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Jacob Klunder Sample file JACOB KLUNDER CREDITS: SPECIAL THANKS: Written by: Jacob Klünder As always, thanks to Auralys Wium for doing the Edited by: Jacob Klünder, Maiken Klünder Title Logo design. You rock. Cover Art: “The Taking of Arkona in 1169, King Valdemar and Bishop Absalon” by Laurits Tuxen, from And as always, a special thanks to my wife Maiken Wikimedia Commons Klünder, who is always available for alpha-reading, Title Logo Design by: Auralys Wium inspiration and ideas-sparring. Follow my work here: https://www.facebook.com/VikingWrites/ © 2018 White Wolf Entertainment AB. All rights reserved. Vampire: The Masquerade®, World of Darkness®, Storytelling System™, and Storytellers Vault™ are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of White Wolf Entertainment AB. All rights reserved. SampleFor additional information on Whitefile Wolf and the World of Darkness, please, visit: www.white-wolf.com, www.worldofdarkness.com and www.storytellersvault.com. TABLE OF CONTENTS The Whisperer Below 13 Siebenschneiderstein 19 INTRODUCTION 5 Geography 13 Nardevitz Stone 20 Physical Geography 14 Schwanenstein 20 CHAPTER ONE: HISTORY Natural Features 14 Buskam 20 Important Settlements 15 Hertha Lake 20 AND GEOGRAPHY 7 Vilmnitz 20 The Whisperer Below and its History 7 CHAPTER TWO: THE cultists 21 The Rugii 7 The Whisperer 21 The Lost Battle 8 MAGICAL ISLAND 16 The Whispering Cultists 21 The Rani 8 The Fellowships 16 The Lords of Putbus 22 Charenza, Jaromarsburg, and Valdaermen 16 The Whispering Worms 22 Ralswiek 9 Magnus the Great 17 Defeating The Whisperer 22 Valdaermen 10 Gunhild Haraldsdotter 17 Vampires, Werewolves, The Raids 10 Messianic Voices 17 and Fae 22 1168 and the Fall of Sister Agnete 18 Arkona 10 Sir Ranulf 18 CHAPTER THREE: STORYTELLER The Valdaermen Arrive 11 Old Faith 18 To 1234 11 Cruto the Smith 19 CHARACTERS 23 The Fellowships 12 The Ralswiek Cabal 19 The Mages 24 The Ahl-i-Batin 12 Benedikt Tornhoi 19 The Whsipering Cultists 29 The Messianic Voices 12 Dobroslawa 19 Fae and Vampires 30 The Old Faith 13 The Crays 19 Order of Hermes 13 Jaromarsburg/Cape Arkona 19 SpiritSample-Talkers 13 Rugard Hill 19 file Valdaermen 13 Charenza 19 Sample file “In the temple there stood the aforementioned statue of superhuman proportions. It had four heads and that many necks, of which two were turned towards the front and two towards the back. And likewise of the two heads turned front and also the two heads looking back, one looked left and the other right. [The statue’s] face was clean-shaven as regards the beard and its hair was cut indicating that the artist who sculpted the statue had in mind the custom [of shaving/hair styling] common among the Rani.” – Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum Greetings, dear reader. This book describes the magical island of Rügen, The story of King Valdemar I and his brother once the stronghold of Slavic paganism, now the island Bishop Absalon conquering the temple-fortress of of a dead god, whose worshippers fade with every Arkona and toppling the Wendish god Svetovid generation. Three Fellowships share the land and battle (Svantevit in Danish) is one all Danish schoolchildren for the powerful, magical resources of Rügen, while an are taught at some point or another. unknowable menace lurks below. However, before Valdemar and Absalon, Rügen This book is set in the year 1234, rather than the was the last holdout of Slavic paganism in the west. original 1230 date of Dark Ages: Mage or the 1242 Surrounded by Christinaity, it held out all the way to date of Vampire: the Dark Ages 20th Anniversary 1168. And during Viking times, the Rani of Rügen Edition. The reason for this is that it is in the year 1234 raided the Danish coasts in the same way that the that Stralsund receives it city privileges, beginning the Danes raided other lands. decline of the island of Rügens importance in relation to the mainland city. Sample file NOTES Sample file .
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