Bastions of the North?

[Heaven's Thunder Hammer]

Anyone getting this? Planning on getting it? If you have gotten it, what do you think?


I've just ordered mine from amazon and am expecting it in a week or two.

 

[Haku1]

It's... okay. Personally... I love the city of Swar... can't wait to return to it after visiting the Imperial Manse to shut it down.

 

[Guest]

It's... okay. Personally... I love the city of Swar... can't wait to return to it after visiting the Imperial Manse to shut it down.

For those who do have Bastions, does it go into much detail about the cadet branches, i.e. the minor DB Houses of the Northern Threshold states? I was so disappointed when Outcaste didn't profile them, and have been waiting some canon information about them since.


Don't ask me why I seem to have a passion for minor nobility. I guess I just like any chance to play and run aristocratic DBs without some of the baggage and silliness of the Realm...

 

[Silence In Daylight]

There's a different book that's supposed to come out after 2nd Edition is released--the Cherak supplement that Outcastes promised. Bastions is like Kingdom of Halta about Linowan: a mention here and there, but not much hard info.

 

[Cthulhu_Wakes]

Yeah, nothing on the Cadets but damn, what they did have. Once again, The Hslanti League is cemented in my mind as my favorite Exalted Nation. I simply love it. The airboats, the land, the people, the towns, everything. Swar was cool, I liked it for what it was. Though I must say the Opal Spire was QUITE the surprise and I simply must use it in either flashbacks or actual encounters for my PCs.


Loved the book.

 

[Flagg]

Did the writers goof again?


Opal Spire was supposed to be a terraforming station at the edge of Creation in the First Age, right?


The only problem is that the northern borders of Creation in the First Age were WAY further north than they are now.


I know that the book says Opal Spire is far to the north, but that places it ridiculously outside the scope of anything else in the book.


-S

 

[Persell]

Did the writers goof again?
Opal Spire was supposed to be a terraforming station at the edge of Creation in the First Age, right?


The only problem is that the northern borders of Creation in the First Age were WAY further north than they are now.


I know that the book says Opal Spire is far to the north, but that places it ridiculously outside the scope of anything else in the book.


-S

the text says, "...Opal Spire was a terraforming outpost at the northern edge of Creation, the point from which artifact ships launched themselves into the Wyld to solidify the chaos and expand the world."


That seems to imply that it was more of a staging area for terraforming. Also, maybe at the time it was built Opal Spire was very far north for creation. The Solars were to busy kicking the crap out of the Primordials to be expanding creations borders. However, I'd wager at the height of the first age it wasn't very far north at all, relatively speaking.

 

[Cthulhu_Wakes]

No, not because it was a terraforming station, I knew that, I'm talking about it's last night during the Usurpation. Bloody good times.  :twisted:


Can anyone say crazy demons?