Although the details of Blackboots' life are fairly well-attested, it remains unclear when he first came into possession of his famous black boots.
Tag: Encyclopedia Realmgardica
Encyclopedia Realmgardica: Greybeard
While Greybeard was perhaps a less audacious pirate than most of Realmgard's other famous pirates, he nevertheless looms large in the piratical history of Realmgard for the major role he played in the codification of the Lex Antiqua Piratica and the establishment of the Brotherhood of the Coasts.
Encyclopedia Realmgardica: King Caelin
King Caelin now looms large in Realmgardian literary as the paragon of chivalrous virtue.
Encyclopedia Realmgardica: Emperor Theobald
Founder of the largest Empire in Realmgard since the fall of the ancient Elven Empire.
Encyclopedia Realmgardica: Empress Anath
What followed was one of Realmgard’s most famous love affairs. While poets would focus on the sincerity and depth of the two lovers’ bond, historians would note how most immensely consequential this union would be to shaping the history of both Realmgard and the Wandering Coast.
Encyclopedia Realmgardica: Saint Artemio
What exactly spurred Artemio’s change of heart is unknown, and different sources give different accounts: a vision of the goddess Creusa, the castigation of his elderly mother, a debate with a priest, or even hitting his head on a low doorframe.
Encyclopedia Realmgardica: The Sublunar Realm
The Sublunar Realm is the chaotic metaphysical plane of raw currents of magical and element forces said to be bounded by the more concrete and permanent spheres of Terrace and the Moon.
Encyclopedia Realmgardica: Sauvaherra and Tulva
Two of the central figures in the best-known cycle of Aurorean folklore, Sauvaherra and Tulva are depicted as a pair of lovers who must overcome great adversity and calamity before finally getting their happy ending.
Encyclopedia Realmgardica: Lassflyja
Lassflyja’s name is Hrimfaxi for something like “She Who Slips Locks”, referring to the fact that she is constantly portrayed as evading capture or imprisonment by her pursuers.
Encyclopedia Realmgardica: Raudfjall
Aloof and hot-tempered, earthquakes and volcanoes are attributed to Raudfjall one way of another: either the echoing of his hammer sounding on his anvil in his subterranean forge deep in the heart of the earth, or else the outpouring of his fiery temper and indignation.
