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CUrSE OF THE CrIMSON THrONE

Player’s Guide

by James Jacobs and Mike McArtor

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The “Curse of the Crimson Throne Player’s Guide” introduces new players to the city of Korvosa, setting for the second Pathinder Chronicles ™ Adventure Path. This Player’s Guide is compliant with

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“Not only couldn’t I imagine living anywhere else—I simply wouldn’t. I’m a good man,

a faithful husband, a loving father, and a responsible citizen. What I do has a purpose—

and that purpose is to keep Korvosa safe. It might not be a glamorous job, but it’s as

important as anything else. So if you’re looking for trouble, might I suggest Magnimar or

Kaer Maga? You’ll save yourself some hard labor and me a lot of paperwork if you do.”

— Captain Tevigant Bereskan, Korvosan Guard, South Shore Garrison

KORVOSA

civilization on the wild frontier of Varisia. Yet

tragedy seems to haunt the city’s royal bloodline.

Few of her rulers rule for long, and none have lived to a

ripe old age, dying instead well before their time. Heirs to

the throne are few and far between—in its 300-year history,

no king of Korvosa has directly inherited the Crimson

Throne from his father. This is the source of much gossip

and tale-spinning among the city’s citizens, who speak in

hushed tones of what they have come to call the Curse of

the Crimson Throne.

The last section of this book introduces the background

trait concept. This Adventure Path begins with the

assumption that all new characters share one thing in

common: they’ve been wronged in some manner by a local

crimelord named Gaedren Lamm. Pick one of the traits that

matches your character, and you’ll not only have a built-

in reason to join forces with the other PCs in your group,

but you’ll also get a nice bonus that’ll help you along your

way in the ordeals to come! Most of these traits assume that

your character spent a signif icant portion of his childhood

in Korvosa, although a few of them allow for more widely-

traveled characters. For the most part, though, Curse of the

Crimson Throne works best with PCs who are natives to

Korvosa.

If this guide whets your appetite for more information about

Korvosa, be sure to check out the Guide to Korvosa , a 64-page

book that explores the city in detail. Beyond that, the Pathfinder

website ( paizo.com/pathfinder ) and each subsequent volume of

Pathfinder will reveal more information about this fantastic city

and the world around it, as well as new options for players to

further immerse themselves in the ongoing adventures. Rest

assured, this guide is merely the f irst step, and your adventures

in Korvosa are just beginning!

HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE

Aside from introducing the Curse of the Crimson Throne

Adventure Path, this guide is intended to aid players in the

creation of characters native to the city. The information

presented herein is common knowledge, especially to

characters who call Korvosa home. This guide is organized to

familiarize you first with this city. A map of Korvosa appears

on the inside front cover of this book, while a map of Varisia

appears on the inside back cover. Within the following pages,

you’ll find a gazetteer of Korvosa as well as notes on character

races, classes, and equipment as they apply to the city.

“Why do I live here? Why live in the most regimented, law-abiding, oppressive city this side

of Bloodsworn Vale? Answer’s simple, mate. With the Sable Company f lapping around in

the clouds, Hellknights stomping around on the streets, and the Korvosan Guard caught

between them, no one knows who’s got jurisdiction over what. You just gotta know when

to hide and know when to bribe. Now, you wanna buy this magic dagger or not?”

— Corb “Birdtongue” Meever, Cerulean Society Fence

WELCOME TO

K orvosa has long stood as the f irst bastion of

KORVOSA

themselves more with the day-to-day particulars of

living than with politics, history, or macroeconomics.

Still, Korvosa has a few particular nuances that make it and

its citizens unique. The following overview only begins to

touch on what it means to be a Korvosan.

At its height, just before the death of Aroden and the

departure of the separatists who founded Magnimar,

Korvosa just topped 23,000 inhabitants. It lost nearly 10,000

to the resulting chaos of the time, but in the last century it

regained half that many. As a result of its rapid contraction

and slow re-expansion, many of the aff luent sections of

Korvosa remain underpopulated. With the buildings it has

and the area it covers, Korvosa could comfortably f ill out to

a true metropolis.

The dichotomy of Korvosa’s underpopulated aff luent

wards with overcrowded Old Korvosa highlights the city’s

greatest failing: the vast gulf of separation between its

wealthy, powerful elite and its dreadfully impoverished

poor. This gulf between social classes colors the

development of the city and led to the creation of some of

the features unique to Korvosa.

Those who live in Korvosa respect and admire

ostentatious displays of wealth, power, or knowledge. They

consider conf idence and competence the greatest of assets,

and they deride or heckle those who display weakness,

indecisiveness, or inability. Korvosans are quick to judge

and slow to forgive.

In addition to power, Korvosans love predictability.

Korvosans like to regulate their lives, creating strict

regimens for themselves that they slavishly follow.

Upsetting a Korvosan’s routine can ruin his entire day

and likely makes him angry. To this end, Korvosa strictly

enforces its laws (which often have harsh punishments far

in excess of the law codes of other non-evil governments)

and rewards those who play by the rules. That said, Korvosa

also recognizes that not everyone plays by the same rules,

so it compensates by applying regulations to nonviolent

criminals in the form of vice taxes and off icial recognition

of the city’s single thieves’ guild.

By charter amendment, Korvosa does not allow

merchants, laborers, or tradesmen to form guilds. Most

workers within the city are self-employed or work for a

master to whom they were apprenticed in their youths.

L ike the people of any other city, Korvosans concern

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