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Rite Publishing Presents:
Gossamer Worlds:
Dragonhearth
Explorer (Author): Matt Banach
Seeker (Editor): Steven D. Russell
Searcher (Cover Artist): Marek Rakučák
Trailblazers (Interior Artists): David Revoy, Michael
Richards, Louis Icysage, Marek Rakučák, Emma Lazauski,
Malcom McClinton, Vincent Ptitvinc, Bruno Balixa, Lu
Chi-Chun, Trung Ta Ha, Benoît Dromby, Ilker Yüksel
Pioneer (Trade Dress): James “Devin Knight” Hazelett
Lost Boy (Layout and Publisher): Steven D. Russell
Special Thanks to Jason Durall for his help in developing this.
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Dragonhearth
the draconic soul's cycle of A few years ago, the golden dragon
metamorphosis and reincarnation; so Khemezatron – a Warden of the Grand
while an acid-spewing drake might be Stair and explorer of the multiverse –
chaotic and destructive in a waxing returned home to Dragonhearth after a
Umbra phase, in its next incarnation the long sojourn, bringing with her a
influence of the Umbra wanes as the drake psychotechnic virus from an alien world
becomes a grumpy basilisk, eventually where psychic communication had
transforming into a disciplined crystal converged with computer science at the
wyrm in some later waxing-Eidolon bleeding edge of nanotechnology. Hardly
phase. This constant churning between an innocent or unwitting carrier,
the two cosmic forces produces a great Khemezatron returned with specific aims
deal of magical friction, and is one of the to conquer her homeland and her fellow
reasons dragons are so mystically dragons with the insidious aid of the alien
powerful. This ever-moving but roughly virus. Nowadays, half-cyborg dragons
balanced juxtaposition of the Eidolon and infected with the psychotechnic virus are
Umbra has held for eons, and until quite constantly on the prowl, seeking out other
recently Dragonhearth was a healthy dragons to overpower and subject to
example of cosmic balance. infection and Khemezatron's mental
control. The battle for the souls of
Then came the machines. Dragonhearth has begun.
Dragonbonds
tall and nearly impossible to traverse on its sleep half of Dragonhearth would rip
foot, broken up by dark chasms but also apart at the seams.
protected valleys filled with scaly pines
and a wealth of draconic life. In addition The Crystal Cliffs lay far to the
to being an unmistakable landmark, Kur northeast of the Kur, looming high above
is also the largest, oldest, and most the icy coast of the Sea of Watatsumi's
powerful dracolich in all the realm. Tears. Thousands of alcoves large and
Slumbering in the ground (as the ground) small pock-mark the cliff's sheer vertical
since before the eldest dragons cracked face along its expanse, most leading into a
their shells, the ancient elemental dragon vast cave system which riddles the
has not stirred in ages... though it does crystalline bedrock and up into the
dream. Ghostly dream-projections permafrost of the frozen plateau above.
created by Kur's godlike psyche haunt the The golden dragon Khemezatron dwells
mountain range, pantomiming echoes of here, surrounded by her army of
ancient memories and silently watching technobonded dragons and cyborg
the goings-on. Much like an elephant minions. In addition to commanding the
staring blankly in the direction of a gnat, minds of its infected inhabitants, the
Kur doesn't react to much, which is a good psychotechnic virus has thoroughly
thing, since if it ever so much as shifted in transformed the environment as well,
Vigil