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My premiere campaign setting turned into a wiki for anyone to edit.
Phoenicia: the City of Psionics has become Phaeselis.
"Phaeselis: the City of Psionics is inspired by the Ptolus: City by the Spire campaign. It's a pathfinder campaign that is built around a city of Psionicists set in land that is not unlike Hellenistic Asia.
"Long ago, psychically gifted people were persecuted because they had the ability to project their thoughts, read minds, see into the past and into the future, and create things seemingly out of nothing. Persecuted more than witches because no one understood them, these people had to hide during the time of the Great Empires. Then came the great Hellenistic Expansion. Led by a magnificient and beneficient Military Genius called Alexander, the Hellenes conquered the Achmeniads and created an Empire that spanned incredibly far. Alexander, learning of the plight of these gifted children and adults, founded a city just for them.
"He called it Phaeselis, the City of the Gifted. To everyone else in the World it became known as Phaeselis, the City of Psionics, the City of the Cursed, or the City of the Damned. Many armies led by Evil men tried to destroy it. Once by an army composed of Magi. In the final confrontation of that battle, the entire population of the City utterly destroyed the army and took the survivors into slavery. And then no one dared to come up against Phaeselis again."
Phaeselis is a campaign built for one reason, and one reason only. To be a City based campaign to be dropped into your campaigns at will and to explore when you are ready to. Inspired by Ptolus: City of the Spire, Phaeselis: City of Psionics is a place dominated by Psionics. A place where the psychically gifted can live in peace, and those with the talent and the will can find adventure.
Come to Phaeselis, the City of Psionics.
Y'know, I really like the setting so far... but every time I see Phaeselis, I keep seeing phallus... I think I preferred the other name a bit more. Sorry :(
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I wish I could change it, honestly. I looked through all the lists of all the Greek Colonies looking for inspiration about 5 times.
It doesn't even fit. :( But I changed the name in case someone would say, "What about the Lebonese?" And to tell the truth, the Lebonese can't really claim 'Phoenician' as an identity. Only the Basques of Spain has that right to claim the identity as Phoenician. And they don't really care.