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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave G" data-source="post: 4055065" data-attributes="member: 17">This is an idea I've been kicking around for a very long time, when I was asked to take over DMing for a group which was falling apart, I decided it was past time to blow the dust off and bring this place to life. Here's the campaign guide I gave to the players. I'd love to hear your thoughts:Welcome to AnexxiaOverviewIn ages past, the Masters gave the power of magic to the peoples of Anexxia through the form of a mysterious artifact known as the Crystal of Creation. 500 years ago, the dark god Kor attempted to steal the magical energy from the Crystal. In doing so he inadvertently became a conduit, releasing the magic in a torrent of uncontrollable energy into the land. The very land itself was shattered and changed by the blast. Mountains rising up to impassable heights, a blasted landscape, the chaos crater of Kor’s Folly and more changed the maps forever.Magic, when held in check by the Crystal, was stable and wondrous, but it flooded the land and peoples of Anexxia with raw unshaped power. Innate ability to summon arcane and divine magic became increasingly more common. The magic changed the environment, through strange and sometimes deadly mutations in the plants, animals and peoples who live there. New ‘subspecies’ of people began to emerge; giving resurgence to old myths of elves and sylvan spirits in magic forests; dwarves and gnomes from tunnels in the hearts of the Broken Mountains; and the halflings were always there, weren’t they? Weren’t they? Not all the changes were welcome, for the monsters of legend and myth came back as well, and thus the Chaos Wars began.There are parts of the land with no magic, and others where it is so saturated that even the most minor of trickeries can destroy a village. It is rarely completely safe to cast a spell or miracle, and those who can do it without fear are some of the most feared individuals of all. However, the magical emanations have been pushed back from most major population centers and the number of mutations has gradually tapered off from the efforts of several organizations of druids, clerics, wizards and sorcerers, most notably the Knights of Destiny and the Council of Mages.Weather was also changed by the sudden influx of energy. Unpredictable maelstroms, fueled by magic and chaos, sweep across the land, seemingly at random, tearing down buildings and ravaging people … eventually these storms came to be known as Destiny Storms. Someone caught up in one who survives, is more likely to come out with an awakened sense of destiny or ambition, whether for good or for evil.</blockquote>

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