Karameikos - Vaults of Pandius

Strolojca and DraconiusDiomedes was put in charge of the westerndivision of the Karameikan army, with therank of General. He was unsatisfied with this‘honor’, feeling he deserved at least as muchrecognition as Kelvin and Penhaligon, whohad had the opportunity to work with betterequipped and trained units. Diomedessuspected that Desmond Kelvin, who hadalways remarked on his absence from thefight against the Marilenev rebels in AC 971,was behind his unjusttreatment by Stefan.In the following years,Diomedes drove theimprovement of thefortifications at RiverforkKeep first, and thensupervisedtheconstruction of RadlebbKeep. Initially skepticalabout the need to build afort in the middle of theRadlebb Woods, Diomedessoon realized that theRadlebb Keep was key tothe survival of theKarameikan control overwestern Traladara –without its presence, thesheer number ofhumanoid tribes in thesouthern Radlebb Woodsand in the Cruth Lowlands,combined with Baron vonHendriks’ obviousambitions, would have ledto the loss of RiverforkKeep and almost the entirewestern part ofKarameikos.Nowadays, Diomedesspends most of his time in Specularum,lobbying for additional funds for the 5 thDivision without much success. He pays ayearly visit to both forts under hissupervision, usually in late spring. Onceevery five years, he journeys to his father’sestate in the Duchy of Retebius (or is visitedby members of his family in Specularum);the last of these family meetings, that had inthe past seen the participation of the109THRESHOLD: The Mystara Magazine Issue #1