Introduction

The Wildlands gamebook series is a set of interactive adventures associated with the Core Gamebook Windhammer. In these adventures you will journey with Halokim Vesh as he survives the rigours of life as an outlaw, hunted by the Kalborean authorities and in constant danger from threats both corporeal and spectral. Set against the backdrop of the northern frontier of Kalborea he must evade those who would destroy him and in the process uncover the true purpose of the notorious smuggling gang known as the Black Hands.

Below can be found information on each of these gamebooks, including section lengths and timeline dates. A better appreciation of where these gamebooks fit within the overall Chronicles of Arborell gamebook series can be found in both the Series Synopsis and Finding your way pages of this website. It should be noted that when complete all will be available both as PDF formatted documents and as hyperlinked HTML files.





A Knife's Edge

The Temple of the Suns in Das Frontiere has been closed, its students exiled to the streets of the teeming citadel. For Halokim Vesh it is the start of life as an outlaw but first he must survive the wrath of the LoreMages' Guild and the relentless pursuit of Assassins hired to kill him. Into the dark places of Frontiere Halokim must venture, his goal to find friends who will help him gain passage out of the city. What he discovers is an organised and powerful criminal underworld and men more than willing to give aid as long as Halokim is willing to pay the price.

Document type: Gamebook
Sections: 300
Timeline date: YS 943
Availability: To be completed.


Caravanserai

Halokim has found his vocation as a smuggler, transporting contraband between the Lake Districts of Kalborea and the high mountains of the Faeyen Provinces. In his satchel is a King's ransom in stolen Blue Azuril and his gang are not the only bandits on the frontier who know he has it. Ambushed in Kal Kemna Halokim must recover the Azuril and make good its delivery to Caravanserai, but he is only one man against many and the clock is ticking.

Document type: Gamebook
Sections: 300
Timeline date: YS 944
Availability: To be completed.


The Faels

Anders Dahl has been taken prisoner by a rival bandit gang, a ransom demanded from the Black Hands. For Halokim there is no consideration that money can be paid for his friend's release and he determines instead to rescue his comrade himself. To the Faels of the northern frontier he will travel to locate Dahl and the mysterious gang that has taken him, but in doing so he will stumble upon the true purpose of the Black Hands and their activities against the Kalborean Union.

Document type: Gamebook
Sections: 300
Timeline date: YS 946
Availability: To be completed


The Hallad Stone

Halokim Vesh has spent his life running from the repression of the Kalborean Union but now it is time for payback. Information purchased from a reliable broker tells him that an artefact of great value is being transported from the vaults of Hel'garad to the Jewellers of Bardaros for restoration. Together with Anders Dahl, Halokim plans for its theft and in doing so embarrass the LoreMages' Guild. Will Halokim succeed in his quest or will the Hallad Stone prove itself too great a prize and too great a danger?

Document type: Gamebook
Sections: 300
Timeline date: YS 947
Availability: To be completed