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[CLASSES] The Mesopotamian Bard
A Mesopotamian Bard In ERIDU, most bards subsume the roles of lamentation priests (Sumerian gala, Akkadian kalum), temple singers and musicians, court minstrels, heralds and those who recite the great...
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[CLASSES] The Ranger
Sargonid Rangers Uruk has produced the greatest Rangers in Sumer and Akkad, relics of that city-state’s expansionist and imperialist past, when rangers accompanied Uruk trade- and war-caravans far into...
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[SETTING] The Second-Oldest Profession
Plundered? The world’s second-oldest profession may have been tomb robbery, a practice that threatened social order, for it allowed wealth to be recycled. Tomb robbery has obvious parallels in the...
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[CLASSES] Paladins
Enlil's Paladin Paladins are instruments of war and justice, incarnations of the City Militant. They are wholly dedicated to their city: which means to its temple, the palace and estates of the god....
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[CLASSES] Illusionists
Illusionists draw their magic from the manipulation of shreds of the divine melam, that awesome radiance which is the manifestation of a god’s power. The formulas for this control are written on their...
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[SETTING] On Marduk and Tiamat
Marduk vs. Tiamat; Or, Bel and the Dragon The priests of Bab-Ilani tell how in those far-off Antediluvian days Tiamat with Apsu were First. Tiamat brewed the great gods in her womb but disturbed by...
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[MAGIC ITEMS] Godeyes
Inscribed with pure signs; cunningly inscribed with the pure signs of Nisaba! Godeyes, or eyestones, once formed the eyes of the cult image of a god, now taken and incised with arcane signs of great...
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[SETTING] Money: ERIDU’s Silver System
Hullu: Rings of Pure Silver There is no coinage in ERIDU: it has not been invented yet (or again?). Many common exchanges are through barter, the swapping of goods for each other. Measures of grain...
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[MAGIC ITEMS] The Clay Sickle
Inanna's Crescent A crude, fired clay sickle, about two hands-span long, weathered but with a sharp edge and faintly incised all about with ancient, wedge-shaped sigils. Unutterably old, the Sickle,...
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[LOCATIONS] Some of the City-States, Settlements and Ruins of Sumer and Akkad
Ur: (pop. c. 15,000) here dwells Nanna-Sin in his shrine E-kishnugal; ruled by the undying ensi Shulgi, who seeks by recording all things to become a god. Bureaucracy pervades everything in the city...
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