The Novul 'Tir Chronicles Wiki

 Welcome to the World of Novul 'Tir!

If you're here, it probably means you're playing a character that probably exists within Sebastian's homebrew campaign setting of Novul 'Tir, primarily played through the 5th Edition of Dungeons and Dragons! If you ever run your own private game, please feel free to take any of these character/story ideas without credit, as our priority for everyone is a fun game and nothing more or less than that! It's important to note here that this campaign bears NO affiliation whatsoever to Wizards of the Coast, Dungeons and Dragons Official Guidebooks, Campaigns, Modules, Maps or any official merchandise - this is purely homebrew and presents our interpretation of a fantasy world, with unique flavour and settings for our adventurers to explore.

With that being said, hop on in to the fantastical realm of Novul 'Tir, where our quest begins!

Game Session Information
The current timeline of events is as follows:

 The First Arc: Humble Beginnings: The World is larger than We Think (DM: Sebastian) 

Session 1: Helios, Luna and Hollyhana meet up at a tavern along Purge Road for the first time as adventurers. They visit the Lucille Farmstead and help Ebenezer Forthril with her woes, including killing a demonic herd of goats and rescuing her son, Pyratoth from a pack of wild dogs. After receiving thanks, the party went on their way.

Session 2: Helios, Luna and Hollyhana meet Kairon at a fork in the road west of the Purge Road. They travel towards Yoitsu and encountered the Cave of Venomark. After a brief skirmish with Venomark's Specter, the party escapes the cave and enters the Ethereal Plane.

Session 3: Helios, Luna and Kairon get separated from Hollyhana and end up caught in the divine conflict in the Ethereal Plane. They escape and end up in Furcalt's Mansion, where they meet Udema after a 5-year timeskip.

 The Second Arc: Trouble in Northern Novul 'Tir (DM: Zong Hua) 

Session 4: Helios decides to stay at the mansion. Udema and Luna set off to find Hollyhana and rescue her. Hollyhana joins the Clan of the First Knowledge. They are then led to the Lifespring, where they encounter an Ettercap and its Giant Spiders holding the Oakstaff Tribe captive.

Session 5: Hollyhana dies and is revived after the battle thanks to Kaltensandra. The party completes the sorceress' quest, and visits Viscount Baf 'Dil in Harrowcane to clear Hollyhana's name. The party then rests at the Foresters' Haven, while Udema heads out on his own.

Session 6: Udema and Hollyhana find a mysterious girl named Woody Loody in the Gypsy's Hideout Tavern, whom the party reluctantly accepts into the party. Hollyhana gets mildly upset after Woody Loody displays considerably powerful magic for her age. After scavenging for materials from the sorceress' tent, they proceed to escort a suspicious merchant, Tyril Weskins, to the city of New Sirius, where Udema then disguised the party as humans and entered the city without a hitch. The party then rest at an inn and encountered a suspicious hooded figure under pursuit from the guards of New Sirius. They manage to hide the hooded intruder, and question his intents. Woody Loody then phased away, her current location unknown.

Session 7: The hooded intruder revealed himself and the political strife between 2 organisations that exists within the Kingdom of New Sirius, The Rael's Organisation and The Order of the Lux. The party intends to leave the kingdom, not wanting to have any part of the conflict, however found themselves trapped in the Kingdom under a lock-down. Whilst traversing about to seek another way out, they reunited with fellow bard Kairon, who was about to be publicly executed at the plaza. The party manages to break him free, and in the midst of escaping was taken refuge by members of the Rael's Organisation. The party in return for their favor accepted a quest to infiltrate the Order of the Lux to uncover rumors of brainwashed victims from the Order.

Session 8: While Udema was called up by the Rael's Organisation for further questioning, the party proceeded to infiltrate the Order of the Lux. Telfar Bronzeblade, a Aarakocran believer of the Order, decides to join Hollyhana and Kairon in investigating the Order's secret dealings. While performing a ritual involving a fountain within the order shrine, Telfar accidentally activated the non-human detection magic present in the fountain and inadvertently summoned an monstrous apparition. As Telfar tussled with the priests in the room, the party ran into another group of Lux priests and ultimately get captured.

 The Third Arc: Dark Forces Surrounding Til 'Zen Citadel (DM: Sebastian) 

Session 9: An amnesiac Akatsuki Kiara finds herself in a small pinch when trying to adapt to the local culture in Til 'Zen Citadel. Working for the informal thieves' network in Til 'Zen, she accepts a quest to find a lost dog from Rick's Bar, the bar that the network uses for clandestine quest acquisitions. She discovers a secret storage unit underneath Til 'Zen in the Butler Caverns - a natural granite cave network beneath the citadel outskirts - and investigates a curious case of collective memory loss regarding a human family who kept a non-human dog as a well-intentioned pet. After managing to meet Talzin Fremblade, a member of the non-human resistance working undercover at Rick's Bar, Akatsuki manages to kill off the malicious forces that lurked in the Caverns, eventually discovering that the missing dog had been transmogrified into a violent abomination. As Talzin and Akatsuki left the place puzzled by the days events, they hear a collective priming of weapons near the cavern entrance. Telling Talzin to stay back, Akatsuki bravely stepped out of the caverns, facing whatever fate was to come her way.

Session 10 (Part 1): Akatsuki Kiara was surrounded by several guards and a masked man. They opened fire in Akatsuki's direction, but were really aiming at a phantom behind her, which quickly dissipated into ash that rained down on everyone present. The masked man introduced himself as X, a member of the Clan of the First Knowledge and the non-human resistance in Til' Zen Citadel. Talzin appeared to be friends with him, and Akatsuki soon found herself in a discussion regarding the potential misuse of memory magic by the Til' Zen Magocracy. At the resistance hideout, Akatsuki also meets the beetlekin matriarch, who was experimented on by Til' Zen forces in her youth. The matriarch gives Akatsuki a Flaming Ember seed wrapped in silk, and asks her to bring it to Siva' Torei, head of the Greenhusk Council in Freyara. Akatsuki then sees a vision - where she sees visions of Helios, Hollyhana and Udema in sessions 1 and 4 respectively. She also sees X in her vision - whose identity she does not know.

Session 10 (Part 2): In Freyara, Talzin and Akatsuki sought an audience with Siva' Torei. She revealed that the last remaining magic leyline intersection, of which magic originates from and is siphoned from, is located in Til' Zen Keep - which is coincidentally where the stolen memories of the townspeople are stored. Siva' Torei also drop hints about Akatsuki's destiny. In preparing for their trip back to Til' Zen, they realised that they cannot go back the way they came from due to Siva' Torei's protective barrier. Instead, Akatsuki signs a travel agreement with a suspicious halfling travel agent named Dos, who arranges a trip through the Freyara Mountain Range towards the Wyrmgate, where a portal supposedly awaits to teleport the duo back to Til' Zen.

Session 11 (Part 1): Akatsuki and Talzin briefly part ways to prepare for the trip in their own ways. Akatsuki, in her search for supplies, accidentally stumbled upon an old Til' Zenian staff, which unbeknownst to her contained dark magic associated with the memory magic she was exposed to earlier. When they reconvened at the Pilgrim's Entrance to the south of Freyara, the halfling travel agent Dos led them southward towards the Madara Outpost. The trio had a bit of banter overnight during a campfire, during which Talzin and Akatsuki exchanged information about their pasts. Talzin took out a small pendant with a fossilized young beetlekin encased in amber, and recounted how his family was effectively fossilized alive by the Til' Zen Magocracy during the purge. After what seemed to be a long night, Akatsuki was rudely awakened by Dos, who realised that Talzin disappeared.

Session 11 (Part 2): Akatsuki and Dos trekked further into the peatland. Suddenly, Akatsuki realises that the same magical energy that she encountered in Til' Zen has engulfed both Dos and the surrounding landscape, turning Dos catatonic and the landscape a barren white covered in snow. In the distance Akatsuki saw two ice figures - one resembling a beetlekin with his hands splayed apart as if hugging someone, and the other resembling a Til' Zenian Guard attempting to stab the beetlekin. In her confusion, Akatsuki was attacked by a pitch-black figure in a brown cloak, who appeared to also possess psionic powers just like her. She managed to destroy the figure, bisecting his body and tearing up the brown cloak, which she kept. She then reunited with Talzin and Dos, and Talzin disposed of the staff Akatsuki picked up, inferring that it was the source of the day's happening. They then made their way to the Madara Outpost, where beetlekin Zen 'Oki gives them a place to rest for the night. Before this episode ended, Talzin reveals that he, too, was engaged with an unknown enemy, showing that he was inflicted the same kind of wound Akatsuki sustained during her fight.

Session 12: Will, a Tiefling Warlock from Ravenfell, was up to his usual shenanigans within New Sirius. During his trip to the market, he stole some apples and a handful of gold from a group of old ladies on the streets. Before long, however, he chances upon a plot of land and a plot that involved memory manipulation - having chanced upon the same cave in the Butler Caverns. He fends off his attackers, and the subsequent series of events leads him to the outskirts of New Sirius via a secret passageway through Rick's Bar.

Session 13: While conversing with X in the rebel hideout,

 One-Shot Adventures 

Trouble with the Dragons (DM: Sebastian): Encik the Barbarian and Bob the Wizard separately embarked on quests from the Lucille Farmstead to rescue Pyratoth from a Green Dragon's nest in the Kormathar Forest. Both were successful in their attempts with help from Udema, and went their separate ways ever since.

Snowy Amnesia (DM: Sebastian): Helios embarked on his own journey after being trapped in a magic experimental snowglobe in Furcalt's Mansion. He defeated the Ice Ruler that trapped him within the contraption, but opted not to release anyone else from the globe. This one-shot took place immediately after the party left Helios in Session 4.

Trouble at Furcalt Mansion (DM: Zong Hua): Udema's backstory is explored as he accepts his first quest in Furcalt Mansion. This story explains Udema's backstory, and how Udema came to acquire the mansion. It also introduces Rivana Grippengale, a side character which plays an important role in Udema's quest.

Yoitsu's Past (DM: Sebastian): This one-shot took place in the past, with Helios as a little kid. Having helped out with the preparations for the Festival of the Sun, Helios spotted 2 suspicious figures that seemed to be directing both piracy efforts and manipulating the townspeople throughout the event. Eventually, they revealed themselves to the population during the climax of the festival, transforming into a likelihood of Venomark and inciting a raid on Yoitsu by the forces of New Sirius. This one-shot details how and why Helios' parents were killed, and explains Yoitsu's current state of abandonment.

