Author: [[James Haech]] Full Title: Welcome to Wildemount: How to Start Your Critical Role Campaign URL: https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/746-welcome-to-wildemount-how-to-start-your-critical ### Highlights first synced by [[Readwise]] [[2020-12-04]] - vast plain known as the Wynandir. The Wynandir is itself split into east and west by the Ashkeeper Peaks, and two great civilizations arose on either side of the Ashkeepers. Western Wynandir is a land of vast fields, dark forests, and craggy hills, and is controlled by the starostas and lawmasters of the Dwendalian Empire. The empire, ruled by King Bertrand Dwendal, is currently embroiled in a war with the Kryn Dynasty, its geopolitical rival in Eastern Wynandir. Western Wynandir is itself composed of two sub-regions, the rural Marrow Valley and the more densely populated Zemni Fields. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1362873020/14767554)) - eastern region contains other pockets of civilization, such as the ruins of the floating city of Draconia and the hidden civilization of the Lotusden halflings ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1362873020/14767559)) - , the west coast of Wildemount is a tropical paradise untouched by wars of conquest. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1362873020/14767561)) - Even captains of fishing boats in the north only know of Eiselcross as a lifeless hunk of ice—but the secret arcane researchers of the Dwendalian Empire and the Kryn Dynasty know the truth. Terrible magical secrets lay buried within the ice, hidden there by the gods in an age long past. And now, the race is on to claim them. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1362873020/14767563)) - Blightshore. More properly known as the Miskath Strand, the easternmost reaches of Wildemount are filled with unsettling echoes of the Calamity. Beyond the farthest grasp of civilization, no one comes to Blightshore unless they are desperate to never, ever be found. It is as if the very seams of reality have torn away in this place, allowing untold horrors and physical anomalies to run rampant. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1362873020/14767565))