dungeons-and-dragons/catchup.md

# Previous Campaign Recaps

## Darkages

> Consisted of two campaigns, not super flushed out, some holes.

The world is made up of 7 realms (countries). They are incased by a 'Veil'.

each has its own god, the only gods that really mattered are Titus Warborn, god of war and Zak'ar, god of magic.
He was Lysterias god. Titus is god of Bast.
The craetor god Bren, really the god of space for the world, oversaw everyone from his plane of existance (BPO).
There was a guy named Leonitas, son of Titus, he politically rose to the king, elected high king of the seven realms.
The feast of Bren happens after the election, a coronation event where Bren blesses the new high king, takes place in BPO.
During the feast Leonitas, with the help of Veiga and Red Kent, sabotaged the feast and killed all the gods there and the main characters.

Drip is a drug made by Veiga, still a problem in Omir. Addictive, like shimmer in arcane. Skin gets impenatrable but you also go crazy. Got together with a resistance, wizard named Roth, Trinket (idk). Roth is the first wizard friend, being so he was super over powered. Level 20 archmage, best of the seven realms referenced a lot in research throughout history. He helped with the resistance, with the beast of Bast.
Time skipped to an ending where the siege of Lysteria happened.
If the gods leave their realm (country) they are no longer gods, so they cannot war with eachother. No power in BPO. Leo had power because he was a demi-god, gods aren't supposed to have kids. All the gods had a dragon. Leos was necromantic (he was the necromancer).
Ancalagon is huge, size of a mountain range. Necro dragon, Morgoth, is the black wizard morgoth -- he is adept at magic went to master the forbidden forms. Lived in a mountain, suspended to time. He fought Ancalagon and destroyed eachother. The 7 realms calandarsystem is based on this event.

Went back in time to stop Red Kent from killing Bren. Now Bren on this time line is alive. Leo gets executed for betraying.

Campaign 1:

Scourge crisis is a massive piece of this campaign.

Bren was killed by Ausar, with his party. He went in and Ausar was the only one who lived, he went in a man - came out a god. Everyone else made the ultimate sacrifice. Instated rules like never use slipgates again, don't worship the dongus'.

Takes place in Lysteria.
Started in a town that was known as icegarden, this matters because the 'fist of icegarden' a relic. It is the strong gauntlet that is also a prison, able to trap powerful entities.
Ethos the collector (minotaur), with a kid Sabar (half orc) both friends of the party.
Run into the 'Men of the Basilisk' when doing a job, they are a faction in arc 1. Conflicts about some outings. Alvar is killed later in the campaign. He used mass hysteria (broken homebrew).
These men have a secret weapon, an angel of Ausar. Enforcer type weapon. Had to fight it with the original potato staff made by Taterthorn.

Then they travel to smaller towns, and end up in the capital of Lysteria. End up in the gorefest arena. Meet Orius an alchemist, who works for the King. They gain infamy while fighting in the arena as the 'Challengers of Ausar'.
Orius was working on a slipgate (thing that Locke has), its a dimentional portal. These are outlawed by Ausar. If done incorrectly it causes an atomic bomb type explosion at the exit point.
They fought a dragon guy named Master Lung, fucked the party up. Orius was able to open a slip gate during the fight and they ended up in Bast. Orius was teleported into BPO and was taken by Ausar.

They get to Bast and Nathan Mystery has a big plot here, the ruby of Rowan -- Rowan wars was fought over these. The Vanders and the Clads (Everen Vander). Party allied themselves with the Vanders. The ruby was stolen by the party, unknowing of the Vanders.
They meet up with Titus and he wants to help them -- Malganis got summoned, Titus had to use his power to beat him which summoned Angels of Ausar. Titus is called Rick as a code name, goblin named pesget.

### Hells Arc

Met by a secret society, King Vesimr Morad of the 7 realms (Ancrath King at the time. -- main area for the scourge wars)
Brodan and Xavery are working with Lord Cabridge -- owner of the Cabridge Academy.
A Gnome - Grogogulus, profit.
Titus and Orius and Ethos, known as the iluvitar, to take down Ausar.
They go to Gorgonshorn, owned by the Vanders valuable mine. Shit hits the fan because Orius shows up and betrays them and shows Ausar where they are.
Ausar shows up and blows up a mountain, Orius stabs Ethos and kills him.
They get sent to hells. Avernus they fight Straga. A titan named Ricktazol frozen there (predate the gods).
They fought the Laughing Hand. They get out of hell, Butane is the god of hell Bellacor.
The worker who made the Angels of Ausar. Controls all the angels of ausar. They serve Vesimir in current day.

Butane can hell walk, hes a fusion of Bellacor and somone that was in Ausar's party.
They plan to kill Ausar (has the power of 6 of the gods and Bren), they need to weaken him somehow.
They need to find an op weapon to turn him mortal, 'Echo of the Last Murder', can turn into anyone who has ever taken a life.
They needed poison from Morterion's Lab (a demon). They got the 'God Blight' makes a diety mortal.
Morterion died, 'God Blight' can't be made anymore in this universe.

Their ally Morgath the black wizard (who was previously killed). They go to the Nessus the 6th layer of hell, an eternal city.
Morgath has conquered The Nessus, got the ring of the Nessus (Like the ring of the stygia Camilla's ring).
The Abyss (9th layer) (only Bellacor can get in), Leo was locked, tortured with no memories, Butane helps him get out and he becomes a friend of the party.
Red Kent is the hand of the Nessus. While Morgath is doing something Red Kent holds everyone hostage and steals the 'Talisman of Ultimate Evil', to not be the hand. Leo now serves Morgath as the Arbiter of Hell.
Now that Bellacor is back, if Morgath helps him -- they will rule together.

(Titus becomes god at the end.)

### Ausar Arc

They basically gather the holy trinity to turn Ausar mortal: The god blight, some blade, a conduit to contain him.
Their plan was to contain him when he became mortal, if they kill him he would be reborn after the god blight wore off.
Fist of Ice Garden, and the Ruby of Rowan is capable of housing energy. Combined it could contain him.

Preparing for a large fight, during this arc they learn there have been a bunch of scourge coming back.
The second scourge war is the end of campaign one.
Scourge are in the hells some how, a different plane of existance. The scourge way back when were mindless beings, and the first war ended when Ausar ended it. This is how Ausar gained imfamy. Killing the Crimson King the leader of the hivemind.

This is where it is revelaed that Ausar is controlling the Scourge.

(Ausar Ascension Story)
They find out that Ausar made a deal with Bellacor, the lord of the hells, to imbue himself with Bellacor's essence to overthrow the gods. And Bellacor planned to double cross him and take control of his body. What he didn't anticipate is that the body he put himself into was Cyrus and Ausar still funnels the power into himself. Cyrus' brother Raedriar saw this but got killed by Ausar.
Just before the ascension he thinks he killed worker and took control of the angels of Ausar.

The party goes to kill the Crimson King (avatar of Ausar), and then Ausar makes a move to kill them. There is then a large gathering of forces (Titus and Vezimir). They amass their army together and move on the scourge and then during that fight the main fight takes place.

They turn him mortal, and put him in the glove.

(party found a scale of Ancalagon)

Alder's brother Brodan, who can shift to any size, had to be talked down and brought back from the edge of insanity.

### End

Butane goes to leave in the night, made a deal with Morgath. Eventually Bellacor will take over. Civil war ensues in hell.
Alder turns his old tribe into a thriving tribe, Morax tribe. Raising Desmond into what we saw.
Stu went back to guard the dragon isles.
Nathan Mystery took the gauntlet and gave it to the Ethos estate. And took the Ruby of Rowan and traveled somewhere unknown to everyone.