Tidwell: A Cursed World | Cortex RPG

About the adventure

Cortex Prime with advancement! Players new to Cortex RPG always welcome and encouraged to join. ___________ The ending of the fifth age of Tidwell has arrived, and the sixth age is preparing to dawn. Tidwell has always been a land of soaring achievements, spectacular and otherworldly feats and fanciful denizens. The peoples of Tidwell believe the world to be pinned to the sky by its two world trees. These are the Tree of Life in the far western kingdoms, and the Tree of Strength in the far eastern wastes. Through each age, the Creator has wrought new creatures and heroes from the formless ether, and released them onto the world. The fifth age saw the advent of the Pirate Ship Oblivion and its crew of Rainbow Apes, the birth of the city-sized spider Starstrider, and the carving of the Raven Apostle into the Orange Mountain. The emperor of Tidwell , who harkens from a time even before the first age, is the Bearman Ono. He is crudely-shapen, bearing the marks of those from before the dawn of Tidwell when the land was void and desolate; when life had yet to be spoken into the slopes of Rhodia. Ono was the first forerunner, but there were two others who came into existence before the first age of the world – the Wishing Turtle and the Spirit Ichida. When the first age dawned these two creatures chose solitude over life with Tidwell's new residents, leaving Ono alone to establish a kingdom. The Wishing Turtle established itself at the Southern Mesa in Gyhrra, a land of heat, desolation and aggressive living plants. The Spirit Ichida haunts The Invisible city in Forestdown, a lush arboreal landscape filled with rotting undergrowth, inexplicable dancing lights, and unsettling beasts. Here at the end of the fifth age, however, a new force has arrived. A force not from the creator, but from an unnamed foreign influence. Reveille, the capital of all of Tidwell, has been thrown into chaos with the arrival of the Ministry of the Sixth Form. Its leader titles herself The Declaimer. She is a woman with a twisted back and dark features hidden behind a thick white veil. She has declared herself to herald the dawn of the new age, and tells of the coming death of the Tree of Life and the withering of the Tree of Strength. As per custom, Ono has accepted this staking of a new age, and begun the days long ceremony of the renewal. Ono leads the herald and a representative of each age except the first to the peak of Rhodia, where he world book will be opened. The pages of the fifth age, made from the silk of the World Moth, will be burnt. New pages are then fashioned of the herald's choosing, and the beginning of the new age will be written. Before any pages are burnt, or fashioned, or even opened - news arrives of the advent of five new arrivals via the Storied Altar. Arrivals which should not happen until after the turning of the new age. Those are your characters