- Ptolsia -19- TABLE OF CONTENTS - Raynal’s Beach -19- - Saardia -20- Introduction -1- - Saphos -20- - Isle -20- Adventure Hooks -1- - Cliffs of Fury -20- - ’s Rocks -20- The Isle of Ixinos -2- - Sea Caves -20- Overview -2- - Shoals -20- Provinces -3- - Umberlee’s Talons -21- History -5- Civilization’s Landmarks -21- - Eldathion -21- Major Landmarks and Areas of Ixinos -9- - Tor of Taramax -21- Woodlands -9- - Death’s Trees -9- The Ixinosan Military -22- - Woods -9- The She-Wolves -26- - Glade of the -9- - Mielikki’s Belt -10- The Ixinosan Scroll of Years -27- - The Keposeruma -10- Mountains and Hills -11- Character Creation Section -31- - Haunted Hills -11- Spell Casters of Ixinos -31- - Hiipolyta Mountains -11- Ixinosan Clan Member -32- - Mount Krinaia -12- Other Ixinosan Backgrounds -32- - Mount Mytikas -12- Non-Human Races -33- - Mount -13- - Mount Pelios -13- Black and White Map of Ixinos -34- Waters of Ixinos -14- Map of the Sea of Fallen Stars -35- - Eleion Marsh -14- - Lyrna Mere -14- - Bay -14- - Selune’s Mirrors -15- - Umbral Bog -15- Interior Land Areas -15- - Adonian Herdlands -15- - Chauntea’s Gardens -16- - Horse Lands -16- - Lliira’s Orchards -16- - Verdant Dell -17- - ’s Vineyard -17- Major Coastal Landmarks -17- - -17- - ’s Reef -17- - Cordis -18- - Forlorn Shore -18- - Helestria’s Hammer -19- Sample - Hippocampus -19- file - Loviatar’s Cliffs -19- Sample file

INTRODUCTION the Bitch Queen and then leave the city for their capital. I have only been to Tarixon once A Letter from Sialla of the Zhentarim to her master previously, but it was by stealth and I could little Manshoon, c. 1375 DR: afford to be caught in my espionage. Spies here are executed on the spot, there are no trials if you My Master, are somewhere without permission. I dread the thought of actually being found out; the tortures My return to Zhentil Keep is greatly delayed due used by the Ixinosan priestesses of Umberlee are to my inability to find a ship willing to take me on said to be exceptionally brutal but pale beside as passenger; and so I remain a virtual prisoner those used by the Queen’s personal attendant upon the shores of Ixinos within the city of from the priestesses of Loviatar. So I have heard, Tazixor. The High Priestess of Umberlee, Ulexxa, and I have no reason to doubt it. is also the War-Leader of the women of this city and has made sure to have my continued presence Until my next missive or we are again together my in her audience hall to glean all the information Master, concerning the Moonsea that she can gain from polite conversation. I have come to understand Sialla that I will find no ship home until she is done with me; and I have also come to accept that should I She was never heard from again… not continue to offer information she deems valuable in polite conversation, that she will The Scope of this Work become very impolite. Ulexxa is a powerful woman and I know that even my skill with Art The Isle of Ixinos is a small land; but full of and my faith would not avail me against her adventuring possibilities. It can be simply the place power; she is a truly powerful one Master. of origin for a character in your campaign, or the setting for one off adventures or even a full campaign Few Ixinosan women are not at least a worthy centered around the female-centric culture of the adversary Master, even the least of their warriors Ixinosan Warrior-Women. are capable of standing even against an Ogre is my thought. They actually fight ogre-like Included in this work is all that you will need to carry creatures here; which they refer to as Hagspawn. on your Forgotten Realms Adventures with Ixinos as I have yet to see one of them alive, but Ulexxa either the centerpiece of your campaign or simply as keeps the skull of one in her inner chamber to use a passing interest for your group to visit and explore. as a chamber pot. The skull is rather large, and suitable for the task; though Ulexxa did say that Adventure Hooks the upper teeth had to be filed down and the holes filled with copper to make it truly There are several ways to use Ixinos in your purposeful…she killed the beast as a youth she Forgotten Realms campaign: said.  A player wishes to have a character from Ixinos. Whether a female who has left home Regarding their warriors, I have included detailed to explore the world or a male who was information in these scrolls regarding not only either stranded off Ixinos when his mistress their military, but also whatever information I died or escaped on his own into freedom. thought you might find useful; I am sorry to say  The entire party wishes to play characters that further letters will need to be sent to you via from the Island of Warrior-Women. The this little Imp in the future. Such as I have possibilities for adventure on the island included is a start on a much more detailed piece could span the entire length and breadth of a than originally you sent me for. I must say at this detailed campaign that never left the shores time, however, that I do not believe a simple of the Isle of Ixinos. military conquest of Ixinos is possible; their  The party is shipwrecked on the Island and warriors are much more organized and even must escape so the men aren’t enslaved. numerous than many believe I can assure you.  The party acts as diplomatic envoys on behalf of a neighboring realm visiting Ixinos SampleI will leave off my writings for now. I have little to adventure upon thefile Island and help the time before I am to attend services dedicated to Queen.

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The Isle of Ixinos priestess until such time as they die of old age…if they survive their initial encounter with the female Proper Name: The Matriarchy of Ixinos warriors here. The Ixinosan Pantheon shares one Ruler: Her Peerless Majesty, Queen of Ixinos, large temple in Tarixon; only those goddesses names Mistress of the Sea, Lady of the Hunt, and Rightful marked with a * have separate temples. The Ixinosan Queen of Akanax; Queen Annaria Tarixon. Pantheon is known as the Dodekatheon and is headed Government: Matriarchal Feudal Monarchy; who’s by Tyche. While this is the official Pantheon (as Queen is a descendant by blood from the original supported by the Queen), each province orders the Queen Tarixon, Queen of ancient Akanax. goddesses differently in importance. Capital: The Citadel-City of Tarixon, situated at the Allies: None; though the Emerald Enclave secretly center of Ixinos. supports Ixinos. Such assistance is unknown to the Major Cities: Tarixon (3,900) and Tazixor (1,400). majority of Ixinosans, but the Queen deals directly Major Provinces: Ixinos is divided into seven with the Grand Cabal Shinthala of these Druids. distinct provinces, each the ancestral home of a Enemies: Male of any land, the Pirates of the family descended from the seven daughters of Sea of Fallen Stars, Akanax (unknown to Akanax) Tarixon: Adonia (home of Tarixon), , Aella, and the Church of Bane. Alala, Alexa, Alkippe, and Aphrodisia (home of Tazixor). Overview: Ixinos is a nearly idyllic paradise of fruit Resources of Export: Ixinos makes no products to bearing trees, flowering fields and great flocks of be exported; but is a supply port used by various brightly feathered birds. Its heavily forested coast female captains of known trust who take on serves as a natural defensive network; as well as foodstuffs, rope, and other ship needs. Some small hiding an interior of well-maintained farmland tended trading occurs between the Ixinosans and various by male slaves and the elderly. The forest is called denizens of Seros. Its sole true export is a group of The Keposeruma (or “The Orchard Wall”) by the battle-ready mercenaries called the She-Wolves who people of Ixinos; its labyrinthine paths feed the serve in the immediate areas of Chondath, Turmish inhabitants of Ixinos well, but have been the place of and those areas attacked commonly by the Pirates of death for crewmen from any ship daring to land upon the Sea of Fallen Stars. Ixinos' shore. Items of Import: Ixinos imports captured slaves brought home by the She-Wolves Mercenary Any ship sailing near this island only usually sees Company. Some few slaves are also bought from death to be had. If statuesque naked women are seen ship captains. There is not a huge trade in this as bathing upon its shores, it is commonly rumored to many men who live on the island do so willingly, and be she-demons tempting the foolish. Reefs all around many generations have lived peacefully here under the island have caused shipwrecks whose hulks can the watchful eye of the Ixinosan women. still be seen rotting on the shore…and no sailor has Coinage: The Queens of Ixinos have created no ever met a man claiming to survive and tell of a visit national coinage; most trade upon Ixinos is handled to the Isle. Even are more welcome upon in barter or by service. Foreign coin is accepted only Ixinos it is said, and in fact the high cliffs that within the city of Tazixor where it is used as a seemingly grow from the water here are known lairs medium of exchange with select female ship of large flocks of these beasts; just another reason to captains. There are no taxes upon Ixinos made on stay as far away from the rocky shores of Ixinos. coinage transactions. Population: 20,700 (approximately; 70% female and 30% male; almost exclusively human). Languages: Ixinosan (a dialect of Chessentan) and Common Alignments: Primarily Lawful Neutral as a society; all alignments present. Religions: Chauntea*, Eldath*, Lliira, Loviatar, Meilikki*, Mystra (Hekaati)*, Red Knight, Selune*, Sharess, Sune*, Tymora (Tyche)*, and Umberlee*. No male priests or male gods are allowed upon Ixinos; but other female gods are allowed. Males that Samplehave come to Ixinos by whatever means that are of an file accepted faith are usually accepted as consorts to a

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