[RPG] known about the Green or the White

13th-agelore

I am new to 13th Age and I was interested in a bit of lore in the "default" setting.

In the description of The Elven Queen and The Three there is only a passing mention of the imprisonment of The Green (and also that The White was killed by The Witch King).

I would like to know more of when the The Three were Four, or Five. What would happen if the The Green was freed? I think that those could be good tracks to orient long epic adventures.

Can the Green be considered an Icon? What is its relationship to the Three? Would its reappearance be necessarily bad for the the Great Gold Wyrm?

So basically any material from the source of the 13th Age setting is welcome.

Best Answer

The default setting is left purposefully vague

It presents a starting point to which you can add. As such, the passing mentions and throw-away lines are meant to be an inspiration for the reader, and don't necessarily have any further background information. Here are a couple of quotes to support this:

On the names of Icons (page 195):

Ordinarily one of our published campaign settings would choose names for key NPCs that evoke wonder and a sense of a specific individual history. But we didn’t choose that route for 13th Age. Instead we chose somewhat generic names for the icons to leave room for you to customize icon identities in each of your campaigns.

On adding to the map (page 257):

If you decide to use our world instead of a world you’ve already got cooking, don’t treat our map as restrictive. The apparently empty sections of our map shouldn’t be empty in your world.

It is also worth pointing out that currently only the core rulebook has been published. It is entirely possible things will get more fleshed out in the future. This shouldn't discourage you from inventing your own stories, though. With that in mind...

If the Green returned

Another quote, from the green dragons description:

Green dragons have drifted far from their draconic roots. Without an iconic dragon to inspire them, they have become increasingly isolated from dragonkind. In fact, they frequently ally with neutral or evil creatures, but not with other sorts of dragons. Other dragons consider the greens lost. Green dragons consider the others to be yesterday’s news.

As an idle speculation, then, the return of the Green could result in a civil war among the green dragons, perhaps even causing other dragons to take sides, and potentially overturn the Three/Four.

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