After some consideration and my meandering with writing things down about the setting of this campaign I've thought it best to make a thread which discusses some of the more common elements of Ancerenth's lore.

So here we can talk about the lore of the world.  So ask any questions about the world that you might like, some I won't be able to answer directly but I'll provide the best common knowledge available.

Okay let me be the first to ask.

Can you provide us with the legends of Appirga.
I like the sources that the idea came from, but would like to know more.
This message was last edited by the GM at 10:19, Sat 22 Mar 2014.

I would like to ask about the appearance of other races, if I may.  I have ideas in my head, but I am unsure whether or not I am right:

Deseekay:
(based on Drex's description)
Grey-white. Blue eyes Manes and beards. Goldish Horns.  Traditional Scottish attire + additional accessories.

Somthing like this may be with horns:
http://media.wizards.com/image...0x1600_Wallpaper.jpg

The description is 'stout' so I am guess they are, generally, smaller but broader of the 'medium' races?  Their originate from the spirit world.  Is there any evidence of this?  Do they have an ethereal quality about them perhaps?  Or a kind of thin, otherworldly mist around them.

Doola Tywuar:
I am thinking Dragonborn from PHB.
http://old.enworld.org/Pozas/P...agonborn_warlord.jpg

Ehuron:
A fairy constructs?  I find them one of the more confusing sophonts (out of 3), as there seems to be a great many possibilities for their appearance.  Do they have some unifying appearance, or are they extremely varied?
(based on lambent's description)
Magically shifting clothing designs.  Smooth, polished crystal, humanoid.  Apparently made from a quicksilver-like substance. Blue and featureless, most notable with the absence of a mouth.
Something along the lines of a Shardmind?
http://th03.deviantart.net/fs7...erslayer-d4vbs73.jpg

Human:
Pretty sure I know what a human looks like, unless they have some other distinguishing feature in this world (tattoos or something).
http://www.tabletophell.com/wp...hunqwert-d33der1.jpg

Kaetyma:
Something like this, though with plumage (based on Iron Jubei's description):
http://image.naldzgraphics.net...rations-artworks.jpg

Musadi:
I am thinking Naga from Warcraft 3 / D&D Salamanders without the fire:
http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H...2509155&pid=15.1

Narayah:
Like an ewok with a big tail...Sir Didymus from Labyrinth?
http://www.propstore.com/conte...on/sird/PDVD_009.jpg

Ulh:
Second of the 3 most confusing sophonts for me.  'High Men'.  What does that mean?  Are they mountain men and somewhat barbaric?  Their stat options seem to support this, but their mechanics and powers not so much.  Perhaps they are like highborn?  Elevated above a normal man in their nobility - like high elves?
http://static.giantbomb.com/up...er_highelves_015.jpg

Umbrean:
A mostly humanoid slime.  Aka Willa.  Though orange may be an unusual colour.  So I guess clear/blue is more common?
This is the best picture I could find of what I imagine one to look like (though clothed ofc and without a belly-button.  Why would they have belly-buttons? O.o)
http://th01.deviantart.net/fs7...uke_fuji-d6msf7b.png

Weaver:
The other more confusing creature-type.  I imagine a bug-like entity with many legs.  But would that be spider-like, centipede-like, beetle-like, woodlouse-like, or caterpillar-like.
Koh, maybe:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y57/Dinoman42/koh.jpg

Wow some of these pictures aren't bad representations of the races, especially the Doola Tywuar, Kaetyma and Musadi. That is how I imagined them.

That's pretty close for a visual on the Narayah from what I can tell. Also that picture is utterly adorable. Think that with a big raccoon-like striped tail.

The tiger guy you linked for the Deseekay is actually closer to what the Ulh look like. From what I know they are big felines that will gladly mindrape you if you give them even the faintest reason to do so.

The Deseekay are closer to horses in appearance I believe, some sort of "crystal unicorns"... unless of course I recall them totally wrong :|

@Willa:  Wow!  Quiet some digging you did there Willa!  I actually had some pictures commissioned of the races over the last year.  I'm currently saving up money to have more commissions done, and/or have better versions made of existing pictures.

You can find the images in the WIP Sophonts PDF, https://www.dropbox.com/s/5lhu...jb/Sophonts.pdf?dl=0

Or use these image links for the races I have so far;

Ehuron
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mf6e...a-s.c.works.png?dl=0

Musadi
https://www.dropbox.com/s/g3cg...0DanandNite.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0zcp...%5BRough%5D.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n1wj...%5BRough%5D.jpg?dl=0

Narayah
https://www.dropbox.com/s/o4gz...by%20warmoo.png?dl=0

Ulh
https://www.dropbox.com/s/su5q...0alchemy205.png?dl=0

Umbreans
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7kc9...5BColour%5D.jpg?dl=0

Weavers
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2n2j...a-s.c.works.png?dl=0

I only have an approximation for the Deseekay atm;

Deseekay
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qe6d...0ChillChell.png?dl=0
Yes they are intended to be horse-like in appearance.

Doola Tywuar
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0d8q...yrannozilla.jpg?dl=0

As for the Archetypes (i.e. fairy, highmen and such) come from here;
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FiveRaces
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmw...in/FantasyAxisOfEvil

The Archetypes are the result of a IRL friend telling me that people are so attached to the "standard fantasy setting" that is difficult for most folks to play something as unusual as pretty much my entire retinue of Ancerenth's races.  Each of which I originally designed to be very different from each other and from common fantasy fair.  But to accommodate the "standard" lovers I went and looked up the archetypes of each and adapted the feel of each race to fit with better with the archetype both in stats and in lore.

As a note on Umbreans, their common color is actually a semi-transparent black and their forms are largely voluntary but also a product of their unique minds.  Some Umbreans are little more then animals and as such take the form of animals, others are like Willa intelligent enough to be considered Sapient.

Ehuron are mostly metallic constructs, though different regions of the Ehuron Federation have different styles of "walkabouts" as these constructs are called by them in common.
This message was last edited by the GM at 14:58, Tue 15 Aug 2017.

The Alchemist's Folly

It was the height of the isleborns war against the deathly armies of the great Lich

Phazion who sought to swallow up our world with power of his terrible spire, which

fell from the heavens little more then before he made his final assault upon the

capitol of the Great Kingdom of the Crystal Isles.

Little did the terrible Lich realize that the Grand Alchemists had committed themselves

to the creation of a Gatestone.  An artefact that the sages of previous ages had believed

would grant it's wielder power to rival that of even the gods.

Yet the Alchemists had been loath to create such a stone for they feared

that the divine would not look too kindly upon such powermongering.

To their end, desperation won out fear and as the island struggled against

the siege they performed their rituals.

Above their island darkness and light roiled like a thunderhead as their art

spun time about the temple of alchemy at the summit of the lone mountain

of the island.  Aligning the powers of the many worlds towards the Alchemist's

purpose.

In a flash of infinity the Alchemists then achieved their goal and had forged

a Gatestone.  Yet their triumph was short lived for they were but mortals

and in their exhaustion they let slip their masteries of the elements and

stone that they had created was corrupted by their wills.

The power of the stone shot out and unmade the Lich Phazion and broke

down his spire and casting it into the sea.  Leaving the Lich's armies

leaderless and without direction.  The isleborn celebrated, they

believed the worst was behind them.  This was not to be.

For the Gatestone, poisoned by the Alchemists own thoughts sought to transform the world.

To align it to the Alchemists desires and visions.  The Grand Master of the Waters

realizing what was transpiring was horrified and swiftly moved to action.  A thing that

saved the world yet doomed herself and Appirga.

She broke the Gatestone.  A thing only possible due to the corruption of mortality upon

a thing born of divinity.  And in doing so brought forth divine judgment upon the Alchemists.

In an instant every living thing perished.  All that was whole was rendered unto

ruin and eternal torment.  A punishment for an act of hubris against both the

world, the elements and the divine.  Was laid upon the isle of Appirga

and all those who dwelt there until the end of time.

This message was last edited by the GM at 19:59, Tue 17 June 2014.

The Alchemist's Folly is a scholastic version of the legend of the Fall of Appirga the condensed version of which was recently mentioned in Chapter 1 of the Campaign.  Most commonly known to the scholars or learned individuals of the Crystal Isles.