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AN ORIGINAL
SANTHARIAN SONG
Keep Mistrash is a fortified
castle, positioned low on the western slopes of the Mithral Mountains in the Santharian province of
Manthria. It is the seat of the Markgravens of the Mithral Marches and
houses nearly one hundred people in the winter months. The Keep itself is an
imposing ten stories high at its tallest tower, and from a distance looks as if
it is carved out of the rock of the mountain.
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AN ORIGINAL
SANTHARIAN SONG
Griffin's Marl is a huge, majestic mountain in the
southern part of the Santharian province of Manthria, harbouring castle
Thunderclaim on its back. From the castle you have a wonderful over the
Tolonion Heath to the North, the Yanthian Gulf to the East with the proud
town of Klinsor and in the South your eyes wander over the sheer endless
Sharadon Forests, home of the Maeverhim elves...
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AN ORIGINAL
SANTHARIAN SONG
Thalanis Fizzlefist, the weird oddball of a mage, who has settled near
the small fishing village of Nepris, supposedly works on some magical
stuff that isn't entirely appreciated by the Magical Academy in Ximax.
Pay his laboratory a visit and discover what is really going on down
there...
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AN ORIGINAL
SANTHARIAN SONG
This song is one of a cycle which Bard Judith has composed and plans
to perform before the Masters in Bardavos to earn her third bard's
ring. It is dedicated to her friend and compeer in music, the bard
Gean Firefeet. The subject, while ostensibly about one of the
treacherously lovely islands in the Scattersand Shoal archipelago,
'Zandiria', also alludes to the journey we all must take at the end of
our lives.
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AN ORIGINAL
SANTHARIAN SONG
The Nightshade Carnival is a
travelling group of weirdling entertainers drawn from all over the Santharian kingdom and from many races;
most are courtesy members of the Black
Butterfly Rover clan, noted for accepting all and any applicants to its
peculiar 'family' community. Their train of show-wagons and dwelling caravans
ranges from massive to humble, depending upon the touring season and the
performers who have signed on for that season's area, but it always,
unmistakably, bears the same dark and mysterious aura: tarnished spangles and
tattered banners - a little fear and a little fantasy, magic and mystery, the
peculiar and the talented, the academically intriguing and the frankly
outre.
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AN ORIGINAL
SANTHARIAN SONG
Located just below the whaling town of Klinsor, Lynlith
and Vicrem frame the Mead of Lynlith. They are known as wool towns: Lynlith
raises and shears the rough-haired goats and sheep, while Vicrem cleans,
cards, and spins the resultant fleeces. This piece of flute music is
dedicated to the shepherds at the Mead of Lynlith who oversee the vast
fields with their grazing animals and to the weavers of the nearby Vicrem,
who make the finest clothes out of the fleeces of the sheep of Lynlith.
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FROM THE ALBUM
"WHAT THE DRAGON HEARD" (TRACK #18),
ORIGINALLY TITLED "HERO'S REST"
The village of Nepris is a
small fishing village of about 200 people. The fishermen there harvest several species
of fish, seaweed and shellfish that they trade or sell to the local
dwarves or
traders from the Mithral Route.
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AN ORIGINAL
SANTHARIAN SONG
There is a large central University in Lorehaven, known as the "Lorehold". It
possesses a splendid library, which tradition holds is the reason for the
town’s name (see History). Although the library is not
as large as the one in New-Santhala, it does
contain some rare and unique treasures within its walls. The University has
academic and financial connections to several other industrial schools located
in Lorehaven, including one for the amanters, or feather artists, one for
jewelers and one smithery school.
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