Pathfinder Lost Omens Highhelm (P2)

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Delve the mountain deep! When the first dwarves reached the surface of Golarion, they built enormous keeps as a monument to their legacy and to serve as their new home. The mightiest of these keeps was Highhelm, a Sky Citadel deep in the Five Kings Mountains. While other Sky Citadels have fallen since the Quest for Sky, Highhelm holds strong, serving as one of the major centers of dwarven culture.
Lost Omens Highhelm delves deep into the Emperor’s Peak to present Highhelm in all its glory. This book details everyday life in the city, dwarven culture, and the various clans that influence the Sky Citadel. It also provides a full gazetteer of the city’s layers and surroundings, each with adventuring locations and sites of intrigue suitable for a multitude of adventures. An included poster map presents Highhelm’s layers in high detail and serves as an aid for campaigns centered on the dwarven city. Characters looking for new options can visit Highhelm for new equipment, ancestry feats, animal companions, and more!
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Delve the Mountain Deep!

The Sky Citadels marked the height of dwarven architecture and engineering. Built at the end of the centuries-long Quest for Sky, these massive fortresses provided far more than just safety, encompassing entire cities and fostering dwarven ingenuity. They were also symbols of determination and hope for dwarves, a monument to the accomplishment of an entire people who persevered through immense difficulty and doubt—though they also created some of their own problems, as they drove orcs before them and unknowingly released Darklands horrors behind them. Though the fortunes of the dwarves have proven less reliable, these bastions yet stand, and several continue to thrive.

While Highhelm wasn’t the first Sky Citadel, it has proven itself arguably the most important and certainly the most influential. The undisputed center of dwarven culture today, Highhelm has a depth, complexity, and richness in its fabled halls that place it among Golarion’s finest cities. Dwarves of all kinds, be they holtaksen, ergasken, or grondasken, call the Sky Citadel their home, and the city even houses large populations of other ancestries. This mixing of ancestral cultures and traditions, combined with influence from Highhelm’s neighbors, makes the city unique among the active Sky Citadels. It’s simultaneously a city that’s undeniably dwarven in its nature, but also one that draws from non-dwarven traditions to create a culture unlike anywhere else.

This volume presents an in-depth look at this remarkable and unique metropolis. The first chapter offers a general overview of Highhelm with detailed sections on its history, culture, and people, including government, trade, customs, and notable figures. To truly understand dwarves, one must understand their clan system, here explained in exquisite detail. A gazetteer of the city and its surroundings comprises the second chapter, offering specifics on Highhelm’s three major sections. For each section, the gazetteer presents neighborhoods, locations, notable people, current events, and player options. The third chapter provides even more player options, including ancestry feats and legendary gear, as well as new monsters and the stalwart defender, an archetype representing the defensive techniques of the warriors of Highhelm. This book also details the deities of the entire dwarven pantheon for the first time.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Paizo Inc.
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 11, 2023
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 136 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1640785213
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1640785212
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 16 years and up
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.43 x 0.55 x 10.94 inches