Best of Fenix Volume 1 - Auberond

In this fantasy campaign setting by Christoffer Krämer an elf like race must try to survive as their peaceful harmonic world turns into a hostile apocalyptic death trap.

“Such was the harmony in our paradise that we didn’t even have a word for what befell us”.

Imagine beauty. Imagine perfection. Imagine a world overflowing with honey and nectar. Imagine paradise. Imagine you were a race of poets, of musicians, of artists and of philosophers, living in that paradise: refined to see the sublime beauty of the nature in which you live in perfect harmony with everything. Imagine that one day, without any evident cause, the nature turned against you, step by step changing into an inhospitable and lethal environment. An organic death trap intent on crushing, strangling, poisoning, and devouring you. How would you cope? How would you live? How would you die?

Welcome to Auberond!

In the wake of the apocalyptic transformation everything changed. There aren’t many left of you now, and every day is a struggle for survival. The clans have all but gone and the few ones that are left bare names that make a mockery of their present life: The Azure Singers, The Rainbow weavers, The Day Dreamers. And yet you say, and bare, these name with pride as it is the last link to the past that was, and remembering the beauty you had is the only thing keeping you from becoming as savage as everything around you. In a world where every man, woman and child is needed every hour of every day to defend against the onslaught of nature, the person held in the highest regard is the one who is not permitted to participate and is utterly unable to do so. The singer of the old songs, the teller of the old stories. The living memory of what was and hopefully can be again.

The campaign setting Auberond brings you a world, complete with informations on flora and fauna, customs, archetypes, technology.

You can find this material in Askfageln’s anthology Best of Fenix Volume 1. If you like it, don’t miss the rest of the material from Best of Fenix!