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Okay, this might be a long one. Im going to copy some text from the books because some of it confuses me and there are some inconsistencies. Maybe one of you can help explain it a bit better.
Campaign guide. 200 years ago the connection to the plane of air was damaged, so now no spell or magic item can allow for permanent flight. PCs can still have flight magic of their own, but no effect ever lasts longer than five minutes, and people still react to flying mages with amazement because of how rare the magic is. Only one person in the setting, the fey terrorist Gale, has the ability to fly perpetually at the start of the adventure path.
#1 Axis Island. As stated in the Campaign Guide, the Ancients who created the Axis Seal carved runes and symbols into trees as part of the ritual. These carvings, along with specially crafted golden icons, drew a small group of planes to this world. The ancients used magic to turn the trees to stone and lower them into the earth, ensuring a strong connection between the worlds.They then crafted smaller stone pillars, and placed them in a pit be-neath the massive golden Axis Seal in the center of the island. This locked the connections in place.The Danorans dug mines on Axis Island to retrieve iron ore, but Obscu-rati members guided their excavations toward the locations of the ancient petrified trees. For their ultimate plan, the Obscurati will need to replace the icons each tree is tied to, which is why Nicolas Dupiers has two already.The ancients did not know about the sea cave when they lowered this pillar into the earth. The force of tides and erosion broke the pillar, which weakened the world’s connection to Avilona, the plane of air. Recall that in Zeitgeist, flight magic is limited.
#6 Madman. Another challenge is an odd weather phenomenon that floats near the island. On the west coast, stretching between the island and the mainland, there is a constant storm system that produces incessant rain and erratic winds but, eerily, never any lightning or thunder.Thousands of years ago, this was the site of the Ziggurat of Avilona, where the Ancients protected this world’s connection to the plane of air. That connection was damaged two centuries ago—meddling by the Obscurati at this ziggurat coincided with the white pillar on Axis Island containing the golden icon of Avilona cracking—which resulted in the downfall of the dragon tyrants. Isla dolas Focas still hosts a few Ancient structures and the party might come across megaliths and primitive carvings of flying beasts.As for the ziggurat itself, it’s several thousand feet overhead, on a floating island hidden in the stormclouds.
#8 Diaspora. Centuries earlier, Kasvarina explains to Nicodemus and another Sovereign (who borrows a cigarette) what has gone wrong. They’d found the Ancient ziggurat of Avilona on an island in the sky, floating over the domain of some dragon tyrant. Kasvarina and a few researchers flew up to it, unearthed a golden seal, and found a portal to the plane of air. After extensive divinations they attempted to replace the seal with another one and steer the portal to a different plane. That succeeded for only a few moments before some powerful destructive energy blasted outward. Kasvarina and the others fled the island, and nearly died when suddenly their flight magic failed. Two problems are obvious. First, they can’t get back to the floating island to try again, not unless Danor’s engineers can use their new steam furnaces to power a mechanical bird. And second, clearly their understanding of the Ancient ritual was flawed. Kavarina thinks they’re lucky the damage wasn’t worse, and won’t risk testing at the ziggurat of Av until they know more. Nicodemus throws his cigarette away, then curses at Kasvarina for failing.
Description of Avilona in the Final Act: Avilona, The final murmur. Air, Death. Flight is limited to five minutes.
Couple questions here.
1) All the original planes have a petrified tree, Does the Obscurati make new trees for their new planes?
2) In the first module it is stated that the erosion is what broke the tree and caused the Skyfall. In the 6th module its revealed that the OB damaged the Ziggurat in Ber. Did the problem at the Ziggurat cause the problem with the tree? Or is that irrelevant? What connection do the Ziggurats and the Trees have?
3) Did Kasvarina, when she tried changinng the plane of Air, permanently damage it? is that why Avilona only allow flight for less than 5 minutes at a time? The skyseer vision of the bird dieing them actually seeing that bird when travelling to the plane later hints towards that.
4) What was flying like before the Ob tried changing the planes? How did that affect dragons specifically? Also does that affect other creatures who have flight speeds or only the magical flying of Dragons?
5) One of my players is playing a Dragon Disciple and will grow wings and get a fly speed soon, how will this affect her?
Campaign guide. 200 years ago the connection to the plane of air was damaged, so now no spell or magic item can allow for permanent flight. PCs can still have flight magic of their own, but no effect ever lasts longer than five minutes, and people still react to flying mages with amazement because of how rare the magic is. Only one person in the setting, the fey terrorist Gale, has the ability to fly perpetually at the start of the adventure path.
#1 Axis Island. As stated in the Campaign Guide, the Ancients who created the Axis Seal carved runes and symbols into trees as part of the ritual. These carvings, along with specially crafted golden icons, drew a small group of planes to this world. The ancients used magic to turn the trees to stone and lower them into the earth, ensuring a strong connection between the worlds.They then crafted smaller stone pillars, and placed them in a pit be-neath the massive golden Axis Seal in the center of the island. This locked the connections in place.The Danorans dug mines on Axis Island to retrieve iron ore, but Obscu-rati members guided their excavations toward the locations of the ancient petrified trees. For their ultimate plan, the Obscurati will need to replace the icons each tree is tied to, which is why Nicolas Dupiers has two already.The ancients did not know about the sea cave when they lowered this pillar into the earth. The force of tides and erosion broke the pillar, which weakened the world’s connection to Avilona, the plane of air. Recall that in Zeitgeist, flight magic is limited.
#6 Madman. Another challenge is an odd weather phenomenon that floats near the island. On the west coast, stretching between the island and the mainland, there is a constant storm system that produces incessant rain and erratic winds but, eerily, never any lightning or thunder.Thousands of years ago, this was the site of the Ziggurat of Avilona, where the Ancients protected this world’s connection to the plane of air. That connection was damaged two centuries ago—meddling by the Obscurati at this ziggurat coincided with the white pillar on Axis Island containing the golden icon of Avilona cracking—which resulted in the downfall of the dragon tyrants. Isla dolas Focas still hosts a few Ancient structures and the party might come across megaliths and primitive carvings of flying beasts.As for the ziggurat itself, it’s several thousand feet overhead, on a floating island hidden in the stormclouds.
#8 Diaspora. Centuries earlier, Kasvarina explains to Nicodemus and another Sovereign (who borrows a cigarette) what has gone wrong. They’d found the Ancient ziggurat of Avilona on an island in the sky, floating over the domain of some dragon tyrant. Kasvarina and a few researchers flew up to it, unearthed a golden seal, and found a portal to the plane of air. After extensive divinations they attempted to replace the seal with another one and steer the portal to a different plane. That succeeded for only a few moments before some powerful destructive energy blasted outward. Kasvarina and the others fled the island, and nearly died when suddenly their flight magic failed. Two problems are obvious. First, they can’t get back to the floating island to try again, not unless Danor’s engineers can use their new steam furnaces to power a mechanical bird. And second, clearly their understanding of the Ancient ritual was flawed. Kavarina thinks they’re lucky the damage wasn’t worse, and won’t risk testing at the ziggurat of Av until they know more. Nicodemus throws his cigarette away, then curses at Kasvarina for failing.
Description of Avilona in the Final Act: Avilona, The final murmur. Air, Death. Flight is limited to five minutes.
Couple questions here.
1) All the original planes have a petrified tree, Does the Obscurati make new trees for their new planes?
2) In the first module it is stated that the erosion is what broke the tree and caused the Skyfall. In the 6th module its revealed that the OB damaged the Ziggurat in Ber. Did the problem at the Ziggurat cause the problem with the tree? Or is that irrelevant? What connection do the Ziggurats and the Trees have?
3) Did Kasvarina, when she tried changinng the plane of Air, permanently damage it? is that why Avilona only allow flight for less than 5 minutes at a time? The skyseer vision of the bird dieing them actually seeing that bird when travelling to the plane later hints towards that.
4) What was flying like before the Ob tried changing the planes? How did that affect dragons specifically? Also does that affect other creatures who have flight speeds or only the magical flying of Dragons?
5) One of my players is playing a Dragon Disciple and will grow wings and get a fly speed soon, how will this affect her?
