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TM Campaign Setting Lead Designer Wolfgang Baur Chapter Design Cover Art Jeff Grubb, Brandon Hodge, Christina Stiles, and Dan Voyce Aaron Miller Additional Design Interior Art Ben Armitage, Michael Franke, Ed Greenwood,Josh Jarman, Darren Calvert, Nicole Cardiff, Richard Clark, Storn Cook, Michael Kortes, Chris Lozaga, Michael Matkin, Ben McFarland, Emile Denis, Rick Hershey, Michael Jaecks, Stephanie Law, Chad Middleton, Carlos Ovalle, Adam Roy, and Henry Wong Pat Loboyko, Malcolm McClinton, Aaron Miller, Marc Radle, Game Material Development Blanca Martinez de Rituerto, Mark Smylie, Hugo Solis, Sigfried Trent Christophe Swal, Stephen Wood, and Kieran Yanner AGE Appendix Cartography and Heraldry Josh Jarman, with additional design by Simon English, Jonathan Roberts, Sean Macdonald, Lucas Haley Emmet Byrne, Daniel Perez, Jesse Butler, and Wolfgang Baur Cover Graphic Design Editor Callie Winters Michele Carter Layout Proofreading Callie Winters Chris Harris, Ed Possing, and Joey Smith Indexer Lori Ann Curley Dedication: This book is dedicated to my parents, Werner and Renate Baur, who many years ago gave me a little blue box with a dragon on the cover. Thank you for always supporting my love of fantasy, gaming, and legends. Setting Champions Champion of Midgard: Steve Geddes Despot of the Ruby Sea: Carlos Ovalle Exarch of the Magocracy: Christopher Lozaga Druid of the Emerald Order: Shawn “Bran Ravensong” Nolan God-King of Nuria-Natal: Henry Wong Lord of Thunder Mountain: DJ Yoho Lord of Midgard: Sebastian Dietz River King of the Arbonesse: Chad Middleton Sultana of the Empire: Christina Stiles Midgard Campaign Setting is © 2012 Open Design LLC. All rights reserved. Midgard, Open Design, Kobold Press, Free City of Zobeck, and their associated logos are trademarks of Open Design LLC. Product Identity: The following items are hereby identified as Product Identity, as defined in the Open Game License version 1.0a, Section 1(e), and are not Open Content: All trademarks, registered trademarks, proper names (characters, place names, new deities, etc.), dialogue, plots, story elements, locations, characters, artwork, and trade dress. (Elements that have previously been designated as Open Game Content are not included in this declaration.). Open Game Content: The Open content in this book includes the PC race statistics in chapter 2, the weapon statistics in Chapter 3, the Kariv spells in Chapter 4, the spells and magic items in chapter 5, and the spells in chapter 7. No other portion of this work may be reproduced in any form without permission. SampleCompatibility with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game requires the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game from Paizo Publishing, LLC. See http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPGfile for more information on the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Paizo Publishing, LLC does not guarantee compatibility, and does not endorse this product. Pathfinder is a registered trademark of Paizo Publishing, LLC, and the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Compatibility Logo are trademarks of Paizo Publishing, LLC, and are used under the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Compatibility License. See http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/compatibility for more information on the compatibility license. The AGE logo and AGE system are trademarks and copyrights of Green Ronin Publishing, and are used by express permission. © 2012 Open Design LLC. All Rights Reserved. First Printing - September 2012 Patrons Scott Acker, Jason Alexander, Chris Allison, Tom Allman, Anonymous, Anonymous, Benjamin Armitage, Mark Arvidson, Paul Baalham, Andrew Baggott, Michael Baker, Jerry R. Baker, Chris Banks, Stefan Beate, John Beattie, Gregg Bender, Andrew Lee Kian Beng, William Benjamin, Ingo Beyer, Mark Bibler, Iyar Binyamin, Xavier Blaise, Martin Blake, Shane Blake, Alain Bourgeois, Carl Brashear, Raphael Bressel, Sam Brown, Leslie Brown, Daniel Brumme, Benjamin Bullock, John Busby, Douglas Bush, Jesse Butler, Arthur Butterwick, Emmet Byrne, Jarrod Camiré, John Cantrell Jr, Rodrigo Garcia Carmona, Charles Carrier, Nicolas Carrillo, Jorge Cavalheiro, Paul Cavanaugh, Mark Chance, Andrew Christian, Orville Clark, Jim Clunie, Andrew Collett, Andy Collins, Bill Collins, Bradley Colver, Nick Cook, Ashley Cook, Orion Cooper, Thadeous Cooper, Will Cooper, Ronald Corn, Mark Craddock, Steve Cranford, Adam Crossingham, Hans Cummings, Paul Cunningham, Patrick Curtin, Matthew C. Cutter, Tim Czarnecki, Adam Daigle, Sam Daish, Doug Dalton, Brian Dawson, Jason Dawson, Dan Derby, David DeRocha, Marc DeSantis, Sebastian Dietz, Bob Doherty, Will Doyle, Darrin Drader, Andrew C. Durston, Brett Easterbrook, Justin Edwards, Simon English, Edward Engquist, Jeffrey Erwin, Jarrod Farquhar-Nicol, Ben Ferguson, Greg Fornero, Mike Franke, Michael Furlanetto, Curtis Gallagher, Steve Geddes, Scott Geisler, Georg Gerleigner, Greg Gerrand, Thilo Graf, Richard Green, John Green, Glen Grigsby, Norman Gross, Jim Groves, Chris Guerra, James Guthrie, Ben Haase, Lucas Haley, Patrick Halverson, Steven Hammond, Matthew Hanson, Dustin Harbuck, Michael Harmon, Chris Harris, Bryan D Harrison, Alan-Michael Havens, Lyle Hayhurst, Marc Hertogh, Tom “the Monster” Hoefle, Daniel Hoffmann, Lutz Hofmann, John Hofmann, Adam Holmes, Sarah Hood, Ronald Hopkins, William Hopkins, Keil Hubert, Anthony Hunter, Tracy Hurley, Brian Isikoff, Phillip Ives, John Jacobs, Josh Jarman, R Johnson, Anthony Jones, Jay Joyner, Lucas Jung, Alexander Kanous, John Kelbaugh, Chris Kentlea, Samwise Kiebel, David Koerner, Jason Kramer, Mitchell Kramer, Günther Kronenberg, C. Krumins, David Lai, Michael Lane, Claus Larsen, Chris Lauricella, Kevin Lawrence, Adam Leckie, Olivier Lefebvre, Chance Le Meur, Andreas Lenhart, Jerry LeNeave, Dalton Lennon, Brian Liberge, Christian Lindke, Andrew Linstrom, Robert Little, Greg Littlejohn, Eric Lopez, Christopher Lozaga, Sean Macdonald, Michael Machado, Emiliano Marchetti, Tristan Marshall, Charlie Mason, Michael Matkin, Scott Maynard, Kevin Mayz, Jonathan McAnulty, Chris McFann, Ben McFarland, Daniel McFerren, Craig McKinney, Alejandro Melchor, Douglas Meserve, Francois Michel, Chad Middleton, Nicholas Middleton, Nicholas Milasich, Mark Miller, Robert Miller, Ronald Miller, Olivier Miralles, Matt Miranda, Jeff Moller, Sean Molley, Matthew Monteiro, Andrew Morris, Eddy Morrow , Chris Mortika, Paul Munson, Quinn Murphy, Mike Murphy, Frank Myres III, Paul Nasrat, David Neumann, David Nolan, Shawn “Bran Ravensong” Nolan, Christian Nord, Carlos Ovalle, John Overath, Jeffrey Palmer, Prashant Panavalli, Pierre Parent, Bill Parsons, Edward Pease, Edward Penner, Daniel M. Perez, Daniel Petersen, Pascal Pflugfelder, Petri Pihlajamaa, Patrick Plouffe, John Pope, Edward Possing, Vojtech Pribyl, Callum Prior, Kevin Ramsell, Michael Raper, John D. Rateliff, Trent Revis, Kevin Reynolds, Bryan Reynolds, John Reyst, Jesse Riley, Sean P. Riley, Paul Rimmer, Douglas Rist, Joseph Roberti, Paul Roberts, Jonathan Roberts, Casey Roberts, Wade Rockett, Manuel Quick, Jan Rodewald, Karl Rodriguez, Gerald Rose, Franz Georg Roesel, Adam Roy, Tim Rudolph, Raúl Sánchez Ruiz, Paul Ryan, Pascal Saradjian, Eddy Schmidt, JD Schmidt, René Schultze, Adrian Scully, Josh Sears, Benjamin Sennitt, Lucas Servideo, Christian Seubert, John Sharp, Pearce Shea, Nate Shelley, Luciano Silva, Sean Silva-Miramon, Mike Sixel, Eric C Smith, Joey Smith, Jared Smith, Marc Soliz, Trevor Sone, Marzio Spairani, Dalewin Speed, Colin Stahl, Stéphane Stassen, Christina Stiles, Matthew Stinson, Jared Strickland, David Sullivan, Scott Sutherland, Jeffrey Tadlock, R. Patrick Taggesell, John Tanzini,Sample Casey Taylor, Frank Tedeschi, John-Paul Temple, Constantin Terton, James Thomas, Christopherfile Thompson, Seth Thomson, Keith Unger, Giorgio Vergani, Oliver von Spreckelsen, Dan Voyce, Jani Waara, Michael Waite, Tobias Walbridge, Trey Walker, Chip Warden, Eric Weberg, Stephen Wark, Matthew Widmann, Michael Welham, Charles Wenzler Jr, Tim Werner , Seth White, Matt Widmann, Troy Willcocks, Nick Williams, David Williams, Adam Windsor, Rush Wingate, Bill Woehr, Michael Wolf, Henry Wong, Paul Woods, DJ Yoho, Alex Young, and Hao Zhang Table of Contents Chapter 1: Welcome to Midgard 8 Trade by Road and River. 50 Strange Customers . 52. Seven Secrets of Midgard . .9 Crossroads Trading Houses . 53. The History of Midgard . .10 Crossroads Mercenary Companies . .54 Time, Planes, and Dates . .15 Griffon Towers and the Margreve Forest . 55 Planes and Hells . .18 The Cloudwall Mountains . 56 Ley Lines . .19 Empire of the Ghouls. 57 Classifying Ley Lines . 19 Perunalia . .59 Ley Line Feats . 19 The Free Cantons of the Ironcrags . .61 Using Ley Lines . 20 Bundhausen . 62 Ley Line Burnout . 21 Grisal . 62 Chapter 2: Heroes of Midgard 22 Gunnacks . 63 . Humans . .23 Hammerfell . 63 . Kubourg . .63 . Optional Rule: Status . 24 Dragonkin. 25 Tijino . 63 Wintersheim . 63 . Dwarves . 26 The Minor Cantons . 64 Elves andthe Elfmarked . .27 Dwarven Weapons . 65. Gearforged . .28 The Magdar Kingdom . .66 Making a Gearforged . 28 Order of the Undying Sun . .68 Gearforged Components . 29 Entering Knighthood . 68 Kobolds . .30 Paladins of Khors . 68 Minotaurs . 31 Order of the Storm . 68. Seven Minor Races . .32 Magdar War Wagons . 68 26 Common and Archaic Languages . .33 Company Wagons . 69 . Midgard Feats and Traits. 34 Government . 69 The Crossroads . .34 . The Electoral Kingdom of Krakova . 69 Northlands . 34. The Principalities of Morgau and Doresh . .71 Racial Traits . 35 . Hengksburg . 73 Religion Traits . 35 The Rothenian Plains . 36 Chapter 4:
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    Fantasy Roleplaying System Gold Edition BBWG_r19.inddWG_r19.indd 1 55/26/11/26/11 112:182:18 PPMM OriginalCredit Concept Due Head Wizard Luke Crane and Dan Abram Chris Allingham Burning Wheel Concept and Design Fight Captains Ian Marshall, Jacob Norwood Luke Crane Burning Wheel Development Founder of Dynasties Bob Doherty Chris Allingham, Luke Crane, Radek Drozdalski, Ian Marshall, Thor Olavsrud, Speaker of the Secret Language Rich Soto and Peter Tierney Radek Frozdalski Circles Concept Thor Olavsrud Proofreading Thor Olavsrud, Topi Makkonen, Mayuran Character Burner Development Tiruchelvam, Alexander Newman, Drozferatu Luke Crane, Pete Tierney, Radek Drozdalski, Thor Olavsrud, Chris “Master Burning Wheel Gold Burner” Allingham, Aaron Brown, Rich Development Soto, Danaher Dempsey, George Thompson Luke Crane, Thor Olavsrud, Radek and Mike VanHelder Drozdalski, Anthony Hersey, Jake Norwood, Topi Makkonen, Rich Soto, Michael Trait, Skill and Spell Help Prescott, Keith Senkowski, Carly Bogen, Pete Tierney, Thor Olavsrud, Radek Jared Sorensen, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick Drozdalski and Bob Doherty Grandsire of the Elves Additional Advice Bob Doherty and Development Don Corcoran, Jason Roberts, Ron Edwards, Burning Internets Jared Sorensen, D. Vincent Baker, George Colin Cathexis Booth Thompson, Kaare Berg, Alexander Cherry, Cave Troll Tony Hamilton, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick, Andy Action Louis Nava and the most sagacious and wise members of RPG.net, indie-rpgs.com, Charts and Sheets nerdnyc.com and burningwheel.org Ben Morgan Content Editor Cover Illustrations Thor Olavsrud Kurt Komoda Copy Editor Rich Forest Burning Wheel on the Web www.burningwheel.com www.nerdnyc.com www.rpg.net BBWG_r19.inddWG_r19.indd 2 55/26/11/26/11 112:182:18 PPMM Burning Wheel Spot Illustrations Karlman, for coming up with so many damn and Thumbnails cool ideas.