Armonia - The Runaveyrian

Armonia! Within the pages of this tome are the life's work of I, Errandis Freewind, humble loremaster, bard, traveler, diplomat, master of song and speech, have compiled the information you need to know to gainfully inhabit the world of Armonia. A workable knowledge base of information on the religions, cultures, histories, climate, species, flora and fauna one can expect to find in the treacherous landscapes we in Armonia call home.

The Greater North

• Hearth
• Arcerias

The Midlands

• Denecia
• Noxias
• Cresidia Plains
• Barataria
• The Jade Sea

The Southern Regions

• The Shifting Sands
• Burmyre's Gift
• The Skypiercer Sierras
• The Yawning Expanse
• Remnant's Union

& Beyond

• The Frontiers
• Lunala

However, seeing as it's entirely possible that you're from another plane of existence and are here for the adventuring, vacation or some such, I will preface this guidebook with a brief history of Runaveyr the realm, in addition to Armonia as the mapped region of the continent.

As of the writing of this guide, the year is currently 7381 - Age of the Second Sun. Those of you reading this who are from Runaveyr may find this to be explaining common knowledge, but this guide is written in mind for immigrants of any kind. Including but not limited to those from outside mainland Armonia, adventurers and tourists from alternate planes of existence, fortunate (mostly) walk-ins who drop in by accident on occasion, and any other form of visitors who may use another Calendar.

So, back to the basics then. Runaveyr the planet is older than its sun. There was a time over 7000 years ago when the sun that was Runaveyr’s equal, the original sun Harmony, died. The Elemental Titans forsook their own lives and froze the dying star in the moment of its death, mixing their life essense with that of the first dragons, Discordia and Draknvei, to allow Discordia to hatch into the new sun, and Draknvei was tasked with safeguarding his lover.

In the untold eon that passed on Runaveyr, a time shrouded in mystery and only known as the Age of Eventide, the whole of the planet was suspended in time and washed in darkness. When the creation magics the Titans put in motion finally finished and Discord was born, the elementals remains fell. The remains of those elementals fell and created various mountains, oceans, firelands and countless other biomes that now make up the planet.*

With a new sun high in the sky, life began to return to Armonia. First among the new tenants were the Armonians, lead by Eden, The Awakener who strode the early world singing the tune that her species still carries on to this day. Singing her song far and wide, she eventually returned to the World Tree and the surrounding forest city of Casamour, where her people's civilization continues to thrive.

Expanding their territory into The Frontiers where monstrous, true-threaded beasts thrive, the Armonians fought branch and twig to seek other judicious people's, and came into contact with many ancient races, some of which can still be found, some of which are only stories and ruins, in that pursuit. Among them rose the six archetypes of species, which all other judicious species are catagorized into, and are as follows;

• Armonian -
• Scalekind - Dragonborn, Kobolds, Lizardfolk,
• Enfleshed - Humans, Dwarves (including Duergar, at their chagrin), Elves(Mostly), Gnomes, Halflings, Goliath's and Orcs.
• Beastkind - Tabaxi, Leonin, Harengon, Kenku, Owlin and the like. During the early millenia,
• The Fey - Centaurs, Hags, Bugbears, Fairies, Eladrin, Satyr's and Changelings are amongst the species who have made settlements within Armonia since the opening of the Realm Way's by Renthyr, Lord of the Evergreen and his guild, The Wild Wolpertinger's.
• Celestial's & Hellspawn - Aasimar, Tieflings, the like.
• Rintas - A broad term for the children of Kha'rintas, of the Darkest Depths. This includes, but is not limited to, the Rintas themselves, Giff, Loxodon, Yuan Ti (Tailed and Legged), Tortle,
• Elementals - Stoners - Earth Genasi, Blazer - Fire Genasi, Zephyrs - Air Genasi, & Bubblers - Water Genasi.

Near after came Scalekind, birthed from the fragments of scales which fell from Draknvei on his ascent into the sky. Prime amongst their number are the Dragonborn, who had first grew in the mountain range south of Casamour known as the

Early relations between the two races were bloody, with a war ravaging the two for the first two centuries until an invasion of true-threaded beast from the west threatened both enough for them to band together. In that alliance of necessity, the former enemies fought and died beside one another, forming the longest lasting alliance of Armonian history.

After several thousand years, and various wars and culling's between ancient races who's remains are scattered across the planet. Discord ceased to saturate the world in the purest of magics constantly and now only graces us with such during Discordia. While much of the planet is still unmapped, mainland Armonia has carved itself out and thinned the threads of the great beasts that live beyond the bounds of civilization on the frontiers of the world over the last couple thousand years to allow that within to live in relative peace outside of the dangers we pose to one another.

(*Note from the author, Errandis Freewind.

This is the official story of creation put forth and accounted for by the faithful of Eden and her chorus, as well as the Oath of Arcana. It is not believed by everyone, but as a historian of Eden’s Chorus myself, I tend to believe it. I leave this in the effort of remaining unbiased by admitting to my own faithfulness to not only the originator of my race, but additionally the Chorus who pays for the publication and research that allows these guides to be widely released.)