World of Davric

  Dwarves, escapees from subterranean seas Traditions: Divine, Martial Dwarves are a costal and mountain people their legends tell of sailing starless seas in the Middle and Lower Deeps, and of their battles against the monsters of the Deeps. Those days are long lost, echoes of before the Retreat. The dwarves lost.   Their warriors fought fighting withdrawal, their ships fighting on the underground seas, their armies holding back the hordes to give their citizens time to flee higher and higher in the deeps.   Thousands were slaughtered, entire clans lost, their names honored.   Other clans had their names stricken, wiped from the rolls of honor.   Some clans were lost to the forces rising up from the lower deeps, turning their backs on their brethren. These forsaken clans were left to suffer for their betrayal. When the dwarves broke through to the surface, they emerged in the mountains on the coast of the central sea.   They set up new cities in ...

 Life comes at you fast. It must have been 25 years ago that I'd heard of Eric Flint.  I got him confused with Kenneth Flint, who's Riders of the Sidhe I read as a kid. Of his works, the two series I was/am most familiar with were the Ring of Fire series, and of couse the Belisarius series.  The later because of Baen Books and David Drake.   As I'd said in the welcome post, this blog and the writings that will be forthcoming are inspired by the works or Eric Flint and David Drake.  It was just this morning, in a burst of creativity that the world got its name "Davric" taken from their first names.  I was hoping to have more content on the blog before I wrote to both men to thank them for its inspiration.  Not to ask them to read it, I don't feel pretentious enough to ask professional authors to read my scribblings. Just to say, "You inspired this.  Thank you." Today was the day I started.  The day I moved from notes in a facebook group t...

In going over the races of the world of Davric, there are some general guidelines in the write ups. Traditions: Each race is given a primary focus of their culture and class.  These are general guidelines, not straightjackets.  Nothing prevents a gnome cleric, or a halfling wizard.  The cultures reflect the traditions.  Halfling wizards may exist, but any halfling founded wizard academy is going to likely be founded by a player's character, for example. The Traditions are: Arcane: Generally this includes all arcane casting classes. More specifically it means classes that prepare spells, and use spellbooks. Divine: Followers of gods or philosophies.  Ancestor worship would also fall under this. Martial: Traditions of weapons and combat prowess, whether it be the traditions of the dwarven navy, the individual combat traditions of halfling wolf riders, or the hoard tactics of the fallen orc hoards. Primal: Connection to the world and natural or elemental forces....

 Welcome to the blog page for the world of Davric. I've been making occasional posts on the Pathfinder 1E Facebook page about my own homegrown world.  Decided to take the leap and start compiling them in one spot. Davric is a 'kitchen sink' setting, meaning that don't over fret about historical accuracy.  It was inspired by Paizo's own nation-in-decline-that-is-still-an-empire, but more fleshed out due to the historical Byzantium and David Drake and Eric Flint's Belisarius series. (First book here .)  It is a fantasy world, not historical, with my own take on the classic fantasy races, and some new ones.  This is a world of wild wolf riding halflings, friendly nomadic gnomes, sea sailing dwarves, and as always humans and their desires and destinies. The Empire is the central focus for now, that and the neighboring nations, lands and tribes.  The empire is a shrunken version of itself, like a leopard to the great Imperial Lion it once was.  But a leopa...