> >Erk. Being that I don't have most of my Gloranthan materials with me,
> does anyone recall
> >offhand if Amadhall (village between Sartar and Dagori Inkarth) has been
> written
> >up/described?
Short answer - no - I have written up a description of Amadhall for the forthcoming DP Gazetteer project (what are we calling it this week? :)), but the final description rests with Ian Cooper and Greg.
Basically we know that its in relatively inaccessible wilderness north of Alone, and is associated with the Far Place (not Sartarite) Amad tribe. Barbarian Adventures describes the lot of this tribe under Harvar.
> >The same question for Ironspike -- has this been written up? Sounds like
> a notorious den
> >of uz-haters to me! (Or they're the buggers that accepted that iron
> spike from the Pharaoh
> >in KoDP!)
Ditto for Ironspike. Its dead in the centre of Jaskor's Hold, one of the richest grazing patches in all Sartar, so you can reasonably assume its a trading centre with several clans being represented there. In the Gazetteer (as in my original campaign) I have linked the 'Spike itself with the weapon SkyRiver Titan used in his final battle with Chaos (as described in KOS). There is a brief description of Ironspike in the Tribes of the Far Place article at the Questlines website.
As Far as Uz go, my campaign had limited encounters with them, but the Cholanti was the effective boundary with Uz clans - bee riders for the most part - and you had to be mad, bad or dark to go north of the river. ZZ bands often come south chaos baiting, and the market at Ironspike is a good place for Uz artefacts, medicines and guides. FPers, being in large part Elmali/Yelmalian, do the ritual hate thing with most Uz, and leave the day to day transacting to the Orlanthi.
One campaign artifact that may be of interest, the Tovtaros Orlanthi have experimented with stead trollkin. It started as an act of gratitude to the enlo hero Climbtree, but then things went all trollkin shaped. Silly move really. Things got really bad and THEN they got hungry.
James, If I can help with further Far Place background drop me a line privately.
Cheers
John
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