Chetrimentum

Intro

This world is for a Homebrew D&D campaign. It uses the advice of Mathew Colville from YouTube, to take snippets of different established settings and join them together with creativity/imagination to form something new. That said it is a Tolkien esc fantasy setting, which uses the D&D plains system to make a two tiered world, the surface (medieval England) and the Under Dark(14th century Italy/Roman Republic) below it. The campaign follows 3 adventurers who find themselves in the Underdark, trying to make a living in the Capital city of a crumbling empire with no way home.  

The thesis sentence:

"To rise from its ashes, first the phoenix must burn"  

World lore:

Long ago the world was split, light and dark, surface and underground.   This split divided the peoples of the world, some enjoying the light and love of the gods, other living in darkness striving for every inch.   Historically these peoples have not come into contact, except in small raiding parties and adventurers.   However this Is all set to change, the great blue Dragon, Tsunemaug, has found the border between worlds, and now threatens both with his ever expanding army of misfits and rejects.   In addition the city of Capital, the greatest city of this or any age stands alone, its Emperor dead, no clear heir to the throne and its armies far off protecting its fast receding borders   Meanwhile; in the Dukedom on the surface, the old Duke is dead and his 11 sons are fighting it out to see who will rule, all while raids from the east increase in number and size along their borders with the wild lands to the east.