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Design: Wolfgang Baur, Peter von Bleichert, Lysa Chen, Dan Dillon, Richard Green, Jeff Grubb, Chris Harris, Brandon Hodge, Robert Fairbanks, James J. Haeck, Jeremy Hochhalter, Sarah Madsen, Ben McFarland, Shawn Merwin, Kelly Pawlik, Richard Pett, Hannah Rose, Jon Sawatsky, Brian Suskind, Troy E. Taylor, Ashley Warren, Steve Winter Development & Editing: Scott Gable Art Director & Graphic Design: Marc Radle Cover Art: Dean Spencer Interior Art: Bruno Balixa, Gabriel Cassata, Jeff Dee, Larry Elmore, Justine Jones, Rich Longmore, William McAusland, M. Wayne Miller, Pedro Potier, Marc Radle, Addison Rankin, Melissa Spandri, Dean Spencer, Phil Stone, Karl Waller Publisher: Wolfgang Baur

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3 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Other Voices, Distant Planes ...... 6 Folkways of the Ironcrags ...... 8 Feast Halls of the Northlands...... 14 The Forbidden Mountains of Beldestan...... 21 Shifting Seas: New Adventures Along the West Coast Road ...... 27 10 Magnificent Sultans of the Mharoti Empire...... 33 Into the Dragon Empire: Marea and the Islands...... 39 Under the Gullet...... 44 Amid the Leaves of Yggdrasil...... 48 Owls, Roses, and Thorns: Lost Courts of the Elves...... 55 The Dry Lands: The Plane of Mot...... 59 On the City of Brass and the Hierarchy of the Genies...... 65 The Curious Places You’ll Find...... 70 This Way to the City of Brass...... 76 Bazaar of Ineffable Wonders...... 81 The Wendestal Devil...... 87 Recollections of the River Court...... 94 Guardians of the Trifles ...... 102 City of Blue Blocks ...... 109 Legacy of the Unhinged Gardeners ...... 114 The Crimson Oubliette ...... 119 Phosus, Dread Wyrm of the Falls ...... 124 Dragon Turtles of Midgard...... 129 Variant Undine ...... 133 Terrors of the Dragon Empire...... 137 Yek Demons ...... 142 DreadSample Spawn of the Wasted West ...... file145 Haunted Stone Giant...... 153 Lesser Golems: It’s Alive!...... 155 Pech: Servants of Stone...... 159

4 Necrotic Tick...... 163 The Fanged Four...... 166 The Silent Council...... 172 Thick as Thieves...... 177 Planar Voyagers ...... 181 The Wondrous Women of Perunalia...... 188 Tintager’s Mounted Mages ...... 195 Legendary Works of Arshin the Enchanter...... 203 The Delights of Enkada Pishtuhk...... 212 Blood Mages of Kaa’nesh...... 216 Bemmea’s Scheming Arcanists...... 218 The Cloven Nine of Zobeck...... 226 Debris of the Great Mage Wars...... 232 Void-Touched: Warped Flesh and Twisted Minds...... 239 Fonts of Poison and Power...... 243 Spells from the Fire...... 247 Arsenal of Villains: Blood Calls to Blood...... 254 Shade: Voices Beyond Death...... 257 Enigma: A Mysterious Background...... 264 Skaldholm Shadowsingers ...... 267 On the Hunt...... 272 The Order of the Ebon Star...... 279 Rays of the Undying Sun ...... 286

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5 OTHER VOICES, DISTANT PLANES by Wolfgang Baur

he Warlock Patreon yielded rich fruit As often happens, I underestimated the Tindeed over its first ten installments: an support for good design, good art, and a opportunity to visit certain topics in depth, darkly twisted view of fantasy. Thanks to each to flesh out new locations, to offer subclasses and every supporter for making this possible. tuned into the themes of the Midgard setting I do fully intend to go out into the shadows but still usable elsewhere. Not to mention a again and bring back new treasures to place visit to the City of Brass, the warped spells of beside this one. For now though, it is enough the undead of the Dry Places, and monsters to have all these secrets brimming in the pages from the fertile imaginings of Midgard ahead. Light a lantern, speak the words, and regulars and newcomers alike. It’s been one go out into the dark, dear readers. Monstrous heck of a wild ride. things await you there, and wondrous The Warlock zine started small, and the treasures and eerie lore torn from the grasp of goals to publish a Warlock Bestiary and a the dwellers in ancient tombs. Guide to the Shadow Realm… well, we were Yrs on the Dark Side, not at all sure we’d ever actually get there, much less get to this handsome volume. But Wolfgang Baur secretly, I wanted this compilation very badly: Publisher, Kobold Press the early volumes of Warlock have been out of print for a year or more, and part of me just believes there’s something magical about flipping through paper and stumbling upon art by Larry Elmore or Justine Jones or a turn of phrase by Kelly Pawlik or Jeff Grubb. For those of you who haven’t seen all the zines, you are in for a treat, freshly organized and tuned by imp-master Scott Gable. And for those who are fortunate enough to have everySample single slim booklet, well… there is an file entire extra zine’s worth of material in this, the Warlock Grimoire, that’s never been seen before. Can you spot it?

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