The land is benevolent to immigrants as well, who are most common in Sagorpur but aren't unheard-of in the remote cities of Tippurika and Ashwadhatu either. It's a still-emerging land abounding in natural resources, fronted with a mercantile port city that welcomes traders, scholars, tourists, and adventurers from everywhere else. While the geography doesn't follow that of the real world, Shankhabhumi occupies a similar cultural position here. It’s partially the inspiration for Sagorpur. On the other hand, ancient Classical writers like Plutarch, Ptolemy, Virgil, and Pliny the Elder have mentioned a nearly mythical seaport city called Gangaridae on the eastern banks of a very large river which has largely been identified with this part of the world. By land, the Bengal region was an east-west gateway between South Asia and South-East Asia and a north-south gateway between South Asia and Tibet, and further into China. Shankhabhumi is a projection of a 6th-7th century civilization in one of the most populated, heavily traversed parts of the ancient world. What can you tell me about Shankhabhumi and its connection to other Radiant Citadel cultures? Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel puts a strong emphasis on cultural harmony at large.
Challenges in this world emerge mostly from its ecosystem, and nearly none of them is inherently benevolent or malevolent - they're just nature. The land, the rivers, and the swamp forests of Shankhabhumi are too unpredictable to successfully wage war. Tippurika, Ashwadhatu, Sagorpur, as well as Manivarsha are all different versions of "riverine" cities, and my second big priority was not to relate them to each other by war. My biggest priority while writing Shankhabhumi was to build four city-states that are distinct enough to be recognizable yet share a deep underlying resemblance because of the unique nature of the land.Ī peaceful boat ride through a swamp forest. They not only survive, but they thrive by finding a way to build off of the rivers and the land. The people of the land have a delicate but symbiotic relationship with their environment. Shankhabhumi definitely has some solarpunk fantasy vibes to it. This book’s Project Lead Ajit George has described the overall Radiant Citadel story as solarpunk or hopepunk. “Common wisdom would suggest such geographically volatile places would be sparsely populated, but Bengal is, in fact, one of the most heavily populated regions in the world.” The adventure’s key themes all relate back to ecological challenges and how sometimes, nature holds the greatest mysteries of all.įor an in-depth look at the historical and mythological inspirations behind this adventure, read on. “An overarching theme on my mind while creating Shankhabhumi was geology, rivers, and how life thrives in the parts of the world that are still being created,” Mondal tells Inverse. As such, the Shankhabhumi Dawn Incarnate assumes the form of a Moonstone Water Lily, a ubiquitous flower with many uses that grows in the swamps and rivers of those real-world regions. Speculative fiction author Mimi Mondal penned the level 9 adventure “In the Mists of Manivarsha” and created the nation of Shankhabhumi as a reflection of ancient cultures of the 6th and 7th centuries in what we now know as Bangladesh and the West Bengal state of India. A tone of optimism, hope, diversity, and peace permeates throughout the book, particularly amongst the Shankhabhumi. In the Preserve of the Ancestors, wandering spirits form sentient crystal clusters that become Dawn Incarnates, mythical beings that pass on ancient knowledge from eons past to each new generation. 16 black and brown writers created 15 unique human civilizations and 13 short adventures to explore myths and legends that have been passed down through generations - both within the D&D multiverse and here in the real world.īuilt upon the ancient corpse of an unknown primordial being, the bustling Radiant Citadel also serves as a spiritual nexus for these cultures.
Like Candlekeep Mysteries before it, the upcoming Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel is an anthology.
Deep in the mists of the Ethereal Plane shines the Radiant Citadel, a hub between worlds where adventurers from across the multiverse converge in the first true cultural melting pot in Dungeons & Dragons history.
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