Days With a Knight

The Party

Mynthe – A young princess of the PaintWing people, descended from one of Gumba’s founders, Nai’am. Looking around at the sorry state of the world, she is determined to find a use for the magnificent power trapped beneath Gumba’s surface. In a world without divine magic, she has managed to revive the practice of a form of druidism – tapping into the magic beneath the land, and channeling the power of ley lines. She now seeks to create a true faith, to manifest a new god all Gumba’s own through focused belief.

Daedalus/Icarus- Mynthe’s twin brother, who in his youth traveled too close to the ruins and walked out a split man. Half of him is good, the other evil, but both work in relative concert towards the goal of using the loosed outsiders and “demons” in the world to further it, and improve life. Daedalus (the good half) is a gramaric inventor, a tinkerer prince lost mostly in his notebooks. Icarus (the evil half) is more concerned with raw power, than the finesse of its possible applications. Both are, however, suffering from lack of materials to work their magics.

Faple Severleaf- The twin’s royal family have hired Faple to be their guide to the Noon, Gumba’s center point. For Mynthe, it will be a chance to bind the single largest geomantic pole in the world and harness its power. For Daedalus/Icarus it is a chance to be closest to the largest single body of elementals – the ring above the Noon itself. Faple is a highly adaptable seedling (plant person) acutely attuned to the poles and environments that cover Gumba’s surface – a practiced ranger and guide. She is also a stern moral Carnan. Which is well, a plant’s version of Vegan. She only eats meat.

Nerwa – A half-elven/half-devil sorceress from far away hired as the twin’s bodyguard. She isn’t nice, and is rather bored, but could prove both an asset or detractor to the group. Her partial outsider nature makes her highly malleable to the beliefs of others, especially strong minds like those possessed by the party.

So Our Adventure Begins
Beware this is quite rambly, and only the barest of vague summaries. Read at your own peril.

The party sets out from the PaintWing “city” of New-Watch on a wagon pulled by a Daedalus tamed earth-elemental mule nicknamed “Earthy.” Their eventual goal is the Noon, but for now, they are aiming for the old “subway” station in the changelands which will hopefully cut their journey nearly in half. « Read the rest of this entry »