DCC Campaign Notes

Setting

Once, the Archipelago was teeming with trade and the islands were filled with prosperous civilizations. What caused the collapse? War, famine, great upheavals of land or sea? The answer is lost to time.

A recent volcanic eruption on the isle of Venicus released a phlogistonic disturbance which expelled magical shockwaves, tearing at the night and opening a window onto an alien sky. New stars appeared and moved in strange paths, without pattern. This served as the death knell for traditional celestial navigation. A new epoch named New Sky (NS) began on the day the sky was sundered.

Shipping lanes through the archipelago have fallen into disuse. Old sailors rebel at the thought of venturing into the sea with little more than dead reckoning to guide them at night.

Isolation of the islands has given rise to a number of small kingdoms and holdings, each wildly varied from the other. Some have flourished, others are desolate sepulchers of their former glory. Travelers to this region journey into an area as strange and varied as the raw forces of magic themselves.