"Know, O prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and in the years of the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars - Nemedia, Ophir, Brythunia, Hyperborea, Zamora with its dark-haired women and towers of spider-haunted mystery, Zingara with its chivalry, Koth that bordered on the pastoral lands of Shem, Stygia with its shadow-guarded tombs, Hyrkania whose riders wore steel and silk and gold. But the proudest kingdom was Aquilonia, reigning supreme in the dreaming west." - The Nemedian Chronicles CHAPTER ONE: THE SLAVER'S CARAVAN Scraping in the muck and filth of hardship, for one reason or another you find yourself in the great city of Shadizar, the gleaming capital of Zamora. You could have come from anywhere, but now you are here, in the City of Wickedness where there is steeped every manner of debauchery and evil. The tide of your fortunes has turned for the worse, and the necessity of survival sometimes dictates strange company. Perhaps you are a traveling vagabond, an exile from a far away land, or even a native of Shadizar the Wicked yourself. Whatever your story, it begins here, where a street urchin is sent to fetch anyone spotted carrying a weapon to a local brothel where the promise of gold and adventure await. Dare you face danger for the promise of reward? Let me tell you about the days of high adventure! Enter an Age Undreamed Of!