Tales of Aarde

Over a millennium has passed since the founding of Aldria. The dragons and their cult lay forever dead and nameless. The era of Gold is at its zenith, the Fourth are broken, the skies darken and the leaves begin to fall from the tree.

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--Isolde Solumbra - Sister of Death--

Human female - 28 Years old.

Bright, Golden eyes; Long black hair; curvy build.
Clad in her black habit, detailed with gold suns and eclipses; she wields a black lantern attached to gold chain...
She is a Reliquary Nun for a certain mortuary cult, The Church of The Black Sun.

--Backstory--

Isolde was born within the Confines of The Church of the Black Sun, an enigmatic death cult to the South of Aarde. She was adopted by the Church, growing devout and pious in its morbid beliefs. The cult believed in the union between life and death, praising two god representing each. Their Reliquary Nuns frequently ventured out collecting relics and bones of worthy heroes to venerate and keep within their Cathedral.
Isolde awoke her magic within the church, a golden fire magic that could both burn and heal. This magical potential earned her the name Solumbra, in lieu of a Bloodline or heritage. With this prodigal potential, Isolde rose through the ranks of the Church, becoming a Reliquary Nun at 25. This was the perfect role for her as she's grown a morbid and almost unhinged fascination with the dead, ever growing a collection of skulls that she deemed as worthy
With the churning of war in the North, Isolde, and the Church, like magpies, sensed opportunity and Dispatched northward.
Towards the boreal forests of the Gransa.

--Setting: The World of Aarde--

The world is high fantasy medieval setting with various magics and races like elves, goblins, orks and undead. There is an emphasis on bloodlines and heritage.

Your role in this world is up to you.

Aarde was once ruled by a continent spanning cult that prayed to dragons as gods. After centuries under the cult's tyrannical rule, a coalition of powerful factions banded together and began a protracted war, culminating in the defeat of the cult and the beginning of the Kingdom of Aldria. The new powers worked quickly and efficiently to destroy any and all trace of the dragon cult, rewriting history to suit the whims of the new status quo.

-The Kingdom of Aldria--

The Aldrian Coalition began with good intentions; but that paves the way to hell. Intended to provide free and fair civilization to the world, a beacon of cooperation and unity, a refuge against the primordial forces that seek to undermine the pursuit of happiness. Of course it would not last.

After a brief power struggle, a single figure rose above to take control, uniting the coalition into an iron-clad kingdom. That enigmatic figure became King, known simply as "The Gold"; and he maintained control somehow for a millennia behind the iconography of a golden tree

Soon the cities of Aldria became nothing more than gilded cages. Repressing the freedoms of its brainwashed civilians and drinking the blood of the young in endless warfare, as it began swallowing more and more land. Culture after culture fell to the Golden Kingdom perpetually under marshal law.

--The Gransa--

No one left alive knows exactly how it started. Who tossed the first stone. Regardless, rivers of blood now flow.

The Gransa are vast a union of tribes from the Aarde's far, boreal North. The union is built on uneasy cooperation between feudal chiefdoms bound together for the sake of survival in the frozen hell-scape that is Northern Aarde. The people of the Gransa are strong, hardy and tenacious. Their cultures were unknown to the rest of Aarde, only very recently becoming known to the world. The reason for this is the apparent isolation of their homelands and their historic apprehension to venture South into Aarde, proper. Only rumors once told of their existence until now.

--The Church of the Black Sun--

A secretive mortuary cult that collects the relics of the dead.
They are a duelistic faith that believe in the joining of Life and Death, represented as the Sun and Moon joining into an eclipse. The Church holds a grand Cathedral, safely ensconced in the Spine of the World, to the far South of Aarde.
The cult sends out envoys, so called Reliquary Nuns, across Aarde to gather relics, artifacts and bones of the venerable dead. They hoard these prizes jealously in their mountain cathedral; yet they offer aid in their travels, frequently on the look out for potential converts.

Content Warning:
This is a grimdark setting that may encompass unsettling themes, such as, but not limited to: war, violence, death, sacrifice, self-harm, and all the extensions thereof. If you come across something that upsets you, please reach out to your loved ones and support structures.

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