The Vandyrian Codex exists to give game masters, writers, and players a dense, brutal, myth-driven setting they can lift directly into their own tabletop campaigns without permission, payment, or subscription.
Inside are cultures, regions, wars, economies, religions, and power structures written to function at the table: places with motives, histories with consequences, and factions that collide whether the players intervene or not.
Nothing here is locked behind a paywall, nothing is “lore-bait” for later purchase.
This is a working world meant to be looted from, expanded, broken, and played in.
New Lore & Updates
New Lore & Entries from Book II & Book III
- Panjar
- The Hell-Desert of Yorozh
- Elder Ruselon
- The Empires of Gamandor
- The Doomed Continent of Drael
- Old Kartong – The Untamed City
- Tymere – The Gilded Mire
- The Kartonga – The Wastes of Old Kartong
- Vandyrian Lexicon
- Vulsa – The Kingdoms of Steel
- Library, Librarian & Librarium
- Roedon – Broken Crown of the West
- The History of Roedon
- Varduun – The Hyenalands
- The History of Bantos
- The Outland City of Ajeros
- Izhura – The Grassland Courts
- Yir – The Tower-Jungle Swamps
- The Vandyrian Codex – Book I: Primer
- Zhuru – The Great Contest
- The Cataclysm
- The Pre-Cataclysmic Age
- Fate of the Core Worlds
- Curse of “The Vandyrian Race”
- “The Homeworld”
- The Vandyrian Civilization of the Ran System
- The Cosmology of the Ran System
- “Vanguard”
- The Greater Vandyrian Empire
- On The Vandyrians
- “Before we begin…
- Known Ruins of Elder Jantara
- A Hierarchy of Merchant Scholars
- Lessons in Matters of Consequence
- Teachers of Philosophy & Civilization
- The History of Jantara
- The Bardasi
- The Rise of Bantos
- The Fall of Jantara
- The Burning of Old Jantara
- The Bantos Uprising
- The Last Days of Old Jantara
- The Bantos Rebellions
- The Northern Doglands
- Old Jantara
- The Later Jantaran Union
- The Tragedy of the Elder Jantaran Decline
- Elder Jantara
- The Jackals of Jantara
- Timeline of Thanator & Vandyrus
HIGH THANATOR
BOOK I: The Age of Dreams
[5750 PC – 4700 PC]
- Vol I: Post-Cosmological Primer
- Vol II: Greater Imperial Histories & Ancient Wars
- Vol III: The World of Thanator and Its Peoples
- Vol IV: The Realms of the Empire
- Vol V: The Body Politic of Ran
Followed by These
Planned Entries
BOOK II: The Age of Decline
[3700 PC – 0 PC]
“Titans clashed not only with steel but with continents as weapons; armies of sculpted hosts and machines drowned the jungles in campaigns whose purposes are lost. The Triumvirate of Valsa, Zalhara, and Yobura made war upon Ordon, Fahndur, and Xota, while Nambus and Manzadahn played both sides to their ruin. Those who conquered enslaved the fallen; those who enslaved grew fat and sotted, birthing weak offspring doomed to become chattel of distant empires. Thus civilization and its madness rolled on;vast, monotonous, inexorable.”
DREAD THANATOR
BOOK III: The Age of Dread
[0 AC – 1900 AC]
“It is known that before the unyielding feral terror, before the mists of horror yet to come, there was an Age of Ruin and Rage. From the wreckage of High Thanator’s crystal towers and jeweled decadence crawled forth the warlords of Dread Thanator—men and beasts clad in iron and smoke, lords of a world shattered, where the sword was the only law and blood the only coin.”
FERAL THANATOR
BOOK IV: The Feral Age
[1900 AC – 5420 AC]
“But they were not united. Warlord rose against warlord, bloodline against bloodline, feud against feud. The dream of recovery was smothered beneath vendettas older than memory, and the iron strength that might have rebuilt the world was squandered in endless slaughter. In those struggles the last relics of the elder world—the weapons that had once commanded the heavens and leveled continents—were drawn forth again. And when they were unleashed, Thanator was plunged into devastation anew, a firestorm that burned the last bridges to the age before. From that ruin came the long descent, and from that descent the dread gates opened to the Age of Terror.”
BOOK V: The Age of Terror
[5420 AC – 6150 AC]
“So it was that Thanator lingered in twilight: a world of ruins where the past would not die, and of jungles where tomorrow might never dawn. From the gloom of her seven cities and the blood-soaked thickets of her tribes, the moon waited for the tread of heroes and tyrants alike—for in the Age of Ruin, all thrones were carved in bone, and all crowns were stained with blood.”
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