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Team Järnringen has gotten hold of a document where Ralgai of the house Melion presents his views regarding the situation in the world outside Ambria. In truth, we are quite astonished by how bad it looks and cannot help but wonder if Queen Korinthia pays enough attention to the lands beyond Ambria and Davokar. The man behind the report also appears to be much more concerned than his cautious phrasings seem to imply...
In any case, we want to invite you Game Masters to read this report with us. What you choose to do with the information is entirely up to you, but you should be aware of the following:
The Chronicle of the Throne of Thorns will invite the player characters to visit several of the sites mentioned below. This is especially true for The First Realm (including Landfall), Alberetor and the homeland of the Dark Lords, Lyastra.
Additionally, individuals from those places will appear in the adventures of the chronicle – agents representing foreign powers or non-player characters with their own reasons for visiting or living in Ambria.
Even if nothing has yet been decided, the locations which are of less importance for The Throne of Thorns may very well become the topic of stand-alone supplements. In this context, the City States lay closest at hand, as there are plans to use them as the basis for a future adventure chronicle.

Suggestions on in-game use
How you as a GM choose to use this document is not for us to say. Maybe you are happy to keep Melion’s highly subjective and biased report to yourself, as a backdrop when staging future adventures for your gaming group. As an example, you can let the characters meet people who come from (or claim to come from) the regions covered by the report, but who does not necessarily know very much of what is happening back home.
Another option is to actually let the player characters acquire a copy of the report. It could be that the classified document has gotten lost and the characters are tasked with retrieving (but ABSOLUTELY not reading!) it – a concept that could surely be developed into a whole series of adventures set in the halls of power. Or they may obtain the report by chance, finding it in the saddlebag of a dead courier or on the writing desk of some nobleman.
Irrespective of which, we hope that this report will give both you and your players a deeper sense of the world where Queen Korinthia, First Father Jeseebegai, the High Chieftain and all the others live and operate. For sure, there are innumerable adventures still left to experience in Ambria and Davokar, but even if the player characters do not immediately ready their equipment and travel to foreign lands, we are pretty sure that the insights spelled out in the report will embellish theirs (and the players’) perception of Symbaroum’s world.