— Sy Dingéons& Dragons: oP UIRTHRIGHT booki |, atlas of cerilia ‘The Bloodlines. . To the Regents. History of Cerilia . Cerilia of Old. . ‘The Tribes... eee The Flight from the Shadow The Conflict... ++ ‘The Shadow's Arrival . ee ea, spesetting by Nan Electronic Prepress Coordination by Tim Coumbe TSR, toe TSR Led 201 Sheridan Speings Rood 120 Church End Lake Genevs ‘Chery Hinton wissia? Cambridge CBL3UB USA, ‘United Kingdom 3100%%X1901 “©1995 TSR, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Printed in the USA ‘Random House and its afliate companies have worldwide datribution rights inthe book trade for En i age procs of TSR In. ‘sted ce toy sod hobby ade by opal dain sed tothe bok nd any trae i the United Kingdom by TSR Li “Ths seria pci nd th cope to United States of Americ. Any reproduction or unauthorized use ihe material contained reins prohibited without the express writen conuent of TSR, Inebout seven years ed foe college ted doclam immediately to begin The Next Great Famtasy Epic. Move over, Tolkien—I'm Sern degree in English, and I'm not afraid to use it. Over the next year and a half of on-again, off-again work, I “created a 225,000-word monster that I called “ ‘Of course, I'd never even published a mag- tcl let alone a govel and afer several conty ila shocbox under my desk for years, my career as a naval officer, got a ‘ook up diferent prs recess of my brain, foreiictwad hth TSR, I showed a copy to Fin to prove that I could write a for of words =) every day for a living. And, having served the purpose ‘of helping me become employed with TSR, Kingslayer Tettmed to its shocbox under my desk and gathered some more dast “Then, about a year ago, Colin and I were assigned to develop the next new game world for TSR. Our first ‘maps were drawn on a dry-crase board, with cryptic ‘notes like "big forest,” “Russian guys,” and “Germaf a Oe teers” And whe we were filing hunks of eon, fon the map, 1 ito Calin, | “You know, st st soca a tne” Calin didn mind, so the Anairean Empire ‘reached print after living in a shoebox under my k for seven years, I guess the moral ofthis story is “either persistence pays or never throw anything away— oe deci. ‘Of cours, that old material underwent many changes {in being translated from an ambitious stab at a novel into living, breathing game world. Suffice it to say that I oe oe eee ew product ine! My thanks go out to Jeff Grab, who 12 wont fl omc Gf ox te ng Pou PE es, who never left me alone even when I wanted him to actelt 7 = go.away; Roger Moore and Anne Brown for their tireless. efforts to get everything just right; Tony Szczudlo for his sincere desire to tun our words into art; and most See ace a ere eo ES rs on & ‘ a tise ya fore obligations, we've had Cerilia on ter pvt of year Ita remeber the days fo Tony ad most all th sched to anothey Idea rading system), The playtesting was great fun, too, with Roger's psychotic Postings and his countless undead legions crashing [cross Alamie. ‘On the other hand, it’s also been a brain-wracking time, Rich and I wanted this world to be different sough og Stings ieee enough that le it ensily: We wanted epic fantany Indo ee Duin tke that day, until we nuk REAL aig Boa Ward) the too t-¥ou-Know- Milwaukee erowd (Ideas aid insight especially. Paul Uaddie “Voss and Dave. "Zenr\ the vanston/Chicago crow (im Furbee, Brad Matheson, aul Nei Kevin Puhle Cher nd Scott eat eine 4 oes list); and the Miscellaneous Crowd: Tim Beach Steams aca ae fame (now shut up and leave me alone!) Tony Die for his ae suggestions and the ones that we laughed at, and Mary Guzdziol for, well, everything, We've worked hard on this. Feel free to let us know. Bee east treet: this, what do I have to say? ec eee Sr Al alain place ele oI might even come back (0 —M Gove S Colin MeCombs Wisconsin