Salt and Sedition - Original Swashbuckling Dark Fantasy

About the adventure

At the furthest reaches of a world of vast oceans and island states, where the Far Ocean stretches into the Unknown Seas, sits a lawless frontier of wealth and wonder. A place ripe for adventure. An age or enlightenment is upon the world, the discovery of the black powder fuelling innovation and driving trade. Tall ships carry goods from across the thirteen seas to the Heartland; where the age began. All under the watchful eye of the Imperium Erdani. Yet the world is not one of hope and high adventure, oh no, this world borders on the maddening unknown; always days away from oblivion and never truly knowing it. The Syn, a realm of unimaginable chaos and suffering tears at the fringes of reality held back only by the words of the deity, the Whispering Queen. Her Synweavers guard the incredibly rare talent for magic with their lives. They regard magic as a dangerous necessity, not a gift, investigating it with an austere, obsessive scrutiny rather than open debate. Publicly these Synweavers serve the throne as a grim civic duty but covertly they operate as secretive enforcers hiding a brutal truth: all magic, regardless of practice, is drawn from The Syn and they seek to keep it from breaking into the real world. By law they unceremoniously collect all magic users from a very young age, when they show aptitude, and whisk them away to the Dawn Tower in the Erdani Heartland. There the most useful are trained for a Synweaver license; forever tethered to the authority of the tower. The dangerous ones are sacrificed to the Whispering Queen to grant her words power that they might keep the Syn at bay. It is against this tumultuous backdrop that Salt and Sedition is set. It is a low-magic, low-divine-involvement, dark fantasy world that has reached an Age of Enlightenment despite the perils that threaten it from the unknown. With the invention of black powder weapons and tall ships, an empire has been able to span the globe but the darkness at its edges remains and all is not as it seems. With the empire tightening its grip, corruption is rife. On the Frontier Isles this is no truer, with the throne sanctioned Archipelago Trading Company vying for control against governors, privateers, pirates, smugglers and gangs. Whilst the artisocracy do their best to maintain a sense of decorum and normality on these fringes of Imperium Erdani, the people do their best to survive and thrive. You’re a roguish group of adventurers out for coin, operating in the grey area where you might just end up heroes, even if you didn’t intend to. There are plenty of jobs on the Frontier Isles that need a certain kind of person; you’re those people. Welcome to Salt and Sedition, a game of unlikely heroes in a dark age ripe for rebellion.