Khaas is the weird, wonderful world of David Hargrave. Very often, Khaas is spoken of synonymously with Arduin.  While Arduin started as a country, it grew to also contain the world, and the two were often referred to as one in the same.  The separation between the two was never easily made.  This was especially so in the early years of David Hargrave's life and the first Arduin Campaign.

With Arduin Grimoire II and III, a glimpse into the larger reality of the world opened many fan's eyes to the fact Arduin was but one nation on a world of much vaster regions than previously imagined.  Arduin suddenly moved from a fantastic (odd, weird, dangerous, fascinating) nation to a place in a world of potentially equal or even more mysterious lands.

Succeeding works built more and more on this idea, especially the later works published in the 1980's (AGs IV - VIII).  Cultural insights were provided, potables from around the world, new races and a look into gods, old and new.  All of these provided hints of a greater expanse, temptingly beckoning from the darkness without raising a true light to shine in the regions unseen.

 The forthcoming volume on the world makes good the promise of earlier works, showing the true breadth of Khaas as well as focusing in on its second largest and most populated continent of Khaora.   Where Khaas is the world, Khaora is the current center of civilization, a broad stellar reach of varying cultures and regions.

Arduin is the jewel of the land and the most well known (some say infamous) country.  Khaas encompasses them all, the mother to every nation, every inch of wilderness, desolate land or vast trek of ice.  It waits in the cold void, a glittering star, beckoning to the star lost and wander lonely alike; waiting to delight, to chill, murder or mother.

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