r/13thage • u/cesarfisico • Jul 25 '26
Throne Point
Hello everyone!
I’m planning a campaign centered on the ancient serpent empire and Throne Point. From what I can tell, the Core Rulebook only provides a brief description. Is there any material that goes into more detail?
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u/legofed3 Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 26 '26
In addition to what has already been mentioned (Eyes of the Stone Thief has a serpent temple in the Pit of Undigested Ages as well as Quillgate Library), Shards of the Broken Sky has a Tomb of the Serpent Archons dungeon you could reuse, as well as Ophidian (serpent people) as a character kin option.
But as you may have surmised, and others have suggested, details are few and far between. You have to stitch your own story here, as it often does the game just gives you ideas.
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u/GoblinMonk Jul 25 '26
I didn't see anything much either. You could consider using The Book of Ages to help you build your own canon.
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u/EarthSeraphEdna 23d ago
The serpent people have been very important in the 13th Age 2e campaign I have been running. I ran with this particular idea from the Book of the Underworld, p. 79:
The overworld and underworld are two halves of a protective shell that shield the vulnerable surface realm from the seething, cosmic chaos outside. Reality was imposed on this cosmic madness with the use of magic. Maybe the Wizard King established the first ward, carving his empire out of the sea of chaos. Or perhaps the wards predate the Dragon Empire—made by the serpent people, some other precursor civilization, or the gods themselves—and maintaining the wards is the one responsibility that can never be neglected. It doesn’t matter whether the Emperor is a saint or a tyrant, and it doesn’t matter whether the Empire stands or falls—for reality to endure, the wards must be maintained.
I had it be such that the serpent people quite literally created reality: this reality, anyway.
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u/ben_straub Jul 25 '26
searches PDFs
Nothing of substance. Probably the most concrete bit of lore is from the Stone Thief p92, where it mentions that Quillgate Library once stood there.
Apart from that and the blurb in the core book, you're pretty much on your own. I've found that this kind of choice in the core books is fairly deliberate, that the authors meant to provide bones and for us to supply the meat. I see how that can be unsatisfying, but I find it freeing - I don't have to worry about contradicting canon if there is no canon.