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Welcome to the Hökaland Wiki. Please see the introduction for more information on the world. It's currently just populated by Leord (Gunnar Petzäll), the crazy sod who created the setting, but may or may not have additional authors in the future.

This wiki covers everything about Hökaland; the world itself, history, geology, religions and important characters. It also covers the Hökaland "meta game" (that is still not permanently mothballed) as well as Hökaland the online web strategy game. Currently the wiki has 507 pages of which includes 173 articles. The Featured category lists articles that are closer to being "finished" and slightly easier to read as many other articles can be little more than lists of notes.

A large focus on this wiki is unsurprisingly on Dungeons & Dragons as wells as Pathfinder rules, since the setting was originally conceived as a campaign setting and then just took off on its own. This includes attempts at making DnD/PF more adapted to the slightly darker and low-magic world of Hökaland using house rules.

Please note that this wiki is NOT in the public domain, and neither is any content created; see copyrights. To contact the author, see the about page. Contributions are greatfully accepted (well, if it fits) and credit is gladly attributed, but rights are reserved.

Below are links for each section relating to the setting.

NOTE: If you want to help editing, an account needs to be made for you as the wiki is locked down to avoid spammers.

Featured Articles

Like the more famous Wikipedia, I am striving to present articles at a high quality; many are just collections of notes. This section will list articles that I feel are good enough to be "officially done", with continous development. Mind you that this is not an automatic list, so a full list of articles (currently just a few) can be found in the Featured category.

• Gentry - Fairly detailed article explaining the type of feudal system that is dominant in the "main section" of the world.
• Religion - Article detailing religions, religiosity and related terms in the world.

Division of information

The wiki is divided in to several sections, including different types of information. General information about the world of Hökaland will be separated from any type of rules relating to any game I place there, such as the roleplaying (currently using DnD 3.5 and Pathfinder), the possible future game of houses (also referred to as the "meta-game") and my dream of finishing the web-based game.

The World

This section lists information on the world of Hökaland:

Note about wiki information

When reading articles in the wiki, please keep in mind that it is unlikely that any characters in the world (or one you play) will know these things. The wiki is written very objectively: This is how the world IS, not how people conceive it. However, it often indicates what an average citizen of the world would know.

Relevant: Knowledge skill

Articles

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House Rules* & Roleplaying nav.. (e)
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To just get information about the setting, use these articles.

Campaigns

These are campaigns that are active/inactive in Hökaland.

IP-Only

Adventure style campaign from 2015 with: Masen, Engh, Lars-Åke, Pettri, Julle och Staffan.

Status: Ongoing

Hökaland England

Intrigue/adventure style campaign from 2015 with: Joe, Phil, Gordy, Dan, Dushyant.

Status: Cancelled.

Uppsala BORK etc

Campaign that never quite took off. May do so in the distant future?

Status: Cancelled

Coin & Blood

Mercenary style campaign from 2013 with: Phil, Dushyant, Joe, Gordy, Dan.

Status: Cancelled

Web Game

Currently down

• Game prototype

The game as it is sits on the UWE servers and was the Digital Media Project of my Web Design degree.

Game of Houses

• Introduction to Hökaland
• Regent Attributes
• Add New House
• Hökaland House List
• Features and Patch Notes

News

These are the latest news items. The rest are archived on the News page.

2024

First quarter new campaigns and a guest

Partly because of my energy and partly because "new is fun", I have encouraged the group to alternate other campaigns than CoS 1 for the tuesday slot. Both Jenny and Staffan has shown interest and Jenny has done a session 1 in a campaign where all the players play as Tabaxi, with lots of cat humour. Staffan is preparing a campaign in Faerûn around the very north of the world and possibly including dragons. His first s0/s.5/s1 session will be on the 16th.

On the 23rd my friend Greg, whom I played a lot with in Bridgwater, is going to be a guest at the table and the current plan is for him to play Ezmeralda in the battle for reconsecrating Yester Hill!

Leord (talk) 12:38, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Happy New 2024!

The rest of the autumn went pretty well and started speeding up the CoS 2 as well. The new players in CoS 1 have acclimatised well by now. Ann has said she needs to focus on another thing for a bit but isn't closing the door for the roleplaying. My energy levels are depleting a bit for reasons but work is going better. May be related. :P This week we're back on (hopefully) regular sessions.

So, cheers and hope for a great year! :)

Leord (talk) 15:07, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

2023

New roster and my energy

So we had our first session with Elly and Jenny this past Tuesday on CoS 1 and they seem like great fits to the table. They play a clueless barbarian and essentially insane scientist who arrived in Barovia from the West.

Lifen has decided he would like to pursue a different table that closer align to his preferred play style, and while he's always welcome back, we're at least for now putting Gocai on NPC duty and we'll see how we solve for it all.

Julle is planning to do a one-off boardgame soon; "RP" dungeoncrawling classic like DnD but less complex and more focus on the board. We're discussing doing it on a weekend so Jaroslav can make it, but I have opffered to replace a RP session, regardless.

I have been unable to get things working with CoS 2 as I have been unusually exhausted but it's very much something I want to do.

Leord (talk) 21:37, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

A couple new players

Following issues organising sessions I decided to not wait for Jaroslav to say proper good-bye and got two new players from the same FB group as before. We welcome Elly and Jenny to try out the next few weeks and then they can decide if this is the campaign for them. :)

Leord (talk) 21:15, 23 August 2023 (UTC)