Venârivè is the expansive region where for thousands of years peoples, religions, and nations have developed, traded, and clashed. It includes all the lands around the Venârian Sea and the regions which lie to the north and west, including the powerful empires of Ázeryàn and Dalkésh, the kingdoms of Tríerzòn and Shôrkýnè, and the lesser states of Hârn and Iváe.

The Player Guide is designed as a complement to Venârivè: Northwestern Lýthia.

The Venârive Player Guide can be downloaded from Kelestia.com.

Venârive: Northwestern Lýthia

This product is, in many ways, our core module. It provides key background and gaming material for Gamemasters and players to explore the wide region of northwestern Lýthia. Not only does it provide information on all the realms, kingdoms, empires and principalities of the region, but it provides guidance on their cultures and languages, social structures, law, military forces, economics and trade, the guilds, and on the daily life of people across the region.

This downloadable electronic product contains:

• a 250-page full colour module (with over 45 illustrations, more than 15 maps and over 30 arms and badges)
• a multi-layered interactive PDF map of Venârivè (with 45 different layers)
• a single-layered PDF map of Venârivè (with the ‘default’ settings for the main map)
• a 30-page Venârivè Index (also available as a free download)
• Venarive Tables (relevant data from the Venârivè module in a spreadsheet format)

Venârivè: Northwestern Lýthia is supported by two free downloads, which also provide a good preview of the content of the module:

• Venârivè Player Guide, a 20-page guide for players to the Venârivè region.
• Venârivè Index, a 30-page reference index, included in the main product, but also available as a stand-alone download.

The site not only features a brand new, cleaner and higher quality design, but provides us with a more robust platform to roll out new features for our customers.

We hope you will enjoy it as much as we have enjoyed putting it together.

We look forward to launching new products to accompany the updated website very soon.

Regards and thanks,

Jeremy Baker
Project Director

Jan Schulze Elshoff
Webmaster

The index covers the following publications:

* Kingdom of Chélemby
* Chélemby: City of the Sea Kings
* Evánekin
* Kolâdis

This product will continue to be updated as new Chélemby products are released.

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This Guide will assist players (and Gamemasters) new to the Chéler people gain an overview of the kingdom, its major city and the people who live there. It provides an introduction to the culture, history, politics and geography of the kingdom and its surroundings, making players more at home and able to enjoy this fascinating setting.

The guide is the perfect accompaniment to the Keléstia Productions series of publications covering Chélemby – including Kingdom of Chélemby, Chélemby: City of the Sea Kings, and the Chélemby Interactive Map.

The Chéler Player Guide can be downloaded from http://www.kelestia.com.

Hávnhus Interactive PDF map
Today we have also released another interactive, multi-layered PDF map for Chélemby City. This is a high-quality version of the Hávnhus (I34) map included in Chélemby: City of the Sea Kings. This multi-layered map will enable GMs to decide what information they wish to share with players, and enable them to print out those features they wish. The Hávnhus interactive map can be downloaded from http://www.kelestia.com.

Other free Chélemby downloads
We have a growing number of free downloads design to support GMs and players using the Chélemby setting. Downloads include a PDF version of the poetic map of Chélemby City, PDF versions of the interior layouts, and more. These can be be found on the Chélemby Downloads page.

Chéler Player Guide

Chélemby City is the largest and most detailed description of a city ever produced for HârnWorld. Over five years in the making, this publication covers a vast range of topics and provides Gamemasters and their players with not only a fully-described city but many plot hooks and adventure opportunities.

For more details, and to purchase the product, read here.

A preview of this product is available for download here.

Furthermore, extracts from the product can be downloaded here.

This colour PDF file can now be downloaded from www.kelestia.com.

This product is available both as an electronic, interactive PDF file, with multiple layers, and as a printed poster, which will be shipped to customers who order that version.

These two (separate) products can be purchased from the Keléstia Productions webstore:

- Hârn Regional Map (interactive PDF version)
- Hârn Regional Map (printed version)

A preview of these products is available from our website.

We hope and trust you will enjoy these products, which we consider are a fitting tribute to a lifetime’s work by Hârn’s creator, N. Robin Crossby.

Regards

Jeremy Baker
Project Director

The Kingdom of Lédenheim is the largest and wildest of the sub-kingdoms of the Pendragondom of Hârbáal, the great realm that dominates the northern Gulf of Shôrkýnè, and lies between that region and Ivínia. The Hârbáalers are a complex mixture of ancient Járind and more recent Ivínian settlers. The Pendragondom is relatively new, and there are ongoing debates about its future direction.

This module includes details on the geography, climate, history, current affairs, government, military forces, law, settlements, flora and fauna, economy, culture, religion, and folklore of Lédenheim.

Learn of the Lédensen Curse. Search for the legendary Hârl’s Spear. Wonder at the Witch of the Shârl.

On the edge of the wild, the Kingdom of Lédenheim awaits.

Hop on over to www.kelestia.com to check it out.

Robin had been suffering from liposarcoma or fat-cell-cancer in his bowel that was discovered in January 2006. He underwent surgery followed by chemotherapy, and was briefly in remission in 2007. Robin is survived by his wife Sharon, his three daughters, his three siblings, his father and many friends all over the world.

All of us will miss him dearly. We will miss his wit and humour, his brilliance, his particular perspective on the worlds, his (sometimes maddening) attention to detail, his song, his love of his creation and his dedication to his vision.

Robin began to create the world of Hârn over three decades ago, and brought it to the public in 1983. Over the years he worked with many people to bring his vision to fruition. His chief love was map making, and his maps of Hârn and other places are renowned. Robin was a perfectionist, and constantly strove to reach the unobtainable – the perfection of his vision. He was never satisfied with his own work, always striving to improve it, to come closer to his vision.

His goal was to make Kèthîra, the world of Hârn, as real a place as he could for his friends and fans all over the world. Many people shared and continue to share his love of Hârn and thus part of his vision.

Robin was the Creator of Hârn, and the founder of Keléstia Productions. He can’t and won’t be replaced, but his legacy will live on. Robin made it clear that it was his desire for Keléstia Productions to continue working towards perfecting our reflection of his vision. Those of us who have been working with him these last few years plan to honour that wish as best as we are able.

“Kua hinga te Totara” – “A great Totara has fallen”.

“The stars of the heaven are dimmed; darkness is over all.
Our treasured bird has flown; the giant tree of the forest
that sheltered the birds and the small has fallen to the earth.
The midpost of the house has snapped asunder;
the chill wind blows through the afflicted home.
Our friend is gone; borne away on the canoe of Fate.
He passes along the viewless path by which so many have gone before”.

Jeremy Baker
Project Director, Keléstia Productions
www.kelestia.com