Norwold

Norwold is the vast, half-tamed subcontinent at the northeastern corner of Brun, north of the Known World and east of the Borean Valley. This is the Mystara Compendium’s Norwold region: a cited reference and a cohesive 1-12 campaign guide, anchored to the Mystaran Almanac era (AC 1014-1019).

It gathers canon (CM1-CM4, the M-series, Dawn of the Emperors, Wrath of the Immortals, the Poor Wizard’s Almanacs) and the best community material (the Vaults of Pandius, the Atlas of Mystara, Simone Neri’s Threshold articles, the Italian MMB demography) into one place, with every claim tagged to a source.

Sections

Overview and how to use this guide — what Norwold is, the era (AC 1014-1019), the level ladder from 1 to 12, and how the sections fit together.
The Warlord’s Road (Levels 1-12) — the cohesive campaign: four home bases, four tiers, and the rise from hired blades to landed lords, handing off into CM1 domain play.
Realms and dominions, AC 1016 — the political map: Alpha, Oceansend, Leeha, and the eight regional groupings of Land-Rush dominions, each with its ruler.
Geography, climate, and travel — the physical land, its three mountain walls, rivers and seasons, how to cross it, and a 114-entry gazetteer of named places.
Peoples and cultures — Heldanners, the Finnic Jääkansa, the Slavic Vatski, the Ugric Viaskoda, the Norse raiders, and the dragons of the Wyrmsteeth.
History and timeline — a cited chronology to AC 1019: the Great Land Rush, the War of the Crown, the sinking of Alphatia, and the aftermath.
Personalities of Norwold — King Ericall and his court, the great lords, the hidden Thyatian agents, the dragons, and the monster-queens of the ice.
Maps of Norwold — an annotated index of the canon and community maps, with local offline copies of the key fan maps.
Sources and citations — the master bibliography. Every claim in this region is tagged and resolves here, split into canon and community.
Attribution — credit and source URLs for every community file copied into this repository.