To begin this all off, there needs to be some context for what this is about and who all is a part of this amazing group that brings laughter and mayhem every week. Our group has been together playing Dungeons and Dragons for about two years or more. Some of the players have been playing for as long as a decade, others just as long as this past year. The game of Dungeons and Dragons that we are playing is the current 5th edition.
The group is made up of Daniel playing as former Iron Legion guard captain Kaine Stormhand, Kat playing as noble lady Kyrian of the High House Sunspear, Darius play the merchantile agent Ozzie Diaz of the craftsmen guilds, Nick playing the Mercenary Scrappers Sergeant Don Stalking-wolf, Elayna playing the Armored Fist of Justice Milo of the Great Clan Hardnut, Beau playing the Fantabulous Magnanimous Phantasmagorical Melanimus Grinn, and myself playing Private Bentley Cornwall Thorndale the Second.
Our setting is run by the good Dungeon Master aka DM Peter, set within his game world of Elune. The players are situated within the heavily walled metropolis of Shinovar within the land known as Roshar. The city of Shinovar is all that our characters know about and have lived within. The populace of Shinovar has been sheltered within the magical high walls from the dangerous outside world for the past three thousand years. The city itself has built the current city state upon the ruins and tunnel networks underneath it for untold years. No one truly knows all of the pathways under the city. Everyone knows that once you go outside the walls though, you pass that magical barrier, you risk being blow apart by the High Storm that ravages the land every quarter of the year. Or you will die by the monsterous hordes that devastate anything they want. It is a brutal and rugged land beyond the wall. Full of peril and death. While the land of Roshar is primarily a wooden forest, it is seen as a dark and primal place that harbors ill will to those that venture into it.
Even within the Walls of Shinovar, a grown metropolis is not a truly safe place to live in. While all of the races do live in a peaceful state, there are still bad elements that exist within the societal structures that make up the Shinovarian people. The city police, known as the Light Weavers, do their best to try to curb violence and villainy, but with a hundred thousand souls it is a massive task for the small force. The Iron Legion itself is a smaller task force that works solely towards the protection of the royal line. A hearty bunch, renown for their tactics and efficiency in combat, the Iron Legion is a feared and respected force within the Shinovarian society. The military of sorts for the city state are the people that make up the force known as the Wall Guard. These people are expertly trained soldiers that use whatever force at their disposal to make sure that the monsters outside the wall stay outside. Roving bands of the Wall Guard, known as Hunters, roam the nearby lands to spot any potential threats and eliminate them before there is any large threat to the city.
All of this happens within and around the great city of Shinovar. Led and commanded by none other than King Kaladin Stonewall, the city has done well for the past age.
The royal family keeps their position through just and fair rule for the people of the city state. Known for being a goodly King, Kaladin has the support of the populace and the nobility. With the help of the King's Magister Rasheed, the King has the image of a King that is well informed and well positioned for keeping power.
Through all of this, we the players are living our day to day lives within the walls. In whatever ways the Fates have determined, we are destined to meet up and fulfill our destinies. Onwards to Questing!
