Club Campaign Setting

CLUB CAMPAIGN SETTING

The Lenexa Kansas D&D Club Charter uses its own original campaign setting which occurs in a plane known as Yahvelt.

Yahvelt is defined as two large moons orbiting a massive hot Jupiter planet from within its outer rings. The two large moons are known as a Yahvelt Major and Yahvelt Minor and the planet is known as Yahvelt Prime. The two large moons are habitable and are the origin of two distinct races of dragonborn called Anu’sec (red dragon ancestry) and Ra’fir (white dragon ancestry). There are also less civilized sentient species like the Dread Masters (Gnoll), the Sky Shadows (Pterafolk), and the Yahvelt Corruptors (Green Abishai).

The Ra’fir are the older of the two dragonborn races and come from the most desolate and smallest moon Yahvelt Minor. The Ra’fir are fiercely dedicated to their families, existing in clans and ruling in dynasties. They are stoic warriors and superb engineers. A great magical-technological achievement known as the Lunar Gate had been created by them long ago to link their origin planet to their fellow moon Yahvelt Major, where they continued to build and create in honor of their god Rashnitsu the Everliving. Ra’fir consider Rashnitsu to be the first and only great dragon that created the dragonborn in his image by first making the light to drive away darkness- then taking some of those stars and turning them into the first man and woman dragonborn.

The Anu’sec are the racial majority living on the largest and most resource-rich moon Yahvelt Major. They are often considered brutish and lazy, preferring to force their way and preferring to bask in the heat on a rock rather than tend to chores or more serious matters of any day. Their civilization and race came into being shortly after the Lunar Gate was created linking both planetary satellites and it is said that when the first Ra’fir passed through the portal that a great red dragon mistook the opening of the portal as an attack, spat a massive fireball towards it, scorching the scales of these Ra’fir and turning their icy breath into vaporous flames.

The Lunar Bridge is an archaic and techno-magical teleportation device. The bridge is a massive star-gate with a portal on Yahvelt Major and Yahvelt Minor that has allowed commerce to flourish between the two planetary satellites for countless millennia. Control of the structures has always been necessitate for strong economies and self-governance, with dark periods of history reflected by tyrannical measures which heavily regulated or outright banned its use.

Various guilds try to impose their form of rule over either portal to force taxes on other communities in order to build and grow their guild-loyal cities and in turn support for the guild.  A guild known as the Osirian offers protection to all merchants and travelers for minimal reimbursement has caught the ire of the Solarium Provocatores, an evil predatory guild which relies on brutal assault and intimidation to enforce its charges.

The adventurers are a low-level group of Osirian accensi (light infantry) who are escorting merchants and their goods to the other moon and must ensure that they and their goods arrive safely to and from the portals. The adventure begins in the capital city of Mandjet on Yahvelt Major and ends in the capital city of Amenthes on Yahvelt Minor.