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Disclaimer: This page is not an official TSR or Trigee page. It is derived from material written by Gary Gygax for those companies and the use of such trademarks as D&D, AD&D, The World of Greyhawk, Greyhawk Adventures, Gord the Rogue et al. do not constitute challenges to the trademarks which may be owned by either of the above companies.

I have now completed my initial proofreading, formatting, and cross-ref linking, the original format having been uploaded from my ancient Mac SE/30 in June of '98. 2/2/99

I began working on this document while reading the Greyhawk Adventures/Gord the Rogue series of novels back in the mid to late eighties while in high school. At that time there was very little information availible on the City of Greyhawk - that boxed set had not yet come out and neither had the second edition of AD&D. I noticed that there was a good deal of campaign relevant information availible in the novels and began taking notes. I later noticed that EGG's Greyhawk differed quite a bit from the Greyhawk material that was published after he and TSR parted ways. I found his Greyhawk to be richer and more vibrant, which only made sense as Oerth was his campaign world. Carl Sargent's suppliments captured much of the detail and spirit that I found in Gygax's Greyhawk, and the Brown/Moore/Johnson/Reynolds version seems an interesting attempt to reconcile the old with the new, but these notes had already lent much depth to my own campaign. Also included here are references to pre-1986 Greyhawk material when specifically indicated, including pointers to Dragon articles and Greyhawk information which appeared in non-Greyhawk rule books, such as the 1st edition DMG. I had refrained from making them freely availible until recently, when TSR's copyright policy reduced in strictness and when I was able to get the ok from Mr. Gygax and Trigee to make public my notes on their lands and characters. Again, this is in no way an official document for TSR or Trigee. Expect major plot spoilers for those novels to be found within these notes.

Contents:

• Oerth
  • The Greyhawk lands
    • Greyhawk City
      • New Town
      • Old City
      • Streets
      • Buildings
      • Gates
      • Laws and Enforcement
      • NPC's of Greyhawk
    • Greyhawk Castle
    • Dyvers
    • Gnarlvergia
    • Nyr Dyv
    • Cairn Hills
    • Abbor-Alz
    • The Wild Coast
    • The Pomarj
  • The Eastern Marklands (Nyrond, Urnst, Pale, Tenh, Almor)
    • Nyrond, Kingdom of
    • Pale, Theocracy of the
    • Tenh, Duchy of
    • Urnst, County of
    • Urnst, Duchy of
    • Flinty Hills
    • Phostwood & Nutherwood
  • The Bandit Kingdoms
    • Fellands
    • Rookroost
    • Stoink
    • Wormhall
    • Warfields
    • NPC's of the Bandit Kingdoms
  • The Great Kingdom (including the Bone March, Ratik and the Adri Forest)
    • Adri Forest
    • The Great Kingdom of Aerdy
    • The Bone March
    • Ratik
  • The Iron League
  • The Scarlet Brotherhood
  • Rhizia (Cruski, Fruztii, Schnai, and Stonefist)
    • The Hold of Stonefist (Stonehold)
  • The Lands of Iuz (Iuz, The Horned Society)
    • Iuz
    • The Horned Society
    • The Vesve Forest
  • The Western Marklands (Velluna, Furyondy, The Shield Lands, Bissel, Highfolk)
    • Furyondy
    • Veluna
    • Verbobonc
    • Shield Lands
    • Valley of the Mage
  • The Southern Freelands (Keoland, Gran March, Geoff, Sterich, Yeomanry, Celene, Ulek, Sea Princes)
    • Celene
    • Hold of the Sea Princes
    • Ulek, Principality of
  • The NorthWest Reaches (Wolf and Tiger Nomads, Perrenland, Blackmoor, the Barrens)
    • Rovers of the Barrens
    • Blackmoor
    • The Obsidian Citadel
    • Wegwiur, (Wolf Nomads)
  • The Bakluni Nations
    • The Dry Steppes
    • Karnoosh
    • Ket
    • Payanims
    • Pen Wilds
    • Ull
    • Zeif
  • The Sea of Dust
  • Oerth beyond the Flanaess
  • NPC's of the Flanaess and beyond
    • VIP's and wanderers
    • Peoples, Races, etc.
    • Monsters
• Inner Planes
  • Shadow
  • Sphere of Probablility
  • Prison of Tharizdun
  • Residents of the Inner Planes
• The Manse of the Catlord
• Outer Planes
  • The Astral Plane, (The Celestial Sphere)
  • Upper Planes
    • Seven Heavens (Empyreal Sphere)
  • Lower Planes
    • Pandemonium
    • Abyss
    • Tartarus
    • Hades
    • Gehenna
    • Acheron
• Politics and Plot
• Magic Items
• Astronomy
• A Translation Guide from New Infinities/Trigee names to TSR/original names.
• Miscellany
• Currency Exchange Rates

Bibliography:

• 1. Gygax, E. Gary Saga of Old City Random House Inc. dist. TSR Inc., Lake Geneva WI, 1985.
• 2. Gygax, E. Gary City of Hawks, Berkley Publishing Group, NY, 1987.
• 3. Gygax, E. Gary Dragon # 100 "At Moonset the Blackcat Comes" 1985.
• 4. Gygax, E. Gary Night Arrant, Berkley Publishing Group, NY, 1987.
• 5. Gygax, E. Gary Artifact of Evil Random House Inc. dist. TSR Inc., Lake Geneva WI, 1986.
• 6. Gygax, E. Gary Sea of Death, Berkley Publishing Group, NY, 1987.
• 7. Gygax, E. Gary Come Endless Darkness, Berkley Publishing Group, NY, 1988.
• 8. Gygax, E. Gary Dance of Demons, Berkley Publishing Group, NY, 1988

Links

• Tom Harrison chairs The Council of Greyhawk which includes the archives of the Oerth Journal, a net-zine which has recently featured some of Rob "Robilar" Kuntz's recollections of the Greyhawk campaign including Erac's cousin and a certain demon from S4, and Robilar and Mordenkainen's adventure in Dave Arneson's City of the Gods from his Blackmoor campaign.
• Roger E. Moore, excellent former Dragon Magazine editor and a current TSR game designer, has compiled a listing and brief descriptions of the various references to the Greyhawk campaign published in TSR and non-TSR sources, from Men and Magic in 1974, to the fragments of Ivid the Undying which appeared in Dragon Magazine in 1994 in this Greyhawk Index.
• Carl Sargent's Ivid the Undying is a thorough look at the Great Kingdom, in the From the Ashes time.
• Randy Richards coordinates the World of Greyhawk Fan Club on AOL.

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Consider the original material found herein and the organization and phrasiology applied to the old material to be Copyright 1998 by Chris Siren and may be reused as far as I'm concerned, so long as I'm credited with researching it. Of course, you'll have to comply with TSR & Trigee's guidelines as well, but if it's just for personal use you're in the clear.