus]]. (Yes, the undead mammalian humanoid Orcus. Why him? Dunno!) Unlike in other settings, it is abominations who rule the yuan-ti castes, and all yuan-ti can create vampire spawn-like slaves through the mingling of yuan-ti and victim blood.		*'''Coil''': Everything is snakes. The sky, the ground, the trees, the air itself... Okay, not really, but there are snakes everywhere. It is a demiplane roughly 50 miles long and 30 miles wide, surrounded by a wall of petrified snakes. Snakes grow out of the ground, swim in the lake, and form a mighty river. Every living creature on Coil is either a snake or a snake-like abomination, and the [[yuan-ti]]<sup>TM</sup> live in cities of stone that writhe like snakes. At their heart is Tragaash Daur, a yuan-ti cleric/sorcerer of... [[Orcus]]. (Yes, the undead mammalian humanoid Orcus. Why him? Dunno!) Unlike in other settings, it is abominations who rule the yuan-ti castes, and all yuan-ti can create vampire spawn-like slaves through the mingling of yuan-ti and victim blood (funnily enough, both of these would become the status quo for yuan-ti in 5e).
	*'''Sura-Khiri''': The besieged forest kingdom of the elves of Ghostwalk, Sura-Khiri has suffered for many long decades from an invasion of yuan-ti from Coil. Thanks to the vagaries of planar dynamics, Sura-Khiri's forests and jungles are the easiest place from which to access the Material Plane from Coil, where everything is infested with snakes and the yuan-ti lack for souls. Now, after many years, the elvish population has dwindled to the point of extinction, and the majority of the population train as fighters, rangers, and rogues. What few elves still bother with magic, which is ineffective against the naturally spell-resistant yuan-ti, tend towards the faster and more battle-ready sorcerer class rather than following the lengthy study of wizardry.		*'''Sura-Khiri''': The besieged forest kingdom of the elves of Ghostwalk, Sura-Khiri has suffered for many long decades from an invasion of yuan-ti from Coil. Thanks to the vagaries of planar dynamics, Sura-Khiri's forests and jungles are the easiest place from which to access the Material Plane from Coil, where everything is infested with snakes and the yuan-ti lack for souls. Now, after many years, the elvish population has dwindled to the point of extinction, and the majority of the population train as fighters, rangers, and rogues. What few elves still bother with magic, which is ineffective against the naturally spell-resistant yuan-ti, tend towards the faster and more battle-ready sorcerer class rather than following the lengthy study of wizardry.

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Prestige Classes

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	*'''Bone Collector:''' Gain strength by killing undead creatures and using their magically-empowered bones. You can also absorb negative energy attacks and store them for use as a one-time, at-will spell.		*'''Bone Collector:''' Gain strength by killing undead creatures and using their magically-empowered bones. You can also absorb negative energy attacks and store them for use as a one-time, at-will spell.
	*'''Deathwarden:''' A member of an elite clan of dwarf warriors who protect the Veil of Souls using their undead-slaying special abilities and their list of magic runes, which can summon a high-level dwarven cleric spirit as in the ''planar ally'' spell. Limited to dwarfs.		*'''Deathwarden:''' A member of an elite clan of dwarf warriors who protect the Veil of Souls using their undead-slaying special abilities and their list of magic runes, which can summon a high-level dwarven cleric spirit as in the ''planar ally'' spell. Limited to dwarfs.
	*'''Ghost Slayer:''' A class that specializes in killing ghosts with ghost-harming abilities. You can only join if you knocked unconscious or failed a saving throw against a ghost's attack.		*'''Ghost Slayer:''' A class that specializes in killing ghosts with ghost-harming abilities. You can only join if you're knocked unconscious or failed a saving throw against a ghost's attack.

	==Culture==		==Culture==

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The Human Nations

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	*'''Salkiria''': The land closest to the city of Manifest, they're the human cultural mecca thanks to the fact that the titular Ghostwalk passes through their lands, bringing vast amounts of trade into contact with their gypsy, gem-mining, dancing and song-obsessed culture. They're the token "good" human nation of the setting, apparently because their last two kings really want to be god-fearing lawful goods despite ruling a nation of chaotic good, tambourine-playing bards. In contrast to Bazareene, Salkiria despises sorcerers and wizards alike thanks to the necromantic studies of former mad kings, while bards and fighters are held in high regard for their role as lorekeeping troubadours and expert "dancing blades" who entertain wandering bands of laboring peasants. Because of all the trade, the Salak language has become the lingua franca of the setting.		*'''Salkiria''': The land closest to the city of Manifest, they're the human cultural mecca thanks to the fact that the titular Ghostwalk passes through their lands, bringing vast amounts of trade into contact with their gypsy, gem-mining, dancing and song-obsessed culture. They're the token "good" human nation of the setting, apparently because their last two kings really want to be god-fearing lawful goods despite ruling a nation of chaotic good, tambourine-playing bards. In contrast to Bazareene, Salkiria despises sorcerers and wizards alike thanks to the necromantic studies of former mad kings, while bards and fighters are held in high regard for their role as lorekeeping troubadours and expert "dancing blades" who entertain wandering bands of laboring peasants. Because of all the trade, the Salak language has become the lingua franca of the setting.

	*'''Tereppek''': Tereppek is [[Forgotten Realms\|Candlekeep]] writ large. Sharing territory with the Dwarven monarchy of the Grumnyr Clan, it's a pedocracy, a nation ruled by the young, of wizards, bureaucrats, and well-educated and entirely civilized commoners. It is a nation of former horse-riding nomads turned chair-sitting scholars. Being the most educated civilization around the Ghostwalk, there are no native barbarians in this land. While civilian bureaucrats rule everyday life, Tereppek's true power rests in the hands of its many wizards and other arcane spellcasters (but not [[Sorcerer (Dungeons & Dragons)\|sorcerers]]), who use their magic to defend Tereppek, maintain law and order, and pursue the higher mysteries. Everyone is afraid of Tereppek because they could wipe all the other nations off the face of the world if they wanted to; fortunately for everyone, the people of Tereppek are generally peace-loving, and the only times they've fought wars are when they themselves have been invaded. Basically it would be a civilization of wizardly Mary Sues (thanks Monte Cook), but, given the nature of it being a ''pedocracy,'' and knowing how most college students operate in close quarters during finals week, it's a powder keg waiting to go off. This is only made worse by the threat of hedonistic sycophants pushing to expand its military presence in Manifest.		*'''Tereppek''': Tereppek is [[Forgotten Realms\|Candlekeep]] writ large. Sharing territory with the Dwarven monarchy of the Grumnyr Clan, it's a pedocracy, a nation ruled by the young, of wizards, bureaucrats, and well-educated and entirely civilized commoners. It is a nation of former horse-riding nomads turned chair-sitting scholars. Being the most educated civilization around the Ghostwalk, there are no native barbarians in this land. While civilian bureaucrats rule everyday life, Tereppek's true power rests in the hands of its many wizards and other arcane spellcasters (but not [[Sorcerer (Dungeons & Dragons)\|sorcerers]]), who use their magic to defend Tereppek, maintain law and order, and pursue the higher mysteries. Everyone is afraid of Tereppek because they could wipe all the other nations off the face of the world if they wanted to; fortunately for everyone, the people of Tereppek are generally peace-loving, and the only times they've fought wars are when they themselves have been invaded. Basically it would be a civilization of wizardly Mary Sues (thanks Monte Cook), but given the nature of it being a ''pedocracy,'' and knowing how most college students operate in close quarters during finals week, it's a powder keg waiting to go off. This is only made worse by the threat of hedonistic sycophants pushing to expand its military presence in Manifest.

	*'''Thurkasia''': Once a colony of Salkiria, it is the home of the horse-riding nomad. Or it was, until Salkiria brought civilization to the barbarian hordes. Now ruled by a democratically-elected council of land barons, Thurkasia is unique among the Ghostwalk nations in that dwarves and gnomes have equal status with the majority humans and have barons of their own. The humans of Thurkasia share many cultural quirks with Salkiria, with a special importance placed on traditional songs and dances and an open-hearted and welcoming nature. However, unlike Salkiria, druids have always been held in special esteem as communers with the spirits of nature, and they remain the agents of Thurkasia's religious faith.		*'''Thurkasia''': Once a colony of Salkiria, it is the home of the horse-riding nomad. Or it was, until Salkiria brought civilization to the barbarian hordes. Now ruled by a democratically-elected council of land barons, Thurkasia is unique among the Ghostwalk nations in that dwarves and gnomes have equal status with the majority humans and have barons of their own. The humans of Thurkasia share many cultural quirks with Salkiria, with a special importance placed on traditional songs and dances and an open-hearted and welcoming nature. However, unlike Salkiria, druids have always been held in special esteem as communers with the spirits of nature, and they remain the agents of Thurkasia's religious faith.

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The World of the Living

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	==The World of the Living==		==The World of the Living==
	The scope of the setting covers a far smaller region than most settings, mostly due to the fact that it was designed to be dropped into any DM's campaign rather than being a full-fledged world all on its own. Still, it packs an unreasonable ~~amount~~ of nations, conflicts, and plot hooks into its small region.		The scope of the setting covers a far smaller region than most settings, mostly due to the fact that it was designed to be dropped into any DM's campaign rather than being a full-fledged world all on its own. Still, it packs an unreasonable number of nations, conflicts, and plot hooks into its small region.

	===The City of Manifest===		===The City of Manifest===

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	===Non-Human Nations===		===Non-Human Nations===
	*'''Coil''': Everything is snakes. The sky, the ground, the trees, the air itself... Okay, not really, but there are snakes everywhere. It is a demiplane roughly 50 miles long and 30 miles wide, surrounded by a wall of petrified snakes. Snakes grow out of the ground, swim in the lake, and form a mighty river. Every living creature on Coil is either a snake or a snake-like abomination, and the [[yuan-ti]]<sup>TM</sup> live in cities of stone that writhe like snakes. At their heart is Tragaash Daur, a yuan-ti cleric/sorcerer of Orcus. Unlike in other settings, it is abominations who rule the yuan-ti castes, and all yuan-ti can create vampire spawn-like slaves through the mingling of yuan-ti and victim blood.		*'''Coil''': Everything is snakes. The sky, the ground, the trees, the air itself... Okay, not really, but there are snakes everywhere. It is a demiplane roughly 50 miles long and 30 miles wide, surrounded by a wall of petrified snakes. Snakes grow out of the ground, swim in the lake, and form a mighty river. Every living creature on Coil is either a snake or a snake-like abomination, and the [[yuan-ti]]<sup>TM</sup> live in cities of stone that writhe like snakes. At their heart is Tragaash Daur, a yuan-ti cleric/sorcerer of... [[Orcus]]. (Yes, the undead mammalian humanoid Orcus. Why him? Dunno!) Unlike in other settings, it is abominations who rule the yuan-ti castes, and all yuan-ti can create vampire spawn-like slaves through the mingling of yuan-ti and victim blood.
	*'''Sura-Khiri''': The besieged forest kingdom of the elves of Ghostwalk, Sura-Khiri has suffered for many long decades from an invasion of yuan-ti from Coil. Thanks to the vagaries of planar dynamics, Sura-Khiri's forests and jungles are the easiest place from which to access the Material Plane from Coil, where everything is infested with snakes and the yuan-ti lack for souls. Now, after many years, the elvish population has dwindled to the point of extinction, and the majority of the population train as fighters, rangers, and rogues. What few elves still bother with magic, which is ineffective against the naturally spell-resistant yuan-ti, tend towards the faster and more battle-ready sorcerer class rather than following the lengthy study of wizardry.		*'''Sura-Khiri''': The besieged forest kingdom of the elves of Ghostwalk, Sura-Khiri has suffered for many long decades from an invasion of yuan-ti from Coil. Thanks to the vagaries of planar dynamics, Sura-Khiri's forests and jungles are the easiest place from which to access the Material Plane from Coil, where everything is infested with snakes and the yuan-ti lack for souls. Now, after many years, the elvish population has dwindled to the point of extinction, and the majority of the population train as fighters, rangers, and rogues. What few elves still bother with magic, which is ineffective against the naturally spell-resistant yuan-ti, tend towards the faster and more battle-ready sorcerer class rather than following the lengthy study of wizardry.

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Non-Human Nations

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	===Non-Human Nations===		===Non-Human Nations===
	*'''Sura-Khiri''': The besieged forest kingdom of the elves of Ghostwalk, Sura-Khiri has suffered for many long decades from an invasion of yuan-ti from their extraplanar home of Coil. Thanks to the vagaries of planar dynamics, Sura-Khiri's forests and jungles are the easiest place from which to access the Material Plane from Coil, where everything is infested with snakes and the yuan-ti lack for souls. Now, after many years, the elvish population has dwindled to the point of extinction, and the majority of the population train as fighters, rangers, and rogues. What few elves still bother with magic, which is ineffective against the naturally spell-resistant yuan-ti, tend towards the faster and more battle-ready sorcerer class rather than following the lengthy study of wizardry.		*'''Coil''': Everything is snakes. The sky, the ground, the trees, the air itself... Okay, not really, but there are snakes everywhere. It is a demiplane roughly 50 miles long and 30 miles wide, surrounded by a wall of petrified snakes. Snakes grow out of the ground, swim in the lake, and form a mighty river. Every living creature on Coil is either a snake or a snake-like abomination, and the [[yuan-ti]]<sup>TM</sup> live in cities of stone that writhe like snakes. At their heart is Tragaash Daur, a yuan-ti cleric/sorcerer of Orcus. Unlike in other settings, it is abominations who rule the yuan-ti castes, and all yuan-ti can create vampire spawn-like slaves through the mingling of yuan-ti and victim blood.
	*'''Coil''': Everything is snakes. The sky, the ground, the trees, the air itself... Okay, not really, but there are snakes everywhere. It is a demiplane roughly 50 miles long and 30 miles wide, surrounded by a wall of petrified snakes. Snakes grow out of the ground, swim in the lake, and form a mighty river. Every living creature on Coil is either a snake or a snake-like abomination, and the yuan-ti live in cities of stone that writhe like snakes. At their heart is Tragaash Daur, a yuan-ti cleric/sorcerer of Orcus. Unlike in other settings, it is abominations who rule the yuan-ti castes, and all yuan-ti can create vampire spawn-like slaves through the mingling of yuan-ti and victim blood.		*'''Sura-Khiri''': The besieged forest kingdom of the elves of Ghostwalk, Sura-Khiri has suffered for many long decades from an invasion of yuan-ti from Coil. Thanks to the vagaries of planar dynamics, Sura-Khiri's forests and jungles are the easiest place from which to access the Material Plane from Coil, where everything is infested with snakes and the yuan-ti lack for souls. Now, after many years, the elvish population has dwindled to the point of extinction, and the majority of the population train as fighters, rangers, and rogues. What few elves still bother with magic, which is ineffective against the naturally spell-resistant yuan-ti, tend towards the faster and more battle-ready sorcerer class rather than following the lengthy study of wizardry.

	===George Romero's Xaphan===		===George Romero's Xaphan===

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Races

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	All the standard D&D races are represented, but here we'll list those that are given some unique identity or flavor by the setting.		All the standard D&D races are represented, but here we'll list those that are given some unique identity or flavor by the setting.
	*Dwarves: They guard the doors to the Land of the Dead.		*Dwarves: They guard the doors to the Land of the Dead.
	*Elves: They become one with the Spirit Wood and their ghosts merge into ~~soul-~~trees.		*Elves: They become one with the Spirit Wood and their ghosts merge into spirit trees.
	*Ghosts: Physical beings made up of ectoplasm, which exist in the Material Plane rather than the Ethereal Plane. They are the alignment they were in life, rather than being wholly evil as in other settings, and are preyed upon by other evil undead.		*Ghosts: Physical beings made up of ectoplasm, which exist in the Material Plane rather than the Ethereal Plane. They are the alignment they were in life, rather than being wholly evil as in other settings, and are preyed upon by other evil undead.
	*Yuan-Ti: Extradimensional invaders who come from a demiplane made of snakes. Literally, made of snakes. Like, the sky, the trees, the ground, all snakes. They also lack the right kind of soul to manifest in Manifest, so they hate Manifest and all the ghosts that live there, jealous of their ability to remain in the world after death.		*Yuan-Ti: Extradimensional invaders who come from a demiplane made of snakes. Literally, made of snakes. Like, the sky, the trees, the ground, all snakes. They also lack the right kind of soul to manifest in Manifest, so they hate Manifest and all the ghosts that live there, jealous of their ability to remain in the world after death.