Poes School of Arcane and Dark Arts



Poe's School of Arcane and Dark Arts
Poe's School is a Dungeon's and Dragons (5th ed.) game played on Rolegate.

Introduction
Poe's School of Arcane and Dark Arts remains hidden within a cave complex underneath a lake. Only the best and brightest wizards, warlocks, bards, and sorcerers are permitted. Within the confines of the academy, students will advance in studies, experiments, and school activities. Beyond the academy itself lies local cities with enough people and coin to give enough intensive for students to try out their machinations. Students will be able to break up into smaller groups to explore and adventure on their own.

The nation surrounding the academy exists in an early Renaissance world with very little control over their own magic. The academy offers guidance for would be magic users to display and hone their power in one of the three major cities, or to assist the smaller towns once they are ready and becoming an instructor within the academy is always an option.

 Player Characters 


 * Tanith Sheylindr
 * Arken Taten
 * Chor / Cutio
 * Razmira al Fadan
 * Elrius Dalar
 * Alestia
 * Caelric Sionnach
 * Posco
 * Azar Eleneth
 * Alton Stoutoak
 * Athymiella
 * Jonathan Strange
 * Temerity Zaiyis
 * Theodora Grayves
 * Nyx Truda
 * Skrit Heikhar

 Non-Player Characters 

Teachers:


 * Tamiyo Von Gutenstein - Scroll Writing
 * Randolf - Potions
 * Thalia - Evocations
 * Howard Fleming
 * The Nether - Necromancy
 * Moar - Conjurer Supreme of the Storm (Earth Elemental Druid)


 * Belasarius - Commadant of the Chimera (Ogre Mage)


 * Leonardo Who Calls The Tempest of Time (Human Wizard)


 * Countess Georgia of the Fascade (Human Wizard)


 * Laemye Manifest Entity of Evanescence (Eladrin Sorcerer)


 * Dartmouth, Viceroy of House Keres (Elf Sorcerer)


 * Halcyon, Lady of Alethia (Elf Cleric)


 * Sedah of House Cereberus (Minotaur Paladin/Wizard)

Merchants:


 * Abernathy (Demon Tailor) - Abernathy's Boutique
 * Gilles (Alchemist) - Bubbling Cauldron
 * Alice- Alice's Sundries and Stuff
 * Okuda - (Racksasha) Jeweler

The Sword Arm

Houses
Althia - Transmutation and Divination


 * Head of House: Halcyon
 * Casters who seek to alter time and space and maintain balance between the eternal struggle between those two powers.

Evanescence - Illusion and transmutation


 * Head of House: Laemye
 * Spellcasters who seek to turn reality into illusions using exchange of matter for spiritual essence.

Cereberus - Abjuration and Necromancy


 * Head of House: Sedah
 * Spellcasters who safeguard life using energy in the world around them.

Chimera - Abjuration and Conjuration


 * Head of House: Belasarius
 * Spellcasters who enjoy creating and altering reality into living beings.

Fascade- Enchantment and Illusion


 * Head of House: Countess Georgia
 * Spellcasters who seek to create more realistic illusions whether for spying or for leisure theater.

Keres - Evocation and Necromancy


 * Head of House: Dartmouth
 * Spellcasters who manipulate life force in others to accomplish energy transfers.

Storm - Conjuration and Enchantment


 * Head of House: Moar
 * Spellcasters who seek to create more permanent solutions to conjuration, but without the drawn out process and exchange of transmutation.

Temporalist - Divination and Evocation


 * Head of House: Leonardo
 * Spell casters who seek to pull energy out of the far reaches of time. They care little for the balance of power, but care only for what is before them.

Population: 750,000
===== Climate: Temperate climate with a few mountain ranges on the north and eastern sides. The south and west are both coastal. =====

Major cities: Solovy (57 thousand), Bicnor (32 thousand) and Bayory (28 thousand). The rest of the population is found in towns and villages dotting the countryside.
Capitol of Zema. A bustling trade hub benefiting greatly from the increased trade routes after the Centurian Wars ended within the neighboring countries within the continent. While Zema remained neutral through the century long war, it did create a strain on the economic development of the nation. With the borders open again, and the trade coming freely, Solovy has seen an increase in riches, leading to increases in technology and innovation.

Points of interest:

 * Fascade Opera House


 * Gambling District


 * Open Market


 * Guild Hall


 * Myrth Cartel

Bayory
The southern coastal city of Bayory acts as the major hub to trade routes across the eastern sea. While its ground does not allow it to bare any major crops, the placement of it within the tide current has always brought a bountiful harvest of fish.

Points of interest:

 * Docks


 * Shipyards


 * Smugglers dens


 * Astrologers


 * Factory district

Noble Houses:

 * Tarnath (Ruling House)


 * Amberethe (Mineral barons)


 * Boules (Trading Nobles)


 * Xil-Xandar (Banking House)


 * Yoyuye (Factory and Textiles Houses)

The Story So Far
The Beginning

The Cruise

The Plague

On a shopping trip to Bayory it was discovered that there was a sickness spreading and afflicting the citizens. The students investigated and discovered that Moloch was taking money to help find a cure, and it's suspected he was part of the disease. They tracked it back to an Ancient Leviathan that was being tortured and bled by nefarious creatures and water elementals. They were defeated and the Leviathan healed and returned to the depths. It's blood the source of the sickness. A cure was devised and distributed in the air over Bayory to heal the town.

After Summer Break

The students returned from summer break to find that half the school had been sold by Moloch, the resident evil Paladin to Mammon and the Pyre Academy. Tamiyo went missing just after the school was split in half, the other half safe as the possession of Poe himself. But the split was irreversible without Tamiyo, as Demon contracts are binding because they use the blood of the signers to lock down the agreement. Only Tamiyo's blood can get rid of a demon contract as it is old blood from her family from Raven loft.

Why? The reason we where given was Tamiyo's bloodline would sign contracts with both demons and devils basically any one with any power to give and would ditch the contracts after getting them. We don't know how their blood was cursed and they were unable to hold down a contract. So if their blood was taken and used to clean a contract all the words would just disappear, making the contract void. For example the one tying Elrius to mammon for more power, Tamiyo destroyed that contract sending Elrius and Arken back from hell.

So several teachers, including Dartmouth, Haylcon and Belsaurius, went looking for her, and others fled for greener pastures, like Countess Georgia. Bizz and Mixxy went into the caves to find out why the monster in the caves was gaining strength. And others had unrelated business like Abernathy.

Meanwhile during a very quick time we learn of the existence of the Pyre Acadamy, who set fire to the tea house in Bayory, owned by Laemye, the head of Evanescence. There was short battle where a few students of Poes fought a the students and a teacher from Pyre.

Information was sought from the library, however the Index has been re-activated, but requiring magic and attention to get back to full ability, and the Deep Stacks run with dangerous magic without the Librarian to manage it. Several students ventured inside. Razmira is still lost, and Alton was killed, but his soul contained in a staff he acquired there and was brought back.

Classes resumed as best they could with the Teachers Assistants taking up the roles of their houses. A new student learning and toying with the fabric of magic caused a mishap that aged several students, cornuted Johnathon and created bizarre wild magic effects when that students preformed magic near him. Poe was sought out and they met his clone Poe nine-four and his assistant Fblthb. The problem was eventually fixed.

The Door

Arken ran the Crucible. Each student went through a magic door to revert them to their earliest ability to test their skills. It was unstable and had to be quickly repaired and inadvertanty created a displacement of possibilty. Every student that went through saw possible pasts and futures and could choose what path their took upon relfection. This also powered many students up. One strudent, the drow Elrius Dalar, chose a path that never lead him to Poe's and disappeared.

Nyx Truda was declared the winner and the students were visited by the Illustrious Poe himself.

The Plane of Fire

Seeking specific supplies, the students are enlisted by Poe to slay a Red Dragon that is terrorizing denizens of the planes. While Temerity, Alton and Jonathon work on potions of Fire Resistance, Arken heads to Bayory and runs into some trouble with the local government. Moloch Marcks, the greedy paladin that may have been involved in the plague, helped sell half of Poe's to Pyre and is a minion of Mammon is now the Sheriff and is turning the town against Poe's. There's a brief fight as the students escape.

In the Plane of Fire they meet Rakim, that has information of where to find the interplanar maurader, but requires them to attend a party and steal an exclusive contract for a hallucinatory tobacco called Spice, from one Yamila al-Sadiq.

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