Godsgrave Introduction and Lore

Welcome to Godsgrave

We'll be going over most of this in Session 0, but some players will be coming later/ want to read a bit now/ will probably appreciate this being available.

The world of Scala Somnis is venerable and vibrant. Its gods are plentiful, and were thought powerful, until the last decade.

Mortals have been left to wonder, were the gods too lazy, greedy, blind or cowardly to prevent the slow, creeping apocalypse that has blighted the land.

Ten years ago, most of the gods stopped answering prayers and divinations. Secular magic quickly uncovered the reason why. The world, and the outer planes, were surrounded. A strange, sucking grey murk now encompassed the outer reaches of our reality.

No mortal who touched it survived. No god who touched it remained sane or healthy. Several pantheons had already ridden valiantly off to defeat this new threat to the realm, to return twisted, and warped.

Different cultures have reacted differently to this menace, some attempting escape, some still try to fight it, some accept it as retribution for imagined slights, some seek ways to control it, others ignore it, you will see in your travels the various ways that different empires have reacted.

You and your lifelong friends decided something different. The old gods let this happen, and are proving useless to stop it. It's time for someone else to have a go.

You have spent the last 10 years apart, scouring the lands for the Godswell, as legendary artifact that grants deification to the user. And one of you has just found it.

Before you parted ways with your friends, you all pooled your gold and bought each of you an expensive magical item, an Amulet of Calling and Answering.

You reach down and break the amulet, calling your friends to your location. It's up to you to save the world.

Scala Somnis, 10 years ago

Scala Somnis, Now