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Hey everyone, been a while, I have a great campaign going on right now and wanted to share the basic plot with all of you. It takes some ideas from Asura's Wrath but only loosely and that game deserves more love anyway. Lol.
Here you go.
My current campaign is pretty interesting.
The main country Aurellia is a Roman style civilization built by humans who got in an ill fated war with the orcs of the mighty mountains about 500 years ago.
The Humans, the original Aurellians were a Roman style civilization that over a period of about 300 years expanded their territory from one end of the continent to the other.
The planet is much larger than earth and the equator gets much hotter making it too inhospitable for most humans but not for orcs. The north is too cold for orcs but not for humans so it has a sort of natural balance.
The Orcs specialized in horse archery and mounted combat where as the humans used long pikes and heavy scutum shields which are like tower shields but can't be used for cover but can be used as a weapon.
The Orcs dominated the south the humans the north. Both sides were warlike people who eventually through a series of raids and deteriorating relations ended up going to war though who started it is lost to time. The Orcs limited magic was nearly useless against the powerful warmages, wizards and elven spellcasters the humans employed and the early stages of the war were nearly lopsided.
But the orcs had a nasty trick up their sleeve, Cancer Magi, the orcs developed a hideous plague that wiped out the humans to near extinction.
9/10th of the humans were decimated and the majority of the rest fled or were enslaved, this wasn't an isolated event but a mass culling that stretched from one end of the continent to the other.
In little more than 10 years the entire north was replaced by the orcish invaders. Living alongside the humans were hobbits who worked as laborers and skilled craftsmen, they were largely ignored by the orcs who allowed them to stay as long as they provided what they provided to the humans.
The north was far too cold for them however and over time less and less orcs stayed until within about 50 years the area lost over 80% of it's orcish inhabitants. The gnomes who populated the forests of the Aurellian north had amassed large numbers and had a knack for illusion magic of which the orcs were particularly vulnerable to.
They hatched a plot, they were allies with the humans before the war and buried their wealth from the orcs when they arrived and once the orcs were weak enough and sated enough they attacked.
They made the clouds part and made it rain meteors and celestial arrows from above, the weak willed orcs ranks broke and almost immediately it was a route. They city by city pushed the orcs out, lobbing just enough spells to frighten them and kill enough to make it believable. The gnomes secured the north. They expected a counter attack but it never came and all the cities left behind in generally still functional fashion were theirs for the taking. The hobbits were more than happy to service their new gnome patrons and the gnomes over the last few hundred years have become a powerful force.
The humans once decimated by disease are now the front line and backbone of their military and the gnomes themselves live in cities that dwarf their neighbors in size and splendor.
Several months ago a plot by a group calling themselves the Coalition a group of Darklings, Dark Kin, Duergar and Derro led by the Spriggan nation and controlled by a mysterious force known as the Briarthorn has been attacking and kidnapping and mentally enslaving the frontier lands that border with the orcs.
There have been many fierce battles but a darker and more horrible force has been lurking in the edges threatening to wipe out all life on the planet.
The will of the planet is attempting to destroy this civilization known as Shinkokku, a technological and religiously advanced civilization that is populated by Immortals known as Demigods.
They're led by their eternal emperor Alto who is just and kind, the Goddess Tyr, a seemingly innocent young woman who has the ability to infinitely improve the powers of others, to increase their base power in an inflation like affect, the Grand Magister Solus, who was revealed to be Xenatrich the mage antagonist of the Ancasta/ Solarius campaign (my last truly successful major campaign) and the 8 Deities, Diaz (The former Akashic Aspect of Light) Lord of Pride, Ozma goddess of Conquest and Avarice, Gongen Lord of Violence, Siddha Lord of Melancholy, Capricus Lord of Love and Death, Serges Lord of Tactics, Auron Lord of Conflict (wealth or greed), and Diemos Lord of Vengeance (Tyr's father)
They live in a multi tiered society, a continent of humans ruled by divine laws that is utterly stable. They're held in a 1910-30s level pre industrial/ semi industrial society.
They have a strict caste system. Neiras Gnomes are their slaves, they're bald gnomes with black spots over their eyes on their elbows and knees and down their back. The Humans rule over them, the Demigods servants known as the Casted, 4 types of sub-divine beings, Terrestrials: elementally empowered humanoids who work as the backbone of the Demigods earthbound forces and usually master martial classes such as Fighter, Commando, and Warmage and sometimes Sorcerer, Lunars who control animals and shapechange and can use all animal based abilities and who work as go betweens between the Solars and the Terrestrials, they usually master nature based or skilled classes such as Ranger, Druid, Rogue, Maven or Bard, Saturnals, also known as Sidereals (not to be confused with Cosmic entity Siderals) who use Divine astrology to control fate and work as councilor types and master self discipline and knowledge based classes like Monk, Wizard or Kensaijin, but just as easily can be Rogues Sorcerers or Bards, they're the only ones with no lifespan and who work with the Demigods directly, and the Solars who are incredibly powerful and use Divine power granted to them by the Demigods to command the nations of the world and generally take classes such as Marshal, Paladin, Favored Soul or Cleric, and more rarely Sorcerer.
Terrestrials live 350 years, Lunars about 1,200 years, Saturnals have no lifespan and Solars live about 6,500 years.
Above them you have the Lower Divines, unlike the stable 1910's style society of the earthbound realm of Shinkokku, the flying cities of the Lower Divines are thousands of years, more like unimaginably, more advanced, with a dazzling mix of Angkor Wat style architecture and nature mixed with high technology, they bend light around them and are invisible to non divine beings looking up from below. The lower rung Demigods (all lower ranking divine beings) Einherjars (divinely empowered friends or family members of Demigods) and other quasi divine beings call this place home as do many if not most of the Demigods of all powers.
Above them are the true Demigods and beings of higher power than that. They generally inhabit the Lower Divines but also have their own realms and orbital cities and lunar cities known as the High Heavens which also house their orbital fleets.
Then there's the Millennicurion the thousand most influential of all the Demigods in Shinkokku, and the 4 Great Generals, divine beings who could have become one of the Eight Deities but who selflessly split themselves into many forms to stabilize and solidify the Empire.
Jidu who rules over the Doji, blue tall android like humanoids who work as the soldiers of the lower Divines and make up the bulk of Shinkokkus fighting force they tend to be fierce but very socially agreeable.
Rasho of the Raidos wolf like gray Monk warriors who make up the sergeant types of Shinkokku they speak in an honorific type way and maintain a level of moral compassing for the Doji.
Kagegama of the Kageboshi, robotic synthetic people who are cold and distant emotionally but can run several trillion processes at once and work as advisors and controllers of most of Shinkokkus weapons technology.
Taison of the Treus, giant metal and stone Buddha statue looking guys who rule over the others and work as generals and commanders of the entire force.
10 million years ago, about 500 years after the events of the Ancasta campaign, Ancasta had become a hyper Olympian realm of overdeities, too powerful for the world they inhabited and drawing devastating threats to the area faded away and reestablished itself in the Pleroma, the Multiverse itself, the Universe of Universes.
The Anyothens, the ancient seed race, were able to grow advanced enough that the multitude of old cities they lost thousands of years before were able to be recovered.
The Anyothens recovered their cities and began to expand exponentially. They wiped out all threats and within a century they had began to colonize other worlds via portals and gates to other planets and asteroids. They built a satellite that was a Mach Generator of sorts. It would take sunlight and transform it into pure anti-protons, antimatter, and would use that to power their society.
Basically the Anyothens in the past had made an extremely alchemically advanced civilization with makya constructs and machines that self repaired the cities keeping them running and pristine.
They began to try to colonize the sky and began to use Mach (a sort of Universal exchange energy that could be used to create items and energy types on the fly by exchanging matter types and actually was the cosmic glue holding everything together) to control the different processes of the world.
They started controlling the flow of lava and wind and the tides and they ran afoul of Shinkokku and a huge war started which basically never ended. Over 100,000 years of constant war began with small blips of peace. Eventually the paladin of the Akashic Destroyer Aspect Sercasembra, Bernard, who had been watching the stalemate from afar began his journey to Arum (the campaign world) to end the conflict once and for all. Diaz (the Akashic or Primordial Lord of Light), watching the endless struggle and seeing that the Anyothens were basically destroying the world grew disillusioned and believed his own point was only to be a stopgag measure to stop Reim (Primordial Darkness) decided to switch sides, and gave the Demigods all the information he could to help destroy the Anyothens and lead Shinkokku to a new golden age.
The fighting resumed with ferocity and at this time, Thychen (God) who had been staying neutral the whole time, realized the Demigods power came from The Goddess Tyr and decided to take her.
He popped in, stole her and disappeared back to Akasha the Primordial first realm, entirely safe.
The other Akashic Aspects had no trouble basically naughty word up the Demigods with their main source of power gone. With only Diaz, not fallen yet, to protect them. They ganged up on him but he valiantly held his ground and fought them all.
Only Ko (Stars) Kassen (Gravity) and Solarius (Divinity) stayed neutral with Gamma (the Creator of All) being absentee of course.
Diaz's Horse, Maximus had been granted a temporary status as the interim Aspect of Light, stayed neutral.
The Demigods main thing is they take the prayers of mortals and only use a small amount for their own growth and bottle up the rest of it for later use, this allows them to temporarily reach very high powers but comparatively they're no where near the level of the Aspects at all, but against the armies of the Anyothens they're quite effective.
Deimos however and his daughter Tyr are glitch Aspects unbeknownst to all parties.
Tyr being the glitch Aspect of Potential and Deimos being the Omega.
Deimos, through no understanding of his own or anyone else including Thychen, his anger rose higher and higher and he began to rip through dimensions trying to get to his daughter, Thychen had stuck her in the realm of Etea the Aspect of Impossibility. And Deimos tore out of the Universe into the Pleroma the Multiverse itself, then into the heart of the Pleroma, the diamond realm of infinities Kuvatchim and finally into Aravoth the hyperreality that houses Akasha the storehouse of all knowledge and experiences from all realms.
He smashed through the Raagens of Delirium and Dreams the Inertia Golems and their infinite power and the overdeities who rule over that realm.
He fought through the Raagens of Time, the guardians of Thychen, then the Lipika one by one the old Supreme Beings and advisors of Thychen before getting to Thychen Himself and after a titanic struggle, impossibly, beat Thychen to death and tore his arms off.
The Universe was supposed to end but nothing seemed to happen and he took both Etea and his Daughter and left the shattered heavens and returned back to Shinkokku.
At the exact same moment that Thychen was 'killed' the paladin of Sercasembra, Bernard, a sentient neutronium golem a mile tall slammed into the continent Ancasta and the old Anyothen empire sat on and split the continental shelf in half and sunk the Anyothen civilization under a mile of lava.
Maximus the Horse stopped Diaz and the rest of the Aspects from killing each other and with Thychen 'dead' Maximus became in actuality the new Aspect not of Light but of Loyalty and Diaz's power transferred to him. Diaz's form became his only manifestation and the Aspects dispersed in sort of a nonchalant fashion, like none of it really mattered to them at all.
Afterwards, most of the Anyothens were either absorbed by Shinkokku or dispersed as nomads around the world once thier technology began to fail.
However they had made extensive oceanic complexes and huge armies of Makya constructs who now after 10,000,000 years are quite self aware and though they continue to do their original programming they've become quite distinct and fully actualized beings in their own right.
Now, how this is relevant campaign wise is that giant Mach Generator in the sky, the satellite has been absorbing sunlight for 10 million years and it's finally reached max capacity. It's made of invincible runestone and surrounded by an invincible shield.
10 years prior to the campaign in the walled city of Cyclonia, in a Roman style Gnome civilization known as Aurellia, these six strange gates sprung up like six black cube like buildings, entrances to the Anyothen colonies, basically the failsafe of the satellite is to fire a massive beam of antimatter particles down to the surface of the planet and disperse it to all of the now non-existent energy silos they once had and to all the colonies.
Of course now, there's no silos, no recepticle no dispersal rod and instead the planet is going to be struck with 10 million years of sunlight gathered at 100% efficiency and converted into antimatter. In essence it's going to wipe out all life on the planet like it was hit by a gamma ray burst. The Makya could stop it easily enough but have no intention of doing so as they not so secretly wish to dominate the surface of the world and have no trust for beings not like themselves.
The party is trying to stop that from happening but there's like ten things in the way.
They're in the middle of a war with the Spriggans and their subterranean allies, which is basically over at this point but still is a threat.
Paya, the risen God of the Zards, giant dinosaur dragon men has arisen once again as he does every 10,000 years and is gearing up for a giant attack on Aurellia, the Gnome empire which this whole story takes place around.
Shinkokku, seemingly far above making alliances with 5th century level civilizations needs their prayers as the souls of their enemies as they harvest souls to use as batteries as each soul harvested is worth about 30 years of human prayer but for what you may ask?
Well, the other main plot is the story of Vritra the Tree of Darkness and Gaia the Tree of Light.
500,000,000- a billion years ago the planet was a harsh and horrible world with open lakes of lava and flammable rain that looked like blood. Horrible monsters known as the Youkai ruled over everything, awful creatures like stone elementals but made of lava and harboring demonic powers. (Qlipphoths from the Pathfinder Bestiary and Daemons from the IH Bestiary)
The spirit who rules this world was known as Vritra and Orochimaru, the Seven Headed Serpent, and all he knew was outrage, he was a feeling being but knew only the law of nature and a world made of fire.
He screamed and screamed infinitely into the cosmos, creating rainstorm like ripples throughout spacetime.
Gaia was a presence floating through space at this time and heard Vritra screaming and saw this world with so much care and beautiful potential and so much pain, and she went to the being who was the heart of Vritra and found a spirit there like herself and eased his pain.
Rains fell over the world and the pain of the world began to heal, and the Youkai, also known as the Ghoma to the Demigods, recessed and receeded into the mantle of the planet.
Vritra couldn't talk but he understood, and loved Gaia and the two of them seeded life across the world.
Plants, animals and magical beasts, the races of man never sprung from them, Humans came from the star demons, a hoarde of beings who reach throughout the Universe and seed planets, the Elves and gnomes come from the Green Realm of the Fey, Hobbits come from the goddess Diona of the Harvest, etc.
There was peace and Vritra was happy he and Gaia. Thychen Creator of All Things, saw this pristine world and placed his seat of creation upon the world and chose it as where he would seed the Anyothens. Vritra hated this but could do nothing but his only manifestation was rage and anger and he could only filter his responses through those emotions.
This was roughly 400,000,000 years before the events of the campaign. 300,000,000 years ago is when the Demigods first grew out of the ancient humans from which they arose.
The Anyothens rose and fell many times and Vritra made animals hostile, created the Rakshasas etc etc but all of his attempts failed.
Gaia on the other hand attempted to make peace and created the Druidlights, nature spirits like elves who protect the world, Vritra brought forth the Youkai once again and they began slaughtering the races of men.
The Anyothens took a back seat to the newly perceived threat of Demigods who had just learned to harvest energy.
Gaia gave freely to the groups, trying to save them with love, they harvested from her and exploited her generosity the same way we rape the generosity of the earth we live on.
Gaias power diminished and Vritra grew stronger, and seeing the plight of his betrothed grew ever angrier, the balance of power shifted instead of being balanced and the first War of Creation took place.
Vritra ripped from the earth like a giant snake made of lava as thick as a mountain range and thousands of miles long, creating extinction event level disasters, and began to unleash armies of the Youkai upon the surface of the world.
Black clouds of poison and acid blood rain fell among the world preceding them and the Demigods began to have massive wars against them, putting them down time and time again and repairing the damaged world, but each time the Ghoma would grow stronger, each time Vritra would return it would be far stronger than it was before with more heads and more devastating abilities, and Shinkokku needed more and more powerful technology and more and more souls and prayers to succeed in their struggles.
The Anyothens kept destroying themselves and never truly gained the ire of Vritra even though they were the initial cause of his outrage.
Over time the initial edge the Demigods had has disappeared and only through the help of their savior the Goddess Tyr were they able to win the last battle.
Each time Vritra arises he comes out larger and stronger than before.
Tyr has the ability to increase the Demigods power exponentially, but she can't do it with will alone it's a subconscious thing created by need not want. It has to be from her heart.
Diaz hatched a plan to make an ultimate weapon to kill Vritra. The Pashupataastra, a massive blue stone statue in space, it's roughly a quarter the size of the largest moon.
It's a storehouse of souls and prayers, over 8 trillion souls worth of souls and prayers stored up for one single purpose. To fire a blast of pure divine energy though the heart of Vritra killing him and freeing Gaia allowing for a new Golden Age of peace and stability.
Diaz sees it as his moment to finally do something right and something for himself. He also has become a god of pride, he can't see the flaws or wickedness of his own actions.
Aurellia the Gnome empire has millions and millions of people in it and is about to be ravaged by the Zards and their God Paya.
Shinkokku sees it as an opportunity to get the extra influx of souls and prayers it needs to finally defeat Vritra and usher in their vaunted Golden Age. But all of that will be null if Vritra awakens too soon or the satellite fires it's beam before they reach a solution which seems nearly impossible as no one can seem to affect it or it's beam in any way.
So that's basically in a nutshell what the campaign is about. Moral gray areas and hard choices.
Here you go.
My current campaign is pretty interesting.
The main country Aurellia is a Roman style civilization built by humans who got in an ill fated war with the orcs of the mighty mountains about 500 years ago.
The Humans, the original Aurellians were a Roman style civilization that over a period of about 300 years expanded their territory from one end of the continent to the other.
The planet is much larger than earth and the equator gets much hotter making it too inhospitable for most humans but not for orcs. The north is too cold for orcs but not for humans so it has a sort of natural balance.
The Orcs specialized in horse archery and mounted combat where as the humans used long pikes and heavy scutum shields which are like tower shields but can't be used for cover but can be used as a weapon.
The Orcs dominated the south the humans the north. Both sides were warlike people who eventually through a series of raids and deteriorating relations ended up going to war though who started it is lost to time. The Orcs limited magic was nearly useless against the powerful warmages, wizards and elven spellcasters the humans employed and the early stages of the war were nearly lopsided.
But the orcs had a nasty trick up their sleeve, Cancer Magi, the orcs developed a hideous plague that wiped out the humans to near extinction.
9/10th of the humans were decimated and the majority of the rest fled or were enslaved, this wasn't an isolated event but a mass culling that stretched from one end of the continent to the other.
In little more than 10 years the entire north was replaced by the orcish invaders. Living alongside the humans were hobbits who worked as laborers and skilled craftsmen, they were largely ignored by the orcs who allowed them to stay as long as they provided what they provided to the humans.
The north was far too cold for them however and over time less and less orcs stayed until within about 50 years the area lost over 80% of it's orcish inhabitants. The gnomes who populated the forests of the Aurellian north had amassed large numbers and had a knack for illusion magic of which the orcs were particularly vulnerable to.
They hatched a plot, they were allies with the humans before the war and buried their wealth from the orcs when they arrived and once the orcs were weak enough and sated enough they attacked.
They made the clouds part and made it rain meteors and celestial arrows from above, the weak willed orcs ranks broke and almost immediately it was a route. They city by city pushed the orcs out, lobbing just enough spells to frighten them and kill enough to make it believable. The gnomes secured the north. They expected a counter attack but it never came and all the cities left behind in generally still functional fashion were theirs for the taking. The hobbits were more than happy to service their new gnome patrons and the gnomes over the last few hundred years have become a powerful force.
The humans once decimated by disease are now the front line and backbone of their military and the gnomes themselves live in cities that dwarf their neighbors in size and splendor.
Several months ago a plot by a group calling themselves the Coalition a group of Darklings, Dark Kin, Duergar and Derro led by the Spriggan nation and controlled by a mysterious force known as the Briarthorn has been attacking and kidnapping and mentally enslaving the frontier lands that border with the orcs.
There have been many fierce battles but a darker and more horrible force has been lurking in the edges threatening to wipe out all life on the planet.
The will of the planet is attempting to destroy this civilization known as Shinkokku, a technological and religiously advanced civilization that is populated by Immortals known as Demigods.
They're led by their eternal emperor Alto who is just and kind, the Goddess Tyr, a seemingly innocent young woman who has the ability to infinitely improve the powers of others, to increase their base power in an inflation like affect, the Grand Magister Solus, who was revealed to be Xenatrich the mage antagonist of the Ancasta/ Solarius campaign (my last truly successful major campaign) and the 8 Deities, Diaz (The former Akashic Aspect of Light) Lord of Pride, Ozma goddess of Conquest and Avarice, Gongen Lord of Violence, Siddha Lord of Melancholy, Capricus Lord of Love and Death, Serges Lord of Tactics, Auron Lord of Conflict (wealth or greed), and Diemos Lord of Vengeance (Tyr's father)
They live in a multi tiered society, a continent of humans ruled by divine laws that is utterly stable. They're held in a 1910-30s level pre industrial/ semi industrial society.
They have a strict caste system. Neiras Gnomes are their slaves, they're bald gnomes with black spots over their eyes on their elbows and knees and down their back. The Humans rule over them, the Demigods servants known as the Casted, 4 types of sub-divine beings, Terrestrials: elementally empowered humanoids who work as the backbone of the Demigods earthbound forces and usually master martial classes such as Fighter, Commando, and Warmage and sometimes Sorcerer, Lunars who control animals and shapechange and can use all animal based abilities and who work as go betweens between the Solars and the Terrestrials, they usually master nature based or skilled classes such as Ranger, Druid, Rogue, Maven or Bard, Saturnals, also known as Sidereals (not to be confused with Cosmic entity Siderals) who use Divine astrology to control fate and work as councilor types and master self discipline and knowledge based classes like Monk, Wizard or Kensaijin, but just as easily can be Rogues Sorcerers or Bards, they're the only ones with no lifespan and who work with the Demigods directly, and the Solars who are incredibly powerful and use Divine power granted to them by the Demigods to command the nations of the world and generally take classes such as Marshal, Paladin, Favored Soul or Cleric, and more rarely Sorcerer.
Terrestrials live 350 years, Lunars about 1,200 years, Saturnals have no lifespan and Solars live about 6,500 years.
Above them you have the Lower Divines, unlike the stable 1910's style society of the earthbound realm of Shinkokku, the flying cities of the Lower Divines are thousands of years, more like unimaginably, more advanced, with a dazzling mix of Angkor Wat style architecture and nature mixed with high technology, they bend light around them and are invisible to non divine beings looking up from below. The lower rung Demigods (all lower ranking divine beings) Einherjars (divinely empowered friends or family members of Demigods) and other quasi divine beings call this place home as do many if not most of the Demigods of all powers.
Above them are the true Demigods and beings of higher power than that. They generally inhabit the Lower Divines but also have their own realms and orbital cities and lunar cities known as the High Heavens which also house their orbital fleets.
Then there's the Millennicurion the thousand most influential of all the Demigods in Shinkokku, and the 4 Great Generals, divine beings who could have become one of the Eight Deities but who selflessly split themselves into many forms to stabilize and solidify the Empire.
Jidu who rules over the Doji, blue tall android like humanoids who work as the soldiers of the lower Divines and make up the bulk of Shinkokkus fighting force they tend to be fierce but very socially agreeable.
Rasho of the Raidos wolf like gray Monk warriors who make up the sergeant types of Shinkokku they speak in an honorific type way and maintain a level of moral compassing for the Doji.
Kagegama of the Kageboshi, robotic synthetic people who are cold and distant emotionally but can run several trillion processes at once and work as advisors and controllers of most of Shinkokkus weapons technology.
Taison of the Treus, giant metal and stone Buddha statue looking guys who rule over the others and work as generals and commanders of the entire force.
10 million years ago, about 500 years after the events of the Ancasta campaign, Ancasta had become a hyper Olympian realm of overdeities, too powerful for the world they inhabited and drawing devastating threats to the area faded away and reestablished itself in the Pleroma, the Multiverse itself, the Universe of Universes.
The Anyothens, the ancient seed race, were able to grow advanced enough that the multitude of old cities they lost thousands of years before were able to be recovered.
The Anyothens recovered their cities and began to expand exponentially. They wiped out all threats and within a century they had began to colonize other worlds via portals and gates to other planets and asteroids. They built a satellite that was a Mach Generator of sorts. It would take sunlight and transform it into pure anti-protons, antimatter, and would use that to power their society.
Basically the Anyothens in the past had made an extremely alchemically advanced civilization with makya constructs and machines that self repaired the cities keeping them running and pristine.
They began to try to colonize the sky and began to use Mach (a sort of Universal exchange energy that could be used to create items and energy types on the fly by exchanging matter types and actually was the cosmic glue holding everything together) to control the different processes of the world.
They started controlling the flow of lava and wind and the tides and they ran afoul of Shinkokku and a huge war started which basically never ended. Over 100,000 years of constant war began with small blips of peace. Eventually the paladin of the Akashic Destroyer Aspect Sercasembra, Bernard, who had been watching the stalemate from afar began his journey to Arum (the campaign world) to end the conflict once and for all. Diaz (the Akashic or Primordial Lord of Light), watching the endless struggle and seeing that the Anyothens were basically destroying the world grew disillusioned and believed his own point was only to be a stopgag measure to stop Reim (Primordial Darkness) decided to switch sides, and gave the Demigods all the information he could to help destroy the Anyothens and lead Shinkokku to a new golden age.
The fighting resumed with ferocity and at this time, Thychen (God) who had been staying neutral the whole time, realized the Demigods power came from The Goddess Tyr and decided to take her.
He popped in, stole her and disappeared back to Akasha the Primordial first realm, entirely safe.
The other Akashic Aspects had no trouble basically naughty word up the Demigods with their main source of power gone. With only Diaz, not fallen yet, to protect them. They ganged up on him but he valiantly held his ground and fought them all.
Only Ko (Stars) Kassen (Gravity) and Solarius (Divinity) stayed neutral with Gamma (the Creator of All) being absentee of course.
Diaz's Horse, Maximus had been granted a temporary status as the interim Aspect of Light, stayed neutral.
The Demigods main thing is they take the prayers of mortals and only use a small amount for their own growth and bottle up the rest of it for later use, this allows them to temporarily reach very high powers but comparatively they're no where near the level of the Aspects at all, but against the armies of the Anyothens they're quite effective.
Deimos however and his daughter Tyr are glitch Aspects unbeknownst to all parties.
Tyr being the glitch Aspect of Potential and Deimos being the Omega.
Deimos, through no understanding of his own or anyone else including Thychen, his anger rose higher and higher and he began to rip through dimensions trying to get to his daughter, Thychen had stuck her in the realm of Etea the Aspect of Impossibility. And Deimos tore out of the Universe into the Pleroma the Multiverse itself, then into the heart of the Pleroma, the diamond realm of infinities Kuvatchim and finally into Aravoth the hyperreality that houses Akasha the storehouse of all knowledge and experiences from all realms.
He smashed through the Raagens of Delirium and Dreams the Inertia Golems and their infinite power and the overdeities who rule over that realm.
He fought through the Raagens of Time, the guardians of Thychen, then the Lipika one by one the old Supreme Beings and advisors of Thychen before getting to Thychen Himself and after a titanic struggle, impossibly, beat Thychen to death and tore his arms off.
The Universe was supposed to end but nothing seemed to happen and he took both Etea and his Daughter and left the shattered heavens and returned back to Shinkokku.
At the exact same moment that Thychen was 'killed' the paladin of Sercasembra, Bernard, a sentient neutronium golem a mile tall slammed into the continent Ancasta and the old Anyothen empire sat on and split the continental shelf in half and sunk the Anyothen civilization under a mile of lava.
Maximus the Horse stopped Diaz and the rest of the Aspects from killing each other and with Thychen 'dead' Maximus became in actuality the new Aspect not of Light but of Loyalty and Diaz's power transferred to him. Diaz's form became his only manifestation and the Aspects dispersed in sort of a nonchalant fashion, like none of it really mattered to them at all.
Afterwards, most of the Anyothens were either absorbed by Shinkokku or dispersed as nomads around the world once thier technology began to fail.
However they had made extensive oceanic complexes and huge armies of Makya constructs who now after 10,000,000 years are quite self aware and though they continue to do their original programming they've become quite distinct and fully actualized beings in their own right.
Now, how this is relevant campaign wise is that giant Mach Generator in the sky, the satellite has been absorbing sunlight for 10 million years and it's finally reached max capacity. It's made of invincible runestone and surrounded by an invincible shield.
10 years prior to the campaign in the walled city of Cyclonia, in a Roman style Gnome civilization known as Aurellia, these six strange gates sprung up like six black cube like buildings, entrances to the Anyothen colonies, basically the failsafe of the satellite is to fire a massive beam of antimatter particles down to the surface of the planet and disperse it to all of the now non-existent energy silos they once had and to all the colonies.
Of course now, there's no silos, no recepticle no dispersal rod and instead the planet is going to be struck with 10 million years of sunlight gathered at 100% efficiency and converted into antimatter. In essence it's going to wipe out all life on the planet like it was hit by a gamma ray burst. The Makya could stop it easily enough but have no intention of doing so as they not so secretly wish to dominate the surface of the world and have no trust for beings not like themselves.
The party is trying to stop that from happening but there's like ten things in the way.
They're in the middle of a war with the Spriggans and their subterranean allies, which is basically over at this point but still is a threat.
Paya, the risen God of the Zards, giant dinosaur dragon men has arisen once again as he does every 10,000 years and is gearing up for a giant attack on Aurellia, the Gnome empire which this whole story takes place around.
Shinkokku, seemingly far above making alliances with 5th century level civilizations needs their prayers as the souls of their enemies as they harvest souls to use as batteries as each soul harvested is worth about 30 years of human prayer but for what you may ask?
Well, the other main plot is the story of Vritra the Tree of Darkness and Gaia the Tree of Light.
500,000,000- a billion years ago the planet was a harsh and horrible world with open lakes of lava and flammable rain that looked like blood. Horrible monsters known as the Youkai ruled over everything, awful creatures like stone elementals but made of lava and harboring demonic powers. (Qlipphoths from the Pathfinder Bestiary and Daemons from the IH Bestiary)
The spirit who rules this world was known as Vritra and Orochimaru, the Seven Headed Serpent, and all he knew was outrage, he was a feeling being but knew only the law of nature and a world made of fire.
He screamed and screamed infinitely into the cosmos, creating rainstorm like ripples throughout spacetime.
Gaia was a presence floating through space at this time and heard Vritra screaming and saw this world with so much care and beautiful potential and so much pain, and she went to the being who was the heart of Vritra and found a spirit there like herself and eased his pain.
Rains fell over the world and the pain of the world began to heal, and the Youkai, also known as the Ghoma to the Demigods, recessed and receeded into the mantle of the planet.
Vritra couldn't talk but he understood, and loved Gaia and the two of them seeded life across the world.
Plants, animals and magical beasts, the races of man never sprung from them, Humans came from the star demons, a hoarde of beings who reach throughout the Universe and seed planets, the Elves and gnomes come from the Green Realm of the Fey, Hobbits come from the goddess Diona of the Harvest, etc.
There was peace and Vritra was happy he and Gaia. Thychen Creator of All Things, saw this pristine world and placed his seat of creation upon the world and chose it as where he would seed the Anyothens. Vritra hated this but could do nothing but his only manifestation was rage and anger and he could only filter his responses through those emotions.
This was roughly 400,000,000 years before the events of the campaign. 300,000,000 years ago is when the Demigods first grew out of the ancient humans from which they arose.
The Anyothens rose and fell many times and Vritra made animals hostile, created the Rakshasas etc etc but all of his attempts failed.
Gaia on the other hand attempted to make peace and created the Druidlights, nature spirits like elves who protect the world, Vritra brought forth the Youkai once again and they began slaughtering the races of men.
The Anyothens took a back seat to the newly perceived threat of Demigods who had just learned to harvest energy.
Gaia gave freely to the groups, trying to save them with love, they harvested from her and exploited her generosity the same way we rape the generosity of the earth we live on.
Gaias power diminished and Vritra grew stronger, and seeing the plight of his betrothed grew ever angrier, the balance of power shifted instead of being balanced and the first War of Creation took place.
Vritra ripped from the earth like a giant snake made of lava as thick as a mountain range and thousands of miles long, creating extinction event level disasters, and began to unleash armies of the Youkai upon the surface of the world.
Black clouds of poison and acid blood rain fell among the world preceding them and the Demigods began to have massive wars against them, putting them down time and time again and repairing the damaged world, but each time the Ghoma would grow stronger, each time Vritra would return it would be far stronger than it was before with more heads and more devastating abilities, and Shinkokku needed more and more powerful technology and more and more souls and prayers to succeed in their struggles.
The Anyothens kept destroying themselves and never truly gained the ire of Vritra even though they were the initial cause of his outrage.
Over time the initial edge the Demigods had has disappeared and only through the help of their savior the Goddess Tyr were they able to win the last battle.
Each time Vritra arises he comes out larger and stronger than before.
Tyr has the ability to increase the Demigods power exponentially, but she can't do it with will alone it's a subconscious thing created by need not want. It has to be from her heart.
Diaz hatched a plan to make an ultimate weapon to kill Vritra. The Pashupataastra, a massive blue stone statue in space, it's roughly a quarter the size of the largest moon.
It's a storehouse of souls and prayers, over 8 trillion souls worth of souls and prayers stored up for one single purpose. To fire a blast of pure divine energy though the heart of Vritra killing him and freeing Gaia allowing for a new Golden Age of peace and stability.
Diaz sees it as his moment to finally do something right and something for himself. He also has become a god of pride, he can't see the flaws or wickedness of his own actions.
Aurellia the Gnome empire has millions and millions of people in it and is about to be ravaged by the Zards and their God Paya.
Shinkokku sees it as an opportunity to get the extra influx of souls and prayers it needs to finally defeat Vritra and usher in their vaunted Golden Age. But all of that will be null if Vritra awakens too soon or the satellite fires it's beam before they reach a solution which seems nearly impossible as no one can seem to affect it or it's beam in any way.
So that's basically in a nutshell what the campaign is about. Moral gray areas and hard choices.
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