# Solland
> [!info] Shared Tarin entity
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> [!lotvk]- Lineage of the Veiled Kin — Known & Revealed
> ## Category
>
> Nation / Surviving Post-Breaking Power / Raphius’s Homeland
>
> ## Known Facts
>
> - Solland existed before and after The Breaking.
> - Solland means Land of the Sun.
> - Solland was one of only a few nations to survive The Breaking.
> - Solland’s monarchy also survived The Breaking.
> - [[Serapha]] became central to Solland’s identity.
> - [[Serapha]] holds the domain of the sun.
> - No known Old God held the sun domain.
> - After The Breaking, Solland was angry, decimated, starving, and unstable.
> - Cannibalism, looting, and lawlessness spread.
> - Solland unified around a common enemy: the Fallen Old Gods.
> - The Fallen Old Gods were believed to have caused The Breaking.
> - [[The Great Purge]] sought to hunt down and imprison fallen gods of the old world.
> - [[The Great Purge]] was presented as justice and the beginning of a new age for Solland.
> - This was the beginning of Solland’s militaristic focus.
> - “War keeps the nation focused.”
> - Eventually [[The Great Purge]] was abandoned as Solland grew and unified.
> - War remained central to Solland’s focus.
> - [[The Onus Wilds]] later became a new front to protect, maintaining Solland’s unity and military purpose.
> - Children of Solland come of age and swear an oath to the Crown or the Light.
> - Those who break such oaths can suffer ailments, headaches, or similar symptoms.
> - People in Solland have been coughing.
> - The cough is now known to be caused by creatures from another plane attached to people’s backs.
> - [[Raphius Sunward|Raphius]] was exiled from Solland after killing his mentor, [[Aetheric Vhail]], who had been corrupted.
> - [[Raphius Sunward|Raphius]] should have been executed, but was exiled due to his family’s station.
> - Raphius’s father, [[Sir Dain Sunward]], is well known within Solland.
> - Raphius’s mother, Mirabell, was a cleric.
> - [[Talador Devell]] is attempting to form a coup against the king with [[The Lightkeepers]].
> - Solland is currently politically and spiritually unstable.
> - [[Raphius Sunward|Raphius]] is beginning to question Solland’s doctrine, truth, and use of faith.
>
> ## Known By
>
> - [[Raphius Sunward|Raphius]]
> - Full party, increasingly
> - Solland citizens
> - [[Sol Spire]]
> - [[House Devell]]
> - [[The Lightkeepers]]
> - [[Free Thinkers]]
> - GM clarification / in-world texts
>
> ## Important Connected Sites
>
> - [[Crownshold]]
> - [[Bastion]]
> - [[Sol Spire]]
> - Onus Wilds
> - [[Errowshire]]
> - [[Pyrion]]
> - [[Lavenshire]]
> - Blossom
> - [[Harringdon]]
> - [[Menagerie Gardens]]
> - [[Sanctum Vitari]]
> - [[Giants Watch]]
> - [[Western Solland]]
> - [[House Devell]] estate
> - [[House Halvorn]]
>
> ## Associated Factions
>
> - Solland monarchy
> - [[Sol Spire]]
> - [[The Lightkeepers]]
> - [[House Devell]]
> - [[House Halvorn]]
> - [[House Postar]]
> - [[Free Thinkers]]
> - Solland military
> - Hands or followers of [[Serapha]]
> - [[The Order]], through labs in Solland
>
> ## Associated Characters
>
> - [[Raphius Sunward]]
> - [[Sir Dain Sunward]]
> - [[Mirabell Sunward]]
> - [[Aetheric Vhail]]
> - [[Clair Vhail]]
> - [[Talador Devell|Lord Talador Devell]]
> - [[Walter]]
> - [[Bedley]]
> - [[Lady Devell]] / [[Lady Devell|Lucy]]
> - [[Vosandra|Yosandra]] / [[Vosandra]]
> - [[Christoph James]] of [[House Dreymere]]
> - [[Quentin Yost]] of [[House Yost]]
> - [[Emily Halvorn]]
> - The King
> - [[Orik]]
>
> ## Connected To
>
> - [[Serapha]]
> - Great Purge
> - Fallen Old Gods
> - [[Free Thinkers]]
> - [[Oaths to Crown or Light]]
> - Oathbreakers
> - Cough
> - Planar creatures
> - Onus Wilds
> - [[The Order]]
> - [[World of Tarin/06 - Items & Artifacts/Aetherite|Aetherite]] labs
> - Raphius’s exile
> - [[Vhail's Blade|Vhail’s Blade]]
> - Political coup
> - Blight in [[Crownshold|Crownhold]] / [[Menagerie Gardens]]
> - The [[Sol Spire]]
>
> ## Open Questions
>
> - What exactly is happening in Solland?
> - What has the king done?
> - Why are oaths breaking?
> - What are the planar creatures attached to people’s backs?
> - Who or what sent them?
> - Is the cough connected to [[Shadowfell]] influence?
> - What does the [[Sol Spire]] know?
> - Has Solland hidden the truth of [[The Great Purge]]?
> - Is Talador’s coup justified?
> - Are [[The Lightkeepers]] trustworthy?
> - Are the [[Free Thinkers]] right?
> - What does [[Serapha]] truly want?
> - Can [[Raphius Sunward|Raphius]] serve [[Serapha]] without serving Solland’s doctrine?
> - What happened to [[Clair Vhail]]?
> - What evidence did Clair hide?
> - Can [[Raphius Sunward|Raphius]] clear his name?
>
>
> ## Lightkeepers’ Reports, Session 51
>
> - Trusted Frontier’s Reach officers are being replaced by Postar loyalists.
> - Attacks from the Onus Wilds are changing or decreasing while Wilds creatures appear deep inside Solland.
> - [[Lightshold]] is closing its gates, upper Sol Spire levels are restricted and the Guiding Light has not been seen for two months.
> - Communications with external nations are drying up.
> - Cairnlace Hall has been searched for disloyalty.
> - Tescalian has vanished entirely.
> - The crisis is now military, political, arcane, planar and divine at once.
>
> ## GM Map Context
>
> The recent GM map annotations are collected at [[Solland - GM Map Annotations]].
>
>
> - The [[Sol Spire]] is marked at or near [[Lightshold]] / **Mt. Sol**.
> - The [[The Elilim Seal|Elilim Seal]] is marked around the **Sunken Lands / Twilight Runes** area.
> - [[Bastion]] is anchored by the large black star marker.
> - An unidentified **Lab** is marked north-east of [[Pyrion]], in the direction of the **Horrow / White Forest / Derry** area.
> - The Lab marker is a geographic lead, **not** proof that it is [[Errowshire Lab]] or any other named facility.
> [!troi]- The Rose of Igoda — Known & Revealed
> A distant western nation known to the Rose campaign through Elarisian intelligence and [[World of Tarin/01 - People/01 - Player Characters/The Rose of Igoda/Votoran|Votoran]]’s Session 9 conversation with Ahkai.
>
> ## Known Facts
> - Elarisian records report signs of the **plague of Dharan** in Solland and potentially another Rose of Igoda.
> - In Session 9, Votoran tells Ahkai that she is originally from Solland.
> - Votoran no longer considers it home and says she left because she wanted freedom.
> - Ahkai knows only broad information about the distant western lands and immediately recognises that Solland is a very long way from Torrax.
>
> > [!info] Campaign boundary
> > This page intentionally records only what has been established in *The Rose of Igoda*. It does not import unrevealed *Lineage of the Veiled Kin* knowledge about Solland.
>
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