Curna

The City of Innovation
Oghma’s Helm

On the western cliffs of Koinonia rises Curna, a towering city built around knowledge, invention, and the belief that every mystery can eventually be understood.

The people of Curna—known as Curnanites—have transformed their homeland into a sprawling center of scholarship and technological experimentation. Clockwork mechanisms turn beside Gothic stonework. Workshops burn late into the night. Scholars debate discoveries in crowded halls while inventors attempt to build tomorrow before anyone else has imagined it.

Curna is a society that values the question almost as much as the answer.

Its greatest monument is the Great Grand Library, a massive repository containing generations of recorded knowledge. Its observatories, medical institutions, workshops, markets, and halls of invention have made Curna the intellectual center of Koinonia.

But progress has created divisions of its own.

Curna is constructed in three great concentric rings, and where someone lives often reflects their place within Curnanite society. Laborers, outsiders, scholars, inventors, officials, and elites can experience very different versions of the same city.

And beneath the machinery and celebrated pursuit of reason, Curna holds contradictions it does not always acknowledge.

Knowledge is power in Curna.

The dangerous question is who gets to possess it.

At a Glance

CURNA — OGHMA'S HELM

Known For:
Science • Innovation • Scholarship • Technology • History • Invention

Government:
Monarchy under King Oghma

Cultural Ideal:
Understanding through reason and investigation

Religion:
Organized religion prohibited; private belief still exists

Architecture:
Gothic-steampunk structures, gears, machinery, towers, laboratories

Greatest Landmark:
The Great Grand Library

People:
Curnanites

ORIGIN BENEFITS

✓ Investigation Proficiency

✓ History backup proficiency

✓ +1d4 to qualifying History checks

✓ Persuasion proficiency with other factions

✓ Possible Persuasion Advantage

ORIGIN LIMITATION

⚠ Less cultural preparation for wilderness and natural environments