Pathfinder 2e Roleplaying Game

Mwangi Expanse

Pathfinder Lost Omens World Guide (Second Edition), page 84

TIMELINE

–3502 ar Old-Mage Jatembe and his Ten Magic Warriors return much lost knowledge to humanity within the Mwangi Expanse, particularly the art of wizardry.

–2556 ar The Shory Empire is founded. –2323 ar Kho, the first of the Shory’s flying cities, takes to the air. –2289 ar Golden age of Shory begins. –632 ar

The Tarrasque, greatest of Rovagug’s Spawn, destroys the flying city of Kho.

–507 ar

Its citizens devastated by contact with creatures from the Dark Tapestry, the Shory flying city of Ulduvai crashes into the Shattered Range.

2089 ar

Taldor’s Sixth Army of Exploration attempts to annex the Mwangi Expanse, failing disastrously.

4138 ar

Cheliax establishes the colony of Sargava on Garund’s western coast.

4332 ar

Pathfinder Durvin Gest casts the Lens of Galundari into Osibu’s Nemesis Well and escapes the city with his memory intact.

4606 ar

The massive hurricane known as the Eye of Abendego opens in the wake of Aroden’s death, flooding the nations of Lirgen and Yamasa and creating the Sodden Lands.

4610 ar

An invading force from Sargava marches to Mzali, only to be incinerated by the animated remains of the child-god Walkena.

4615 ar

After evacuating their surviving citizens, Lirgen’s entire cabal of ruling astrologers commits suicide. 4643 ar

Paid by Sargava’s Baron Grallus, various Free Captains fend off a Chelish fleet, establishing the colony’s independence.

4684 ar

The Gorilla King of Usaro sends an army through tunnels beneath the Shattered Range mountains The Mwangi Expanse is a verdant region and a source of legends, tales, and rumors both inspiring and dire, but its inhabitants are not well known in the rest of the Inner Sea region. The Expanse is rich in beauty, art, and scholarship, and its people toil hard and develop cunning strategies to thrive in an oft-hostile environment. It is a land where disparate cultures regularly cross paths and diverse peoples thrive even amid the region’s many dangers.

The Mwangi is a region so bountiful and resource-rich that few are ever left hungry or wanting. Ready access to food, water, fiber, and precious materials enabled many of the first Mwangi people to establish their own communities, cities, and even nations in complete isolation from the wider world. The city-states and countries presented here are but a few of the most well known; many more communities exist in this immense jungle, some of which have gone centuries without contact with the rest of the Mwangi Expanse, let alone the larger Inner Sea region.

In this section

  • Bloodcove This decadent haven for piracy has only become more dangerous as it has grown more wealthy with ill-gotten riches.
  • Kibwe The city of Kibwe is a bastion of trade nestled in the jungles of the eastern Expanse.
  • Lake Ocota Travelers moving through the Mwangi do well to fear the beasts that live among the jungle’s canopies and waterways.
  • Mzali The temple-city of Mzali was once the center of an ancient empire ruled by semi-divine sun-kings.
  • Nantambu Sometimes called the Song-Wind City for the cheerful chimes of colored glass that hang from its every building, Nantambu is a bastion of peace and sophistication.
  • Senghor The city-state of Senghor has had to make significant changes as of late, most notably due to the overthrow of Sargava and subsequent establishment of Vidrian.
  • Usaro The grim city of Usaro looms over the delta where the Blood River meets Lake Ocota.
  • Vidrian The colonial nation of Sargava faced many hardships over the past few decades, ranging from isolation from its parent nation of Cheliax to constant financial extortion by the Free Captains of the Shackles.
  • Other Mwangi Locations The Mwangi Expanse teems with small nations and clans that each have their own unique culture and traditions. Below are a few more of the Expanse’s most prominent settlements and regions.