Pathfinder Regional Deepdive: Central Mwangi Expanse
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
- Welcome back to our Deep Dive series! It feels like the end of an era here as I'm finally doing my last video on the Mwangi region.
The central region covers Nantambu, Usaro, Kibwe and the Alijae Elves. This is the fifth video in my series in the Mwangi expanse. You can watch all my other videos in chronological order here:
Vidrian nation deepdive here: • Pathfinder Regional De...
Southern Mwangi region here: • Pathfinder Regional De...
Western Mwangi region here: • Pathfinder Regional De...
Abendego Gulf region here: • Pathfinder Regional De...
▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 - History of the Central Mwangi Region
26:18 - Barrier Wall Mountains
36:36 - Mountain Passes
44:40 - Mwangi Jungle
1:05:06 - Nantambu
1:24:22 - Usaro
1:34:28 - Kibwe
1:48:04 - Nagisa and the Alijae Elves
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CREDITS
The large high-res map I use is not a Paizo official map, but the work of the incomparable Rob McCaleb ( www.artstation.com/robmccaleb ) used here with their gracious permission.
Content for this video came from "Heart of the Jungle" by Tim Hitchcock, Jason Nelson, Amber Scott, Chris Self, and Todd Stewart and from "Lost Omens: The Mwangi Expanse" by Laura-Shay Adams, Mariam Ahmad, Jahmal Brown, et al.
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It’s like literally every time I think to myself “I could really use a Mythkeeper video right about now,” and there you are to fill my life with joy.
Comments like this give me life. :-)
Same here 😊
We had the same thought. I saw this notification before bed and was so excited for today!
Same here when I saw the video popup. I want to watch it now, but I was so tired, and I was turning in for the night . I said to myself okay I can watch it tomorrow with a nice hot cup of coffee and enjoy the video then." 😊
@@allenr0 Just playing around with a late night instead of early morning drop! Thanks for all the kind words folks.
I dont even play pathfinder, but always had an interest in fantasy maps and worlds. This channel is amazing, even though I still dont play the game, I cant wait for each new episode to learn more about the new regions, characters, religions and worlds. please keep up the great work, makes my day to have a cool new lore video to listen to, probably the best on youtube. 👍👍 informative, immersive and great narration. Mythkeeper should be proud.
Thank you so much, these are really kind words. 🙂
I couldn’t agree more!
I also don’t play but don’t miss an episode
Yessir. It feels like you're objective and disclose more opinionated elements + peerless passion
Absolute goat
i like the novels and video games
Strength of Thousands campaigns everywhere just got better 🙌
Thank you!
i have always had a fastenation for Africa cultures (not egypt but the many native tribes) so I am very happy that it seems like pathfinder did it's research and treated the vibrant and rich cultures of Africa justice. which is something I hope I can also pull off for my own worldbuilding project
Same here I see love learning about the morning anytime I hear other people's videos about anything African related to typically roll their eyes or saying the condescending way but you know quickly go over small tickets information so the deep down is a reverent appreciated that there is some Africans in D&D orly's dark skin people
Each of the major city-states has a really distinctive field. Its great that there is not a mono-culture here. It feels really fleshed out.
I love how they even made very different elves and dwarves that have an African feel to them. This is one of those things that has drawn me into Pathfinder.
@@louhodo5761 I'm particularly fond of the M'Beke dwarves and the Ekujae elves ;-)
@@TheMythKeeper I have tried looking for more information on just those two races. Like what makes the different than the base elves and dwarves. Aside from appearance.
Awesome, it's even more Mwangi! Even if it's now over, the whole Mwangi series was amazing and has quickly made Garund my favourite PF continent
Thank you so much. These videos in particular I'm really proud of, especially seeing them all now together as a collection.
Your videos have really opened my eyes to just how facinating Mwangi is, and I am looking forward to soon running a campaign set there.
I'd actually like to see your thoughts in a video about Pathfinder's villains and major threats. Like your favorite AP villains or more character specific stuff. A strange take but I for sure am curious!
Edit: I'd really like to see a video on Lastwall also! I'm planning on dming Tyrants Grasp soon and love Lastwall from a lore angle but some elements of it are a bit unclear to me.
I plan to do that as a 2-parter - a Lastwall guide for people still playing 1E and a Gravelands guide for the 2E folks.
@@TheMythKeeper This especially. Id be really interested in a sort of.... History of Paizos and Players changes to Golarion. That is to say since the first published pathfinder book what was present looking like then and what changes have occured to the... board? Idk the creation of Ravounel or the Gravelands or the dissappearance of Arazny.
@@TheMythKeeper That makes sense considering what happens to the nation in 1e. 1e and 2e Lastwall are basically 2 different places at that point.
@@TheInsatiableDrBoom Definitely planning to do some AP and major event recaps in the future.
I absolutely love your content keep up the amazing work I'm so happy you're doing a lot more things on the mwangi because not a lot of people are doing a deep dive or even talking much about it so I appreciate you so very much thank you
You're very welcome! Its quite a collection at this point and I'm really proud of this series of videos.
Aaayyy more mwangi. I love it. Hope this one covers more grippli (the best race ever)
On that front, I'm afraid I've failed you! Best Grippli content is still in Western Mwangi when I discuss Krihirik, or the "Even More Ancestries" video
This is the one I been waiting for!
I think a lot of people have! I really hope it was worth the wait for you all.
I genuinely appreciate @Mythkeeper exploring Golarion. It helps me relax while working on things and brainstorm for my games.
Thanks for watching and sharing the kind words.
I’m glad i discovered this channel
Welcome to the channel my friend!
Great work Myth maybe your best yet. Also this is what I appreciate about Pathfinder despite all my complaints about 2E class balance. A well done African inspired fantasy region that is core not a side joke.
I have my own beefs with some of the 2E mechanics as well, but the lore has always been top-notch. Its why I decided to keep my channel lore-focused as I knew I could stay ever positive on this side of the house.
I think what only adds to the magic of these videos is how well written the narration is. Concise, articulate, and eloquent prose serves to enhance what would already an absolute treasure trove of lore. This is easily my favorite RUclips channel
That's the nicest comment ever. Thank you so much
Hope you do a Video on Tian Xia soon!
That's the plan! Just waiting on the new Tian Xia content to come out first.
I’m so happy to have more info on Usaro. I have always loved the concept of the Gorilla King since I first read about it, and Anghazan is one of my favorite of the Demon Lords. It’s interesting to see how the city is faring now without their king and their totem.
Also, I love the Elves of the White City. Their mission is interesting, and I love how its now tied into Nocticula-who post-Redeemer Queen is one of my favorite Pathfinder deities-and by extension other Fiends who at least claim to want to redeem themselves. It’s so cool and rife with story possibilities.
I was just replying to another comment on this video about how I have a hard-drive full of cool character concepts I may never get to use. After making this video and watching it back first thing I did was sketch out some ideas for a tiefling-alijae cleric of Nocticula - an expert in demonic redemptions. (Sorry, Cambion-scion Nephilim I mean!!) There are definitely a ton of cool concepts to be had with the Nagisa elves.
@@TheMythKeeper That sounds Awesome!
Also, I can definitely commiserate about having more ideas than I can ever use.
I'm running strength of thousands right now and I've been waiting for this one!
Awesome! Also check out my Sodden Lands and Western Mwangi video if you haven't as they are both relevant to that AP.
Absolutely astounding. This is the great content always love to see drop.
Thank you so much! Looking forward to comments and thoughts on this one as its wrapping up my fully Mwangi series.
Thank you for making these videos. I've been playing for 4.5 years, and thanks to your videos, I finally get a sense of the world and how different all these places are. Today, I finally am done rewatching all of your videos, and I am so excited to see what comes next. I would love to see a video about Galt, since two of my DMs have set adventures there, and I would love to know a bit more about it. I have placed an adventure there too, and from what I have read about it, it seems to be quite the interesting place, especially because of its rich history.
I'm looking forward to the next video, and again, thank you for all of the time you put into these.
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Galt is coming but it’s still a ways out. Hopefully it will be worth the wait though!
Every time I hear you say bones I can’t help but repeat it. I love it lol.
😅
I really like the idea of an elven crusade to Nagisa. It could be a whole campaign just dealing with the politics of calling the crusaders together, traveling to Nagisa, the reactions of the native peoples to the flux of outsiders, the delving of the city, and the fallout of victory or defeat.
Very Wrath of the Righteous-esque in a way. I like it a lot.
The history and lore of Golarion is rich and the way your present that richness has always inspired me to make new events, characters, and locations. The over 50 character sheets I have saved in Pathbuilder that will never get played because there's not enough time in the world thank you xD
I know the exact feeling. I have a hard-drive full of character ideas to be used "some day"
Life got in the way for a little, but seriously worth the delay. Great work!
Awesome, thanks for watching and for the kind words!
I really hope in the future that Mythkeeper could give some advice on playing actual pathfinder campaigns. Got some cool tidbits occasionally about characters and stories that he's played, but as a relative beginner, would be awesome to hear his thoughts on starting a campaign, what to include/avoid, and what his favourite pieces of lore are so we can start our own games.
I'm not quite ready yet to do advice on running campaigns. I think there are a few other channels that have that angle covered and when I started the channel I knew I wanted to avoid getting bogged down in rules and gameplay choices... BUT, I am planning on putting up some adventure summaries in the near future. These would basically be dramatized retellings of adventures that I've run in the past, that could serve as inspiration for new players thinking of running their own games.
@@TheMythKeeper Awesome, I recently bought some adventure path books at a discount online as an inexpensive way to get more lore on the setting, would be great to hear your take on specific ones.
@@queezyscorner6548 First AP I'll cover will be Curse of the Crimson Throne when I get around to AP recaps. Let me know if that's on your list.
@@TheMythKeeper Cant wait! x
That Tarasque looked like he had something else on his mind with that building. (I hate myself)
Been waiting for this gem. This video covers what was missing from the mwangi expanse book and what I couldn’t google.
Thank you
You're very welcome! Glad I could fill in the gaps
I’m attempting a mwangi hex crawl sand box. A challenge
@@freezinpee91 Sandboxes are always tough. Is there a city you've picked out to be kind of the players "home base" yet? Or do you want it go all over?
@@TheMythKeeper depends on the type of pc’s. Skullduggery bloodcove. Lawful? Senghor. Scholar? Nantambu. And so on. I’m planning to key every hex. And every “random” encounter hooks to a key, settlement or faction. Try to use the reputation system.
@@freezinpee91 yeah, it sounds like you're planning to cross the length and breadth of the expanse. In that case I'd definitely have your players submit their PC ideas to you before you hash out all the details, as it will save you a lot of time and effort if you know the kinds of factions they're like to want to influence and which areas they are likely to explore
Chief Ageboya - Red Dragon Sorcerer
Compared to the Forgotten Realms there seems to be so much more love for African culture in Golarian's lore.
This is a really rich and more importantly _significant_ part of the Inner Sea. I love it.
The Mwangi Expanse is arguably one of my favorite regions in Pathfinder. Might be a bit biased as that’s where my Haunted Oracle of Groetus hailed from.
Great character concept just from the tagline there
Thanks for this, just in time for my campaign here!
Awesome, glad to hear it 🙂
great video, also the segment on Usaro has given me some pretty cool ideas for some subplots to throw at one of my PCs who is a Garundi orc (i didn't know too much about the lore on them other than they fight demons a lot at the time, so i had no idea where he was nore specifically, the player didn't either haha)
If you didn't watch it yet, my Sodden Lands video has a whole ton of content on the rain orcs of Garund, including an overview of their realm, the 9 walls.
@@TheMythKeeper i will definitely give it a watch!
Thank you for another incredible video!
Thank you too!
Thank you, for your hard work, and passionate dedication to it.
And thank you for watching and commenting!
Great videos!
Thank you!
This was fantastic series
Thank you!
Thanks for the video
You bet
They did a 3d map of Kibwe? Cool
I actually think someone made a map of Kibwe out of _Lego_ for their game table. I don't know, I actually couldn't source that image to a specific person.
Your intro made me a bit sad. My favorite things you do are the regional deep dives and there are only so many regions to cover. Oh well, don't be sad it will end, be happy it happened, I suppose.
It seemed like an impossible endeavor to start with, but now that I'm reaching the end of the regions, its remarkable looking back at how much I've covered. I still have some really great ones to go though, including of course the much anticipated Absalom deep dive.
@@TheMythKeeper I think you still have around 10-ish regional deep dives left in the Inner Sea Region. And by then we will have the Tian Xia World Guide book will have already released, that will add even more information to the existing lore of the nations of Tian Xia. So we will have Regional Deep Dive videos for some time to come. I'm going to enjoy all of them and I hope everyone else enjoys the amazing work done by TheMythKeeper.😄
@@rune5916 Yeah, its true. At a rate of 1 in each 3 weeks, I estimate we have deep dives going right through 2024 if not further. By then I'm sure I will tackle some other equally mind-bogglingly massive projects, like overall AP summaries.
👏👏👏
Hey do you plan on making a video on the Tian Xia gods and religion it's an interesting part of the lore I think should be talked about here
Yeah, I'm just waiting for the new Tian-Xia world guide to come out first so I can include that updated material
@@TheMythKeeper ok can't wait to see the video
We need specials on characters that aren’t Gods Ala Aroden. Jatembe from his start to his date nights with Baba Yaga Lmao.
I'll do a Legends series some day. Its on the big backlog of ideas I have.
Kudos for including Kitubu(Kitumu in wiki) and Mjer. Its not even in the map. Kitumu is referenced in Serpent's Skull AP as a sidestory but no location and i dont know about Mjer, its not even in the Heart of the Jungle book.
I had to dig deep for some of these. Mjer and the Sapthorn Gnolls do actually get a call out in Lost Omens Mwangi Expanse, but its buried in the text and not marked on the map 😅
My love for you is as large and complex as the Mwangi Expanse.
Uncharted like the deepest jungles…
another question, 14:29. are these settlements based on lore or just random.
Great question. The Zenj polities are demonstrative, not exact in their placement. Minor towns and villages are unmarked and for the Savannah nomads this is even less precise as they are nomadic and so always on the move.
Hi MythKeeper! What was your first character in Pathfinder?
My first character in Pathfinder was a big rain orc with dreadlocks and an eye-patch named Gaz in a game set in the Shackles, not in Skull & Shackles actually, but in a homebrew adventure run by a GM friend of mine based on (I want to say...) Green Ronin's 2004 Black Sails Over Freeport adventure. Gaz was a legend, still one of my favorite characters ever played and I gave him a ludicrous Jamaican accent which probably would get me canceled today. I used to listen to reggae music on the drive over to my friends house to help get me into character.
First game of Pathfinder I GMed was actually Carrion Crown just as that adventure was coming out. Also a great collection of player characters in that group. Very fun.
@@TheMythKeeperThanks for the reply! I started playing Pathfinder 2e exactly 1 year ago. Our GM chose Kingmaker, which for me, as a first timer a little bit rough, but now i can handle myself pretty well. My character is dragonblooded sorcerer kobold, he's missing half of its body, because other party members cured my lycanthropy with some "unorthodox" methods. We asked a druid replace the lost side of my body with magical wood, so basically my kobold become a half-wooden character. Now we are preparing to fight against Vordakai, so we can end his evil plans.
@@istrukalya That's awesome. Its fun for me to see all the folks coming in fairly new to the hobby, especially since I've been playing since Pathfinder came out in '08. As you can imagine I have a long, long, long list of characters now. Some of which were one-shot or short-lived and some of which have really long and complicated stories of their adventurers, and may still continue to feature in my own playgroups living world.
One interesting thought i had from watching the video is that .. potentially a cities worth of elven demon worshippers might of fled back to Sovyrian before Earthfall from Nagisa which makes you wonder whether they gave up demon worship or whether theres still a fair number of them in Sovyrian ect. XD
I think they either fled back to Sovyrian... OR... they wound up somewhere else entirely. In which case there may be a whole planet of demon-worshiping elves somewhere out there. Commorragh maybe? ;-)
@@TheMythKeeperYeah, the only other thought i had is if they didn't flee back to Sovyrian before Earthfall that maybe the entire populace ascended to the Abyss becoming new demons for which ever lords they followed.
@@ltcinsane Yeah that's all kind of a cool idea
im a bit confused on how the tarrasque destroyed the shory flying empire. Did it just..slap the cities out of the air? why didnt shory just move the city out of reach?
The cities could fly, but they could only reach a certain maximum altitude. They also didn't move particularly fast. So yes, Tarrasque just thought - "Here is a big weird flying thing. Best to swat it out of the sky."
the tarrasque was very mad about his twin brother in 5e being able to be defeated by a 1st level aaracockra and decided to show the world how a real spawn of Rovagug handles flying targets
@@obamabiden 😂😂😂
The creatures that have body of cat but head of a badger. Lucratas? Can I get the spelling or link to this creature?
2e.aonprd.com/Monsters.aspx?ID=718
Gentleman and scholar
Do you ever see yourself covering Tian Xia?
As soon as the new book comes out, yes
:> D
:>D back at you
@@TheMythKeeper (=D)