Funnily enough, I was just playing Wrath of the Righteous like an hour ago. The video game not the AP, but still. The Worldwound/Sarkoris Scar is one of my favorite regions in Pathfinder. I actually like the Scar because of the nice spin Paizo did on the "tear in reality closes" concept. Where the demons are still in Sarkoris, they weren't sucked back into the Abyss when the Worldwound closed. That's one of my favorite bits about it, because it doesn't delegitamize anything anyone might've done playing through the WotR AP, but it also ensures that there's still stuff to do in that region, and I really have to give Paizo props for that.
Absolutely. I really hope we get a complicated world-building adventure in the style of Kingmaker but set in the Worldwound in PF2E some day. This is a nation that now has a ton of rebuilding to do. Former crusaders and Sarkorian reclaimers will be constructing a whole new culture and civilization for themselves, and the foes in the region are truly terrific.
Wrath of the righteous(CRPG) was the one that introduced me to Pathfinder. From that point I wanted to learn more about the lore, the history, gods, etc. Which ended up to me finding this channel a few months back and subscribed ever since.
Maybe I'm just biased cause of Wrath of the Righteous as game, but I think the Worldwound is my favorite setting for a pathfinder AP. It's a tangible threat and it's influence is so interesting to me. I'm glad you made this video and provided lore to it I didn't know about! I've rewatched this several times now.
I was looking forward to this deep dive! In the Pathfinder campaign I made for my friends, they had to close the Worldwound ahead of a massive invasion by Orcus. To do this, they had to resurrect the god Aroden by collecting the fragments of his soul, similar to Isis reassembling the pieces of Osiris in Egyptian myth. Since Aroden's death created the Wound, only his rebirth could repair it. All future campaigns I run deal with the aftermath of this victory.
Awesome. That's the way it should be. I've been playing through most of the PF APs now for years and its always set in our own 'instance' I guess of Golarion. At this point the canon of our world is pretty substantially diverged from Pathfinder canon. We have different leaders in different nations based on choices previous player characters have made and so on.
Hmmm...which one of your players is now ruling Cheliax, and which one Nex and Geb, or is it both? Is it now the River Kingdom (singular)? Ohhh, oh...who was brave enough to touch the Starstone? *edit- btw I didn't mean that with any meanness, I know my account name can leave the wrong impression (named myself ironically).
@@pariswashington5543 - Thrune still rules Cheliax but one of our players is the King of Ravounel. One is the high general of Taldor. One is the new king of the Glimmerhold. And many of the major castles of Lastwall survived the purge of the Whispering Tyrant during Tyrant's Grasp by being shifted into a demi-plane, which is now the new Demiplane of Lastwall. Oh and another player is the Hurricane Queen of the Shackles. Just to name a few deviations...
WotR will always have a special place in my heart as the CRPG that finally made me dive into the wonderful world of Pathfinder. That added some extra meaning to this video, and I enjoyed learning the lore that leads up to and then follows the events of that game. Excellent work as always! I don't want to post spoilers for the game because it's one of the best of it's genre, but after watching this video I'm feeling inclined to start another playthrough where I'm less forgiving towards the end. I'm almost always predisposed towards diplomacy, but the lore I didn't know until today makes me wonder if some entities aren't best removed from interaction with the multiverse... Time to fire up my unfinished Angel Crusader playthrough and go full cleansing flame!
Thanks so much for al the support! Hopefully, if you do another playthrough, after watching this you'll have a little extra back story on some of the events and characters. Full cleansing flame sounds like the way to go!
I am a DND player, so all of this is either new to me or somewhat similar to Faerun, nevetheless I do know pathfinder mainly from Wrath of the RIghteous (the PC game) and this explains so much about why the people behaved the way they did in the game. I did not realize that Sarkorians were much more savage than their neighbours I thought they were just another imerialistic nation like their neighbours, that they just prayed to more gods and somewhat distrusted arcane magic, I did not realize that their whole nation was much druidic and akin to Barbarian culture. The way you describe it reminds mere more of the Icewind Dale barbarian clans...
Hey welcome to Pathfinder, and I hope you had fun with Wrath. Yeah, the Sarkorians are very much Conan inspired and are pretty integral to the Pathfinder lore in general even though they aren't a politically important force in the current context. They've certainly lost a lot over the years.
Like a few others, WotR was my first Pathfinder campaign. It's so great to see this history play out in your videos. Thank you so much for these. My friend and I have decided to play through the entire catalogue of Pathfinder 1e APs, alternating GMs, so these videos have been a huge help.
@@TheMythKeeper I'm currently running Kingmaker, but we've decided that once we finishe we'll start at Rise of the Rune Lords and play them all in order.
You never fail to disappoint bud. Its been an amazing time watching your videos and I do hope you get the recognition you deserve. Have a phenomenal day everyone! Thanks for the vid.
I just want to point out, this month is the 10th anniversary of the fall of Kenabres (it was last week, if we go by publication dates). Both in-lore and IRL, of course.
That is incredible timing! Thank you so much for pointing this out. I can only imagine that 10 years later, Kenabres is in a much better state these days.
I must admit after working on this video I've definitely been wanting to do the same. In fact I'd love an official AP from Paizo in the vein of Kingmaker but set in this part of the world.
I'm about to start GMing a campaign or reclaimers settling back into Sarkoris, post-wound... My group usually uses PF2e, but we're opting for the World of Darkness system, to give it a more gritty feel.
That's so cool. I've not heard about folks use WoD for Pathfinder, but setting wise I actually think those mechanics could really work for you. Let me know how it goes.
The Worldwound is such a fantastic idea, in concept and implementation. As many others here have said, the Pathfinder computer games were my introduction to the Pathfinder universe. I started with kingmaker, and I am currently playing through Wrath of the righteous. Rather the righteous is easily my favorite game of all time, let alone my favorite crpg. I really wish I could have an experienced playing the traditional pathfinder, but I don't think that's in the cards for me.
Its totally in the cards. Find games online, check out your local game shop, etc... Its always surprising how many people are out there in every corner looking to roll some dice with you.
I really enjoyed pathfinder wrath of the righteous video game, with its numerous options for your character to go it gives quite adventurous and fun time though some puzzles were bane of my existence in that game I replay it quite often and its always great to hear about the lore behind it and what happened after the crusade.
@@TheMythKeeper well yeah video games are very popular especially the rpg fantasy genre, rpg dominates video game market, and owlcat had great success with kingmaker game considering it was crowdfunded they made amazing game, and wrath of the righteous had a great marketing before the release it got even more people into pathfinder I'm guessing their 3rd game will be set in Lastwall and be about Whispering Tyrant.
I can not believe how much detail this one holds. I also learned something quite unexpected. Grouping of Unicorns is apparently called a blessing. A Blessing of Unicorns. Pretty cool😎
This video was perfect for me after finishing WotR! I was wondering where you got your maps from though? These are far more detailed than anything i could find from a google search and i would love to be able to use the maps for future references. Thanks again for all the work you put into this!
Its the World Guide Poster Map (2019) plus my own overlays on top. The old Sarkoris map in this one comes from the Lost Civilizations guidebook for 1E if I recall correctly.
this is so perfect! my friend and i are about to run a campaign in numeria that takes place after a previous party closed the worldwound, and this video came at the perfect time considering i just subbed
The Worldwound was literally the first thing I seen about Pathfinder many, many moons ago and I have always loved that location and wanted to play the TTRPG version so badly. The CRPG version of it is amazing but I'm planning to run this adventure after my players finish Mummy's Mask. Love your videos! Also, since Golarion was designed to make our own stories in it, I would love to see deep dive videos that you and your player's/friends have affected. 😁
I've made a few references to my own games in some of my videos. I mention my character from War for the Crown in my Taldor video, my character from Giantslayer in my Nirmathas/Molthune video and I have some details around one of the heroes a friend of mine played in Skull and Shackles in an upcoming video as well. At some point, when I get through all the "base lore" I may do some dramatized re-tellings of our own adventures. I think that would be a lot of fun.
Honestly, this video makes me look at the CRPG and want to demand post-game DLC focused around the other parts we never got to go to. Even if the quests are as simple as "retake that town and burn all the corrupted trees"
That's just where I put the border. Something to consider is that the borders between the Mammoth Realms and Sarkoris were contested long before the Worldwound opened up. You can kind of draw the boundaries where you like here, but ultimately the Shudderwood belongs to the werewolves.
wrath of the righteous was bittersweet for me. work schedules broke the game after a few sessions but the party focused on a close knit starting group, and (kinda picking up what the dm was laying down when we were asked to describe our family in kenebres) so i told my fellow pcs that my normally dry and formal elf wizard had been acting peculiar the last few weeks and that on the way to the festival he was visibly nervous. The other pcs affectionately prodded at him till he shyly brought out the ring he had purchased, and admitted he was going to ask the young cleric hed been visiting in the city (that the other pcs unanimously decided they knew about for months) for her hand in mawwage. The dm was ....rutheless. As the demons fell upon them, my elf's beloved pushed him behind her to protect him, then the world cracked open and he fell.
He went mad in the tunnels . in pf1 you can spec an elf diviner to be pretty scary with a bow at early game, so the party looked on in increasing discomfort as I aggressively sniped my way through the first encounters, savagely trying to make it back to the surface "to save her in time." Because, of course...they knew. It was epic but right as we were about to get to the surface, people got jobs far away. womp womp. regret. alas.
This was very entertaining. It unfortunately didn’t alter my opinion of the sarkorians. It even made me want to replay Owlcat’s game and pick either the Demon or Lich mythic path.
Awww... no love for the Sarkorians, huh? I actually think playing a Sarkorian Godcaller in WotR would be awesome, but sadly there's no Summoner class in the crpg. Guess that's one to hold onto for the tabletop game.
Yeah I’ve been trying to find some way to like them due to the Last Sarkorian DLC, as that character was both amusing and likeable. But that whole thing with Threshold is quite a hurdle to overcome. _Magic is dangerous! Anyway, let’s go worships demon later today_
For anyone looking on more info about the clans mentioned at 5:30 - I couldn't find much but tracked down what was mentioned here to the Lost Kingdoms campaign setting book, page 52.
Yep! That remains the best, most comprehensive source book for information on Old Sarkoris. Additional clan info is unfortunately pretty randomly scattered across other various sourcebooks and APs, including Wrath of the Righteous, Quest for the Frozen Flame and some PFS modules.
In the process of running WotR for the second time. My first group failed spectacularly just after reaching Drezen. My current group just reached Drezen and looks to be doing much better. I'm sort of hoping that they fail to contain/close the Worldwound so that I can spill events over into my other group's long-running Kingmaker campaign and cross the two for some high stakes, high level shenanigans. The Kingmaker group has reached the time where their events are contemporary with the Fifth Crusade, so my inner evil GM is going nuts.
hey, i got the perfect book for this video: Pathfinder Tales: The Worldwound Gambit(In the foreboding north, the demonic hordes of the magic-twisted hellscape known as the Worldwound encroach upon the southern kingdoms of Golarion. Their latest escalation embroils a preternaturally handsome and coolly charismatic swindler named Gad, who decides to assemble a team of thieves, cutthroats, and con-men to take the fight into the demon lands and strike directly at the fiendish leader responsible for the latest raids-the demon Yath, the Shimmering Putrescence. Can Gad hold his team together long enough to pull off the ultimate con, or will trouble from within his own organization lead to an untimely end for them all?)
after thinking on it some more i think my favorite part of the Worldwound was finding the hidden pieces of the Old times in it before i turned it into a realm of the Undead. they also really did the characters well in the Pc game i perticualy liked Wenduag and Ember. is Ember also from the original adventure path or is she a homebrew?
Hell yeah! But its still a ways off because I've started my way from the north and south towards the central nations. Same with Absalom, Andoran, Rahadoum and Thuvia.
Shifters are protectors of druidic circles and avengers of nature, so yes there were many Shifters in Sarkoris especially protecting the Druids of the Circle of Hierophants. The reason I didn't mention them is that they are not unique to Sarkoris, although since the oldest Druids in Golarion were in Sarkoris we can assume the Shifters originated there too.
