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Welcome to the Pitchwood County
The Silvertree Empire, arrayed along the eastern coast of Broadholm, is the largest power in the Lands of Man. For the past two hundred years, the Empire has been expanding into the interior of continent, subjugating the orcs, fighting off the goblinoid menace, and discovering the great riches of civilizations past.

Emperor Magnar was just a young conqueror when the Silver Ships came down from the sky, and when he welcomed the visitors, the elves, into his empire, he was endowed with strange powers, and continues to reign in the vast city of Silvertree two hundred years later. With the ingenuity of the elves, and their progeny, the gnomes, Magnar captured the lands of his rivals, and began a benevolent rule. But the goblinoids, expanding east from the Western Wastes, into the ancient lands of the dwarves, have threatened his claim over the continent, and so he decreed the Westmarch open, and new counties forged to consolidate power.

Pitchwood County is at the very edge of the Empire. Three thousand years ago, it was part of the ancient civilization of the dwarves, who built their temples in the hills and farmed in the fertile basin of the Red River, and built fantastic halls and elaborate tombs in the mountains. Before Magnar declared the Westmarch open, it was home to homesteaders, outlaws, and ne’er-do-wells, as well as the orcs displaced by the Silvertree expansion; now that law and commerce has arrived in Pitchwood, that has only changed on paper.

But there’s land and wide open spaces, and promises of easy money from the mines and dwarven ruins. Homesteaders from across the Empire are heading west, and the gnomish railway has made it as far as the county seat, Redwater. There’s hope in the dust for some; the winds are just as likely to blow that dust into your eyes, though, and lines of shallow graves are testament to the transience of life and fortune in Pitchwood.

What brought you out here, on the slow, rocking, hissing train? Fame? Fortune? Are you running from a past you fear may catch up with you? Are you a lawman with sword in hand and a badge on your longcoat? Or maybe an archeologist or prospector, mad with gold-lust? Maybe you just wanted to find a new place to live, but you can’t keep out of trouble. You could be a charlatan with patent medicines in your valaise, an aristocrat sent to a family ranch, a gnomish gunsmith hoping to find new curiosities… The west is won with blood and sweat and tenacity, and all is lost so easily.

Adventuring in Pitchwood
Pitchwood County is a cattlepunk vision of high medieval fantasy, a land of desparadoss and dragons, of elves and wide-barreled rifles.

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