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This worldbook was assembled from the journals, ledgers, and bar tabs of one Aeler Edgewalker, paid for by the High King’s Office of External Opportunities (budget line: “Unconventional Revenue Generation”). The generator tables were tested in the field—meaning I ran them at gunpoint in a Tulkani wagon circle while a Oath-Keeper counted my breaths. They work.

If you find yourself in a tavern and the Edgewalker buys you a drink, don’t ask where they are now. The road is long, the ledgers are never balanced, and the ninth measure is always waiting.

— Faleki of Ironhold, at a weigh-house in Mbaro, under a lamp that flickers nine times before it steadies