🗓 Session 0 Gameplay Summary

📅 Date of Session:

2024/12/08

🎲 Campaign Details

• System: D&D 5e (2024 Rules)
• Starting Level: 5
• Leveling System: Milestone-based
• Tone: Darker Fantasy (with room for levity)
• Party Alignment: Generally Neutral Good
• Death: Avoidable but meaningful

🏷️ Starting Equipment

• Standard class gear
• 600 gp
• 1 Uncommon Magic Item or Weapon
• 1 Common Magic Item
• 2 Potions of Healing
• Crafting rules are allowed

🌍 World & Setting: Realm of Lumis

Political Landscape

• Realm fractured from a former balance of powers
• Ruled by King Narcissus, an Aasimar, under influence of three hags
• Each hag planted a daughter in court, raised as a "princess"
• Prince Krasnar (true heir) became estranged and later a warlock

The Curse

• Prince Krasnar formed a pact with the hags and attacked the king
• The Queen (a disguised hag) incited the king to slay his son
• Prince's soul split between a phylactery and an unknown vessel
• The land suffers under a powerful curse: famine, plague, and death of firstborns

Curse Conditions to Break

• All three hags must cooperate
• The King must sing a lament
• The Prince must be crowned while burned by Hag Tree branches

Key Elements

• Dragon and hag caverns involved
• Magic = Nobility; unregistered magic is illegal
• Religious magic is culturally distinct from arcane
• Adventurers are respected but sometimes feared
• Magic items are somewhat common

🧙‍♂️ Characters Introduced

Quill

• Human Fighter (Battle Master)
• Tactical and intimidating in armor; shy and cerebral out of it
• Seeks truth behind his father’s death and forbidden magics

Caelyth

• Eladrin Knight
• Agent of the Fey Court; trained by a Cloud Giant
• Autumn-themed glamor; weapon inscribed with "Break those that defy us"
• Defends Feywild from imbalance caused by the Coven

Nelvax

• Shadow Monk
• Survivor of a monastery massacre; thrill-seeker in urban life
• Brother Tomazal (NPC) investigates magical conspiracies
• Nelvax lives for the moment, but can't ignore his brother's cause

Xaniver

• Warlock/Cleric of Cerridwen
• Channels lunar magic from a misunderstood Fey deity
• Seeks to restore natural death/rebirth cycles corrupted by the Coven
• Quick-witted and slippery, known for alias-swapping

Harlekk Wynnchym

• Kenku Bard (Eloquence) / Warlock
• Former circus acrobat; shipwrecked and pact-bound to an abyssal force
• Turns shadow and sorrow into spectacle and laughter
• Now a local favorite performer, he longs to live the stories he tells

Zane Umbralight

• Half-Orc Warlock (Level 5, 2024 rules)
• Gray skin, black hair, piercing gray eyes
• Bound to a mysterious patron after a Tower-aligned mage gave him a desperate ultimatum: serve or die
• Keeps his motivations and past tightly guarded, his eldritch power cloaked in caution

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