World of Khaas Gazetteer

Nabhan - Little is known about Nabhan, other than he was a simple soldier from Chrysolia for half his life, serving in the employ of one of the sea dukes. Lost at sea during a violent storm, he was gone from the world for more than a cycle (approximately 19 years). He returned to his native Chrysolia much changed, wiser and wielding two great swords of power known as the Peacock Twins of Destruction. He quickly got mired in several political plots ongoing in the capitol. A few years later he fled the country, branded an outlaw after killing the third cousin to the king and nine of his retainers.

Namorand - The Black Jungles of Namorand are feared by all but the Amazons who dwell in the gloomy interior. These women are feared beyond even the creatures of the jungle. Wild and uncivilized, these women are merciless to all who trespass, giving no quarter to anyone.

Naphalöé - Naphalöé is a hard country defined by a savage time in its history, which crafted this land of strict, hard women.

Nastryllia - large city in north east Talafar

New Kamarden - A small town on the Plains of Paranon noted for little beyond how its rats grow to prodigious size and its network of dizzying mind-bending sewers. Some say the sewers are the remnants of an old city, preceding the formation of the country after the Accords of Arduin.

Nexus - this reference is twofold. First, it refers to Arduin as an area of transdimensional and transtemporal instability that manifests as "gates", which lead to other places and times. Secondly, it also means one of those "gates" which lead to somewhere else or somewhen other. You can read more about the nexus at the what is the nexus section.

Nexus Gates - this is the actual terminus end of an unstable (stable) rip or tear in the fabric of the Multiverse that leads to another temporal or dimensional region. You can read more about the nexus at the what is the nexus section.

Nexus Jumpers - Organization in Arduin that investigates nexus gates.

Nexus Storms - this is a widespread, entropic nexus that usually manifests numerous portals simultaneously over a geographic region or encompasses a region in one nexus effect. The last one to appear happened in Archaela about 2,400 years ago. You can read more about the nexus at the what is the nexus section.

Nexus Wars - also called the Wars of When, this is a bloody, 10,000 year period in history where nations across the world clamored for dominion over the small Elven country of Arduin, home to the fantastic Nexus Gates. The main call to battle was the burning avarice surrounding the belief that whosoever controlled the Arduin Nexus controlled the vast thousands of worlds connected by the Nexus Gates.

Niabus - Few outside of Deodanths worship this deity. This god is supposedly the manifestation of the End of the Multiverse. This divinity was either brought back or followed the time traveling Deodanths who visited the end of all time and things. Its main aim is the entropic end of everything.

Nine Fangs Temple - The temple of the Azure Order of Chindenadon on the Mountain of Iliek-Kiran. It is renown for its great height, the sheets of ice that adorn its walls and the nine tusks of great size that surround it. Legend says their founder ripped the tusks or fangs from the mouth of a demon so immense, its bulk blanched the sun and rippled the clouds like a leaf on water.

Nine Tooth Sea - An area of the Orichalcum Ocean with murky waters that stretch deeply to the crust of the world. Nine titanic mountains tower out of the waters of this area, like fangs in the jaw of some malignant devil or malevolent god. While geographically startling and quiet enthralling, the area has attracted some truly despicle beings in its time and has garnered quite a terrible reputation.

Nohrqualla - Strongly wedded to ‘Law’ and ‘Good’, this is a southern counterpart to Brabnalda and quite possibly a reflection of the same deity. In T’in T’ai, she is the state religion, but outside of this area she is nowhere as numerically strong or otherwise as important as her ‘sister’ goddess. Nevertheless, she is a well-loved and respected deity.

Northern Polar Cap - The first continent of the world though few know it and fewer yet can claim to have trekked its wintry expanse. This continent is more truly a mass of frozen ice atop barren rock and no portion of the first continent is untouched by this icy grip. Glaciers form ice shelves along great amounts of the coastline and floating ice shelves form a portion of the continents width. Few creatures can survive this degree of constant chill , or the dry gusts of air moving off the continental interior. Cyclonic pressure storms, frequent blizzards and harsh terrain are but a few of the common terrors to these regions.

Northern Reaches - this is the vast untracked vistas of the land north of the Silver Sea and the nations of Saast and Azelkha; it includes the interior regions from the east coast and the Blue Barbarian tribes north of Ghorfar.

Northern Seas - These waters lay south of the Northern Polar Cap, east of Extaercara, and north of Laenkrwat where it meets the Frothing Cobalt Ocean. The Northern Seas is the first of two circumpolar oceans (the second is the Southern Ocean) though it is much smaller than the watery stretch of the Southern Ocean. Its closer proximity to other landmasses usually results in ice bridges forming in extremely cold times of the year. The ocean is persistently cold and has relatively narrow annual temperature ranges; winters characterized by continuous darkness, cold and stable weather conditions, and clear skies; summers characterized by continuous daylight, damp and foggy weather, and weak cyclones with rain or snow. The center (around the northern polar cap) is perennially covered with a 10-feet thick polar icepack, though ridges may exceed five times this size. This ice is surrounded by open sea in the summer but freezes and more than triples during winter, extending to nearby landmasses. More than half the ocean is continental shelf with the remainder basin cut by two submarine ridges.

Ntheisborie - Indigent wizard of poor reputation, low cunning but with an aggressive and undaunted willingness to survive. Credited with living through the death, disappearance or accidents of over 23 adventuring groups. Supposedly he smelled bad, tasted bad and plain just looked unappetizing to just about any kind of monster!

Nuvineel - A smoky, glass like substance that is well known for its hardness, resistance to chipping, cracking and caustic substances. The glassy stuff is made from the gooey slime extruded by a garattorgoak bonded into an alloy formed from trace metals and large amounts of carbon. It is approximately twice as tough as steel but is very inflexible, tending to break down rapidly if its underlying structure is damaged. Its value is about five times that of high quality steel. Any item created from this substance is considered non-ferrous for magnetism or conductivity, and is immune to corrosion or caustic substances.

Nyx - The Olympic Mysteries deity of the night; she stands for the darkness of creation and is supposed (in their world creation myth) to have brought order to chaos in order to form the world.