Setting Details - Prologue

I'll be coming home next week to play games and, you know, do stuff. I've got a game to go to on Saturday around early-late evening until well after 1 o'clock, so if you guys want to do this thing on Friday, that's cool. After 6 would be most preferable.


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Agartha

I hate it. I hate the wars, I hate the desert, I hate the heat. I am so damn tired of all this, I just want it to end. I wonder if Tigris has a vacation plan...

Not soon after the 2nd Season started in 23 S.E., a war erupted in the south of Caldera. A few of the Elves that held some of the abandoned Efreeti city-states grew jealous of the Trade Guilds' hoarding and decadence. When they extended their reach into the Guilds' coffers, the lids snapped shut and daggers were drawn. Three city-states that stood isolated from the rest of the Elven portions of the Wastes, versus the Nine.
The Elves, with their fire-born magicks and sand-caked creatures of devious craft, and The Guilds, with their assassins and pilfered artifacts. Fighting started to erupt into the streets of Wasteland cities and towns, leaving nothing but ghosts in the wake of their destruction.

Years after this fighting started, it ended with the last Elven leader's beheading (31 S.E). The Trade Guilds were down two houses, leaving the Seven to pick up the pieces. The renegade elven city states were put to the flame, and the only one left mostly in one piece is the southern city of Kardal, charred and blackened from fire, warped and cracked from wild magic.

The affected cities and Guilds are:

Elven cities
Kardal - A southern city-state. Left intact, but warped and broken.
Jeddah - City furthest east. Controlled one of the major Northern ports out of the Wastes. Is now a dead port, with wild magic and torrential sands ripping the stone walls and wooden docks down each passing day.
Sidys - City in the thickest of fighting, furthest south of the three. Blown apart in the war, few monuments are left standing. Perpetually shrouded in a purplish-haze, the very air is poison.

Guildcities (The main cities of the Nine)
Guided Hand - A guild based heavily in information-trade, this guildcity was burnt to the ground, and its constituents were assimilated into the Ashen Winds guild.
Fallen Palm - Dealt with timber and woodstuffs from all across the globe. Naturally, burnt to the ground. Folded into Prevailing Trades guild.
Ashen Winds - Dealt mostly with exports and travel out to Fyriss, Lemuria and Tigris. Small fleet of ships. Left alone, as it was furthest from the rest, and not technically in the Wastes.
Prevailing Trades - Dealt with imports from across the globe, even from the frozen continent Midgard. Guildcity was based on the Sand Dollar Isles, along with the Horn guild and Sand Dollar guild. The Isles were hit pretty heavily in the war, but have made great efforts for restoration.
Horn - Alarmists and prophets of doom. Dealt with precarious goods found in the Efreet and Ancient ruins, and had hopes to access the Floating Isles, but those plans were scrapped once the Wastewar started.
Sand Dollar - Moneymaking and various trade goods. Supporters of making a Gold standard, but their efforts were wasted when the Wastewar broke out, as most people traded for weapons, not money.
Wyvern and Wing - Expert weaponcrafters and explorers. Mapped out the entirety of the surface of the Wastes, and had hoped to uncover the Ancients' lost cities and ruins. Wastewar blah blah blah... Some excavation sites were destroyed, but new ones uncovered.
Saddle - Overland trade and information brokerage. Made out of the War with a lot of newly acquired wealth, as their services were employed heavily and at greatly inflated prices. Establishing a second headquarters on the Sand Dollar Isles, as it is highly coveted land and a mark of status.
Salt and Saw - Miners and builders. Primary owners of the major salt and limestone mines. Headquarters is situated along the Northern coast, away from the fighting. Making a lot of money helping others rebuild their homes, at inflated prices of course.


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You could have been in Upper Caldera, part of one of the Guilds/Renegades, a Calderan/Elf of the neutral city-states, or simply a bloke from nowhere in particular who got swept up in the chaos. You are beginning the adventure in one of the Guild-controlled cities along the Southernmost coast, which has been restored after the Wastewar.

Some folk want to leave Caldera in the wake of the Wastewar, and you might be one of them. Or, you're a profiteer looking to make a living selling spoils back to whoever owned them previously. Or, you're whatever you feel like being. Consider your character's age, and create a background accordingly. Keep in mind that the culture is very tropic, seeing as Caldera is within Agartha's tropic band. Craft your look after the jungles/tropics of Asia, Africa, Hawaii, South America, Mediterranean etc.


EDIT: I've uploaded your sheets again, this time with corrections and name changes. I didn't include the Description and possessions areas because the text would be too small to handle efficiently.