Aerath: Fire & Soul (8th Level)

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This game requires $25 USD a session on Startplaying

Welcome!

Welcome worthy adventurers! You have stumbled upon a chance to become a legend. If you choose to join the dozens of other players playing games in this exciting, perilous, and fantastical world. You will find yourself in a fully homebrewed world twenty-five years in the making. Face terrifying foes, long forgotten dungeons, and holds. As you explore this universe and make your mark in it’s expansive history. Be prepared, because life on Aerath is not easy. You will be challenged and tested, but with great challenge comes great reward.

About your DM

Hello everyone and once again welcome to Aerath. I am Draconus. The guide, architect and storyteller who will take you through your great adventure. I am a modern bard. I weave fantastical tales through cooperative roleplay and storytelling. I created this world twenty-five years ago and built it up over the decades that followed.

When I stumbled upon D&D in 2014 I had no idea that I would be here today. Since then, I have run a dozen campaigns. two years ago I took that experience and passion further. I formed my company and began running professional table top RPG games. I converted this world from its original series of novels (written by me) into the Aerath that is now home to nearly two dozen Player-Characters (PCs), and hundreds of NPCs who live and breathe. This world is ever-moving, ever-changing and linked across all campaigns run by my licensed Entertainment company Draconus Entertainment.

When I talk to my players, I tell them that Aerath is not just a game setting but one very large campaign with many different player parties. All in the same world around the same time. Actions and inactions affect every player across all games and major changes are global. This makes for not only a game but a community all enjoying Dungeons and Dragons each week.

Setting Aerath: Fire & Soul

Fire & Soul began in a French inspired Victorian town named Caederbrock. A party of police officer and independent contractors delved into the city searching for answers to a series of vicious murders. The more they dug the closer they came to the dark truths and realities that their city stood upon. Standing strong against a terrible threat of an army born of the sea and dark fae magics the party ventured upon an airship to stop thier enemy from destroying their beloved home. there they met an unexpected fate as they attempted to destroy the ship from within, but found themselves caught in the fallout of their own explosive plan. They Saved the city but were torn from their lives, their souls cast into a fiery inferno.

They now face the fourth Layer of Aerath's hells. As Zealous and opportunistic devils and mortals compete to claim supreme lordship over the unclaimed hell scape. Terrifying, unholy monsters lurk in the lands and ruins dotting the landscape, as shattered villages, fortress and cities are pulled from their home planes into the inferno.

Many opportunities await those with the ambition, and many evils await those who would rid the world of such terrors and protect the innocent peoples caught in the crossfire of the infernal conquest. What fate awaits the cursed souls who now traverse this unknown, nightmare land? Who will you become in hell?

Update 01/18/2023

As the party has progressed through the fourth layer, they have began to experience a less-traditional setting for D&D one that combines dark fantasy, a form of cybernetics and street gangs that are on constant competition for dominance of the vast and multilayered Ifreeti city. This setting has been compared to Shadowrun, and has certainly entered into the grey zone of morality. Very few people in Hell are there for being decent people and the party has -as of January 17th- joined the Celestial-run gang known as "Grace", and is now working with a influential member of the gang known as "The Oracle"

So, if you decide to join us on this very fun adventure consider the morality of the party is Grey at the moment and could become darker aligned as time goes on. The current party is three long term players A Fighter who ran a group of shady individuals within the criminal ranks of the parties former home, a Druid with Developing roguish qualities and an artificer who has now grown intrigued by the mysterious Cyberine technology which seems to be a large part of the city's economy. They are all fantastic and welcoming, but as they are now level 8 new players/characters my have to "'hit the ground running" . There is a great deal of RP as well so you will have plenty of time to develop as a character without too much combat except when needed.

Important World Facts

• Aerath is 100% of my own creation lore-wise, and is extensive. I don't expect people to know everything, but rather learn by playing. I provide plenty of handouts in game, but also am a direct resource for any information players may want to obtain that are not listed.
• The God’s of Aerath are diverse and plentiful. Some will walk amongst mortals in disguise. Others may be so absent in the day to day lives of Aerath’s peoples that they are believed dead, or at least beyond the reach of mortals.
• Magic is uncommon, but not gone from peoples lives. Though many prefer to rely on advances in technology and are untrusting of magic.
• If you are a magic user you must have a license to practice. Rogue mages are treated with derision and subject to harsh penalties by law enforcement. Including -but not limited to- execution or enforcement of antimanic devices called “A.M Belts.”
• All official Wizards of the Coast races are available to play, their lore entirely different from other settings. In addition, I have several homebrewed races unique to Aerath, Including Trolls, Half-ogres, and Sidhe
• All W.O.C all official sourcebook material -with a very strict ruling on Graviturgy, Dunamancy and, Chronurgy, this include any class or spell of these schools- are available .
• Interplanar Travel is possible, but I recommend you be native to Aerath as alternate universe gods, lore and mechanical laws may not apply or be relevant to Aerath.
• This world is heavily molded by player actions or inactions especially at later levels. This applies to all players across all games so your parties’ actions may and probably will affect everyone else in the world.
• Nearly all enemies and items in the present world are Homebrewed by me and lore-linked to this world, and this world alone.
• I create all my maps using Inkarnet, and most of my tokens using Artbreeder and hero forge. I prefer players use tokens from these sources as well, or custom artwork. I do have an artist on the server they take commissions but are not officially affiliated with Draconus Entertainment. They’re just a player.
• Consequences are a big theme in my games. Inaction is an action, and the world moves on even without the PCs so ignoring a prompt may have unexpected results. That said you can’t do everything I present. So, choose your paths wisely.
• Healing magic is not considered necromancy in Aerath’s world and is instead called Curomancy and includes resurrection spells and cleansing spells. It also only heals a wound aesthetically, it does not eliminate scars and I strongly encourage players to play up injuries even if their HP is mechanically full to add to the realism of the world and offer wonderful RP and character development opportunities.

• Characters can be killed. I know this is often considered a given, but characters die on Aerath. This does NOT mean I want player to come in with character they could care less about, or treat death as if does not matter, it matters a lot and I strongly urge players to consider investing themselves in both their own character and the characters of others, so if death does happen it is meaningful. No one likes to die but I feel very strongly that it should matter. I have several table rules that make death riskier as well, including a random death limit for all characters. My Table rules go into more details of this and you should read them once you have joined the game.

• Please read the table rules, and lore on https://www.worldanvil.com/w/aerath-draconus-entertainment/a/general-table-rules3B-26-homebrewed-standards3A-updated-952022-law . There is some very important mechanical information there that can and will impact the way the game is played.

Before you apply

• This game will be long running. All of the previous games have taken a year or more to complete. This game will take you to level 20 and the leveling curve slows as your progress through the world. Expect to be here a while. I promise you it will be a blast. If you don’t believe me refer to my roll20 profile (https://app.roll20.net/users/1474882/draconus-the-dungeon-meister), I have several reviews from past and present players.

• Know that Fire & Soul specifically is a 8th level party, so have an idea of how/why your character goals would align with the rest of the group for fluidity.

• Survival is now a theme in this game so your character will be experiencing a lot of discomfort as you venture through Aerath's Hell

• The party is mostly Chaotic at present, good/evil are more of a spectrum then black and white, it consists of an Artificer, a Fighter and a Druid.

• This game is kind of "metal" and can get pretty intense and disturbing so be warned.

My world anvil is always being updated and still does not include all the lore that has existed for these games, but if you are curious about the world please feel free to watch and read. you can find it here

https://www.worldanvil.com/w/aerath-draconus-entertainment