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Games Workshop, the Games Workshop logo, www.greenronin.com 1 Table of Contents TA BLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ................................ 3 Tor ..............................................................................40 Lesser Gods ...............................................................41 CH A PTER I: Hags ................................................... 42 THE LA ND A ND ITS PEOPLES ............... 6 Ice Witches .......................................... 45 Principal Geography ...............................................6 Customs .............................................. 48 Climate .........................................................................8 Birth ........................................................................... 48 The Cities ................................................................... 9 Marriage .................................................................. 48 Kislev Relations .................................................... 10 Funerals ....................................................................49 The People of Kislev .............................................11 Spirits, Small Gods, & Kislevite Oddities .... 50 Language ..................................................................12 Religion in Kislev .................................................12 CH A PTER VI: THE OBL A ST ................. 51 Kislevite Dress .........................................................13 Plains of Ice and Snow .............................51 Kislev Calendar ......................................................14 Southern Oblast ..................................... 53 Kvas—The Oil of a Nation ..............................14 Eastern Oblast ........................................56 The Rulers of Kislev ............................................14 Western Oblast ......................................57 Northern Oblast .....................................58 CH A PTER II: HISTORY OF KISLEV ......... 16 Troll Country ...................................... 59 CH A PTER III: POLITICS OF KISLEV .........22 CH A PTER VII: CITIES OF KISLEV .......... 61 Structures of Rulership ........................... 22 Erengrad ...............................................61 Atamans and Stanitsas .........................................23 Praag the Cursed .................................... 69 Druzhina ................................................................. 24 The City of Kislev .................................78 Boyar .......................................................................... 24 The Frozen Court ................................................ 24 CH A PTER VIII: Military Matters .....................................25 CH A R A CTERS A ND CA REERS ..............88 Relief Columns ......................................................26 Two Tribes ...........................................88 Religion and Magic ................................ 26 Background Charts ................................. 90 Other Elements ......................................28 Careers ................................................ 95 Guilds of Erengrad ..............................................28 CH A PTER XI: Mag IC A ND MIR A CLES ... 108 Nyvena .......................................................................28 Hag Witches ....................................... 108 CH A PTER IV: LA W IN KISLEV ............. 29 Ice Witches ......................................... 110 The Tzarina and the Law ......................... 29 Witch Marks ........................................ 111 Chaos and the Law ............................................... 29 The Grimoire ....................................... 113 Ungol Law............................................30 Petty Magic ............................................................ 113 Group Responsibility ........................................... 30 Lesser Magic ..........................................................114 Ungol Courts ......................................................... 30 Witch Lores .........................................115 Ungol Laws .............................................................31 The Lore of the Hags .........................................115 Ungol Punishments ..............................................31 The Lore of Ice .....................................................119 Gospodar Law ........................................32 Divine Lores .........................................121 Feud .............................................................................32 The Lore of Dazh ...............................................121 Gospodar Courts .................................................... 33 The Lore of Tor ...................................................122 Gospodar Laws ....................................................... 33 The Lore of Ursun .............................................123 Gospodar Punishments ........................................34 ROU G H JUSTICE ............................. 124 The Chekist ..........................................34 Collected Statistics ................................. 131 CH A PTER V: RELI G ION A ND CUSTOM ..... 35 Pre-generated Characters ..........................132 Ursun .........................................................................35 APPENDI X I: BE A STS OF THE OBL A ST .....134 Dazh ...........................................................................38 INDE X ......................................... 142 2 Introduction INTRODUCTION anger, excitement, and hardship await those who dare Kislev are a dour, taciturn race, which is not surprising given Dtravel the cold, inhospitable lands of Kislev; yet, there the climate and their precarious way of life. But they possess a is no shortage of heroes who brave these perils in search of grim, often morbid, sense of humour and have a strict code of fortune and glory. As the most northerly of the civilised hospitality that welcomes strangers as well as friends to their nations of the Old World, Kislev stands forever on the brink hearth. of annihilation, for it borders the dreaded Chaos Wastes—the realm of the Dark Gods and home to the bloodthirsty tribes The northern reaches of Kislev are wild and untamed, a bleak that worship them. land of roving tribes and raiders, and the few settlements that survive do so thanks to high palisade walls of logs and the brave It is a wide, unbroken steppe with a bitter climate and hardy warriors who defend them. At night, doors are locked, and people. Bounded by the Sea of Claws to the west, the Troll windows are shuttered, as the ghosts