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After a planar collapse strands six warring factions on an alien world, Empress Ilfandira and King Lutherian struggle to survive brutal sieges against ruthless orcs and goblins. As they bleed for territory, ancient violet glyphs awaken a hungry, carapaced threat beneath the soil.
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Ilfandira Narassis
She is driven to restore peace and quiet for her people's study and seeks to understand the ancient glyphs and the violet scar in the sky.
Characters
A stone wall featuring half-submerged columns carved with spiraling glyphs, identical to those found at Almanus and Drakengard.
glyph wall
A stone wall featuring half-submerged columns carved with spiraling glyphs, identical to those found at Almanus and Drakengard.
Key Objects
The area is often shrouded in mist and smoke from conflict. It is described as a place where the name itself is whispered like a curse, defined by a sense of ancient mystery and the grinding attrition of war.
Almanus
The area is often shrouded in mist and smoke from conflict. It is described as a place where the name itself is whispered like a curse, defined by a sense of ancient mystery and the grinding attrition of war.
Locations
Slender, pointy-eared beings who were the first to inhabit the realms. They are legendary hunters and scholars who value peace and quiet for study, led by Empress Ilfandira Narassis.
High Elves
Slender, pointy-eared beings who were the first to inhabit the realms. They are legendary hunters and scholars who value peace and quiet for study, led by Empress Ilfandira Narassis.
Military Factions
inciting incident
The World Storm
inciting incident
Plot & Structure
They pursue power and dark magic, showing little concern for the well-being of their own people. Their leadership is absolute under the god Xi'Thix.
Old Ones
They pursue power and dark magic, showing little concern for the well-being of their own people. Their leadership is absolute under the god Xi'Thix.
Religions & Beliefs
A recurring motif representing the forced meeting of disparate civilizations and the resulting inevitable conflict or alliance following a cataclysmic event.
The World Storm
A recurring motif representing the forced meeting of disparate civilizations and the resulting inevitable conflict or alliance following a cataclysmic event.
Themes & Motifs
The storm functions as a massive planar transport mechanism. It jarred the bodies of those it transported, though certain races like High Elves possessed innate resilience to its magical fallout. It left behind a violet scar in the sky that continues to pulse.
The World Storm
The storm functions as a massive planar transport mechanism. It jarred the bodies of those it transported, though certain races like High Elves possessed innate resilience to its magical fallout. It left behind a violet scar in the sky that continues to pulse.
World & Mechanics
The environment is defined by a sky that bleeds pale light and a profound, long-sought silence that followed the end of a major siege.
Everfrost
The environment is defined by a sky that bleeds pale light and a profound, long-sought silence that followed the end of a major siege.
Locations
Lutherian Armstol
His primary goal is to unite fractured societies under human law and establish a legitimate capital for his people.
Characters
Organized and entrepreneurial humanoid beings led by King Lutherian Armstol. They are characterized by their stubborn grit and a desire to unite fractured societies through law.
Humans
Organized and entrepreneurial humanoid beings led by King Lutherian Armstol. They are characterized by their stubborn grit and a desire to unite fractured societies through law.
Military Factions
A series of black stone obelisks half-buried in the ash-grey plains of the Dreadfields, arranged in a deliberate, non-natural pattern.
black obelisks
A series of black stone obelisks half-buried in the ash-grey plains of the Dreadfields, arranged in a deliberate, non-natural pattern.
Key Objects
As the leader of the Old Ones, Xi'Thix directs a society that values power over the well-being of its people.
Xi'Thix
As the leader of the Old Ones, Xi'Thix directs a society that values power over the well-being of its people.
Religions & Beliefs
rising action
The Skirmish at Almanus
rising action
Plot & Structure
The glyphs act as triggers or indicators for ancient planetary machinery. They can flare with violet phosphor when in contact with blood and serve as a medium for relaying commands or information to those sensitive to them.
Spiral Glyphs
The glyphs act as triggers or indicators for ancient planetary machinery. They can flare with violet phosphor when in contact with blood and serve as a medium for relaying commands or information to those sensitive to them.
World & Mechanics
An ancient, mysterious symbol that predates all current civilizations and appears at every site of significant conflict or wreckage following the World Storm.
The Spiral Glyph
An ancient, mysterious symbol that predates all current civilizations and appears at every site of significant conflict or wreckage following the World Storm.
Themes & Motifs
Leader of a hierarchy where mages are at the top; her presence commands absolute stillness and halts conflict.
Xavina Vanixus
Leader of a hierarchy where mages are at the top; her presence commands absolute stillness and halts conflict.
Religions & Beliefs
Passionate and strong beings who thrive on barren lands and pride themselves on physical musculature. They are led by Warlord Ogrim Dawnfist.
Orcs
Passionate and strong beings who thrive on barren lands and pride themselves on physical musculature. They are led by Warlord Ogrim Dawnfist.
Military Factions
Rising Action
The Failed Parley
Rising Action
Plot & Structure
The resilience functions as a natural armor that turns aside magical fallout as if it were harmless static. However, it provides no protection against physical threats; High Elves remain physically vulnerable to blunt force, physical attacks, and bone-breaking falls.
High Elven Resilience
The resilience functions as a natural armor that turns aside magical fallout as if it were harmless static. However, it provides no protection against physical threats; High Elves remain physically vulnerable to blunt force, physical attacks, and bone-breaking falls.
World & Mechanics
Ogrim Dawnfist
He seeks plunder, glory, and the conquest of ground worth having, aiming to remind other races of the cost of losing.
Characters
A precise, spiraling carving cut deep into ancient rock. The glyphs are written in a language unknown to the six races that arrived during the World Storm.
spiral glyph
A precise, spiraling carving cut deep into ancient rock. The glyphs are written in a language unknown to the six races that arrived during the World Storm.
Key Objects
The recurring necessity for displaced races to learn new skills and modify their traditional doctrines to survive the harsh realities of a new world.
Adaptation
The recurring necessity for displaced races to learn new skills and modify their traditional doctrines to survive the harsh realities of a new world.
Themes & Motifs
Ormagas
The swamp is dark and treacherous, with water that seems to swallow range and flood tunnels rapidly. It possesses an ancient, listening quality that responds to those willing to hear it.
Locations