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EXPLORER’S HANDBOOK ™

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Introduction........................ 7

Statistics Blocks in This Book ... 8

Chapter 1: Travel ................11

Exploration .........................11

Prospecting .........................11

Transport ...........................11

Assault ...............................12

Travel or Teleport? ...............12

How to Travel.......................13

Travel and the

Dragonmarked Houses .....15

Transport Prices ................18

Encounters While Traveling ... 22

Chapter 2:

Tools of the Trade ............... 25

Elemental Vessels................. 25

Constructing an

Elemental Vessel ............ 25

Controlling a Bound

Elemental..................... 25

Suppressing a Bound

Elemental..................... 26

Freeing a Bound

Elemental..................... 27

The Elemental and

the Vessel ..................... 27

Vessels in the Game .............. 27

Attacking a Ship ............... 28

The Airship ..................... 29

The Elemental Land Cart ... 33

The Lightning Rail ........... 33

The Stormship ................. 38

The Undersea Ship ............ 40

The Wind Galleon............. 40

International Travel ............. 44

Border Guard Squads ........ 44

Traveling Papers ............... 45

Explorer Marks ................... 46

Organizations ..................... 47

The Wayﬁ nder

Foundation................... 47

Expeditions ..................... 48

Foundation Trustees .......... 49

Wayﬁ nder Rescue Team ...... 52

The Twelve’s Acquisitions

Directorate ................... 53

Prestige Classes ................... 57

Cataclysm Mage ................... 58

Thunder Guide ................... 64

Windwright Captain ............. 70

Chapter 3: Points of Origin ..77

Stormhome Docking Tower.... 77

(Map site #1)

Lightning Rail Station .......... 82

(Map site #2)

The Crimson Ship ............... 86

(Map site #3)

Glitterdust Nightclub............ 89

(Map site #4)

Chapter 4: Midpoints ...........93

Katal Hazath, Gateway to Khyber

(Map site #5) .................... 93

Mesk, Seren Village .............. 96

(Map site #6)

The Aal’drash Seals............. 100

(Map site #7)

Shae Mordai, The City of the Dead

(Map site #8) ................... 104

Chapter 5: Destinations ..... 109

Ashtakala (Map site #9) ........ 109

Argonnessen Observatory ..... 115

(Map site #10)

Khyber Dragonshard

Cavern (not on map)......... 120

Madwood Citadel ................ 123

(Map site #11)

Pra’xirek, Lost City of the Giants

(Map site #12) ................. 126

Quori Monolith ................. 132

(Map site #13)

Shalquar Monastery............. 135

(Map site #14)

Tharkgun Dhak .................. 140

(Map site #15)

Frostfell Shipwreck ............. 143

(Map site #16)

Haka’torvhak ..................... 145

(Map site #17)

Appendix:

Ancient Treasures ............. 149

Giant Antiquities................ 149

Dhakaani Antiquities........... 155

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Table of Contents above

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