Full Stories Abridged

## Gehenna

### *The First Ship*

An adventurous party comes together to explore the uncharted seas south of the continent of **Gehenna**, governed by the ever-ruling monarch, **Isa**, and his **four Arch Deacons, Festra, Doojerok, Blaggard,** and the cruel half-giant **Aques the Giver.**

Narrowly escaping a **dragon turtle**, the group of explorers meet an abnormally large non-binary Triton person named **Prince** **Telegony**. They hail from an unknown **Triton** country known as **Sumatra**, a peaceful yet fierce community that worships the **Great Fish**. **Circe** is one of the leaders and **mother of Telegony**.

Sumatra has recently been tense with its neighboring island of Tritons, **Michavalia**. This island utilizes **Gehennan technology** to control Dragon Turtles and possesses an army of warforged automatons all under the control and command of the beautiful Triton man, **Raja Um.**

The party finds out that **Aques the Giver, Arch Deacon of Gola, has been arming Michavalia in order to take over Sumatra**. Telegony and the party must flee to find a sage on another island to commune with and utilize the power of the Great Fish.

The “sage” turns out to be **Thatcher Hammond**, a Genasi mutineer of Aques’ crew. He aids Sumatra as a spiritual leader as penance for his part in atrocities leveraged by the Isan empire. Thatcher helps them find and commune with the Great Fish, **the dragon turtle they bumped into at the beginning of their journey**. The Great Fish reveals to Telegony that their **real father is Aques the Giver after Circe struck a deal that she would spend a night with him if it would keep her country safe**. He broke that deal and wants his child to join him in his colonial pillage.

The Great Fish reveals one last secret of the world: **Korvu and Noma**.

In the beginning, Korvu and Noma, children of the **six gods**, were charged to make their own worlds. The Great Fish, named **Lemkra**, had been close friends with **Korvu the White**. For some reason, Korvu was imprisoned and Noma became mortal in order to rule over Korvu’s land, Gehenna. He became the **Isa, the immortal monarch and imperial ruler.** Aques, like two other Arch Deacons, was made specifically by the Noma and is merely the hand of the true danger of the world.

Telegony and the party mount a battle with the Sumatrans against the Michavalian army and dragon turtles. They destroy the tower control, freeing both the turtles and the warforged army. Raja is fed to the former. Telegony and Aques fight over a whirlpool as he brings on a raging storm. Defeated, Aques drowns to the depths.

Sumatra and the party win the day and begin to heal the relationship with Michavalia. The party continues on their way searching the southern seas for new adventures!

### *Collision Course*

***Feed the Beast*** takes place 27 years after The Shattering (When the Ice fell). ***Collision Course*** takes place directly after the events of ***Feed the Beast.***

When The Great Tyrant **Isa** died suddenly, the continent and each of it’s residents was covered in ice. After being freed, the country sought to right the wrongs of who they assumed was at fault: the late Isa. They began making treaties and helping their communities rather than following the petty and misdirecting whims of the Isa.

When **Korvu the Black (from Tarth)** encased **Argonia (Tarth)** in black ice it took a great deal of matter and energy. So much energy, in fact, that it punctured a hole in planar space.

The plane of Gehenna orbits (5th dimensionally) the Tarth plane. When the ice came, it punctured through the plane of Gehenna and forced them into a planar orbit, intertwining their actions and fate in many equal and opposite ways.

As a result of this planar breach, Korvu the Black entered the Gehenna plane of dreams. He then inhabited a Quori spirit. The spirit goes to the material plane and inhabits **Chrysti Public.**

When he is released from Chrysti in ***Feed The Beast***, he decides to take his own corporeal form as a mountain-sized black dragon on the Belly of the Serpent.

The ice may be gone, but Korvu the Black is also what keeps these planes linked. Until he is banished back to his plane, these planes will continue on a collision course towards their destruction.

Dektra, “**Dek**” to her friends, went looking for her love, **Eli**, when he went missing. She found the studio and did her best to save him, but in the end was caught in a show just the same. They two, shy friends and maybe more, aid the party.

As the campaign goes on, strange things start to happen to each region to make them more like the regions of Tarth. Te’Tel starts to cool down until eventually freezing. Gola starts to become overgrown with a large tree sprouting in the middle of Levitton. Kingston starts to deforrest and mine Miselan. Worst of all: Arden starts to become barren  and dessert-like while the inhabitants start to turn on themselves.

The party helps **Korvu the White**, a dragon, become mortal in order to rob Korvu the Black of his power and stop Tarth and Gehenna from colliding...