Adventure Hooks

== Dawn of Tosima ==
Below you will find both loose and specific adventure hooks that relate to Fables of Elysia: The Dawn of Tosima. Use these as inspiration or hooks for you character creation. Feel free to DM Dusty with ideas about adapting anything below or anything new you'd like to propose!
==== Elemental Call ====
The signs and portents are clear: nature is out of balance. Terrible disaster is drawing closer with every passing day. To restore the balance of nature, you must seek out the disturbance in Tosima and end it.
You are on the trail of a ruthless murderer, Solaris. Known as an arsonist who burns his victims to death, he is said to have put down roots in Tosima, where your trail currently leads you. You must bring him to justice.
A family curse, or some might say a gift, has been passed down to me. A primordial entity is under threat and seeks my aid, and in doing so will either break the curse or bestow even greater power upon my family. They call me north of Badengatt to serve.
An artifact of the Elemental Planes was stolen from me. I will not stop until it is recovered. These fanatics will not use a family heirloom as a weapon against the good people of this land.
==== Songs of the Giants ====
Giant society is different here. There is no talk of an Ordning to keep balance within their kind. But yet so little is known about the races of the Giant kind in Eskarya. These are secrets worth discovering.
Scripture of the pagan gods speak of a Fomorian war of ancient times, but fomorians are weak and hideous in comparison to others of their kind. How could they have once caused such destruction to this land? There must be ancient texts within the lands of Tosima to reveal such history and their origin.
==== Land of the Freehold ====
The Freehold will always be under threat from the Eskaryan Empire, their way of life and ours cannot co-exist. One day, blood shall be drawn and war will come. We cannot let the lands of Tosima fall under the tyrannical grasp of the Empire. We will need allies north of Badengatt, and I have been sent by Josiah to find them.
I graduated from the College of the Wyrdsingers in the Freehold. Upon completion of our studies, we were granted a great prophecy by our mystic patron. I cannot yet make sense of the vision I have seen, but I know it lures me to Tosima, where the fate and destiny of the land is in peril.
Stories of ancient artifacts existing within Tosima are known by the Hexerei Academy. I must find them before the Conclave, before they turn such relics into arts of war to further their expansion of the Empire beyond the Peaks of Vale.
==== The Eskaryan Empire ====
The Conclave serves the people. It serves knowledge and study of man and the arcane. With knowledge comes power and responsibility. Relics and tomes of ancient times cannot fall into hands of heathens and heretics of the Freehold and the Hexerei Academy. The Conclave exists only to protect the lands from powerful forces, and that is the task I have been given.
I served in the Eskaryan army, like my father and his father before him. We have always been loyalists. But I can’t help but see the Empire in a different light to my ancestors. When will the rules of this land take away our own freedom? I don’t even know what life is like outside the Empire… maybe I should find out, before it's too late.
There are lands to the north, filled with pagan gods and heathens. They need to see the light and find the embrace of Zitus and the Emperor. I know that they will protect them from the Freehold. They are nothing but pirates and vagabonds.
==== Divine Call ====
Ancient texts of Khokkolun speak of a great artifact that will bring justice to those who would wrong the creatures of this land. That Kol himself shall send an avatar to the material plane and bring vengeance to our enemies. If I find it, it might just bring an end to the Eskaryan threat.
I was an acolyte at the Temple of Zitus. I even made the pilgrimage to the Temple in Vester Woods. When I was there, I found a tome written by the fallen paladin, Zesoldi. They say he was mad, but this text… it changes everything I know about Zitus. This new testament, it does not speak of the zealous ways that our order acts. Zitus is a just god of benevolence, and the church is his greatest enemy.
What if Dagda is truly the god that created all? The earliest history we know of is the God-Emperors of Elysia. There is so much more to learn of this land and who Dagda and the pagan gods are. So much of the land's history has been hidden by the God-Emperors and I will uncover it.
My kind were once creatures of the forest. Yet I was born like the humanoids creatures of this land. Why? My whole existence is shrouded in mystery. Why do I exist in the way that I do? Is this… natural?