Collectors

The Aboveground is a mystery to all but the most select citizens of the underground city of Greymore. It’s a wasteland oversaturated with magic and mutated monsters, ready to kill anyone who sets foot on the surface. Only the Collectors, a heavily-regulated group of talented adventurers, are permitted to trek across the land to retrieve crystalline magia, the key to the Underground’s centuries of survival.

Yet, as a band of fresh-faced Collectors sets out on their first mission, they realize that the Aboveground isn’t the wasteland they’ve been led to believe it is. Cities, as sparse and disparate as they are, flourish across the continent, adapted to a new, highly-magical normal. As the Collectors explore the surface, they encounter a whirlwind of new monsters, new technology, and even new gods. They find themselves in places they never imagined and places they were never meant to be. Along the way, they uncover an imperialist plot orchestrated by their closest allies, one that threatens to end life as they know it both Above and Underground.

With the help of new allies from the Aboveground, this patchwork group of adventurers now stands defiantly against a wannabe empire, uncertain that they can stop a plot centuries in the making.

Player Characters

Bardryn Ironfist

Dwarven Barbarian | Underground

Bardryn Ironfist is disgustingly plain. She loves following the rules, and her inability to lie is embarrassingly impressive. Even to those closest to her, her intricate braids are by far the most interesting thing about her. So, when she emerges as a leader crusading against the T’nachi Empire, she surprises even herself. She certainly isn’t built to lead a resistance.

Nyla Mirath

Tiefling Rogue | Underground

Nyla Mirath is as ruthless as she is mean. She is willing to expose government secrets and shred diplomatic relations to guarantee those she loves stay safe. Though, as righteous as she sounds, she amasses power and influence with every move. After all, she wishes to rule the Underground, and she can’t do that if an imperialist power wipes it from the Material Plane.

Clarence Willowgreen

Human Paladin | Aboveground

Clarence Willowgreen wishes he stayed home. Drawn from his cozy home in the woods, he is now thrust into the middle of a political conflict he is woefully unprepared for. And, though he dreams of squirreling away in his apothecary and pretending he doesn’t know how to wield a blade, he refuses to watch the wonders that made up his childhood burn to the ground.

Fox

Changeling Blood Hunter | Aboveground

With a soft face and big eyes, Fox never scares people like she should. Her fingers itch for the next vicious fight, where she can split a monster’s skin and watch it bleed at her feet. Of course, she would never admit that to her party members. They might actually question why she abandoned her cult to join their resistance against an empire she had never heard of. Worse, they might actually guess correctly.

Thirza Rasso

Elven Bard | Aboveground

Thirza Rasso fancies herself a hero. A former aide to the T’nachi Council, she imagines herself the renegade that will miraculously save her hometown from destroying itself. Though, now that she actually defected, she faces the harsh realities of what rebellion entails. Thirza now finds herself in an unfamiliar city with tenuous allies and affronted enemies. Hopefully, her charming smile keeps her alive long enough that she might actually be able to prove she’s not playing double-agent.