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Message: <blockquote data-quote="med stud" data-source="post: 4170470" data-attributes="member: 1211">Nice backstory!Personally, I prefer to keep the mystery even to myself <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />. Athas is messed up. It's mostly due to defiling, but the sun is also on the Fritz. As is the isolation of Athas. All in all, Athas is an old world, and she is dying.There might be clues of an older age if/when PCs come upon old ruins. Pictures of oasises as large as the Silt Sea, more metal on a single warrior than possesed by a squad of templars. The PCs start their career in a desperate fight for survival, looking out on a bleak, dying world. They gain a foothold somewhere. Part by part, they wrest a territory from sorcerer kings to themselves. They have to play the political game carefully or become the target of an attack. This is the heroic tier.When they have their own land, they lock horns with more powerful entities of the desert. Great monsters, undead rising and portals to the Elemental Chaos opens. An army of a sorcerer king approaches. These are the paragon tier elements.At the Epic level, the barriers of Athas are breaking. The reason why Athas have no contact with the Astral domains is that she has plunged into the Elemental Chaos and now the denizens of the Abyss have gained her scent. The sorcerer kings are too old and set in their ways to recognize the threat; they turn against the PCs while Athas is on the verge of total annihalation. The PCs have to seek out powerful allies in the Order and the Dragon, trying to get them to keep the sorcerer kings busy while the PCs try to stop the invasion. If they succeed, Athas is saved from the Abyss but the battles against the sorcerer kings have damaged her even more than she already was. Now players in the same league as the sorcerer kings and the Order, the PCs look out on a bleak world, dying under the dark sun... But this time knowing that she can't be saved.</blockquote>

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