Announcing Princecon 35: The Gold Rush

Coming from a relatively modest, middle-class family with future
political aspirations, your parents were so proud when you were
accepted to the Magical Conservatory, and your kin mortgaged their
small merchant fleet to buy the 16 grains of Orichalkon that you would
need to attend. Years later, you completed your degree and were ready
for more challenging work, but in the interim the Gutenacht banking
clan foreclosed on the mortgage and repossessed your family's fleet,
and so you did not (and do not) have the resources to purchase the
necessary Orichalkon to cast more powerful spells. Oh, the lackwits
from powerful families have moved on, along with a lucky brilliant few
who received grants from the Conservatory, but you are stuck in a dead-
end position as eternal research assistant to Marlin Rainwillow.
Then Archmage Koshwig Shadowglass found the Pocket Universe.

At the time, it was mostly a curiosity, a minor find by a minor upper-
class family and a high-risk venture for only the most desperate of
adventurers. When the exploratory party returned, mostly forgotten and
presumed dead, but laden with gems and Orichalkon, everything changed.
The ranks of Hireling Hall swelled with applicants to explore the
Pocket Universe and clear the way for settlers. Shadowglass would soon
join the ranks of major families, if they can successfully defend
their claim and exploit the resources of their new kingdom. Publicly,
the greater families deny any involvement or interference in the
Pocket Universe, but Hireling Hall contracts with the Shadowglass
family specifically call out the need to help clear out the claim
jumpers.

next: what is Orichalkon?

PrinceCon XXXV is March 12-14, 2010
www.princecon.org/pcon35