Land of Song

Land of Song is the world and the campaign. It is run by its Dungeon Master; this archive records what the table has seen of it in play. The table plays on D&D Beyond; players join the campaign through its invite link.

The world was shaped by two peoples who ate of the Tree and became the god-like Aesir and Vaenir — the Aesir making creatures of order, the Vaenir creatures of chaos and passion. Their falling-out became the Great War, which destroyed the Tree, killed thousands of the Creators and millions of their creations, and ended with the Vaenir banished and the rainbow bridges sealed. A thousand years on, in the present age, the surviving Aesir and Vaenir hide among mortals while the Reavers hunt every immortal. The Celeste, a vested race made by the Vaenir but sworn to the Aesir’s side, came out of the war hated by both.

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Story and world

• The Creation and the two Creators — the two peoples, the Tree, the Great Aesir and Vaenir, and the rainbow bridges.
• The present age — the three powers a thousand years after the war, and what each of them wants.
• The Celeste — the vested race that sided with the Aesir, and their position between the two sides.
• The vested and Vaenir races — elves, dragons, trow, and the vested races.
• Species reference — the races by creator, with lifespans.
• The Reavers — mortals who arose after the war to hunt every immortal.

Species

• Species pages — playable races with the DM’s rules: Celeste, Lobine, Shadar-kai.

Systems

• Relic Forge — the risk-based crafting system: harvest rare materials, infuse items, and roll against the danger.
• Avrae: a DM’s demo — a sandboxed walkthrough of the table’s dice bot for the Dungeon Master; nothing in it touches live characters or the campaign.
• The bots — the server’s four Discord bots, their Norse names, and how to start using each.

Eras

• The Great War — the war between the Aesir and the Vaenir and its aftermath; the Celeste call it the Unending War.
• The Schism at Saudient — the royal exile that founded the Celeste settlement in the Saudient Mountains.

Concepts

• The Stones of Saudient — the collected learnings of the Saudient Celeste; source of the cloak-rule.
• The Celeste Tongue — known words and suffixes of the Celeste language.

Sessions

• Session 0 — The Crossing and the Wreck — the ferry to Sunton, the dragon and the griffin, and the waking on Tyre.
• Session 1 — The Cursed City — the landing on Tyre, the customs golems, the blinking dogs, and the Moon and Phoenix.

Characters

• Niðrerir — a Celeste warlock and wandering mercenary.
• Leif Stormcloak — a Celeste paladin; by Niðrerir’s account, his brightest pupil.
• Thorne Ashenpaw — a Lobine barbarian, seven feet tall, who fights in a berserk rage.
• Nyra Vail — a Shadar-kai rogue of illusions and old crafts.
• Zureth — a Yuan-ti rogue; a very small snake-person and self-described treasure-seeker.
• Ace — an elf druid who commands small flames and befriends beasts.
• Asher — a half-elf ranger and quiet mover who knows the wolves of the forest.
• Aria — the Celeste princess whose exile caused the Schism at Saudient.
• Unidentified figures — figures named or seen but not yet given their own page.

Places

• Interactive atlas — hover the map for what’s known; click a place to open it.
• Places and geography — the map of the Land of Song.
• Lor’Sha’Une — the great, deadly forest; the Celeste homeland.
• Saudient — the gray peaks where the exiles settled.
• Sunton — the island city of survivors in the great river, founded by tax-refusing exiles.
• Tyre — the cursed island city; every mortal who lands there disappears.
• The Moon and Phoenix — the intact shop on Tyre’s market square; silver-bird crest, pixies, and magical wares.
• Lor’sha’une River — the great river of the settled east, miles wide at the islands.
• Aberdeen, Heerth, Brynaide Falls, Arryston, Roost — settlements and sites.