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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Cardinal" data-source="post: 3435245" data-attributes="member: 634">Where: Wilderlands of High FantasyStarting Area: The Roglaras / near the CSIO & along the Old South RoadStarting Configuration: The majority of PCs is employed by a rich sage (Archivist from HoH) who wants to create an "encyclopedia" of the Wilderland, including maps, ancient history, etc. They mainly work as "field agents" to retrieve rare artifacts, copy strange inscribtions from the walls of remote ruins, etc. This sage is also an old friend of a local high priest of Mitra. During their first adventure the PCs freed a cleric of Mitra from a crystal which had kept him in temporal stasis for 80 years. This cleric (also a PC) is now also a member of the party.SPOILERSOnion 1: Certain secretive but powerful groups - an ancient bloodline of red dragons, an exclusive cabal of old elven wizards, and a weird order of psionic monks - are searching for age-old relics from before the legendary Philosophers' War. All seem to be in a race for some strange kind of overwhelming power...Onion 2: ...but in truth they all follow their own ancients traditions and oldest prophetic writings: all seem to be preparing for some great coming doom of global proportions...Onion 3: Meanwhile more and more rumors tell of a new power behind the thrones of the distant eastern lands. It is said to be a body of criminal organizations with very good ties to the Demon Empire of the deep south - and with near limitless wealth at their disposal. Then strange foreign fleets of merchant and slaver ships begin to appear in all known harbors - and within months the slave and drug markets are dominated by those new suppliers.The three groups from #1 seem all very determined to not be noticed by this new player...Onion 4: ...who turns out to be a weird  race who keeps umber hulks as personal slaves: The Neogi. By now one of the three groups from #1 - the one the party didn't harass as much as the two others - will have gained the upper hand: They will try to reach a certain remote ruin where they will use their gathered artifacts and ancient "knowledge" (=rites & rituals) to "summon" their "allies from beyond the heavens"...Onion 5: ...which will turn out to be one of three groups from the interstellar empire from FFG's "Dragonstar" setting - because in my version of the science-fantasy Wilderlands *this* is what the local galaxy looks like *now*!Onion 6: The party will then have to deal with a whole new playground: The Neogi - who are true aliens from beyond the rim & planned to turn the whole planet into a nice little slavepit - *will* be combatted by the empire. But then they will have to face imperial politics: especially if the dragons were the ones who succeeded in "calling their allies"....</blockquote>

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