Here's the painting I made for the cover. Primarily acrylic inks on Bristol. After this, I made a few physical and digital changes before settling on a final draft.

And then came version 1.1! drive.google.com/file/d/1bjDA...

I think a great player aid would be "basic IK history for PCs" based on where they're from and their species. "Trollkin? From Llael? Read these two short things."

Each further core book expands on the history relative to the area featured - borderlands, Cryx, wild places - but that history wouldn't be common knowledge to a typical Western Immoren native.

Hi! I would recommend the core Iron Kingdoms Requiem book, and the GM Toolkit PDF that came with the Requiem Kickstarter had a good timeline with highlights. That was also in the Humble Bundle. From an RPG perspective, what's in the intro brings it current to Requiem (617 AR).

The Trump administration has ostensibly turned every airport into a stationary white-van to black bag people ala Portland in 2020.

Their is a high probability that many of us would get run on facial recognition & disappeared either now or in the near future.

This is a reality we have to confront.

This is amazing.