Aerdi History

  Nalaster the Clever, 5th Grand Prince of the Kingdom of Aerdy Born -164 CY, Died -152 CY Reigned -179 CY to -152 CY The Sarcophagus of the Hidden Empress, Mentrey   Sidimara Sarcophagus, Roman period, 2nd half of the 3rd century AD, from Konya, Turkey. Now in Istanbul Archaelogical Museums His older brother Gennor having died without any surviving issue, the 28 year old Nalaster( 1 ) was crowned as Grand Prince. He had echoed the policy of his brother in exiling the dissident Naelax to the north, but had also argued that the church of Hextor shared a large part of the blame for the recent rising. Gennor had opposed such a policy, afraid of alienating the large number of Hextoran nobles in Medegia. Nalaster, bolder and now holding the title of Grand Prince, acted against the leadership of the Hextoran priesthood. But rather than using the assassination of his brother as the excuse he needed to attack the Naelax of Medegia, he went about this with the guile exhibited by so ...

Gennor the Brief, 4th Grand Prince of the Kingdom of Aerdy Born -212 CY, Died -179 CY Reigned -181 to -179 CY Princess Yanaymi wearing a headdress associated with the goddess Myhriss c. -180 CY English singer-songwriter FKA twigs Consumed with rage when they heard the news of the slaughter of almost the entire royal family in Rel Astra, Grand Prince Erian’s sons Gennor and Nalaster( 1 ) marched south from the Flannish Marches toward the capital city, gathering Torquann and Garasteth lords as they went. Gennor, as the heir to the crown dispatched swift riders to the cities of Ountsy and Roland to send aid. He also directed his presumably loyal vassals, the Prince of Rax and Duke of Nulbish to attack Medegia from the west to denying Baldo reinforcements from there. One unexpected component of this force was the Flan High King Man’khu of the Kho’lamm kingdom( 2 ), which lay along the east bank of the Flanmi and west of the Ur-Flan of the uplands. The royal brothers had been negotiati...

Continuing from Part 1 of This Series I present the next set of runes as they are given in the 1980 World of Greyhawk Folio Edition , pp. 29-32, the 1983 World of Greyhawk Boxed Set , p. 17, From the Ashes , p. 18, and the Player’s Guide to Greyhawk , p. 17. As said in Part 1, most of them appear to have been drawn from The Book of Signs by Rudolph Koch. Further research on my part seems to indicate these runes were compiled by Gary Gygax for the  Folio Edition  though I could not find definitively if that was the case. One other source I have used to reinforce the meaning given by Koch and to find the meaning for some runes that do not appear in  The Book of Signs  is Medicinisch-Chymisch und Alchemistisches Oraculum by August Lebrecht Stettin. What Gygax's sources were for the runes that do not appear in either of those sources we cannot know and are left only to speculate. Evil, Evil Pursuer.  This rune maintains its form throughout all Greyhawk publication...