Campaign Log: A Doe Among Wolves

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Hello everyone! I have done my duties as GM (hopefully to my players' satisfacion) and now the time has come for me to be a full-time player again. I'm looking forward to that.

The previous campaign was set in the world of Feidvang (mainly my creation, but players from both my groups have contributed). This is a TL 3-4 fantasy setting where the main culture bears strong resemblances to norse/viking culture, although Feidvang is more feudal than what was actually the case during Scandinavia's viking age.

Strange phenomena were observed, and the seven goddesses tasked the PCs with investigating them. (Actually, each player chose one goddess to align with, and the chosen goddesses were naturally more central to the campaign.) The PCs discovered that the phenomena were caused by an alien race using dimension portals to research Feidvang and prepare to launch a full-scale invasion. By befriending powerful people from one of the dwarven kingdoms, the PCs got access to the military might and technology required to launch a counter-attack against the aliens. An explosion was set off, destroying the alien portal machine; one of the PCs bravely sacrificed himself so the rest of the PCs and the dwarven commandos could return to Feidvang before the portals vanished.

The new campaign is set in the same world, at approximately the same time. We had our session 0.5 yesterday, where we put the last finishing touches on our characters as well as playing through the introduction of how we met. This campaign began in the city of Rødvik, which the PCs from the last campaign had visited, so naturally, a question was raised of whether our new characters had heard of the old party's exploits there. After consulting the calendar, we discovered that unfortunately, the old party hadn't arrived in Rødvik yet, so there were no exploits to be heard of. We'll have to see if we run into references from the old campaign later. That could be fun, but I expect we'll have a great time playing through the new campaign even without encountering people or stories from the old one.

I intend to log the unfolding campaign here on the forum in my usual fashion, i.e. by describing people and places, events and encounters from my character's point of view. I'll also post a character sheet for my character, as well as short descriptions of the most important NPCs, although I may not update these after each session. I may also make short writeups of some core topics from the Feidvang world; this will often be things my character won't have much knowledge about, so I can't discuss them naturally in the narration, but which may help the reader immerse themselves in the story.

Many names of people and places are in Norwegian. That's the language we speak at our gaming table, and it's close enough to the language spoken by the vikings a thousand years ago that it suits the campaign world (or at least the region where our campaign begins). I'll leave it for the foreign-speaking reader to hit up Google Translate or similar tools if they are curious about a name's meaning, although I may discuss some names if I can weave it into the story.

The character creation requirements given by the GM were that we had to end our backstories in Rødvik as prisoners about to debark on a sea voyage to a penal colony and give reason for why we had been arrested and convicted, i.e. we had to come up with a sufficiently serious crime that our characters had been found guilty of committing. I'll tell you about mine when I present my backstory, and I'll hopefully learn about the others' during the course of our adventures.

Warning: All members of our group are adults, and our games feature topics that some readers may find inappropriate or disturbing. I will use the literary technique called "fading to black" where necessary. Please be respectful in your comments. Explicit descriptions of sex/nudity are not allowed on this forum, and will be deleted.