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The Shattered Realms

by David · Sci-Fi · 5e-Compatible

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A realm forever changed by the Sundering, a cataclysmic magical upheaval that cracked the planet's bones and cast the world into darkness. Civilization now clings to floating islands drifting through gloom-shrouded skies, while the surface below has become an otherworldly deep-underdark of horrors and forgotten ruins barely touched by the sun.

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Setting

Technologyrenaissance
Magicstandard
Seed408320382
Themes
high-fantasyheroicexploration
Common races
humanelfdwarfhalflinggnomeorcgoblinhalf-elfhalf-orc
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Geography

Primary terrains
foresthillsdesertcoast
Climate
tropical
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Factions

The Verdant Council
guild · Druidic nobility ruling from hollowed world-trees, their power tied to the floating forests' health and seasonal cycles.
High Keeper Thoren Willowroot (ageless half-elf)
The Iron Barons
guild · Wealthy merchant cartel controlling the airship industry, their influence measured in tons of salvaged sky-metal and forged hulls.
Baroness Veda Ironhold (human industrialist)
The Tide-Weavers
order · Mystic coral-singers who divine weather patterns and guide airships through storm-choked skies, their secrets guarded jealously.
First Singer Mirela Coralheart (sea-elf)
The Cobalt Syndicate
guild · Smugglers and black marketeers operating from Rusty Hook Moorage, trading in anything from salvage to forbidden relics.
Captain 'Rusty' Kaelen (half-orc)
The Ashen Walkers
tribe · Hardy surface scavengers who brave the gloom and fungal horrors to trade pre-Sundering salvage for sky-world luxuries.
Matriarch Jhonen Cinder-Hand (human)
Spore-Mind Cultists
cult · Mad surface dwellers transformed by the Fungal Deep's alien entity, spreading corruption through the darkness.
The Husk (formerly human, now fungal vessel)
The Sky-Breakers
cult · Fanatical doomsday movement seeking to finish what the Sundering started — they believe the world must be fully shattered to be reborn.
Prophet Malachai Vane (human former arcanist)
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Threats

The Spore-Mindmajor corruption

An ancient fungal entity that survived the Sundering in the lightless depths, now spreading its mycelial network through the surface world — transforming all it touches into fungal thralls and hivemind servants. It whispers to sorcerers and desperate survivors alike, promising power in exchange for servitude.

The Spore-Mindmajor corruption

An ancient fungal intelligence that has awakened in the Fungal Deep, gradually expanding its hive-mind across the surface and infiltrating sky islands through infected hosts and spore-cloud airship raids.

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Lore web

2 calendars7 factions1 historical event16 locations