Kirth Gersen's Aviona: "On the Frontier"

[Kirth Gersen]

East of the elven lands, in the shadow of the forbidding Elder Mountains, is the Estren Frontier. Peopled by a collection of expatriate humans, exiled high elves, and native hill dwarves and wood elves, this place is a less-civilized counterpart to the court splendor and ancient traditions of Aviona to the west. Here, a quartet of unlikely adventurers receive a unique job offer:

Jazeed (played by Andostre), a male human cleric 1 of Norborger. Jazeed hails from the far eastern desert kingdom of Bailakash. What he's doing on the frontier is anyone's guess. He is by turns cringingly cowardly and recklessly brave; when he channels energy, it's positive or negative by turns, as the will of the gods (or the conflictedness of his personality) dicates.

Virac (played by Silverhair), a half-orc runecaster from the human northlands. Virac appears as a large, hulking, ugly human; his orc blood was an asset in his northern homeland, but something he carefully conceals from the elves in the south.

"Trog" (played by Jess Door), a stunted, malnourished half-elf monk 1. Trog is a beggar and street urchin, with an irrepressible curiosity and love of "shinies." She accompanies the others mostly based on promises of food and blankets.

Fiachra (played by houstonderek), a high elf wizard 1, crippled by polio, whose nobleman father refused to allow magical healing ("it builds character?"). Fiachra seeks magical power in old ruins, in order to one day oust his father and brother and assume rulership of their estates.

[vagrant-poet]

These look interesting, are they going to be fully updated campaign journals?

[Kirth Gersen]

vagrant-poet wrote:

These look interesting, are they going to be fully updated campaign journals?

Soon! I need to go home and consult my notes for the first few adventures -- I hope to keep them up-to-date (1 entry per week) after that.

This group's first adventure was loosely based on The Whispering Cairn, the first episode of the "Age of Worms" adventure path. However, the overall context was changed to fit the events precipitated by the other group of PCs. Therefore, I need to update the "In the King's Guard" campaign journal before launching into this one.

[vagrant-poet]

I look forward to them both, as an aside, do you use Golarion gods, and who is the goddess of the dwarven cleric in the Kings Guard game?

[Kirth Gersen]

vagrant-poet wrote:

I look forward to them both, as an aside, do you use Golarion gods, and who is the goddess of the dwarven cleric in the Kings Guard game?

Golarion's gods are unknown in Aviona; one of them got transplanted into Bailakash (an area not yet well-detailed and therefore up for grabs) by Andostre. The dwarven goddess is likewise -- the player, Silverhair, invented her for his character, for lack of campaign-specific precedent. I left him in charge of the whole Mountain Dwarf pantheon, in fact!