Cobblers’ Common Map . 36 The Dead City . 37 Father Inire’s Botanic Gardens . 37 Oldgate Map . 37 The Sanguinary Field . 38 CONTENTS The Wall of Nessus . 38 The Sanguinary Field Envirions Map . 38 5. URTH INTRODUCTION . 4 2. THE NEW SUN . 12 About the Author . 4 RELIGION . 39 About Gene Wolfe . 4 The Shadow of the Torturer . 13 About GURPS . 4 The Claw of the Conciliator . 13 THE CHURCH OF The Sword of the Lictor . 14 THE ONCILIATOR . 40 The Citadel of the Autarch . 15 C Urthian Deities . 40 The Urth of the New Sun . 16 Angelic Beings . 41 Creation Myth . 41 3. URTH IN THE The Increate . 41 AGE OF THE Angels and Monsters . 41 Avatars . 42 AUTARCH . 19 YESOD, THE COMMONWEALTH . 20 THE HIGHER UNIVERSE . 42 Society . 20 Genesis Characters . 42 Mana . 20 The Hieros . 43 The Corridors of Time . 20 The Hierogrammates . 43 The Autarch’s Guilds . 21 Enemies of the New Sun . 43 Law . 22 The Hierodules . 44 Religion . 22 Technology . 23 6. SPACE AND Language . 23 TIME . 45 COMMONWEALTH GEOGRAPHY . 24 Autochthonous Villages . 24 THE UNIVERSE(S) IN TERMS OF Well of Green Chimes/Antechamber GURPS SPACE . 46 Area of Absolute Map . 24 1. THE POSTHISTORY The Xanthic Lands . 24 THE STARSHIP TZADKIEL . 46 OF URTH . 5 The House Absolute . 25 Crew . 47 Medieval Punishments . 25 Apports . 47 . 6 Lake Diuturna . 26 THE AGE OF MYTH . 47 Fables and the New Sun . 6 Lake Diuturna and Environs Map . 26 LOCAL STARS Timeline Prior to New Sun . 6 Books . 26 . 47 Mount Typhon . 27 TIME DILATION . 7 THE AGE OF THE MONARCH Other Commonwealth TIME . 48 The First Empire . 7 Towns and Peoples . 27 In Terms of GURPS Time Travel . 48 Timeline During and The Narrow Lands . 28 Zodiac Ages . 48 Following the New Sun . 7 Orithyia . 28 Apu-Punchau and the Dying Sun . 7 The Village Saltus . 28 7. COMMONWEALTH The Boy Who Hooked the Sun . 7 Southern Isles . 28 The Long Decline . 8 Thrax Map . 29 CHARACTERS . 49 Verthandi, Skuld, and Lune . 8 Thrax, City of Crooked Knives . 29 The Boy Called Frog . 8 The Stone Town . 29 Technology Levels . 50 Typhon, Father of Monsters . 8 Cultural Skepticism . 50 Reign of Typhon . 9 ASCIA . 30 Job Table . 51 Typhon and the Conciliator . 9 Society . 30 Appearance . 52 Ymar the Almost Just . 9 Approved Texts . 30 Money and Cost of Living . 52 Carved Mountains . 9 Ascian Religion . 30 Exultant Height/Weight Table . 52 Language: Approved Text . 31 First Things First . 52 THE AGE OF THE AUTARCH . 10 Technology . 31 The Commonwealth vs. Ascia . 10 Ascian Law . 31 ADVANTAGES, DISADVANTAGES, Linear Measurements AND SKILLS . 53 of the Commonwealth . 10 4. NESSUS, THE Advantages . 53 Society . 11 Disadvantages . 54 Technology . 11 ETERNAL CITY . 32 New Limitation . 55 HE EXT GE Skills . 55 T N A : The Algedonic Quarter . 33 New Esoteric Skill . 56 USHAS OR RAGNAROK? . 11 Citadel of the Autarch . 33 Skill Restrictions . 56 Arrival of the New Sun . 11 Nessus Map . 33 New Maneuvers . 57 Temporal Terms of the Commonwealth . 11 Old Citadel Area Map . 34 Languages . 57 Periods of the Day . 11 Citadel and River Map . 35 2 CONTENTS Jolenta . 117 . 58 CHARACTER TEMPLATES 9. THAUMATURGY . 87 Armiger . 58 MASS COMBAT . 118 Autochthon . 59 THE NATURE OF POWER . 88 Mixed-TL Units and Armies . 118 Beast Handler . 60 Tempting Fate . 88 Organization . 118 Clavinger . 61 Corruption Table . 89 Jonas . 118 Colonist . 61 Divine Magic . 89 Merryn . 119 Cultellarii . 62 Psionics . 89 Doctor Talos . 120 Dimarchi . 62 Ascian Forces . 121 Eclectic . 63 THE THAUMATURGIC ARTS . 89 Sample Units . 121 Entertainer . 63 Alchemy . 89 Chatelaine Thecla . 121 Extern . 64 Mechanology . 90 Exultant . 64 Anthroposophy . 91 APPENDICES . 122 Forester . 65 Chicanery . 91 Fulgurator . 66 Thaumaturgy . ..