Chronicles of the Banished: Secrets Beneath a Fallen Empire

About the adventure

🧭 An epic, long-term dark fantasy campaign filled with ancient ruins, political intrigue, and divine conspiracies. 🎭 TONE & THEMES Grimdark | Mystery | Political Intrigue | Eldritch Horror Expect moral ambiguity, shifting alliances, and the weight of forgotten power. Heavy RP balanced with cinematic combat and exploration 🗺️ SETTING The Crosilian Empire is in collapse. Elves who once ruled through fear and purity magic have vanished overnight. Now, revolution simmers in the streets of Trye — a fractured capital built over the buried remnants of an ancient, advanced civilization. Beneath the city, something stirs. Forgotten gods claw at the edges of reality. The Doom, a construct of apocalyptic scale, may rise again. Only four Scions stand between salvation and annihilation — and you might be one of them. ⚔️ WHAT TO EXPECT Weekly sessions (3 hrs each) Long-term campaign (Level 3–20) Deep player backstory integration Player choices shape the story High stakes, complex factions, and cosmic consequences 🎲 SYSTEM DETAILS System: Dungeons & Dragons 5e VTT: Owlbear Rodeo Voice: Discord Style: Theater of the Mind with tactical maps for key encounters Pacing: Medium to narrative-heavy 🧙 PLAYER INFO Beginner Friendly: ✅ (Session 0 included, rules taught in-play) Tools Used: Lines & Veils, X-Card, Open Door Policy Character Creation: Point Buy or Standard Array. Start at Level 3. All official 5e material allowed. Homebrew allowed with approval. Backstories welcome and encouraged — they will affect the world. 🧩 THE STORY SO FAR (TL;DR version) A stolen artifact. A corrupted Control Node pulsing with divine rot. A city built atop the ruins of a god-killing empire. You arrived aboard a sabotaged airship, only to find yourself wrapped in a web of undead cults, ancient vampires, blood mages, and divine prisoners known as The Banished. One by one, their Scions awaken — and the prison that holds them begins to crack. Can you stop the return of The Doom… or will you help unleash it? 🏆 WHY THIS GAME? Deeply immersive setting blending Forgotten Realms, Tamriel, and an original lost empire (Sera’Kazar) Rich lore that’s woven into the story, not dumped Player-driven arcs — you will change the world NPCs that evolve, lie, help, betray — or all of the above Frequent in-game handouts, riddles, secret messages, and puzzles An evolving story that reacts to your decisions 💬 QUOTES FROM THE TABLE “This is Game of Thrones meets Planescape.” “I didn’t think I’d cry over a gnome librarian.” “Every session leaves me with a theory — and a headache.” “The Box duel changed my life.” 🎟️ Ready to shape the fate of a broken world? Join us. The Banished are stirring. The Control Nodes are awakening. And Trye is only the beginning.