Alright so recently me and the gang were sitting around BSing and we got on the topic of the Azlanti and Old Azlant and how could anyone have survived so long especially in hiding. Then one of us, I dont recall who, said "A wizard did it" because that is a common joke we all know from Fantasy Genre. But it got me to thinking and the rest of us all got to talking how a Wizard or a group of Wizards would 'save' the Azlanti from extinction.
The idea we came up with was during the start of their decline a cabal of Wizards and other high thinkers realized that Azlant was falling into a very conservative mindset of things must stay the same because that is what brought us to power. This cabal however were more forward thinkers and decided they needed to overthrow the current regigm but knew they didn't have the manpower or the current sociopolitical backing. So instead what they did was go to all the great settlements of Azlanti and began recruiting like minded individuals to com with them.
This garnered them roughly 9000 people, remember this was at the height of their power or at least not far after so they would have been vary numerous at this point. They took these people and split them up between three settlements in secluded parts of the world. Once there the cabal of wizards went to work forming their own extra dimensional spaces/Demi-Planes which allowed them to house 3000 people each and control the flow of time and so forth. The idea was that they would control the flow of time inside the spaces to be much slower then normal time. So when the societies views became more in line with their own they could return and take power.
Something happened however, for some unknown reason the Azlanti Arks as they called themselves never opened back up and hundreds of years turned into thousands into ten thousand years. While inside their safe little bubbles only a few hundred years passed, the original cabal gave way to their successors and those successors gave way to theirs and so forth till the original plan and goal of the Arks were mostly forgotten. The Azlanti progressives in their little utopia had forgotten they where just suppose to be waiting to go home and lead the Azlanti Empire into the future.
It has been between 300 - 500 years since the Arks were formed and this Party of Adventurers have been given a very special task by the eldest member of the cabal, one who still remembers the old plan even if he was not there for its founding or was he? He taskes this group of Adventurers, some of the best and brightest of their Ark to go out and find out what has happened to the Azlanti Empire, and to find a way to locate the other Arks and find a way to convince the Azlanti who reside inside its time to venture back out into the scary world beyond the edge of their sheltered planes.
Now for the character help, I have 3 players and non of them really like playing the heavy caster, the wizard or what not. Most favor the Gish classes or straight up martials. I am wondering if I will need to allow Gestalt into this campaign to better balance it for three people. And no they do not want to play multiple characters I already asked, though I may drop a Healbot in with them should they require it.
Any Advice?