Auria
A world of steel and sorcery, magic and mystery, and gods and men.
A world of steel and sorcery, magic and mystery, and gods and men.
Auria is the high-fantasy setting created by Vedian Press' Lead Designer: C.J. Vanderlipe. Among the first worlds they forged, Auria is an active project.
In this world, the gods are as real as the sun and the moon. Across the long history of Auria, millennia of conflict, war, and four near-extinction events have transformed both the lands and its people. Their nations are founded upon the ruins of those that came before them, and it is through the wisdom won over the ages long past that the people of Auria can find prosperity and hope.
Now, as Auria recovers from a two-hundred year catastrophe known as the Spellblight, mortal ambitions build once again, setting the stage for conflict across the world.
The Ascended are supernatural individuals blessed with powers received from the gods. They were once duty-bound to protect the world from the threat of Spirit Beasts. But now, as all Spirit Beasts have been removed from Auria, they exist unbound by their previous duties. They wander the world, making their own destinies. They will likely be the protagonists of a story, or the heroes of a campaign.
The Eleven are the primary pantheon of Auria. They present themselves as omniscient and omnipotent, yet infallible. These gods, in many ways, show many of the traits of mortal kind, only through their great powers and immortality does it seem as though it is not the case. The Eleven play an immeasurable part in the lives of those who live on Auria, even those who object to their worship.
The commanders, wielders, and masters of great evils. These deities are all the things the Eleven themselves are could not bring to embody. Having enacted the Rite of Ascension themselves, the Wicked Six are the shadows of the lands, the pockets of darkness between the light. They are the most necessary of evils.