Animosity Campaigns

The Animosity campaign settings are connected across the Mortal Realms by the Ur-River, an ouroboros watercourse bisecting all the Realms without headwaters or outlet. The Ur-River bridges the expanse between Realmspheres through waterfall-like Realmgates, creating a narrative chain to link together our campaigns and a physical means for player characters to move between them.

This map plots the relative locations of each campaign's setting in our greater unfolding narrative, with Roman numerals marking where each campaign was. While the river flows from the top to the bottom of the map, our campaigns have not always occurred sequentially downriver (With IV's Scarlands resting between II's Lake Bykaal and III's Prime Dominion, for example).

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The setting for Animosity V - the Fated BladeIn the centre of a miles-wide stretch of the Ur-River there was an ice-covered rocky island, known as Frørholm. The river-banks of that mystical water-way were so far away that, even if the island were not wrapped in the swirling snow storm of a tethered Everwinter, it would not have been possible to see the shore either side from a vantage-point on the island’s steep cliffs.Cracked ice flowed form along its rugged coastline. The Everwinter on the island froze the river water that touched its shores, pushed ice ever-outwards. The slabs of ice furthest out broke up as the warmer river water passed slowly under and around them. The chunks of ice floated away down-stream, rapidly shrinking as they drifted away.The storm that enveloped the island concealed a city from the Age of Myth. It was thought the city was abandoned long ago, possibly when the Everwinter first came to Frorholm. The streets and buildings became inaccessible - encased in ice.But something changed.The storm was suddenly different. Where it had blanketed the island in a vortex of spiralling white mists, the rocky shores could be seen from the river. Glimpses of the outer edges of the city could sometimes be spied through eddies in the fog. The ancient legends about it were been remembered and the outposts and strongholds along the banks of the Ur-River all the talk was about it.Adventures and treasure-seekers set out. A dozen expeditions made landfall in the hope of fortune and glory. But they found something else. Something terrible...

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