Historica ArcanumThe City of Crescent

A Gibbous Moon Over Constantinople

where magic is secret, and the Undercity keeps its own laws.

A Dungeons & Dragons 5e Chronicle

Beneath the domes and minarets of the Ottoman capital, magic survives in secret — hunted above, harbored below, in the lamplit caverns of the Undercity. This is the archive of the company who walk both worlds: who they are, where they have gone, and everything the crescent moon has looked down upon.

18The Record of Play

Nights

Night by night, the company's passage through the city above and the Undercity below.

5The Player Characters

The Cabal

The player characters — with living, playable D&D 5e sheets you can roll from.

77The Folk of the City

Faces

Every pasha, djinni, smuggler, and spectre the company has crossed.

14Orders · Guilds · Courts

Powers

The Sublime Porte, the athenaeums, the Council of the Ninth Life, and the guilds of the Undercity.

60Above & Below

The City

A gazetteer of the city above and the Undercity below — bazaars, palaces, cisterns, secret ways.

44Relics & Wonders

The Treasury

Wondrous items, artefacts, and the spoils carried out of the dark.

1The Shape of the World

Mysteries

The origins of magic, the mythologia, and the story so far.

0For the Keeper Alone

The Veil

Secrets, prep, and the acts to come. The Keeper's eyes only; spoilers within.