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::*Papan Geele and Maman Briggette are currently riding Lord Zyrell and Lady Afra of the Emerald's Blaze | ::*Papan Geele and Maman Briggette are currently riding Lord Zyrell and Lady Afra of the Emerald's Blaze | ||
::*Afra/Briggette showed the SRG the destructive force of the Ink while not alerting Zyrell/Geele to their presence | ::*Afra/Briggette showed the SRG the destructive force of the Ink while not alerting Zyrell/Geele to their presence | ||
::*Afra/Briggette froze the SRG in suspended animation in the Spaces, used the Ink present in the Professor's body as a lure while the real Ink was concealed and taken to a remote destination (the now overgrown Summer Palace of the former Gaoro Dynasty of Semudan) | ::*Afra/Briggette froze the SRG in suspended animation in the Spaces, used the Ink present in the Professor's body as a lure while the real Ink was concealed and taken to a remote destination (the now overgrown Summer Palace of the former Gaoro Dynasty of Semudan) | ||
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Contents
Player Characters
Current
SRG
- Atala, Free Shadow of the Order (Human Fighter, Eldritch Knight)
- Heian, elf ranger
- Onai, Heian's wolf companion
- Kunoh of the Ellanher, human barbarian
- Maybellina Stoneraven, human warlock
- Ophion, tiefling bard
- Nick Furry, murder monkey
- Professor Ruben RR Ravenholft PhD Arch, PhD Anth, PhD Psy, dwarf rogue
- Tranquil Mind, Tabaxi Monk of the Binding Oasis Clan
BMG
- Dwayne son of Dwayne, human fighter
- Essen, elf druid, part-time vulcan
- Gimblenock, gnome thief with catchphrase, "let me at 'em, let me at 'em"
- Grundark, barbarian dwarf out for revenge
- Dawn, aka Frosty the snow queen, human cleric of Lithander
Retired
- Ephut Ki Sepret, human cleric/fighter
- Malia, Jungle elf druid
- Helm Darkport, human shadow monk, with the White Step faction of the Order of the Mysteries of the Hidden Aves Reva
Cosmos
Constellations
There are over 31 known constellations.
Discontinuance Events
A discontinuance occurs when parts of a plane that were previously connected to another part of a plane are no longer connected; or when different planes become no longer connected. Discontinuance events come in both major and minor forms and cause disruptions to the planes of existence
Echo Planes
The Echo Planes are:
- Feywild
- Shadowfel
- Argeantweald
- Panthalessus
- Wyrding
The Spaces
The Spaces are:
- Quanti
- Void
- Chaos
- Great Beyond
- Threshold
- Timevoid
History
Carkade
Overview
Carkade crumbled as a civilisation so long ago (6,000 years ago) even the elves remember them only as a name and from their ruins, scattered across the world. The Carkade were a continents spanning empire whose exact homelands remain unknown to the modern world. How the Carkade expanded, the civilizations they conquered and came in contact with and their history are also unknown.
The Carkade Empire forced pacts onto other races, such as the Stone Giants and dragons which to the modern day forbid members of those races from entering protected parts of the world. Cruel subjugation, enslavement and mass sacrifice were the fate of most Carkade foes.
The Alin
Overview
The Alin were a powerful elderday race that dwelt on distant worlds. Some were so powerful they ascended into the cosmic order and became patrons to some of the Carkade elite. These ascended allowed a chosen few into their ancient mysteries and by extension thrall. The Alin were said to be to shuffle reality like a deck of cards (transformation and summoning) while the Carkade were unsurpassed in necromantic power.
The Alin were fractious and in constant conflict with others of their kind and other races. Under the influence of malevolent powers (e.g. the Horned God) over time most of the rulers and many commoners drifted into a lust for blood and destruction. This accelerated rapidly and the brutal death throes of the far flung Alin empire lead to the annihilation of many lands, worlds and deaths of untold millions of individuals.
The present day state of Alin is unknown
Sarpadian Empire
Overview
The Sarpadian Empire was a military power that conquered and ruled a large region of the northern part of the western continent. Initially a small kingdom, the militaristic Sarpadians expanded over centuries bringing to heel neighbouring duchies, principalities, tribes and kingdoms underneath the banner of one unifying empire. Their expansion commenced some 1,200 years ago, reached a zenith some 900 years ago before the utter collapse of the Empire some 500 years ago. The empire collapsed after a centuries long struggle against a deadly foe which destroyed them both.
Kingdom of Argos
A mercantile kingdom that started in the southern Focian plains, the Kingdom of Argos was contemporaneous with the Sarpadian Empire. The Kingdom of Argos existed for 500 years sending out colonies far and wide before succumbing to the same terror that saw the end of the Sarpadians.
There was a very active cult called the Cult of Bhaal within the Argos Irregulars - shock troops wielding murderous killing magic with close ties to the secret police of the kingdom.
Caridern
Overview
The Caridern are an extinct elder race of smoky blue skinned elves whose final cause of extinction is unknown to modern races. They were connected to the worlds of Eo and Cah-Galel, not to Faerun and were a society of skilled relentless warriors ruled by an elite caste of arch-mages. They sent expiditionary forces to other worlds via the Feywild before the recent minor discontinuance event started. They constructed outposts in the Feywild near places where access to the prime plane was relatively easy. The Caridern expanded outward more than 100,000 years ago, when there were fewer fissures and the Feywild linked 1,000s of worlds.
Their home was made uninhabitable in war with the Alin, and they were the builders of the "Feywild Fortress" accessed from Skaedguard.
The Caridern encountered Yurlunggur.
In Game
- SRG Party visited what was purported to be the Caridern homeworld via the Feywild Fortress
- bleak, dusty & windblown with minimal breathable atmosphere
- a desiccated Caridern corpse was found half buried in the sand of a broken surrounded by 3 dead Moranth
- Broken mountain sized metal discs on the horizon, jutting out from the ground at steep angles
- Archaeological evidence connected them to the worlds of Eo and Cah-Galel, not to Faerun
Geography
Keshin Sea and Chalk Tablelands
Overview
The Keshin Sea is a gigantic freshwater inland sea that is over 500 miles from north to south, many rivers empty into it with a large number of rivers also outflowing from it. Its exact depth is unknown, but it is generally accepted to be over a mile deep at its lowest point. There are reliable reports of cave systems honeycombing its entire length.
The Chalk Tablelands rise up from the western coast of the Keshin Sea. A true borderlands, with thin strips of civilisation surrounded by the omnipresent wilderness. The entire area sits atops the ruins of many former civilisations both human and other. The lure of hidden palaces and lost cities attracts many adventurers and fortune seekers, with many returning disappointed, beaten or not at all.
Peoples
The Helegu Khaganate
Overview
A powerful confederation of nomadic tribes that were united under a great leader Khagan Temir 300 years ago. Over the next 200 years the Helegu consolidated a huge inland khaganate obliterating and subjugating many civilisations and tribes, both human and non-human. Tens of millions million were killed during these years.
The Khaganate stretched from the cold steppes in the north, then south across grasslands, plains, deserts to the tropical savanna. It is often referred to by the Helegu as the “Land under the Eternal Blue Sky”.
The Treonol Autocracy
Overview
The Treonol Autocracy is a client state of the Roaring Host (Tocave Khan).
The nation exists on a plateau with hills to the west and east, mountains to the south and the Brass Desert to the north. It is dry and hot in summer, cool and wet in the brief winter. Thousands of years ago it was incredibly wet and lush and still maintains some remnant forests and deep lakes which are seemingly bottomless.
The eastern part of Treonol is largely borderlands and wilderness with towns strung out along the old caravan routes, which are now being turned into the fortified roads. Before the Helegu invasions the east was more heavily populated and Treonol was in constant conflict with Jayak tribes.
Treonol is ruled by Autocrat Maro Kush Nefor. Vicious and cunning, the Autocrat expands his own wealth and power at the expense of his own people while playing a dangerous game to keep the Helegu from interfering too directly.
Telehetti and the Erensari
Overview
The Erensari is a vast plains and grassland stretching over more than a thousand miles. This grass sea is interspersed with woodlands, rolling hills, deep open pits and crisscrossed by more than a dozen navigable rivers.
In the very north is the Kingdom of Serakka, which is a former client state to the Helegu.
Telehetti are the dominant ethnic humans who dwell on rest the Erensari.
Janto Traders / Janto Sea People
Overview
Across the length of the eastern cost the Janto Traders travel in huge linked caravans exceeding 60ft in length pulled by massive paraceratherium. These large multi-generational Janto trader clans frequently join up with their fleets in secret ports and other bases which are hidden from outsiders.
The different trader clans compete with each other, internally the families vie for high status and engage in an endless cycle of politicking and power plays.
Title to trade and clan property resides with the headman, who holds it in the name of the community, although family proprietors enjoy the use of Clan goods as long as they actively support Clan activities
The headman of each clan is a boss.
Teyrin Elves
Overview
Covered in blue tattoos, the Teyrin are a wide ranging and hidden kingdom of elves that stretch across much of the Western Continent.
Secretive in the extreme, the Teyrin are wild elves who lead largely nomadic lives. Skin colour is pale and slightly luminescent when born before darkening into a deep ivory when mature.
They avoid contact with other races, only occasionally making an appearance in the wider world. Even other elves find them difficult to locate and interact with.
Radiant Coast
Overview
On the far north eastern coast of the western continent, the Radiant Coast and its attendant cities are a popular highway for traders and travellers from distant Faerun and from the south, west and north of the continent (e.g. Kingdom of Jorentes; the lands of the Helegu hosts; Untari, the Erg Interior; the Stonewall States; Erensari Grasslands; the Ubarg Goblin Kingdoms; the lands of the Guptarids and Peshpekar; Obinah, Solinor & Cenopset in the Brass Desert; Empire of Golden Akkad)
The city states of the Radiant Coast include Port of Seas, Gramidern, Wolf Reach, Ordim Fell, Bericor, Keren City, Gollan City, Blue Wall, Xander, and Dragon Watch.
Moranth
Overview
The Moranth are an Elder race of humans. They wore armour sutured to their skin.
Rarely encountered in the modern day
Ephereum
Overview
The Ephereum are a race of fey with nictating eyes and green luminescent skin containing algae beneath the surface. They travel on lean barges that traverse all waterways in the connected realms. They were formerly connected by tithe to the Abyssal Demon Lord Orcus.
The Ephereum fled their home Feywild as it fragmented and seperated from its home world before beginning its slow dissolve into the void. The Feywild they originated from was not the Feywild connected to Faerun, but one connected to another unknown world.
Semudan Empire
Overview
Known as the Ruby Empire of Redin Semudan. The Emperor Oghenkaro rules from Zanji. As of current day, the Empire is 10 years into a brutal civil war between Emperor Oghenkaro and his sister Empress Ememchiamo.
Emperor Oghenkaro was the younger child of the former Emperor and was crowned as imperial ruler upon death of his father. The elder ofthe two, Ememchiamo claimed she was made heir by her father and that Oghenkaro is an usurper. The ensuring civil war has split the Empire into many different factions, and there are currently 3 cities in open rebellion to any imperial claim - Adezine, Calakpene, Yolakoja.
Stone Giants
- Overview
During the time of Carkade the Stone Giants were compelled to leave their territory by entering into pact with Aves Reva. His return puts the Stone Giants at risk as he enslaved so many last time in the “dreaming”.
Stone Giants fear the enslavement of their people to whoever controls the various Covenant stones.
Stone Giants will not cross into the territory that was once consecrated, but is now deconsecrated as part of the Covenant of Confinement.
Orcs and Orc Hordes
- Overview
- Across the western continent Orc hordes arise rapidly under self proclaimed Orc Kings or Queens across the western continent
- Each hordes draw to them hundreds of smaller Orc tribes and number in excess 100,000 individuals
- Some Orc hordes arise, make war or achieve the purpose that brought them togetehr and evaporate rapidly back into smaller bands, while others have endured for centuries
- Currently the Orc tribes of the Yavimayan are at high risk of forming into a new Orc horde
- Ojasi are a powerful and feared Orc lead mercenary Orc group
Kingdom of Jorentes
- Overview
- At the eastern fringe of Helegu influence lay the Kingdom of Jorentes.
- Jorentes controls large parts of the Saturn Mountains and the vast fertile Jorentes plateau which is surrounded by the Saturn mountains. Jorentes in the past 50 years has moved into grasslands beyond the western foothills into the territory formerly occupied by a huge number of city-states and minor kingdoms prior to Helegu invasion 300 years ago.
- The largest and most impressive Jorentes cities are housed in the Saturn Mountains and other than the capital include Lunar Major, Saltus Major, Exculis Major, Crinis Major, Andromeda.
- Cities lost to the Helegu included Prius, Canus Stellae Major and Sacrem Tor.
- King Nemedden Moonrunner rules from the capital Solis Major, atop of which sits the huge fortification of Solis Minor. Solis Minor is the last major obstacle to an army invading from the west reaching the Jorentes plateau
- Jorentes population includes millions of refugees from the times of the Helegu expansion and large populations of demi-humans. The native Jorenteans are now a minority popoulation within their kingdom.
- Solis Major sits on a high plateau guarding the largest and most accessible pass through the mounatins.
- Jorentes control extends west into the plains of former territories destroyed by the Helegu and into lands where Helegu influence has declined with the fall of the Khaganate
- Jorentes main defensive fortifications start in the foothills of the Saturn Mountains and consist of hundreds of miles of defensive walls, heavily fortified citadels and and great castles defending passes into the mountains.
Arcane
Magical Items
Arkham Bell
Rare magic item (requires attunement) Revered item of each Wererat Clan Sends the Wererats into a frenzy that grants them a level of barbarian while they can hear it and the ability to rage as a bonus action.
Chaos Cannon (Wererat Horned God Cult)
Rare magic item (requires attunement)
Dark Heart of the Night
Unique magic item
The Dark Heart of the Night was created from of one of Yurlunggur’s Avatars who is in a perpetual state of Torpor. Its ability to transcend planes and exist in multiple states at once allows the Wyrding and Feywild to be channelled through it to the mortal world.
The Dark Heart is over 100,000 years old and was created spontaneously when Wonambi descended upon the world and instigated a catastrophe which swept the western continent by triggering the failure of a series of ancient ice dams.
Engineer’s Juggernaut Armour (Wererat Horned God Cult)
Rare magic item (requires attunement)
Staff of Feywild
Rare magic item (requires attunement)
Staff of Shadowfel
Rare magic item (requires attunement) There is one unique staff that is aligned with a unique Staff of the Feywild. When paired they serve as control keys for the Pale House artefact mechanism.
A Bronze Band which belongs on the head of the staff allows the wielder to access magical powers.
Zombie Master’s Rattlestick
The rattlestick has a number of powers that target and affect undead.
Sundial of the Royal Household of Jorentes
An artefact of significant power
Magic
Constructs
Antagonists & Protagonists
Elder Gods
Originally 31 Elder Gods, when the first Latter-day God emerged there were only 13 - Aves Reva, The Horned God, Ammutseba, Hecate, Yurlunggur, Architeuthis, Astares, Ereshkigal, Eonatator Urnericii, Nopcsai Waipariensis, Azathoth, ???, ???.
Gods
Distant Players
Latter-day gods can no longer enter the prime plane in any meaningful way. They can send avatars or directly communicate with their followers but even these methods make them extremely vulnerable to others.
The Latter-day gods are a million years product of regeneration, fusing, divine birth & rebirth and spontaneous creation. The bones of fallen latter-day gods litter the multiverse, slowing returning to the spaces, their divine spark absorbed by another god, held onto by powerful beings, set free to reform or regenerate as a new god.
The Hall of Lamentations contains the sacred image of every god that has ever existed.
Powerful & Cosmic Beings
Witch Queens
There are 3 Witch Queens known to modern day warlocks, although in the past there were more - Emtariath - Witch Queen of the Aphotic, Toruja - Witch Queen of Otherwhere, and Sili - Witch Queen of Lamentations.
Hosts of the Feywild
Marquis Artimar Mal Adra (Lord of the Silvery Sea, Preserver of the Deltic Knots, Watcher in the Evenwoods and Delusion’s Favourite Child)
One of the powerful lords of the Feywild and patron of the Bruja Ubusera
Unseelie Lady Nakiasha Wysayra keeper of Angelfire
Patron of High Steward Eeked Vandorack
Lady Auchomelgen
"blessings and protection be upon you"
Protector and defender of the scattered Ephereum throng
Loa
- Powerful spirits who are connected to the Elder Gods, and sometimes serve as intermediaries or messengers between mortals and the Elder Gods
- Can grant powers, bestow blessings or smite with curses depending on successful ritual
- Often "ride" mortals as part of a ritual or when granting power or if successfully called upon during a ritual
- In game
- Papan Geele and Maman Briggette are currently riding Lord Zyrell and Lady Afra of the Emerald's Blaze
- Afra/Briggette showed the SRG the destructive force of the Ink while not alerting Zyrell/Geele to their presence
- Afra/Briggette froze the SRG in suspended animation in the Spaces, used the Ink present in the Professor's body as a lure while the real Ink was concealed and taken to a remote destination (the now overgrown Summer Palace of the former Gaoro Dynasty of Semudan)
- In game
Sorcerer King of Sosso
- Incredibly old, was the leader of the Sosso rebellion against the Semudan Empire more than 670 years ago
- Is actively looking for the ink of Architeuthis
- Resides in the former kingdom of Fallen Sosso, seep within the Semudan jungle
- Recently the Sorcerer King has emerged from the shadows and intends to reclaim his crown as the preeminent force of magic in Semudan
- The Sorcerer King has enlisted other allies in coordinated attacks against temples all across Semudan, and against all those that supported the Paladins of Tal in their assualts on his realm over the past 20+ years
- Many beings owe him favours which he always calls in
- Is capable of calling upon the powers of the Great Old Ones, Destroyers, Titans, Shadow Kings, the Elder Things, Demon Lords and Arch Devils
- Is in contact with the Mummies of Carkade after their recent emergance from the Time Void
Zoroaster, Gold Dragon King
- Felt, heard and sensed rather than seen
- Can move others across time and place
- His tomb beneath Hecates Advent is moving backwards through time and contains the claw of the first gold dragon monarch
- Is spread thin, not by space but by time
- Exists simultaneously in multiple timelines
- In Game
- BMG contacted him in his tomb beneath Hecates Advent
- Sent the BMG into the past during the creation of the first Nightmare Child
- Sent the BMG into the future when "the Enemy" was assaulting the city of Solis Maior in the Kindom of Jorentes
- "When is this place?"
- "This time is wrong. Your place is not here."
Nightmare Child
- Construction of the first Nightmare Child was overseen by The Painted Man, an undead Carkade High Priest of Aves Reva
- Nightmare Child; huge, bleak and spewing undeath.
- Progeny of Aves Reva, the Nightmare Child was birthed at midnight after a lengthy ritual that concluded with Aves Reva itself reaching into a specially prepared pit with all the specially prepared components to give it form in the mortal world
- Components included poison from wyverns, generated in the soil of a mass grave, sufficient mass of corpses, 13 ritual stone chargers filled with the blood of 13 mortals every 13th day on 13 occasions, 2 nightmare shrines dedicated to Aves Reva (inversions of each other), 169 clay pots of demon blood, charcoal from 13 trees all 13 y.o. to draw the magic symbols, 13 blood onyx minimum value 5000 gp each, 13 large nightmare nets within the outer layers of the summoning circle woven only at midnight under a full moon or new moon with the blood of the sacrificed and stitched using the ligaments of victims, a major arcana (nightmare servant of Aves Reva) as a spark to channel the elder divine power
Titans
- Enceladus
- Polaris
- Ganymede
- Callisto
- Tethys
- Orion
- Sirius
- Eurycides
Important NPCs
- Boss Jari, Boss of the Janto Clan Crokuz
- Bruja Ubusara
- The Crag, living embodiment of the Dark Heart of the Night
- Captain Bail Kenzee of the Skaedguard
- Eekeb Vandorack, Warlock of Skaedguard
- Drake Olgad, First Sword of the Skaedguard
- Jessudu the Sumptuous, exiled Marid Noblewoman
- Mama Tet of the Starless Communion
- Kavos the Warlock, Servant of a Faceless Master, Seeker of the blade of Basi Dynameos and Walker in the footsteps of Zareus the Slayer of Great Kings
Cults/Groups
- Cannibals & shape-shifters
- Perform rituals near the Tower of Astarte
- Have previously allied to the Sorcerer King
- Mama Tet's favoured guardian is a Bakenzenzi soultaken
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Known to exist on the eastern continent of Faerun
- Dedicated to the service and return of Ammutseba
- Have been working closely with the returning Mummies of Carkade
- Prominent following among the wererat clans who worship the Horned God
- Overseen by wandering Grey Seers
- Ranks within the Mystery include Rooks, Engineers, Runners, Grey Seers, Chiefs
- Each rank has their own specific shrine
- Runners Shrine - Image of Skeletal Hybrid Wererat dressed in black
- Rooks Shrine - Image of a Giant Rats skull in the form of the Day of the Dead
- Grey Seers Shrine - Image of robed wererat with fiery mantle & horns
- Engineers Shrine - A Juggernaut made of iron & skulls
- Chiefs Shrine - Darkened and bloodied image of the horned god
Ruled over by the Crag in the Treonol Autocracy, this cult seeks a return to the old ways of living
At its centre is the Dark Heart of the Night, an artefact powered by Wonambi
Order of the Mysteries of the Hidden Aves Reva
- This Order follows the teachings of their founder Cane Hollow
- Differences of opinions concerning Cane Hollow’s teachings have caused the order to fracture along the line of several factions
- The three known factions are White Step, Blue Step and Indigo Step
- Were Witnesses at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- The Monks of Oba follow attempt to understand Aves Reva’s connection to shadow and dark, to make better use of shadow and dark both within themselves and to manipulate the external world
- Their leader's title is 'Sechum'.
Eventide Shield (mercenaries)
The Eventide Shield are a mercenary group with several chapter houses across the western continent. They have a fearsome reputation, always fulfill their contract and always sell to the highest bidder.
They have sold their services to the Helegu Khaganate among others
20 years ago one chapter was employed by the Roaring Host to destroy a rebellious general who had taken up refuge in an abandoned fortress at the fringes of the Brass Desert near the Paracer Ascension.
For destroying the rebel general, his army and his followers Captain Bail Kenzee were allowed a share of the loot which included a +1 greataxe that was formerly in possession of the general’s Jinserric1 personal champion.
Captain Bail’s chapter spent a further 10 years in the pay of the Roaring Host finishing up in Treonol selling their services to the Autocrat. They were heavily involved in massacre at Phobos2, the Gestahl bloodbath3 and Jeshi Widom4 execution.
They have small chapter house, on a fortified hill 10 miles outside the Citadel of the Autocrat.
5 years ago after the Jeshi Widon execution, the Captain retired somewhere to the south of Trenol near the western edge of the Erensari in the Chalk Tablelands; which is on the northwestern edge of the inland freshwater ‘the Keshin Sea’. The Rakis Rift on the western side of the Chalk Tablelands is a huge natural barrier hundreds of miles long, routinely 10 miles wide and many miles deep in places.
He took with him the Great Axe (nick-named the ‘woodcutter’), which he wielded along with a shining greatsword, a personal retinue of guards, his best friend and personal champion Drake Olgad, his lifelong household steward Eekeb Vandorack and an entire household worth of slaves & servants awarded him by the Autocrat.
Leadership:
- Rin Darkfighter - Captain of the Eventide Shield Mercenaries (Treonol Chapterhouse)
- Cos Andromias - High Steward of the Eventide Shield Mercenaries (Treonol Chapterhouse). Cos is also a High Priest of Bhaal
- Notes
1 Jinserric are a northern tribal people
2 Thousands of combatants and noncombatants deemed to be enemies of the Autocracy hunted down and ‘defeated’ by the Autocrat
3 The annihilation of a united Jayak army (the Jayak were the tribal people who were part-integrated part-at war with the Treonol who warned you about the Tiefling’s curse
4 Well-known ‘hero’ of the Autocracy who became a people’s champion when he was seen to be politically taking on the ruthless Grand Merchant Ruslan of House Mederen; executed at the order of the Autocrat after being declared enemy of the state and a massive manhunt
- An order older than Semudan from the Time of the Warlords
- Assassins, spies and killers
- Founded by “Geele”
- Were witnesses at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Elite fighter school
- Secret goals of one world emperor under martial rules with the military preeminent
- Reverence of ancient beings and gods dedicated to war, slaughter and destruction
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Mercenary Army with many splinter factions
- Powerful political players with their own compounds throughout parts of Semudan
- Loathed but feared and useful
- Among other reasons they are used by other secret societies and Semudan nobility for assassinations, intimidation and guerilla warfare
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Believe in hard-core blood sacrifice to be beloved among the gods
- Blood of mortals for the blood given by the gods
- Other religious practices are useless, soft and taking us farther away from the gods
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Seeking power and protection via the Gods worshipped during the reign of Carkade
- All Death and Destruction Gods
- 3 Elder Gods
who stand above 10 latter-day gods
- Beshaba (misfortune)
- Bhaal (murder)
- Bane (war)
- Shar (death)
- Erythnul (slaughter)
- Nerull (death)
- Takhisis (hatred)
- Chemosh (undead)
- Morgion (disease)
- Nuitari (apathy)
- Were Witnesses at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Magicians dedicated to the obtainment of magical and esoteric power
- Have a base in the lost city of Sosso known only to the inner circle
- Were Witnesses at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Practitioners of the mysteries of "zaka" (specific practices revering and using the Loa)
- Following in the “true” footsteps of the Sorcerer King
- Inner circle followers are known as "the Cherished"
- Called a Palanquin Convocation
- Seekers of Esoteric knowledge
- Wanting to rule from behind the scenes, using magic to influence the throne
- Want to use the Semudan empire to further their own power and control over the “unseen” world
- Were Witnesses at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
Impalpable Chosen of Skullbriar
- Warlocks, cultists, necromancers and servants under the sway of Shadowfel entity “Skullbriar”
- Was an enemy of the Sorcerer King
- Skullbriar is a long ago fallen Titan whose original name is now unknown
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Believers in the “patrons”
- Have contact with “Pelu Tolo” - aka the patrons
- View the Pelu Tolo as the true rulers and creators of the people
- Were Witnesses at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Cultists dedicated to return of the Elder Gods
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Seekers and users of occult knowledge who wish to rule overtly over the hidden and seen world with humans as rulers over all and the Golden Brazier as elite over all humans
- Wanting a paradise; believe in the greatness of ancient “supermen”
- Were Witnesses at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
The Djembe (the rope)
- Loosely allied thieves-criminal organisation spreading across all of Semudan
- Required reverence of the silent Carcharias who commands all
- Traders in esoteric and forbidden objects
- Each chapter is ruled by a “Kingfish”
- Breakers of bones and thugs
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Believers in the imminent arrival and rising of new gods
- True bright eyed believers wanting to see the modern gods and Elder Gods burn
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were shadow observers at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
Arcane Hall of the Great University
- Were Witnesses at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were Witnesses at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were Witnesses at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were Witnesses at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were Witnesses at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
- Were Witnesses at the Palanquin Convocation called by Emerald’s Blaze
Monsters
- Drakes
- Wind Drakes
- Drakes
- Flights are lead by a Lore Keeper
- Long serpentine bodies
- Transparent and slightly amorphous
- Air elemental nature
- Rarely (if ever) land, spend their lives in perpetual flight
- Have been known to provide tribute or service to Cloud Giants
- In Game
Wind Drake Lorekeeper granted the SRG the 1st blessing to add 2 to any attack, saving throw, skill check, ability check 1x long rest after the roll
- Su Monster
- Lean canid body, sharp claws on gripping hands and feet, elongated hominid face
- HD 6d8+6, 33 hp
- AC 16
- Psychic energy attack
- Failed save causes additional stunning effects, multiple failures add levels of exhaustion
- Were brought to Faerun by Mind Flayers as pets and hunting companions during the height of their empire in the time before Carkade
- Zombies
- Abattoir Zombie
- Zombies
- Gains temporary hp equal to damage done (5-6 on d6)
- Reaper Zombie
- Does necrotic damage in addition to normal damage
- Bog Zombie (Bog Raider)
- Has sneak attack and stealth
- Zombie Master
- Command and power up zombies
- Quicker and smarter than other zombies
- Does not stay destroyed like other zombies after being reduced to 0 hit points
- Zombie Juggernaut
- Has undead fortitude against all attacks
- Can expel actions to massively regenerate
- Vesper Zombie
- Drain other zombies to throw necrotic energy at enemies
- Specters and lesser incorporeal undead
- Hypnotic Specter
- Specters and lesser incorporeal undead
- Huger, stronger & more danderous than regular spectres
- Have a Hypnotic Glare that stuns
- Transitional-state makes all attacks against them difficult on failed charisma saves
- Skulking Shade
- Weak individually
- Gain in strength the larger the pack
- Do poison damage
Events
Timeline
Secret Chest of Forbidden Knowledge
- Atlantis
- A legendary city that symbolises everything magical and unknown
- In Game
- Gates from Atlantis were at the entrance into Hecate's Advent
- The gates were packed with sigils and were more than 250,000 years old
- Witch Queen Sili offered Professor Rubens the location of Atlantis in return for his service to her
- Hall of Lamentations
- Contains the sacred image of every god that has ever existed
- Includes Gods where all knowledge and memory of them has ceased and can no longer exist outside of the Hall
- Crafted and created by the now millions year extinct Eldar Elves
- Hecate's Advent
- Location of one of the first 3 temples ever dedicated to Hecate
- Contains the Ruby Chamber
- Former throne room of the ancient Eldar who had contact with the original Atlantis millions of years ago
- The Chamber and the main door to the chamber were all from the original Atlantis before the Eldar managed to manipulate the chamber into the world.
- The Ruby Chamber was used as a sacred place for the Eldar to commune directly with Hecate
- A artefact statue of Hecate is suspended face down from the roof of the chamber above the central pit.
- Exemplar of each character
Prophecy for each of the BMG which they briefly inhabited in a possible future
- The Machinist - Gimblenock
- The Green Heart - Essen
- The Warlord - Dwayne
- The Queen - Dawn
- The Slayer - Grundark
- Great Treaty of the Yavimayan Orc
A treaty being forced upon the Orcs of the Yavimayan Forest by the Osaji Orcs. To date only an unsigned copy of the Great Treaty of the Yavimayan Orc stolen from the Whitefalls Furies Orc Clan has been found
Session Notes
BMRG
SRG
- February 19
- December 18
- October 18
- August 18
- July 18
- June 18
- February 18
- January 18
- ...
- August 17
- July 17
- May 17
- March 17
- February 17
- January 17
- November 16
- October 16
- September 16
- August 16
- July 16
- June 16
- May 16
- April 16
- March 16
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