Essia

Welcome to Essia, "The Worlds".

 

What am I looking at?

This is a homebrewed campaign setting, made with the purpose of not being a Forgotten Realms clone, and to not be the out-of-the-book multiverse, where the explanation to all things is "the vastness of the multiverse holds all".   Essia, meaning "The Worlds" is a setting which is made to mix things up, and present all things familiar in an unfamiliar way, whether it is dwarven assassins in the treetops, demons, devils and celestials as native beings or orcs as a peaceful and civilized (but short-tempered) race.  

Universe

Essias means "The Worlds", and is a reference to the three worlds (planets) with a shared orbit around the sun. What puts it apart from the multi-plane (multiverse) settings that is common in Dungeons and Dragons is that it is a single-plane (universe) setting, where all the different worlds and realms are physical places within the universe. What little extraplanar locations exist are usually magically created pockets, like the insides of a bag of holding. There are no other planes, neither the hells nor the shadowfell exists. Devils are just as native to this world as humans.  

What is it made for?

The point of this setting is to keep the great base that exists of stat blocks, art and descriptions, but mixing up the fabric and lore of it all, making the game feel fresh, but not alien, to players both old and new.