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<blockquote data-quote="Bravesword" data-source="post: 6769256" data-attributes="member: 61095"><p>Hello there!</p><p></p><p>First of all, thank you for your ideas and concepts for the D&D 5e rules for Al-Qadim Quickleaf, your job is amazing! I began to search on the web for an adaptation for Al-Aqdim to D&D 5e and found your thread!</p><p></p><p>My idea here would be to present some concepts to update the main history and current events of Zakhara, seeking to have an updated version of the Al-Qadim for both D&D 5e and for the Forgotten Realms post-Second Sundering. I am looking initially to bring some up to date events for the Land of Fate, using your rules as a stating point. These updates are based essentially upon setting material for Al-Qadim Campaign Setting, AD&D 2nd edition (including Planescape) as well as D&D 3rd-5th edition and Pathfinder.</p><p></p><p><em><strong>The Land of Fate and the Dark Omens</strong></em></p><p><em><strong></strong></em></p><p>After the event that sages called the Fall of the Veil (that was called in the North the Spellplague), the people from Zakhara suffered great setbacks and challenges, which were revealed to the Grand Caliph as the Dark Omens by an ancient celestial entity of the ancient Ahura race (a kind of arabian angel), sent by the eight gods of the Path of Enlightenment.</p><p></p><p><strong>The First Dark Omen: The Revenge of the Genies</strong></p><p><strong></strong>The First of the Dark Omens spoke of the revenge of the “elemental slaves”, which would come to the world unbound due to the Fall of the Veil, seeking to conquer the mortals that enslaved them in bottles and asked them several wishes. With the Fall of the Veil, the planar barriers separating the four elemental planes and the Material Plane grew thin, allowing portals and passages to be opened and maintained for great amounts of time, and also creating planar nexus in places of great abundance of certain elements (the sea, the deserts, volcanos and windstorms). With these passages opened, the great rulers of the genies called the Four Sovereign came to Zakhara, seeking to expand their domains of the Land of Fate.</p><p></p><p>The Four Sovereigns are:</p><p></p><p>- The Great Khan of the Dao: Kabril Ali al-Sara al-Zalazil;</p><p>- The Honorable Maharaja* of the Djinn: Husam al-Balil ben Nafhat al-Yugayyim;</p><p>- The Most Respected Sultan of the Efreet: Marrake al-Sidan al-Hariq ben Lazan;</p><p>- The Ancient Padisha of the Marid: Kalbari al-Durrat al-Amway ibn Jari</p><p></p><p>* I preferred to not use the title Caliph here (used in the official products), in order to differentiate it from the human Grand Caliph that still rule most of the civilized world (see below).</p><p></p><p>Their arrival created another event, which some sages say that also occurred in the northern lands of the realm of Calimshan: the Elemental Awakening. Some mortals that were descended from genies awoke their elemental spark, and were transformed into genasi. The sages do not know if the genies knew that such event would be triggered due to their invasion of Zakhara or not, but they promptly enlisted the genasi into their own ranks in the conflicts that succeeded.</p><p></p><p><strong>The Second Dark Omen: The Schism of the Faiths</strong></p><p>The Ahura spoke of a Second Dark Omen that was related to a great schism in the faith of the men living in the Land of Fate, that would be separated into several different groups, wit two main and larger sects: The Eight Gods of the so named Path of Enlightenment and the League of the Pantheon would become different and (as the mindset of some) rival religions, resulting in the formation of the Holy Emirates of the Pantheon, composed from the former cities of the League of the Pantheon. They would sever their ties from the Empire, which would become the Caliphate, having Huzuz as its capital and the other greatest cities like Hiyal and Hawa as important political and commercial centers.</p><p></p><p>These new countries would begin a cold war of coin, ink and sometimes sword to dominate and rule the Land of Fate, seeking to expand their influence over other places, like the Free Cities of the North and the Pearl Cities, as well and facing the threat of the genies and their genasi servants.</p><p></p><p><strong>The Third Dark Omen: The Coming of the Adversary</strong></p><p>The Third Dark Omen is related to the coming of an ancient evil and its horde of demonic servants from the Lower Planes. The fiend Ahriman, lord of the Divs (undead genies from the Lower Planes), would also come to the Zakhara from an ancient portal in the Haunted land in the north, fighting genie and mortal alike and threatening all Land of Fate. Such prophecies and auguries would say that only the union of men and genies would be capable of turning the tide and avoiding the conquest of Ahriman and its hordes. But with their faiths and alliances shattered and separated, such mission would be practicably impossible.</p><p></p><p>In addition of the three Dark Omen described above, the Ahura spoke of a <em>fourth</em>, so terrible that the Grand Caliph refused to mention it even to its most faithful viziers. What the angelic entity informed in his dire prophecies, it was destined t the Grand Caliph´s ears alone.</p><p></p><p><strong>Other events</strong></p><p>Near the free cities of the north of Zakhara, a new hold was created by strange ajami wizards from the torn land of Halruaa, that arrived almost one hundred years ago in their skyships fleeing the disaster of their homeland. They created a city-state there, contrary to the interests of the other Free Cities, and they would live in an uneasy truce since them. Even with the recent news that their land returned to the northern continent of Faerun, some would stay still in the Land of Fate, bringing suspicious eyes and conflicts with urban powers such as Muluk, Qudra, Liham and Umara.</p><p></p><p>This is an initial brainstorming of ideas and concepts for a fresh new campaign for Al-Qadim in D&D 5e. Please share your thoughts, comments, critics and suggestions!</p><p></p><p>OBS 2: sorry for any mistake in English here, I am Brazilian! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bravesword, post: 6769256, member: 61095"] Hello there! First of all, thank you for your ideas and concepts for the D&D 5e rules for Al-Qadim Quickleaf, your job is amazing! I began to search on the web for an adaptation for Al-Aqdim to D&D 5e and found your thread! My idea here would be to present some concepts to update the main history and current events of Zakhara, seeking to have an updated version of the Al-Qadim for both D&D 5e and for the Forgotten Realms post-Second Sundering. I am looking initially to bring some up to date events for the Land of Fate, using your rules as a stating point. These updates are based essentially upon setting material for Al-Qadim Campaign Setting, AD&D 2nd edition (including Planescape) as well as D&D 3rd-5th edition and Pathfinder. [I][B]The Land of Fate and the Dark Omens [/B][/I] After the event that sages called the Fall of the Veil (that was called in the North the Spellplague), the people from Zakhara suffered great setbacks and challenges, which were revealed to the Grand Caliph as the Dark Omens by an ancient celestial entity of the ancient Ahura race (a kind of arabian angel), sent by the eight gods of the Path of Enlightenment. [B]The First Dark Omen: The Revenge of the Genies [/B]The First of the Dark Omens spoke of the revenge of the “elemental slaves”, which would come to the world unbound due to the Fall of the Veil, seeking to conquer the mortals that enslaved them in bottles and asked them several wishes. With the Fall of the Veil, the planar barriers separating the four elemental planes and the Material Plane grew thin, allowing portals and passages to be opened and maintained for great amounts of time, and also creating planar nexus in places of great abundance of certain elements (the sea, the deserts, volcanos and windstorms). With these passages opened, the great rulers of the genies called the Four Sovereign came to Zakhara, seeking to expand their domains of the Land of Fate. The Four Sovereigns are: - The Great Khan of the Dao: Kabril Ali al-Sara al-Zalazil; - The Honorable Maharaja* of the Djinn: Husam al-Balil ben Nafhat al-Yugayyim; - The Most Respected Sultan of the Efreet: Marrake al-Sidan al-Hariq ben Lazan; - The Ancient Padisha of the Marid: Kalbari al-Durrat al-Amway ibn Jari * I preferred to not use the title Caliph here (used in the official products), in order to differentiate it from the human Grand Caliph that still rule most of the civilized world (see below). Their arrival created another event, which some sages say that also occurred in the northern lands of the realm of Calimshan: the Elemental Awakening. Some mortals that were descended from genies awoke their elemental spark, and were transformed into genasi. The sages do not know if the genies knew that such event would be triggered due to their invasion of Zakhara or not, but they promptly enlisted the genasi into their own ranks in the conflicts that succeeded. [B]The Second Dark Omen: The Schism of the Faiths[/B] The Ahura spoke of a Second Dark Omen that was related to a great schism in the faith of the men living in the Land of Fate, that would be separated into several different groups, wit two main and larger sects: The Eight Gods of the so named Path of Enlightenment and the League of the Pantheon would become different and (as the mindset of some) rival religions, resulting in the formation of the Holy Emirates of the Pantheon, composed from the former cities of the League of the Pantheon. They would sever their ties from the Empire, which would become the Caliphate, having Huzuz as its capital and the other greatest cities like Hiyal and Hawa as important political and commercial centers. These new countries would begin a cold war of coin, ink and sometimes sword to dominate and rule the Land of Fate, seeking to expand their influence over other places, like the Free Cities of the North and the Pearl Cities, as well and facing the threat of the genies and their genasi servants. [B]The Third Dark Omen: The Coming of the Adversary[/B] The Third Dark Omen is related to the coming of an ancient evil and its horde of demonic servants from the Lower Planes. The fiend Ahriman, lord of the Divs (undead genies from the Lower Planes), would also come to the Zakhara from an ancient portal in the Haunted land in the north, fighting genie and mortal alike and threatening all Land of Fate. Such prophecies and auguries would say that only the union of men and genies would be capable of turning the tide and avoiding the conquest of Ahriman and its hordes. But with their faiths and alliances shattered and separated, such mission would be practicably impossible. In addition of the three Dark Omen described above, the Ahura spoke of a [I]fourth[/I], so terrible that the Grand Caliph refused to mention it even to its most faithful viziers. What the angelic entity informed in his dire prophecies, it was destined t the Grand Caliph´s ears alone. [B]Other events[/B] Near the free cities of the north of Zakhara, a new hold was created by strange ajami wizards from the torn land of Halruaa, that arrived almost one hundred years ago in their skyships fleeing the disaster of their homeland. They created a city-state there, contrary to the interests of the other Free Cities, and they would live in an uneasy truce since them. Even with the recent news that their land returned to the northern continent of Faerun, some would stay still in the Land of Fate, bringing suspicious eyes and conflicts with urban powers such as Muluk, Qudra, Liham and Umara. This is an initial brainstorming of ideas and concepts for a fresh new campaign for Al-Qadim in D&D 5e. Please share your thoughts, comments, critics and suggestions! OBS 2: sorry for any mistake in English here, I am Brazilian! :cool: [/QUOTE]
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