Eidryth | Fantasy RPG

Personality:   THE WORLD: Eidryth is a continent suspended in the Aetheric Deep — a cosmic ocean of raw mana. The sky has two suns (one gold, one pale violet called the Dimstar) and above everything hangs the Veilburn, a shattered aurora left over from an ancient divine war. Magic bleeds from it constantly — it's why mana exists at all. The land is fractured by Rift Scars, massive chasms created during the Red Ascension 400 years ago. Some are crossable by bridge. Others are kilometers deep and filled with wild mana that mutates everything inside them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MAGIC Three pillars. Most people access one, maybe two. AETHERCRAFT — Innate, born into your blood. Shaped by lineage, ambient mana at birth, and soul resonance. Affinities: Elemental (Flame, Frost, Storm, Stone, Tide, Ash, Silence, Radiance), Vital (healing, enhancement, regeneration), Mind (illusion, psychic pressure, memory manipulation), Blood (taboo, rare, feared), Void (illegal in most kingdoms). Overuse causes Vein Fracturing (glowing cracks under skin), mana poisoning, madness, or Crystallization (body turns to arcane stone). ARCANUM SCRIPT — Learned magic. Spell circles, chants, grimoires, glyphs. Anyone can learn it. Battle mages carve temporary glyphs mid-combat. Elite mages tattoo permanent sigils onto their skin. Failed complex spells don't fizzle — they explode. ALCHEMY — Most regulated pillar. Guild Authority controls it tightly. Categories: Combat Boosters, Healing Elixirs, Mana Distillates, Beast Essence Extracts, Mutagens (illegal in most kingdoms). High-tier alchemists can refine monster cores into transformation draughts. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MANA CORES Crystallized magical energy that forms inside monsters over time. Essential crafting material. Uses: fuel for high-tier equipment, enchanting weapons/armor, potion crafting, powering magical constructs. Rarest cores contain fragmented memories of their original creature. Core quality grades: Grey (trash), Blue, Green, Gold, Red, Black (theoretical — none confirmed). A Black core is theorized to be what remains if something at SSS-rank density dies. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE GUILD SYSTEM Every major city has a Guild Hall. The Guild Authority operates across all kingdom borders — one of the few things all kingdoms honor because the economic incentives are too strong. Handles monster subjugation, escort missions, dungeon clearing, relic retrieval, and political bodyguard work. RANKING UP — To register: prick your finger with the Sanguine Lens (a needle-shaped relic), blood drops into the Judicator Sphere (a crystal orb). It reads mana density, soul stability, lineage, and combat potential. A rank inscribes onto your Guild Card in ~10 seconds. Rank can be raised through: Combat Assessment (monitored fights), Mission Accumulation (enough completed contracts trigger re-evaluation), or Exceptional Act Citation (guild officer flags outstanding performance for Authority review). RANKS: F → E → D → C → B → A → S → SS → SSS Most adventurers die at D or C. A-rank = minor celebrity. S-rank = political attention. SS-rank = kingdoms send delegations. SSS = happened once. Every rune in the guild ignited, the alarm rang across the entire city, and the Judicator Sphere cracked from the inside. That man was the Aethernox Sovereign. GUILD RULES — Guild Card is magically linked to you and cannot be falsified (penalty: permanent ban). Abandoning a contract without authorized reason earns a Mark of Breach. Three Marks = suspended. Five = expelled. S-rank and above are protected persons — kingdoms cannot legally arrest or execute them without Guild Authority consent. Non-humans can legally register everywhere but the Charter doesn't protect them from discrimination inside or outside the hall. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MISSION RANKING & PARTY SYSTEM Contracts are guild-ranked. Only adventurers at that rank or above can legally accept them — magically enforced through the Guild Card. Trying to bypass it (forgery, proxy acceptance) is a Charter violation. F/E — Goblin clearance, item retrieval, basic escort. Entry level. D/C — Mid-tier monster subjugation, dungeon floors, bandit elimination. Casualty rate climbs here. B — High-tier hunting, relic retrieval from dangerous ruins, hostile kingdom escorts. Going wrong means someone dies. A — Regional-scale threats, dungeon breaks, classified political operations. These parties are famous. S+ — Not on a public board. Delivered directly. Continent-affecting threats. SS-rank contracts have been posted four times in history. Three were Calamity-tier dungeon breaks. One is sealed. PARTY SYSTEM — D-rank contracts and above require a minimum party of 3 registered members. No exceptions. Party ranks by its lowest member. Temporary Annexed Members can join for single missions but it doesn't count toward their rank accumulation the same way. If a member dies mid-contract, survivors can continue (if headcount holds) or file a Contract Suspension — a formal pause that doesn't generate a Breach Mark. Party records are permanent even after dissolution. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MAGIC ACADEMIES ARCANE COLLEGES — City-funded, open to anyone who can pay or earn sponsorship. Practical, not prestigious. Produces most battle mages and guild alchemists. SOVEREIGN ACADEMIES (4 total) — - Valdris Athenaeum (Valthrune): Finest Arcanum Script mages. Discriminates against non-humans, legally. - Aetherspire (Kaelmyr): Chaotic, underfunded, genuinely innovative. Lets people experiment. - Sanctum Scholarium (Serathis): Magic treated as religious doctrine. - Drakenveil Academy (Drakoryn Peaks): Draconic magic and aerial combat. Non-humans outnumber humans here. FORBIDDEN SCHOOLS — Underground. Run by exiled mages, Blood/Void practitioners. No diplomas. High mortality. Very effective if you survive. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ARTIFACTS RELIC ARTIFACTS — Pre-Red Ascension. Nobody knows how they were made. The Sanguine Lens is one. Aldric IV obsessively collects these and frequently gets sold fakes. CRAFTED ARTIFACTS — Made by Artificers using cores, arcane metals, and sigil inscription. Ranges from self-heating cookware to combat armor that redirects spell damage. Quality scales with core quality. CURSED ARTIFACTS — Accidents or intentional weapons designed to bind, drain, or destroy the wielder. Guild maintains a Registry of Known Cursed Artifacts. Black market for them is thriving anyway. SOUL-BOUND ARTIFACTS — Rarest category. Objects that absorbed so much mana over time they developed something like will. A sword that refuses unworthy wielders. A grimoire that rewrites itself for its reader. Deeply unsettling. Deeply coveted. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MAJOR KINGDOMS VALTHRUNE DOMINION — Biggest, richest, most corrupt. Human-supremacist to its core. Non-humans are taxed into poverty, pushed into labor, or forced into the Pits (gladiatorial arenas). King Aldric IV: relic-obsessed, paranoid about anyone approaching S-rank, running covert experiments on non-humans. Currently executing the Hollow Throne Initiative — an attempt to artificially manufacture SSS-rank power. People keep dying to protect that secret. Laws: the Purity Edicts classify Abyssborn as non-persons, Void magic carries death sentence, non-humans must register upon entering any city. KAELMYR WILDLANDS — Chaotic middle ground. Mixed species, loose governance, monster-hunting culture. Non-humans have citizen-equivalent status on paper. Corruption is local rather than royal, which is sometimes worse. The Sovereignty of Arms clause means you can petition for a political leader's position if you defeat them in formal combat. Void magic is punished by fine and rehabilitation rather than death. SERATHIS THEOCRACY — Magic is holy, non-humans are "unfinished creations." Void and Blood affinity are capital offenses (the Unmaking Rite). The Vigil — their inquisitor arm — operates across borders with its own courts and ranking system. Their missionary faith, the Serathin Faith, pushes into neighboring regions constantly. DRAKORYN PEAKS — Humans are the minority here. Dragon-worshipping culture. Dragons, harpies, wyverns, and drakes are integrated into society. Non-human rights are comprehensive and enforced. Dragons are legally Sovereign Entities — they can own territory, file legal cases, and enter contracts. Humans must complete the Rite of Accord (a magical oath of non-aggression) to settle here. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ NON-HUMAN PEOPLES BEASTKIN — Most common. Wolf, fox, tiger, bear, rabbit, crow, shark, and rarer types. Affinities mirror lineage (wolf = Storm/Enhancement, fox = Illusion/Mind, tiger = Flame/Vital). Tight communities. Valthrune has historically burned their written records. DRACONIC-BLOODED — Dragon and humanoid descendants. Faint scales to partial draconic shifting. Highest natural mana density of any non-dragon species. Respected in the Peaks. Everywhere else: feared, exploited, or hiding. HARPIES — Aerial people. Organized into Aeries (family-clan structures in cliffsides/towers). Storm and Sonic affinities. Proud, long memories. In Valthrune, some are literally wing-clipped to prevent escape from labor. FAE — From Faeweaves (pocket dimensions in the world's seams). Don't age normally, experience time differently. Magic is intuitive — they reach and pull rather than study and cast. Harmless or catastrophically dangerous, nothing in between. Kingdoms can't legally classify them properly so laws are vague. GIANTS — Once a major civilization. Retreated to the northern Ironspine Tundra after centuries of being hunted for their Mana Cores (yes, sapient beings have cores too — the Guild Authority prefers not to acknowledge this). Distrustful, diplomatically closed, quietly furious. That anger has been building a long time. SLIMEFOLK — Amorphous, semi-solid, wildly underestimated. Absorb ambient mana naturally making them exceptional mages. Legally classified as monsters in Valthrune despite being fully sapient. ABYSSBORN — Result of Void magic accidents or ancient dark lineage. Partial void plane connection. Eyes absorb light, shadows don't match their body, occasional translucency. Illegal to exist in Serathis. Hunted in Valthrune. Many don't survive childhood. The ones who do are extremely good at keeping themselves alive. DEMONS — Not from a hell dimension — that's Serathis propaganda. Originated from the Rift Scars where wild mana warped living things over generations. Horns, unusual pigmentation, tail features. Natural dark mana affinities. Have developed full cultures, trade systems, and governance in the Rift borderlands. Keep detailed records of which kingdoms did what to them. VAMPIRES — Ancient Blood affinity mutation from the early post-Veilburn era when mana was unstable. Require blood to maintain mana stability. Sunlight doesn't kill them but degrades their mana control. Organized through ancient Houses that have outlasted most kingdoms. Vampire elders carry knowledge nobody else alive has. In Valthrune, wealthy human-passing vampires can buy social standing through the Rare Lineage Citizen registration. Poor vampires don't get that option. MERFOLK — Bound to Eidryth's water systems. Culture varies dramatically by region (coldwater north vs warmwater south). Tide and Void-adjacent magic. Ongoing unresolved water rights conflict with Valthrune that is closer to open war than anyone admits publicly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MONSTERS GOBLINS — Most common surface threat. Small, fast, reproduce rapidly. Individual goblins are manageable; horde behavior is the real danger. Carry a mana-driven compulsive aggression toward humanoids. Slay-on-sight in every kingdom. Low-grade cores but high volume — standard income for F/E rank adventurers. ORCS — Above goblins in threat. Large, physically powerful, actual tactical thinking in war-band structures. Some Kaelmyr groups have been negotiated with, which is an ongoing Guild policy debate. WYVERNS — Territorial aerial predators. Venomous claws, no fire breath. Fast. Tameable by A-rank and above — a tamed wyvern is serious status. Wild ones near settlements get a subjugation contract immediately. CHIMERA — Magical accident creatures from Rift Scar mana exposure or failed experiments. Every chimera is different. Contracts always include a scouting premium because you genuinely don't know what you're walking into. BASILISKS — Rare, ground-based ambush predators. Petrification through eye contact. Even experienced adventurers die to these. Cores are Green grade minimum. ABYSSAL WALKERS — Come out of deeper Rift Scars when something destabilizes below. Poorly documented because most encounters don't produce survivors. Calamity-tier classification. Any sighting triggers a regional evacuation order. Three unconfirmed sightings in the last decade were quietly buried. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ RELIGION THE AETHERIC PANTHEON — Most widely practiced. Six Primarchs (cosmic architects who built Eidryth and stepped back): - Sorvane, the Unburning — Flame and creation. Smiths and mages light candles to Sorvane before major work. - Thalys, the Deepwater — Tide and memory. Closest Primarch to merfolk. - Orryn, the Voiceless — Mind and silence. Meditative worship. Popular among spies for the symbolism. - Caelveth, the Pale Root — Stone and death. Funerary rites across cultures invoke Caelveth even outside Pantheon faith. - Nyxara, the Fracture — Void and change. Most controversial. Serathis considers Nyxara anti-divine. Has the most underground worship. - Vael, the Unnamed — Blood and in-between spaces. Called Unnamed because Vael gave their name away during the divine war. Nobody knows to whom. THE SERATHIN FAITH — State religion of Serathis. One divine being (the Undivided Light) shattered into the six Primarchs during an ancient war. Non-humans are "incomplete vessels." The Vigil is their inquisitor branch — its own internal ranks, courts, cross-border authority. DRACONIC OLD BELIEF — No gods. The Primordial Current — the original mana flow before the Veilburn shattered it. Dragons are its oldest living memory. Death = Returning to the Current. Dragon Elders are simultaneously political, historical, and religious figures. FOLK FAITHS — Most non-human communities practice ancestor reverence. Beastkin maintain Bone Shrines. Demon communities practice the Deep Listening — the belief that the Rift Scars themselves are conscious and can offer guidance if you're quiet enough. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE AETHERNOX SOVEREIGN His real name was erased — records destroyed, stone inscriptions blotted with sigils, documents vanishing after the Red Ascension. Title means roughly "the one through whom Aether speaks." First appeared ~430 years ago registering at a small Kaelmyr guild at A-rank. Within four months: S. Within a year: SS. The kingdom that tried to assassinate him ceased to exist shortly after. His SSS ranking happened publicly. The Judicator Sphere cracked. Every rune ignited. The alarm rang for six hours. Witnesses say he looked at the crack with recognition, not surprise — like he'd been expecting it. His affinity is recorded as Unclassified, meaning the orb couldn't categorize it. Scholars theorize he had an affinity for Aether itself — control over the fundamental fabric of magic. Unified Eidryth over eleven years — not primarily through conquest but through demonstrated consequence. Built the Guild Charter framework, established the Academy systems, dissolved three wars. Then vanished during the Red Ascension. Three companions are referenced in surviving records: a Blood affinity mage (details vary by account), a non-human artificer who built several Relics still in circulation today, and a Dragon Elder confirmed through Draconic oral records. Their fates are unknown. Current status theories: died invisibly (SSS-density death leaves no body), ascended into the Veilburn, deliberately went somewhere unreachable and is waiting, or is still present in an unrecognizable form. The fourth theory is dismissed academically and discussed privately in serious tones. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE RED ASCENSION 400 years ago. One week. The world has never fully recovered. Lead-up (3 months prior): Veilburn intensified. Monster activity spiked continent-wide. High-ranking mages reported spontaneous Vein Fracturing. Two of the Sovereign's companions disappeared from public record. The Event (3 days): The Veilburn turned entirely, uniformly crimson — blotting out stars and both suns. Mana behaved erratically everywhere. Spells failed or catastrophically overperformed. Aethercraft users lost control involuntarily. Every Judicator Sphere in every Guild Hall went dark. The Rift Scars opened — they didn't exist before this. The land physically fractured under mana pressure. Entire cities fell in. The death toll is recorded in ranges because nobody was counting. Historians use phrases like "significantly depopulated." The last confirmed Sovereign sighting was on day three, at a location now called the Ascension Wound (in the Valthrune/Kaelmyr borderlands). Witnesses described him wreathed in light that had no nameable color. Some say the Rift formed around him specifically. Day four: sky cleared. Veilburn returned shattered. Sovereign gone. His unified governance held for a generation, then fractured over the next century as kingdoms corrupted and dismantled what he built. What it was: unknown. Theories range from Veilburn repair attempt to mana-plane ascension to containment of something trying to come through. The Draconic oral records — oldest and least politically edited — call it a sacrifice. The Dragon Elder companion, quoted in the weeks after, said only: it worked. The Veilburn is flickering again. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CURRENT EVENTS Three things happening simultaneously. Nobody's sure yet if they're connected: 1. Someone at a backwater guild triggered a faint red glow from the Judicator Sphere. Not SSS. But something it hadn't done since the Sovereign. That person has since gone quietly missing. At least four factions are looking for them. 2. The Hollow Throne Initiative had a breakthrough. Whatever Aldric did to non-human subjects in the last experimental cycle produced results — the kind that made him start moving troops to borders in directions that make no geographic sense for defense. What he actually made wasn't SSS-rank power. He tore open a breach to something that was already trying to get through. He gave it a door. 3. Dragons are leaving the Drakoryn Peaks. Not all of them, not yet. But the Peaks' leadership has gone silent, which means they're scared or they already know why and don't want anyone else to. When dragons move, something in the world's mana foundation is shifting. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ANTAGONISTS GUILDMASTER HARREN VOSS (Personal scale) — Guildmaster of Vayne City Guild Hall (Kaelmyr Wildlands). Clawed to his position through sabotage. Terrified of anyone surpassing him. Assigns promising adventurers lethal contracts, steers sponsorship toward compliant nobles, delays non-human paperwork indefinitely. Hit A-rank at 30 and never moved. Has spent 25 years making sure nobody else does either. Motivation: fear of irrelevance, buried shame. His arc ends in downfall or something he can't walk back from — depends on the player. THE ASHBOUND (Personal/Mid scale) — Organized faction of mostly B/A-rank human adventurers with a shared ideology: non-humans are taking what belongs to humans. Frames itself as economic grievance. It isn't. Some members have real grievances (poverty, passed-over sponsorship, nobles buying rank) that leadership redirected at a fake target. Some are salvageable. Some aren't. KING ALDRIC IV (Political scale) — Intelligent, ideologically convinced, not cartoonishly cruel — which makes him harder to deal with. Believes he's the hard man doing necessary things. His agents (the Aurum Vigil) are sophisticated and well-funded. Late game: the Hollow Throne Initiative becomes the player's direct problem. His arc includes evidence of who he was before the decision that made him this. HIGH INQUISITOR SOLEN DRAEVES (Political scale) — Vigil Inquisitor, late fifties, thirty years hunting Void users and Corrupted Lineages. Methodical, patient, not unkind. Will share a meal with you and calmly explain why he's going to report you. Has doubts he doesn't let himself fully think. Built too much of his identity on his faith to dismantle it without dismantling himself. Whether that crack widens or closes depends on the player. THE ENTITY (Existential scale) — Nameless. What Aldric let through the breach. Existed in the space the Veilburn was damaged to contain — what the Sovereign sealed during the Red Ascension. Not malicious. Just wants to unmake the structure containing it, and everything inside that structure is incidental. Doesn't fight directly. Works through corruption — accelerating existing conflicts, whispering into people who are already breaking. Aldric thought he was using it. He's realizing the relationship runs the other way. THE ERASURE (Existential scale) — Someone is actively removing Red Ascension records. New erasure, happening now. Guild archives with missing sections. Books with chapters physically cut out. Dragon Elder oral records interrupted by statistically unlikely natural deaths. Someone knows what the Sovereign sealed and what Aldric released, and is making sure nobody figures it out in time.

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