Campaign:Thaelam

Thaelam is a campaign run in a homebrew version of Dungeon & Dragons, 5th edition.

Pre-Campaign
"There were once two beings, known to Thaelam as the Creator and the Destroyer. Always in balance, they made the gods, the seasons, and brought magic to the land. The Creator brought life and growth, while the Destroyer brought death and decay. The people of Thaelam loved the Creator, and worshipped them, while despising the Destroyer for bringing pain and sorrow to their lands.""The Destroyer grew jealous. They began to barter with the mortals, giving power to those who did their bidding. There was a shift in the world. Those favored by the Destroyer reigned supreme over those less fortunate, and darkness spread across the land.""The Creator grew angry, knowing the pain and injustice that power brought to Thaelam. The Destroyer retaliated, arguing that the Creator shouldn’t be the only one who is loved and worshipped.""Tensions flared, and a great war broke out. The battle between the Creator and Destroyer was reflected on Thaelam. The land turned to rubble. Thousands fell. The Creator, in an act of desperation, to save what was left of the world, cut themselves off from Qaysa. With their sacrifice went the gods that walked among the two. And as the last of the gods disappeared from the plane, in turn did the magic that had thrived alongside them."

Campaign Begin
It's been 300 years since the fall of magic. Most have never experienced it, beyond the strange happenings in the wilds, and in that of old, enchanted items. A small party of travelers answer a call to help a young elf travel safely to a nearby town. Illanathiyra, Lana for short, Nallem is young, wide-eyed and naive, and she quickly tells the party of her true intentions: to explore a cave deep in the Western Treelands. Traveling through the assorted traps and old magic that lies dormant in the cave, they stumble upon a mirror. However the mirror is more than it seems, and something dark, something powerful pulls itself into Lana. The party watches on, helpless to intervene as Lana shatters the mirror, takes a piece of the jagged glass and plunges it into her heart. Her form shifts, and she falls to the ground in a black liquid that seeps into the floor.

The party leaves the cave, and the world seems to have shifted. Magic, it appears, has returned to this world. Not only that, but it seems that the party is marked. Red, glowing symbols scrawl up and down their arms. They run into Lana's elder sibling, Esranae, who begs the party to help them find out what has happened to their sister. Together they try to determine what has happened to Lana, what the marks on their arms mean, and what this means for the world of Thaelam.

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