¶ The Unbound Marches
¶ Wide horizons. Deep rivers. Freedom with a long memory.
Across the once great Thessalan Dominion, the sky fills half the world. Grasslands stretch beyond sight, great rivers carry trade from southern mountains toward the northern sea, and a distant thread of chimney smoke can mean the first shelter you have seen in days. Between settlements lie grazing herds, old roads, and country where a broken wheel or a flooded crossing can change the course of a journey... and a life.
This is the homeland of harsh humans whose ancestors arrived with a civilization to rebuild -- and enslaved peoples to rebuild it for them. Generations have won freedoms their forebears could scarcely imagine, but old wealth, inherited obligations, and competing accounts of the past still shape who owns the land and who works it.
Along the rivers, communities make their own futures under the tattered and faded banners of the Dominion. Barges need escorts. Ferries need repairs. Families need someone willing to follow a missing herd beyond the last familiar landmark. Far from the ports and prosperous estates, help often arrives wearing a travel-stained cloak.
Follow the waterways, cross the open plains, and discover the lives unfolding between the names on the map. Explore the remnants of earlier ambitions, face the dangers of immense wilderness, and defend places that may never appear in a king’s history, surrounded by races as different from humans as they are from one another, fighting to retain freedom that seems always on the verge of being taken back by the Dominion.