Asharia: A New Sanctuary Wiki

**Welcome to the Asharia!**
Asharia, a land of many and adventures a-plenty!    This server is a DnD self-run open world style game. There are plenty of people to meet, places to eat, and dungeons to seek. Most everything is run through Avrae including inventory, money, skill checks and combat. There is an avrae tutorial that we recommend you check out if you’re new to the bot and you can do that in Our Bot Testing Channel. Information is spread around the server in every city and dungeon, so please make sure to check out all the pinned posts in each channel and don’t hesitate to ping the guards or guides for any assistance.
Now gear up and hit the road, adventure awaits!

Other Important Places: Make sure to check out the Story and Map, as this tells you about the world! The entire story and start section is dedicated to integrating your character into Asharia, so check it out. If you are confused by anything, head to General Server Questions to ask your question. We also have Community Recommendations section because this is for the community. If you want something, think something would be cool, or have a mechanic suggestion, pop it there and we will see what we can do to implement it.

Click here to join the discord!

## Server Information

### Rules

    See the full list of rules in the rules page. To link directly to the in server rules list, click below:
* OOC Rules
* General Playing Rules
* Item Rules
* Character Leveling
* Mechanic Specific Rulings/Clarifications
* Optional Rules
* Downtime

### Roles

Roles are used for channel Access, out of chat reasons, and for pinging. All roles are optional.

Ping Roles

* 📢 - Announcement Pings
* 🏛️ - Political Channel
* 💦 - NSFW Channels
* ⚔️ - Combat Pings
* 🤝 - Roleplay Pings
* 🌍 - Dm'ed Adventure ping

Dungeons and Dragons / Avrae Experience

* 🟢 - New to DnD and Avrae
* 🟡 - New to Avrae
* 🔵 - Experienced with Both
* 🔵 - Experienced and want to be pinged to help others with the bot.

Pronouns

* 🟥 - She/Her
* 🟨 - They/Them
* 🟩 - He/Him
* 🟦 - Any
* 🟪 - Ask me

Adventure Guide Application

Interested in helping with the server?

Here is the form to apply to be an adventurer's guide. The questions just help us get an idea of your experience and are not disqualifiers for helping out with the server. This is a volunteer position.

Roles And What They Do

* guards: Function as the admins, making sure rules are being followed and help players with disputes or questions about the rules as well as handling tasks below.
* adventurer's guides: Are here to help the guards with approving character sheets and giving the traveler role, answering questions, and helping with pins in channels. They can also help with questions about running commands through Avrae. They are your guides to the other side!
* economy expert: Manages the economy. They help the guards with reward scaling, magic items ranking, and other things to make sure the economy doesn't break.
* Dragonspeaker: Manages aliases that have the footer "An Asharia Alias." Find an issue: tag 'em so they can fix it.
* traveler: Are players. Your job is to have fun and enjoy the server!
* monarch: These are the Monarchs. They are the crowd favorites of the server events, so it changes with every event.

### Announcements

The Announcement Channel is where we post new updates to the server and where avrae updates are posted.

### Meet The Staff

    Lee, Server Owner, Guard, Dragonspeaker
Username: ActualLee#4298

i'm lee, the infamous king bing bong. i've been playing dnd for 22 whole years but i'm not great at mechanics. it's always all gas, no breaks with me. will share recipes and animal pictures with you. if you've got any problems with anything, dm me. i'll do my best to help you out.

Stinna, Guard

Username: Stinaasaurusrex#8240

I’m Stinaa🦖! I love dinosaurs, dnd, digital art, and video games. I’m pretty easy going, or at least I think I am. I’m always down for RP or dungeon crawling too so find me. Bonus points if you can make me cry…I love emotional RP and story building. Feel free to tag me or message me whenever! Can’t wait to meet or play with you 💚

Devin, Guard

Username: Devintruelove#6123

My name is Devin, I'm probably the one who invited you here. Other than being Human Resources, I use my expensive pc and her screens to have 4-5 discord tabs open at once to work on content or monitor the server.  I'm not great with avrae so I mostly work on everything else. My DMs are open or just ping me to ask a question.

Kelso, Guard

Username: LordClappenCheeks#3535

Kelso or any of my handles LordClappenCheeks if you catch me on Tarkov, welcome to Asharia! Love unhinged roleplay perhaps a bit to much so I'm always down for some wacky encounters! I just kinda lurk around and give gold stars for great Rp and make sure people are being nice to eachother.  And urhhh.... Merica! Fuuuck yea!

Praxis, Guide

Praxis is a rules lawyer, but suffers edition confusion. It has played DnD since 2nd edition and you are correct to conclude that she is one of the oldest members of the server. He may be neurodivergent, so assume no offence is intended. This "about me" is a reference to Basketcase.

Craig, Guard, Economy Expert, Dragonspeaker

Username: Craig#1111

Dnd, reading, cooking/eating, working out. Just trying to stop the rest of the staff from breaking everything. I joke. sort of Area of expertise is 5e rules/game mechanics, as well as spending dozens of hours coding avrae automations to save 1 second of typing and having to do basic math myself; but feel free to message me about anything.

Kat/Nova, Guide

Username: KingBoba#8267

Hi kids do you like violence. My name is Kat or Nova. My pronouns are she/fae/faer. I'm way too deep and far in anime, cooking, way to much tik tok and YouTube, tokusatsu, kaijus, role-playing, dnd, cats, other things im not allowed to say, video games, cosplaying and Pokemon. If you see someone emote reacting to messages there is good chance im lurking for I enjoy reading the chats ❤️

Red/William, Guide

Username: redheadeagles#9021

Hello mortals, it is I Red, or William. I go by he/him. I enjoy gaming, anime, music, watching drama unfold, and other things I shouldn't say here

Hellion/Anthony, Guide

Username: HellionEnterprises#7451

I didn't forget to do one of these, you just never read it GREETINGS I am Hellion, or Anthony. You can also call me by any of my character's names, I don't mind. I accept all pronouns and if you are trying to get my attention feel free to ping me or reply with @on I like comfy rp but also deeply traumatic stuff and will always help people where I can, in and out of character I've been DMing for a little over 5 years now, but I am also very stupid, so if something I say sounds wrong, feel free to call me on it

BloodDrps, Guide

Username: BloodDrps#4054

Hello Everyone ^-^/ Nice to join the team! I'm typically around just a ping away, if ever in need of help or just want to talk hit me up! Got a few years as a dm but currently returning back to that mind set so apologies if I goof up😅

Tea, Guide

Username: teafly#9162

Hi I'm Tea and I like coffee. I play mostly sorcerers. I'm obsessed with Emily Dickinson, I have a dog name Pablo who cannot in fact paint, I love all Fey creatures except satyrs, and I also know some stuff about D&D. Message me whenever!

## Out Of Chat Channels

* Out of Chat general: For general chat.
* Out of Chat Art and Photos
* Memes and Tik-Toks
* Art commissions: For artists to post their art of the SFW Variety.
* General server questions
* Politics: This is an optional channel. Get access by getting the role for Politics.
* Community Suggestions
* Looking for group: Looking for an adventure or a friend? Post here with the Combat, Roleplay, and DM Adventure pings.

## Story and Start

### Storyline and Map

The country of Asharia is a humble country that is bordered between a huge ocean to the North, a calm ocean to the South, a stone wall to the East and forests to the West, the country of Asharia mainly lives off their engineering and woodcrafting in briarwood.

The country's landscape is beautiful; scented flowers, emerald forests and relaxing hot springs are just a sliver of the gorgeousness Asharia has to offer, which is why the country is treasured among newcomers.

The people of Asharia are tolerant towards foreigners and tend to welcome them with open arms. They feel new comers could advance the country's well being by bringing in new insight, new construction, and brand new ideas.

Asharia has mellow laws and law enforcement. The people are anxious due to impending wars, caused by remnants of a civil war. Currently, the country is ran by a council of locally elected officials from each city:

* Mayor Tildaren of Feayling
* Mayor Rohan of Briarwood
* Mayor Thenar of Aurora
* Mayor Shaesiara of Salem,
* Mayor Velarill of Highland
* Mayor Javen of Bohalro

The country's flag has three horizontal stripes in light gold, dark silver and light brown. Their coat of arms are two twigs surrounded by small stars.

Asharia and Elysium used to be one nation, but the capital was over taken by a hostile giant group only one year ago. With the capital, Midguard, taken, a rogue group of wizards were able to over take the east, creating the country of Elysium. It is speculated that they are the reason the Giants managed to to gain access inside of Midguard.

With the main access point between the lands taken over, Asharia erected a wall to separate the two areas to protect their people. Since ocean access is the only safe option, Asharia has been doing recon missions to get refugees out of Elysium back to the safety of their country until they can siege Midguard and save their people.

While life still continued for those in Elysium, many changes have occurred to their local governments due to being under the rule of Graves Barkridge. Barkridge has managed to stay in power because of his tyrannical ruling and false promises to the people, but many have started to doubt his power and are starting to push back regardless of the anti-Asharia propaganda that they have pushed out to their people.

The time to take back Elysium and unite the country is nigh.

#### Travel Hexes

* Briarwood to...
	+ Salem:  4 forest, 5 desert encounters
	+ Faeyling: 8 forest encounters
	+ Aurora: 6 forest encounter
* Faeyling to...
	+ Aurora: 2 forest, 8 beach encounters
	+ Bohalro: 3 plains, 6 mountain encounters
	+ Highland: 8 plains encounters
	+ Briarwood: 8 forest encounters
* highland to...
	+ Bohalro: 5 mountain encounters
	+ Faeyling: 8 plains encounters
* Bohalro to...
	+ Highland: 5 mountain encounters
	+ Faeyling:  3 plains, 6 mountain encounters
	+ Crescent Island: ? Ocean encounters.
	+ Salem: 9 ocean encounters
* Salem to...
	+ Bohalro: 14 ocean encounters
	+ Briarwood: 4 forest, 5 desert encounters
* aurora to...
	+ Faeyling: 2 forest, 8 beach encounters
	+ Briarwood: 6 forest encounter
* Access to Elysium is currently restricted.

### Character Creation And Approval

* DNDBeyond, Dicecloud, or Gsheets are allowed.
* All official races, classes, subclasses, backgrounds features, and background customization are permitted. Homebrew, playtest (UA), or other unofficial options are strictly prohibited. Blood hunter is the only Critical Role class currently approved. See pictures below for how to setup your sheet on DnDBeyond.
* Check out content-shares if you need access to more content and see if a link is available.
* New characters begin at level 3. You can change your character if you find you have messed up your build up to level 8. After 3 weeks on the server, you may make a second character.
* We use a custom array for Ability Scores: 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 9
* Characters begin with their standard starting equipment or gold as determined by class and background. Custom background gets 10gp to start, so add that manually.
* Alteration for RP/flavor purposes is permitted unless it carries mechanical or serious lore implications. This is commonly referred to as re-skinning.
* When finished, create a post incharacter-approval. The title will be the name of the character, and the message your import. This is done by using the command !import URLtoSheet where URLtoSheet is the sharable link to your character sheet. It should look something like !import https://ddb.ac/characters/70861131/EeAcPp. See pictures below for more information.
* Once the post is created, an @adventurer's guides or @guards will approve it and give you further instructions.

### Other Channels

* Starboard: React with a star emoji on RP you enjoyed to share it in this channel.
* Content Shares: Missing content? Someone else might have it here.
* Weather: Random weather is rolled every day.

## Bots and Characters Things

* Character Descriptions
* Character Level Up
	+ This is where you post level ups. Follow these instructions to level up:
		- Make sure the character is active by using !char <name> (ex: !char Shadow)
		- Level up your character on your sheet.
		- In this channel, type !lvlup
		- The bot will update your character automatically.

* Rolls and Rests for bot spam.
* Bot help and testing for bot spam that may not be part the game.
* Character death and Retirement. Post your character Deaths and Retirement in the appropriate thread to memorialize them.
	+ Name: @ yourself
	+ Description of how they died/What they are doing in retirement:
	+ Link to sheet:
* Downtime is where you can read up on the rules for crafting, permanent spells, and even fun mini games. For full information on downtime, Click Here.
* Dm'ed Adventures for running your own stories with rewards! Click here!
* Questboards
* Traveling Cat Cafe

## Cities Of the Country

* Briarwood
* Feayling
* Aurora
* Highland
* Bohalro Port
* Salem

Elysium is currently not completed, but the cities are as follows:

* Notren
* Grismby
* Evermere
* Markov's Reach
* The Golden City
* Midguard
* Asharia University

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