Pathfinder Region Deepdive: The Lands of the Linnorm Kings
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ค. 2024
- Hi there MythWatchers! Since my last video wasn't a typical Golarion lore video that you've come to expect from me, and since I know this video was much anticipated, I've decided to drop my Deep Dive video on the Lands of the Linnorm Kings a day early. Hope you all find something to enjoy here.
Welcome back to our Deep Dive series!
The Lands of the Linnorm Kings are finally here! Welcome to the hostile lands of the Frozen North!
▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 - The History of the Linnorm Kings
14:18 - Broken Bay
19:38 - Icemark
29:57 - The Thanelands
41:37 - Hagreach
49:27 - Grungir Forest
57:06 - The Ironbound Isles
1:03:34 - Southmoor
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CREDITS
The large high-res map I use is not a Paizo official map, but the work of the incomparable Rob McCaleb ( www.artstation.com/robmccaleb ) used here with their gracious permission.
Content for this video came from "Lands of the Linnorm Kings" by Matthew Goodall, Jonathan Keith, Colin McComb, and Rob McCreary
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It's like Ostog just straight up chose the one Linnorm Kingdom what was so utterly screwed there was no way he wouldn't have to go on multiple adventures a minute just to properly run the damn place...which I guess checks out for a freakin' lvl 17 Barbarian probably built like a monster since he's an ex-pc of a Paizo Director.
Thank you for making wonderful cohesive and thought-out content. And from someone that cares about production side of things thank you for using a good Mic and working hard on your editing skills😁
Thank you sir! Much appreciated!
Just finished a long-term campaign last year that was a blend of Kingmaker/Second Darkness/Reign of Winter in LotLK. Absolutely love your content, as Golarion has been like a second home to me since 2013. Godspeed to the Vanguard: Telemachus, Hope, Jann, Valeena, Ugluk, Kuja and Tater. You saved the world as characters, even as your players split up and fell by the wayside.
I cannot express how excited I am for this deep dive! Vikings and Norse peoples are easily my go-to for high fantasy concepts!
And low-fantasy. Norse and vìkingir are just the best.
As a Dane I been looking forward to this deep dive.
a novel about the linnorm kings lands:
Pathfinder Tales: Winter Witch - viking style adveture
I would love a deep dive on the shackles. May or may not because I am prepping a Skulls and Shackels Campaign for my PF2E party, and a lore video to show them would be perfect. I guarantee, my demands are purely selfless!
I have finally laid out a schedule for all my deep dives. As they land once every three weeks (they are my longest videos to produce) I've started to lay them out on a calendar. Doing this made me realize quite how much content there is in Pathfinder so I now have videos planned all the way through a good chunk of 2024. Its pretty crazy. Anyway, I can tell you that Shackles is on the list but is unfortunately currently scheduled to come out in September, which means you've got a long wait ahead of you. Not that the timeline is set in stone, if I get enough comments requesting this region, I may just shuffle the calendar a bit.
Stellar mate, truly
These Regional videos are so good!!!
Congrats from Brazil, MythKeeper! You Tube unfortunaly have few pathfinder content creators and you are the best among those i found so far. Thanks for the great videos!
Thank you so much Marcos! Much appreciated!
I love all of these regional deep dives, I’m just getting into the books now and I can’t wait to grab the world guide and just read through it!
This is also great info for a character I had in mind that started as a joke but actually sounds really fun. A human transmutation wizard with the Viking shield bearer ancestry feat and laborer background (lumberjack). Using the Ant Haul spell, his encumbered and max bulk is 13 and 21 respectively, so he’s using his magic to make his work day much easier.
I don't know much about 2e, but I always took professions/traits/regional feats based off of my characters background.
For me, I learned character development (thru the course of play) was so much more fun than picking the best min/max choices at the start.
A good GM will (should) reward you for making RP choices by giving your character situations based off of those choices.
Kudos to you for picking them. 👍
I would say your channel is pure gold, but that would be an understatement
Pure platinum then?
WOOOOOOOO
LINNORM KINGS BB LETS GOOOOOO.
love this region.
Thank you very much mythkeeper for contiuing to make such great content.
Found you a couple of weeks ago after switching to pf from dnd and I immidiatly subscribed to you.
You almost instantly became my go to source for pf lore.
Keep up the good work and you truly deserve all the growth your channel has seen lately!
Welcome aboard!
Great stuff, I only just stumbled upon your channel but these regional deep dives have been amazing
Thank you!
I like how they reuse the Konnisberg problem in their lore.
I use my immediate action to press a like
Awesome. I'm currently in Karlsgard in jade's regent AP. I love this region
Thank You sir for a long video.😁😄😃😀
Great video
Man every time I roll up to a new video it seems like your subscriber count has shot up. Been here since before you hit 1K and super glad to see the steady climb! Thanks for the awesome content
I’ve been totally surprised by all the subs too! Glad people are enjoying it!
Best chanel ever
Your content is amazing. Makes me want to give pathfinder another chance!!!!
Do it! You won’t regret it
Just listened to winter witch how serendipitous
These always come out just in time; I'm going to be playing an Ulfen Skald in a Skull and Shackles campaign soon!
Thats great! One of my players played an Ulfen Skald in my Skull & Shackles campaign too! You'll have a blast.
Yeees! give me more loreeee!
Been really enjoying your stuff since I found it! Played a handful of Pathfinder 1st but doing so much with 2nd this has been a god send on filling out my lore knowledge. Have you ever considered doing over views of the adventure paths from first ed, or perhaps some pieces on the Iconics? Just some thoughts. Have a great day!
I get this request to do AP overviews from 1E every few weeks or so, so I think ultimately I will end up doing something along those lines. Thanks for the input!
@@TheMythKeeper Yes, please.
Was going to bug you about it last video, but I don't want to be one of those subscribers. ;)
Thank you. Where do you get your Golarion map you use ?
Fricking lol. Jöri blood-eagled the first madman, and freaking *DENIED* the other seven. A man after my own heart, this one. More praise to Jöri-king! His is the true blood of Nôrsland.
👏👏👏
6:06 Garund, not Avistan?
Edit: The chapters also seems very inaccurate.
Oops! That was a speak-o I guess. That should have been Avistan. Chapters are fixed now! Thanks for pointing that out.
Next world guide video, eye of abendego area from south to north the shackles to Rahadoum. Would be a big video.
You are so close! Next world guide will be a little south of the Shackles... I'll be talking Vidrian, formerly Sargava! It will be my southernmost video to date, a far, far distance from the Linnorm Kingdoms.
@@TheMythKeeper ohwow, good guess. I went off your previous videos and theorized it would be south
Lands of the Linnorm Kings: skyrim
Irrisen: skyrim (with Special Guest Baba Yaga)
Realm of the Mammoth Lords: skyrim (but the mammoths are ridable)
Skyrim definitely affected how I started doing Ulfen accents in the games I run 😅
From this history it appears those poor linnorms are slaughtered without ever doing any harm to the Ulfens.
Not just the Linnorms but the Frost Giants too. Its almost like humans put that pesky little "Neutral Evil" tag at the start of their statline to justify this wholesale slaughter.
Are you high? Linnorms are as evil as red dragons. They are made that way by the Fey dragon demigod that made them.
The bookmarks seem to be off from where they ought to be. The segment on Broken Bay starts at 14:24 not 9:55
Thanks for pointing this out! The bookmarks were all off! They should now be fixed.
Hey, does anyone out there know what year Nankou becomes King? I can't seem to find the answer anywhere. All I know is that he wasn't King according to the Lands of the Linnorm Kings campaign setting.
4720 I believe, so three years ago now.
Mightygluestick status
Thank you. Where do you get your inner seas map?
I downloaded a high res map many years ago, but its no longer publicly available that I can find. I uploaded a version of this map to imgur a while ago with the elf gates on it. You can find it here: imgur.com/gallery/gIguRr4
51:35 is that a Nosoi on the Mayor's arm? Is there a reason a psychopomp is at her side?
I think so! I have no idea what the story is there, but that's not actually the official art for the Mayor, just a random gnome from Pathfinder. As far as I can tell there's no official art for this character - pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Bavakanka_Winterlisp . Take all my art with a pinch of salt, I like to provide art for everything to keep the presentation visually interesting, so where there is no official art I often will just pick a random something that sort of fits.
me and my family have a long history with the lands of the linnorm kings ever since we were playing kingmaker and i had a paladin of damerich come to the river kingdoms. part of the Vinir family. a family where every person in the family had their own unique path in life. and they all decorated their weapons to tell their life story and depicts all their major battles. so he was an ulfen paladin who had a super decorated axe. well he died from a random encounter where a ancient black dragon showed up and spit acid on him and a wagon of prisoners from pitax. this sparked war between our self made kingdom and the city of pitax because the other player(the king) now believed pitax killed my character and he wanted revenge.
Later on in the campaign another player ended up marrying a member of the vinir family and they've been reoccurring ever since. weve become linnorm kings. my new charcter was a wizard and he ended up enchanting a tulip seed to be made of mithril and it grew to the size of the Chrysler building in a few months. ulfen would harvest the petals for thousands of gold each. but after 50 years (our next campaign) now its scraping the outer stratosphere and harvesting the tulips is impossible, so they fall and drift to the ocean in the west where they decorate the seabed and occasionally stay afloat and wash ashore to be harvested or sometimes crafted into mithril ships.
thanks for igniting imagination in me. your lore videos give me constant character ideas like the one im working on now.
a wyrewood in arcadia forced to be made by an ulfen man who travelled to Valenhall and was impressed by the wyrewoods and forced one to be built to his exact specifications. and viola a new charcter is made. a little dude who was abused by this powerful ulfen man who used him as a barmaid and used him as a little gladiator pitting him against other peoples animals and powerful monsters in the wild. so after hundreds of years living under this mythic immmortal ulfen, he freed himself on the boat of the famed Linnorm King Lagatha Vinir(my previous characters mother) after she appeared. we have it as "house lore" stated that no boat has ever breached the shores of arcadia and they have all been destroyed. this is why no ulfen returns from Valenhall. until this little wyrewood shows up in avistan on the vinir mothers boat with her nowhere in sight. so when my character is introduced ill immediately have to defend myself from people who may think i killed lagatha when really she heard the calling to go to arcadia like King Ulvas and she never returned.
again. thanks for making the videos. you get the creative thoughts flowing. much appreciated. looking forward to more videos!
Thanks for watching, and welcome to the channel!
Got anything for blood on bastardhall? Thanks
There's a lot of lore in this game. Bastardhall gets a mention in my Ustalav video and in my River Kingdoms video (weirdly more in my River Kingdoms video if I recall correctly) but I haven't done anything more specific than that.
@@TheMythKeeper damn. I heard there used to be a special game at piazocons for it and i want to so i can add more to carrion crown lol thanks for your info tho.
I was freaking out for about two minutes cause I thought you meant elf meat not elf meet.
🤣🤣🤣
What real world ethnicity do you think is the inspiration for the Varki?
Both Varki and Erutaki seem to be analogs for Innuit people, but if you want something more specific given their more "European" location in the world they could be the Aleut people - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleut - who are closely related to the Innuit people, but native to Russia, Alaska and the Aleut islands. That or they're just made up. ;-)
@@TheMythKeeper What about the Sami people of northern Europe?
I was expecting more giant and troll settlements/cities. I’m surprised that humans at the dominant people of the area.
Pathfinder is a very human-centric setting. There are plenty of giants, trolls and so on in the wilder areas and in the hill-lands, but their villages, fortresses and cities are not well documented in the books because player characters are unlikely to spend time among them.
@@TheMythKeeper Listening to your Irrisen video now. There are a lot of Troll and Giants settlements there and they are involved with some of the local governments as well.
@@boldcitylongsword9941 True! That's because the witches of Irrisen are friendly with trolls and giants, but Ulfen tend to kill them on sight. Who are the good guys? Tough to say...
Better mic but I can hear something from the background lol.
I know, its hard. I wish I had a better set-up but I don't have a real studio. I live in a big city and I have poor soundproofing. I'm not all that far from a busy street so I'm re-recording all the time to cut out sirens and tires screeching or car horns blaring. Sometimes I'm not able to cut all of it and maintain the pace that I want.
@@TheMythKeeperYou probably will get some helpful comments if you post your sound set up in community post or at a different site.
@@TheMythKeeperYour video is more watchable now but I'd would like low volume music on it or something :shrugs;
@@bluelightzwit7447 - I may experiment with music in the future. I'm still relatively new to video production but thanks for the advice.
@@TheMythKeeper 🍺😎
It annoys me that despite the color cast of ancestries available in the pathfinder universe, all the ruling dynasties in vast, vast areas are human. It seems like either an oversight or an egotistical invention of the setting's creators.
Or humans are Imperialist villains!
I think its just a Tolkien(ism) way of doing fantasy settings. The 'same old' tropes always seems to work its way in. I'm not saying that in bad way, but it does make some things feel blasé.
@@MrTotalAhole I think when you're creating a fantasy setting for an RPG, you have to think about the purpose of the setting. For example - I once ran a homebrew game that was loosely inspired by Planet of the Apes, except instead of Apes my world was ruled over by a bunch of minotaurs, and each of the minotaurs had different fur colors corresponding to where they lived, the kind of magic they used, their clan association and so on. The humans on the world were all slave people and the point of the game was to do a slave uprising. That kind of thing is very different from the 'humans are the dominant species' thing, but it also narrows the scope of field from a story-telling standpoint. Once I'd run my main adventure in that game, that story was mostly told, my heroes were somewhat liberated and I was ready to move on to another setting. This applies to some published settings too, like Dark Sun for example which has a very specific lane, or like say, Fallout: The Tabletop RPG. The purpose is narrow.
If you're a company like Paizo, and you're thinking about developing your 'primary band' in terms of an rpg setting, breadth is going to be more valuable than specificity because you want to tell a lot of different kinds of stories. The purpose is broad. Another factor for this type of setting that will matter is how quickly the players will 'grok' your setting. The game world should be pretty intuitive. That's why there's a lot in here that's commonly got a real-world analog so you can say things like "The Old Taldan Empire - that's kind of like the Romans in this world" or the "Ulfen are basically vikings". Its so you can short form the explanation for new players. But the nice thing is that if you do scratch the surface a little bit, there's also a lot that's unique or different. My 2 cents anyway ;-)