Journal Items - Lords of the Fallen (2023) Database

Portions of these notes and sketches betray an unsteadier hand than usual, Tacitus’ text occasionally garbled and confused, the numerous eyes scribbled hastily, while the focal drawing is that of a gaping abyss.

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Tacitus’ notes and sketches relating to Redcopse, a seemingly once-bustling village which now lies in ruins; and, looming over the desolation, the grand Skyrest Bridge.

Abandoned Redcopse

Tacitus’ notes and sketches relating to a bell-marked path featuring a tall elevator leading to the Manse of the Hallowed Brothers, a Hallowed Sentinel stronghold and a destination which only a small percentage of pilgrims ever reach.

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Tacitus’ notes and sketches relating to Bramis Castle, focusing on its interior, where signs of its former glory such as old paintings and a large statue connected to complex machinery can be found alongside signs of its ruination, such as yet more Rhogar-created crystals.

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Tacitus’ notes and sketches relating to the Bramis Castle barbican, the ruined outwork revealing the aftermath of the Rhogar invasion on the formerly grand castle, including rivers of magma and crystal obstructions created by Inferno sorcery.

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Tacitus’ notes and sketches relating to the Calrath cistern, once the city’s central water supply, with direct access to Upper Calrath via an elevator. Later the cistern was put to other, darker uses, a fact to which its hanging cages attest.

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Tacitus’ notes and sketches relating to the Calrath slums, the most poverty-stricken section of the sprawling city. Alongside further depictions of the grim surroundings is an illustration of an entrance to the base of an imposing bridge.

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Tacitus’ notes and sketches relating to Fitzroy’s Gorge, a winding mountain pass formerly vital to trade and travel, connecting the city of Calrath to the outskirts of Mournstead and the wider Oathlands beyond.

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Tacitus’ notes and sketches relating to Forsaken Fen, a treacherous swamp bearing traces of a long-lost society, now inhabited by the deadly Shuja. Deep within the fen stands a colossal tree where one of the Hallowed Sentinels’ beacons can be found.

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Tacitus’ notes and sketches relating to the lower section of Calrath, the city devastated during the Rhogar invasion, the area now home to little but burning ruins, mangled corpses and symbols honouring Adyr.

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A map of Mournstead highlighting some of the most significant locations to be found within the ruined kingdom.

Abandoned Redcopse

Some of Tacitus’ notes and sketches relating to Pilgrim’s Perch, the ramshackle settlement built onto a cliff face and inhabited by pilgrims who sought to join the Hallowed Sentinels but were rejected. Included amongst the sketches is a depiction of a wooden path ascending to a door flanked by bells.

Abandoned Redcopse

More of Tacitus’ notes and sketches relating to Pilgrim’s Perch, detailing a descent towards a towering statue bearing a colossal bell, its origin lost to time save for the suggestion of some kind of connection to the Hallowed Sentinels’ ritual of the Sacred Resonance.

Pilgrim’s Perch

Tacitus’ notes and sketches relating to Sunless Skein, the labyrinthine mine where the poor toiled to line the pockets of the rich, although operations have long since ceased save for a few sanity-deprived unfortunates who remain.

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Tacitus’ notes and sketches relating to Upper Calrath, the home of Mournstead’s nobles and other wealthy elite, whose resources and power could not save them, their ashen bodies now still and silent in the eerie light of a Hallowed Sentinel beacon.

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Tacitus’ notes and sketches relating to the mining district of Upper Calrath, base of operations for those wealthy nobles and businesspeople who owned the Sunless Skein mining venture, a significant source of the city’s wealth, the district now home to little but horror and ashes.

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Tacitus’ notes and sketches relating to the Abbey of the Hallowed Sisters, second only to the Empyrean in terms of Hallowed Sentinel sacred ground, the rising path to the Empyrean including landmarks such as a cloister containing a large and blessed tree, and a bathhouse intended for purification.

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Tacitus’ notes and sketches relating to the Empyrean, the Hallowed Sentinels’ seat of power and the dwelling place of their founder, the Cleric. The Judge herself is depicted in a drawing, along with her church.

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Tacitus’ notes and sketches relating to the fief of Kinrangr, unnaturally frozen in a cataclysmic incident involving the region’s Hallowed Sentinel beacon, the drawings including a concerningly large nest and a suggestion of something to be found beneath the surface of Kinrangr’s waters.

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Tacitus’ notes and sketches relating to the Manse of the Hallowed Brothers, a place standing in the shadow of the nearby Tower of Penance, and whose descent into blood and darkness reflects the depraved mental state of its inhabitants. Drawings of keys hint at secrets to be uncovered within.

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Tacitus’ notes and sketches relating to the Tower of Penance, home to a beacon and a place where those imprisoned by the Hallowed Sentinels are made to suffer terribly for their perceived sins. The drawings suggest a descent deep into the ominous structure, followed by an ascent to its peak.

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A weathered journal, a number of its pages missing. This journal belonged to Tacitus, a fearless explorer and cartographer who had travelled across the Oathlands and far beyond, eventually venturing into Mournstead only to seemingly never emerge from the kingdom.

Abandoned Redcopse