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Lore of Aetherra: The Lost Druid Campaign Book

Lore of Aetherra: The Lost Druid Campaign Book

Lore of Aetherra

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Lore of Aetherra: The Lost Druid is an award-winning 5th Edition adventure designed to bring characters from level one to five, and is the first in an expansive 4-book saga of science-fantasy adventures that will take your players to level 20.

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Fano. Things here haven't always been so grim. Time and chance have conspired to transform this once magnificent city upon the lake into a run-down sanctum for the destitute and depraved alike. Those who would see Fano renewed seek a lost druid who brings with him the hope to restore the city to its former glory and awaken the ancient technology hidden deep within its constructs. Could Fano's awakening usher in a new era of peace and prosperity, or will it unearth a conspiracy lurking in the shadows?

Lore of Aetherra: The Lost Druid is a 5th Edition adventure designed to bring characters from level one to five, and is the first in an expansive 4-book saga of science-fantasy adventures that will take your players to level 20.

A uniquely immersive RPG experience, The Lost Druid employs a myriad of digital content that can be experienced using the Alchemy RPG platform. Enjoy a cinematic storytelling structure, breaking chapters into scenes supplemented by expansive soundscapes, dynamic musical scores, voice-acted flavor text, and environmental motion graphics.

2023 IPPY Awards Winner: GOLD in Reference

Product Contents:

Over 250 Pages
Over 2 hours of Audio Content
5 Premade Player Characters
6 Side Quests
7 Tavern Mini Games
35 New NPCs and Monsters
Maps: 8 area, 1 city, and 1 region
New Backgrounds, Spells, and Magic Items
Over 60 NPC Profile Blocks
AI Combat Tactics for Every Encounter

Credits:

Authors: Jessy Ribordy & Gabriel Davis
Production: Chris Eddie
Design: Gabriel Davis
Audio: Jessy Ribordy
Artists: Stu Harrington, Jeff Langevin, Maxwell Schiller, Leon Tukker, Narges Jafari, Jordan Kerbow, Helen Ilnytska
Cartography: Daniel Hasenbos
Technology: Isaac Overacker

Adventure Overview

Fano. Once a magnificent city upon the lake. Now a run-down sanctum for the destitute and the depraved. A quest to seek out a lost druid brings promise to restore the city to its former glory and awaken the ancient technology built within. Could Fano's awakening bring peace and prosperity once more, or will it unearth a conspiracy lurking in the shadows?

Aetherra is a fantastical world bound together by a raw elemental energy known as aether. A substance so profound that, when controlled, can power great cities with otherworldly technology, endow beings with the ability to manipulate the elements, and enrapture one with a lust so intense it consumes their very being.

Crysal Lake, an impossibly deep caldera, keeps Aetherra's best-kept secret hidden: an aether deposit at the bottom of the Lake that joins directly to the aether core. Floating proudly above that secret is the island city of Fano. Once the prototype of symbiosis between mankind and aether, now the destitute remains of forgotten greatness.

It's been generations since the inventors, a society of brilliant elves known only to historians as the Crysaleans, disappeared from Fano, taking the city's beating heart with them. Their disappearance is now a mystery as great as the outlandish architecture that supports this depraved city's crumbling walls.

The resolve of a young Indosian may present the spark of hope the citizens of Fano so desperately need: the hidden location of a fabled druid known as Gilgazo who belongs to an ancient order of sages devoted to mastering the instrumentation of aether.

Will our heroes heed the call to recover the lost druid and save a city? And if they do, will they survive the journey?

How IT Works

The Lost Druid is designed to deliver a deeply immersive gameplay experience utilizing a cinematic scene-based structure over traditional chapters, which is experienced through the Alchemy RPG platform. Every scene is meant to provide a unique mood as diverse environments are explored throughout the world of Aetherra.

This feeling is primarily achieved through an audio accompaniment for each scene that provides both an ambient sound bed and an original composition, scored explicitly to construct the intended atmosphere for each scene.

At the beginning of each scene is a QR code that can be scanned to navigate quickly to the corresponding audio. Links, like this one, can also be found in the scene's footer for easy access to the audio component from anywhere within the scene.

Each scene is designed individually with a distinct feel based on its intended story content. Some settings have a higher propensity for combat and therefore come with additional themes to support an action sequence. Others are more dramatic and come with themes to amplify a suspenseful moment or create a sense of space by shifting ambiance from an exterior to an interior perspective.

The Lost Druid comes with over 2 hours of original music to support your adventure in Aetherra, composed by acclaimed recording artist Jessy Ribordy. Each composition is handcrafted utilizing film-quality audio production tools, sounds effects, instrumentation, and recorded performances. Scene compositions are explicitly written to support long-form RPG gameplay with indistinguishable repeat and sonic variance, allowing tracks to loop for extended periods without feeling monotonous or repetitive.