{"product_id":"soulblight-the-first-cycle-1","title":"Soulblight - The First Cycle","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBefore the time of iron and steel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere was an age of stone and clay\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhere the nights were long\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd the flame a second sun\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the hands of mortal man.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSOULBLIGHT - THE FIRST CYCLE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a new expansion for the Soulblight-Setting, written and designed for Shadowdark RPG that hurls your players through time and history, back to the very beginning, when mortals but first learned to fashion bronze from tin and copper, and stone was more widely known a tool and resource.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInspired by the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age, SOULBLIGHT - THE FIRST CYCLE introduces you to the Nameless Valleys, set between snow-capped mountains to the north and carved by rushing rivers, a land filled with wandering and settling tribes, carrying ideas of fire against the wilderness, constructing first ideas of civilization.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut while mortals rise, giants stir in the cold mountains, ancient viperians dream in their amber tombs, and star-fallen beasts wander the heavens to descend upon the primal earth. 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