⚔️ Welcome to the Chosen Hope universe!

Soltrya is a vibrant High Fantasy world still reeling from the aftermath of "The Sundering". Leylines ruptured from a magical earthquake and tore rifts in the sky, corrupting the magic of the realm. Chosen Hope is an infamous adventurer's guild that continues to help people in their time of need, but not without their fair share of conflicts and hardships.

World Reference: Soltrya

Recent Crisis: The Sundering. Twenty years ago, a catastrophic magical quake shattered ley lines, opened sky-rifts, and corrupted magic. Nations still reel from the aftermath.

The Hollowborn: They form when grief festers, trauma is denied, hope collapses, or emotional pain becomes spiritually trapped. They have always existed, but the Sundering destabilized the emotional fabric of Soltrya itself. As a result: places remember suffering, memories imprint onto magic, and despair can become self-aware—which made Hollowborn a surging contagion.

Regions of Soltrya

The Shattered Crownlands: A once-unified empire that fractured into multiple semi-independent kingdoms after the magical cataclysm. Chosen Hope is one of the central guilds that mediates conflicts and protects civilians caught in the fallout.

The Glimmering Verge: A treacherous borderland between the material world and an unstable magical plane. The sky fractures into shimmering rift-light, stormclouds streaked with glowing tears. Half-real forests bend sideways, while spirit silhouettes hover in the mist. Adventurers with lanterns walk carefully on broken ground, hoping to rescue people from “verge storms” or spirit incursions.

Floating Duchies: Skybound islands tethered to the world below with leyline chains. They depend on guilds to carry messages, protect air caravans, and stabilize weather magic.

The Sundering Scar: A vast wound across Soltrya’s landscape—jagged chasms glowing with raw leyline light, trees split into crystalline shards, rivers flowing upward into the sky. Strange avian shadows circle in the distance, half-spirit.

Magic Systems

Hopebinding: Magic tied to altruism and conviction. Grants enhanced endurance, morale, and healing.

Sympathy Magic: Power flows through emotional or oath-bound Bonds. Chosen Hope mages bind themselves to a Core Vow. Magic weakens if vows are broken.

Relic Magic: Ancient artifacts with unpredictable effects. Some guild members bear them—at personal cost.

Elemental Magic: Also known as Primordial Magic. Recognized as the oldest and most documented of magic systems, also used by magical monsters and mythical beasts. However, since the Sundering, Elemental Magic is struggling to "obey" their wielders. Practitioners are forced to develop a modern variant to adapt.

The Guild: Chosen Hope

Founding: Formed by war orphans who swore to protect others from their fate.

Symbol: A silver tree encircling a phoenix feather.

Slogan: “We rise where others fall.”

Reputation: Loved by commoners. Disliked by corrupt elites. Seen as noble but unpredictable.

Nicknames: “Saints in Steel,” “The Light Before the Storm.”

Common Missions:

* Escorting refugees from plague zones

* Mediating clan disputes (e.g., dwarves vs. dryads)

* Containing magical anomalies or cursed artifacts

* Guarding fey realm borders

The Covenant of Veinsilver

Founded after Soltraya's Sundering. This group is not an open-admissions adventurer’s guild — it’s invitation-only, formed by survivors of magical disasters and military legends. They operate independently from Chosen Hope but they often collaborate for missions. Their primary objectives are to contain or retrieve unstable magic/artifacts from fallen civilizations and suppress mythic beasts, dream plagues, or god-woken phenomena. They have an inner faction/specialist task force called Project Halcyon. Project Halcyon is a reformation initiative to prevent another magical apocalypse. Members of the project have access to the underground archive of the Covenant HQ, where they can research reported artifacts and beasts for a battlefield advantage. Project members also have containment devices for dangerous/unstable relics for ease of transport.