Campaign Background

The year is 1217 in the standard calendar. The Princess Bethany, and her bodyguard Shiao-Lin are on the run from the rule of Bethany’s Father. They left the realm of her Father around a year ago and have to go by false Alias’ in most of the towns they stop at. The reason for them leaving was Bethany had begun practicing Necromancy. Her parents did not agree with her tampering in dark magics and gaining the knowledge of her long dead ancestors. Shiao-Lin had sworn an oath to protect Bethany under any circumstances, thus meaning when she left he had to follow. Bethany’s Father discovered her performing a dark ritual in order to gain power. Shiao-Lin was present, it was his duty to protect his charge, when her father called for guards, and he ended his reign swiftly.

When the guards arrived Shiao-Lin and Bethany were long gone, the only trace of them was her father’s head lying detached from his body, that and the charred remains of some poor soul who had been sacrificed. The guards immediately dispatched search parties to find and bring the pair in. Rewards, bounties and many other means were put out in hope of capturing the pair. Shiao-Lin had means of evading the bounty hunters, the assassins and so on. While in the small town of North Rockfort the two encountered a mystical warrior, he was trained in the way of the ninja, that of stealth and sudden strikes. He went by the name of Rikimaru; he joined up with the warrior and his charge. When the group left North Rockfort they were met by a large group of bounty hunters eager to collect their prize. Rikimaru and Shiao-Lin slew most of the hunters, they fled from the scene and traveled into the mystical woods of Carnthorp. The trio set up camp, on exploring the surroundings Shiao-Lin found a grove. It was filled with strange energies and magics. When Bethany approached the grove a large portal opened in front of them.

The group found themselves being urged by some unnatural force to enter the portal. Rikimaru was the first to fall and travel through then Shiao-Lin and finally Bethany. On the other side of the portal there was a world, which they knew nothing of. A stranger approached the party and began talking to them, over the next day or so they learnt that they had been transported through time. The year was 7532. The party learned many things in the following weeks, that when Bethany was near the portal it would open and show the location they came from in their own timeline. The trio remained in the new era that they had found. They learnt much of the history of their own time. They learnt that the Dramojh would return and conquer the realm that had been saved by the giants; the human race would be enslaved for generations, as it had been before.