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Hi all!

I've read the whole Book 1 now, and I really love it. The lore, the system, the book itself, it's a fine work and I can't wait to give it a try.

There is one thing that kinda turns me down, though. The world seems kinda small, and I like to play full blown campaigns, situations that transcend a small region.

The scenarios published so far deal with isolated situations, in specific regions (and a lot with fossil flux, which I find boring), and I've been thinking of a story that gets more political, maybe reignites the War in the Peninsula.

I know there is still The Continent to explore, but we know too little about it and worldbuilding is something I'm really bad at.

Any thoughts? Maybe I'm just not seeing the setting's full potential!

As you may have read in the books, the Continent is pretty unknown to the Tri-kazelian people, and old expeditions were unsuccessful in reaching it, either crossing the mountains or sailing through the sea.

Hypotheses of a giant swamp have been told to sit right after the Asgeamar mountains, and stories about the great Theocracy and great Magientists cities continue to circulate between Continental descendents.

I'm saying nothing more than what the books say, but in fact, the subject of the Continent will be approached in another book, and Secrets will not talk about the Continent, so I'm afraid you might have to wait a little to have a book talking about the rest of the world.

Actually, Tri-Kazel is about the size of France, so you can easily have plenty of things to do, especially with politics. If you want to start a war in Tri-Kazel, feel free to write some scenarios based on your thoughts, it's not hard to tackle the tensions between Gwidre and Reizh, for instance, as the Temple War occured about fifty years before the time when Book 1 and the Omens scenarios take place.