Welcome Players

Welcome to Ecthea!

Our story will be starting in the recently united Kingdom of Zena, named after the continent of Zena. King Wicus, who united the Kingdom in a bloody civil war, died 6 years ago and his son, Donus Falkenrath, has been in power since and he hasn’t exactly been playing nice with his disciples. In your life spans you have all been witness to ever increasing threats of untamed beasts in the wilds, and the dangerous wicked, as well as more criminals and corrupt individuals. The game will be starting with you all arriving at the Wicus training center outside the walls of Acoport.

You guys will be starting out at level 5 with a full set of gear, will get more specifics to you when I figure them out. You all should have some sort of fleshed out backstory because you will be level 5. Each player will pick their normal background as well as have a custom background that gives you bonuses (and possibly some issues) and will give you special powers as the game progresses (i.e. as you progress in your backstories and such). Your characters have all been selected to join a special tasks force of the king’s army. This task force is one that takes talented men and women from the kingdom as well as those gifted individuals in the military to work together to do work that can not be accomplished using standard squads. You will be led by a captain and will answer to a commander until you have shown your worth through evaluations. The only classes that aren’t available to play are the guns and gears ones, but there are going to be clockwork inventions in the world, just not so many in Zenas. For races, almost all are fair game, the androids and other robotic races are not going to be played as they are in the book, we already have one construct and I would be willing to let one more play one. Elves are going to be very rare so keep that in mind in your decision making. I will need you all to essentially have had some sort of mini arc to have made it to level 5, so be sure to give yourself some sort of backstory. They can be tragic, edgy, fun, as long as I ok it. You can be from most places in Zenas but you can’t be from Ipos, Arlak, Birton, and Radir. As for religion, all are far games and if you want to make some sort of deity you are more than welcome to, I will slot them into the correctly aligned home and we will see how that impacts the world. As for most people in Zena, the vast majority follow the descendants of Udall, seeing those from Gotar as evil and those who follow them as fringe. We will be using nourishment and we will be using the fantasy metals but we will cover that as they come up.

I will make a page with relevant rule changes as time goes on. An important note is, combat will be a little more central to this games start, but that doesn’t mean we are dungeon diving all the time, so min max is good but don’t forget about all the out of game stuff because I know the world will be full of scheming individuals trying to use you and scam you plenty, essentially don’t just make a bunch of meat heads.