Greyhawk

Greyhawk is a fictional world for the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. It is the earliest of the D&D universes, and much of the rules design occurred in conjunction with game play by Gary Gygax and others in and around Castle Greyhawk and its dungeons. It remains popular with hardcore gamers.

Within the game world, the Free City of Greyhawk is a free city in the Flanaess, originally under the domination of the Kingdom of Aerdy.

In the Greyhawk universe, the planet Oerth has four continents, but only the Flanaess, the eastern part of the continent of Oerik , is home to "enlightened humanity."

While the Greyhawk world is primarily medieval, the "joke" module Castle Greyhawk includes many sly references to 20th-century culture, such as characters named "King Burger" and "General Public," and "B-Men" monsters that are half-hornet and half-government agent.

Personages

• Zagyg the Mad Arch-Mage and demi-god (name is a play on "Gygax")
• Mordenkainen the Archmage, leader of the Circle of Eight (one of Gary Gygax's early PC's)
• Rary of Ket, aka Rary the Traitor, former member of the Circle of Eight
• Iuz the Old, half-fiend god-tyrant of the land of Iuz
• Lolth, Demon Queen of Spiders
• Vecna, Lord of the Spidered Throne, the Whispered One, god of secrets and magic
• Robilar, warrior
• Evacladra , Drow priestess

See Also

• Deities of Dungeons & Dragons.

Reference

• Gary Gygax, A Guide to the World of Greyhawk (TSR, 1983)