Age Of Worms Campaign Overview

Our story begins in the year 1001YK focusing on four unique residents of a small mining town called Diamond Lake. Not born in the area, nor with strong ties to the town, the four heroes will grab any opportunity for a better life, for a higher destiny, for adventure.

Diamond Lake is situated on the Dagger river in Breland, northwest of Sharn and connected by a trade road to moon watch. On a clear day you can see the towers of Sharn in the distance, right above the lower docks of the town. Three times a week barges arrive at the docks, carrying off ore to be processed in the foundries of the city of towers. Up on the cliffs beside the town is the lake which gives the town its name, some say that tunnels at its bottom lead all the way down to the Dagger river itself.

The mines which are the livelihood of the town run down into the cliffs beside the river, and have been worked for almost a hundred years now. Nobody really knows who lived here ages ago, but there are quite a few ruins and burial cairns in the wilderness around the town.

Almost six years ago, at the end of the great war, a mercenary unit of Valenar elves employed by Breland packed its encampment near the town and left. That is, nearly all of them left. One of the unit's leaders, a revered warrior called Karriyen son of Nilashan. Karriyen fell in love with a local elf maiden and decided to build a home with her here. Remaining with their master were two elven brothers called Thaelas and Anovil who've lived here ever since, honing their skills.

About a year ago, despite much rumbling, the halfling cleric Martin Sherman a.k.a Chubby, was dispatched to the house Jorasco center in Diamond Lake. Resenting the quiet boring town, Chubby soon developed a bond with Thaelas and Anovil, like him strangers in the town.

Half a year ago while training on the shores of the lake, the brothers noticed a floating body. Quickly rushing to pull the man out they discovered an elf, naked and unconscious. The brothers rushed him to Chubby who nursed him for two weeks until he finally awoke. But he awoke with no memory but a name, Lick?, and the mark of shadow glimmering on his back.

Thankful to his rescuers, Lick acclimated to the quiet town. But between all of them the unease grew, the feeling that a tedious industrial wasn't for the likes of them, not when an unknown past and a glorious future may be around the corner...