#titan dnd

[jawsandbones]

Players are currently trapped in a time loop, in the territory of a chaotic trickster, so they are currently watching each other die gruesomely in between playing funny carnival games that are run by mocking automatons while time passes erratically and likely differently to everywhere else, knowing that they forgot to inform their loved ones of the fact they were going to this area and are now unable to contact them due to the magical time fuckery.

[jawsandbones]

what did you do to that poor half elf and firbolg

I hope you have snacks!

Tzipporah is an NPC in the DnD Campaign I'm currently running (Titan!) and is a half-elf Drow from the underground city of Noise. Loam is played by my dear friend @rennybu, and is a Firbolg from the swamp based city of Tilden. Over the course of the campaign they've: gotten together, exchanged so many letters, gone on many dates, fell in love and recently got engaged. It has, however, not been without its challenges! There've been two major 'incidents', and uh, they might be going through a third at the moment. I love them both with all my heart.

Extremely long post, so I've put everything under a cut. I hope you enjoy!

The main antagonists of the campaign are from Noise (the Circle of Nine, or just the Circle). Tzipporah, by relations, was a part of this organization and they used the fact that he could blend in easily to send him to the surface. He was ordered to join the Four of Four, and act as a spy for them.

Tzipporah did, for a time, but his relationship with Loam changed things for him. He attempted to give Loam hints on what the Circle was planning, and tried to muddy the information he was giving back to the Circle. With him being less useful for them, they instead decided to use him as bait instead. While Tzip's half-brother, Vences, killed Loam (he got better) for distracting Tzip, other members of the Circle came for Tzip. He agreed to go with them, in exchange for leaving his teammates, his friends, unharmed. This is how most of the Four of Four, including Loam, found out he was a spy. (Talee was suspicious of him from very early on, and the confirmation led to a deeply victorious outburst of, "I knew it.")

The Circle took Tzip to the mostly empty, deeply cursed, and ravaged island of Demeter, and put a mask on him. This mask would allow their Titan to essentially assume control of Tzip's body. While his consciousness was 'sleeping', the Titan of Noise, Faith, could rummage through his knowledge and work his body into dust, essentially. Since this process is known and expected to hollow out a person, Tzipporah's warlock pact with Faith was broken at the same time - Faith essentially putting him in the recycling bin.

Loam, his team (fondly nicknamed LQH), and other members of the Four of Four mounted a rescue. They trekked through Demeter, and down into its depths to find him. They managed to subdue 'him' (as Faith was fighting them through him) and Loam removed the mask, saving him. This is how Tzip got his facial scars. As his body was driven around for months without sleep, he got one good look at Loam, smiled, and passed out in his arms. That's when Vences and other members of the Circle revealed themselves, expressing their disappointment that Tzip wasn't dead, and promptly began trying to 'kill' them (this is when Talee lost her arm).

The Circle wanted them boxed in enough to make a deal, so that they could get their hands on an item they had in their possession. After securing a deal for said item, the Circle allowed them to leave Demeter.

In the weeks spent sailing back, Tzipporah was mostly asleep the entire time. Odd Caster, his bff, watched over him during the day and Loam would watch over him during the night. When Tzip woke up, on Loam's shift, they got to have a very long and emotional talk, and reaffirm their love for each other. Tzipporah got to give him the full truth of his pretty horrific upbringing and show him the now defunct pact mark (a deep Void handprint on his back). Loam also got to cut and remove the threads that were sewn into Tzip's back in a large X, which were punishments he had received when he was in Noise. And they had their first kiss! Hooray!

They arranged for Tzip to be able to stay in the well-defended magical tower of a wizard they're close with, whenever he's not with them. While they had a period of relative normalcy, Tzip and Loam got to spend a substantial amount of time together. This includes re-doing their first date in a more open way, and sneaking away from a ball held in the Four of Four's honour.

As things started to pick up again, they learned of intense False Wisp activity in multiple different cities, at the same time. The Four of Four went to different cities, to see if they could help halt that activity. LQH went to Talee's city of Quietus first, and while there, they had reason to call in Tzipporah. They were traversing the Infinite Library, searching for a way to repair the damage done to it by the Circle. They were also acquiring information there, and they quickly realized that their information was coming from Tzipporah's deceased mother. They wanted to involve him, so he didn't have to hear it all second-hand. They were also facing some members of the Circle who had a direct hand in raising him, including Kiri, who was the one to stitch the X into his back. After, they helped the Wide Smile vanquish the False Wisp, A Reap of Faithful.

Tzipporah then went to help his former team of Four of Four in the Widow's Wood while LQH went to Ilsa's city of Zilpah. They spent some time there, recovering pieces of the Silence and protecting the Titan from the False Wisp, Singing Reaper. While they were doing that, Tzipporah and T3 managed to push the False Wisp back and then went to back up T1 in Impius. LQH managed to come to an agreement/alliance with a member of the Circle, Tivee - who is one of the people from Noise fond of Tzip, and he is fond of her. While they were beginning to talk, she wanted assurances from Tzipporah, which is when Loam discovered that he couldn't get in contact with him. He did have something precious that Tzip had given him, which was enough to allow Tivee to put her trust in them. Immediately after, they quickly put together that no one was able to get in contact with T1 or T3 either.

They eventually got news that Impius was encased in a sand storm that no one was able to cross, cutting off the city from the rest of Winyul. LQH went there, and were able to cross the storm through their dabbling/familiarity with Void-related magic. Inside Impius, they learned that the Titan, Gatekeeper, was dead and the False Wisp which devoured it, The Harvester, was dormant and becoming ??? Something. All of the people of Impius were also in a sort of stasis. They also found T1, T3, and Tzipporah! He and Loam had a good teary eyed reunion hug.

After they fought their way to the mechanic keeping Impius encased and shutting it down, they left the city and the changing False Wisp in the hands of the Scarabae leadership. Everything seemed to calm down after that, which opened up a substantial amount of time for Tzip and Loam to spend together - from dates in Dina and Vagari, to traveling through Tilden's bog together, and meeting Loam's parents! Tzip also proposed to Loam during this time, with rings that could transmit the beat of each other's heartbeat. A few more dates and then LQH was off to Themis!

Themis is their current predicament. Themis is a location which wasn't shown on any maps, with mentions being far and few between, and they had to work to ferret out a way to get there, the only route being through a singular person, Valda, a Direction in the Quarter Cities. Themis is the 'base of operations' for Ercilia, Winyul's trickster war-criminal divination-using nightmare. LQH had a few run ins with Ercilia, learned really close up about a couple of her war-crimes (including being the reason Demeter is as fucked as it is), and don't like her very much. They were teleported to Themis and the moment they arrived, one of the first things they notice was the day-night cycle being extremely fast, as though whole days were passing in seconds. This change in 'time' was also in Loam's ring - with individual heartbeats being replaced by a steady and constant thrum.

This was also when Loam realized he'd forgotten to give Tzip a heads up that they were heading for Themis before they left (although Tzip knew what was in their plans). They ticked off a bunch of methods of communication and found that they were not working at all. They had to work through most of Themis without knowing what was going on outside, and if the accelerated time was real or not.

During a safer time, Loam decided to try Dream - which is kind of their thing. When travelling as separate Four of Four, they spent time together in Dream, and it was a source of strength for Tzip during his time in Demeter, which they of course kept up after. This time, Loam got to experience time-lag/time catching up, where he was in Dream every time Tzip was asleep. Loam couldn't really move, slowed down to an incredible degree, while Tzip was flashing around him through the different nights, over months. Seven - to be exact - discovered when they finally opened up their little letter bags for the first time and a whole bunch fell out, informing them of things happening in their absence.

Ercilia, being a bit of a right cunt, allowed them Dream and Letters only once, before cutting off those methods of communication for them. So they're traversing through this nightmare carnival labyrinth with no idea of how much actual time of passing, no way to find out, and Loam's ring is stillll going! After getting to the final area, finding Ercilia at last, she had a lot of fun telling them that they're just in time before counting down from 5. At the end of the countdown, Loam felt his ring go suddenly completely still and silent. <3

[jawsandbones]

Deeply entertaining when you have an NPC say something completely out of pocket to the party that stuns them so badly all they can do is just sit there like

[jawsandbones]

When fuckshit is happening to the party in game and the party asks me to clarify that fuckshit is indeed happening to them

[jawsandbones]

okay, wait, I'm so interested in your "no player revivify spells" rule. Would you be willing to elaborate on your house ruling for that???

I would love to, thank you so much for asking!

It's 99% because of story reasons, 1% because I feel that deaths are fairly meaningless when they can be immediately undone.

In my homebrew world, Winyul, there are no gods but entities called Titans. They are the manifestations of wants, desires, hopes, memories, experiences, knowledge, and thoughts. Titans form around a community, be it a city, a mercenary band, even between lovers. The prime Titans are those who oversee the entirety of a region and all other Titans in that region are considered part of that prime Titan. [I have a bit more information on Titans in my little packets - link!]

The Titans are the arbiters of life and death on Winyul. There are no spells of resurrection that have ever worked, as no magic can find the threads of the person lost. Upon death, souls are weaved into their respective Titans, their pattern becoming a part of the Titan itself. To resurrect someone, their pattern must be ripped out of the Titan.

The Titan which holds the persons pattern, their soul, must be sought out and pleaded with, in the hopes that they might ravage their own weave. Resurrection has always been historically rare, invoked only in times of great need. Typically, those pleading on behalf of a resurrection will give up magical items to the Titan. That magical energy helps a Titan repair the damage being done by tearing out the soul. During the False Wisp crisis now, the Four of Four are the only ones the Titans have been resurrecting.

Resurrection also comes with its own risk. The more death one experiences, the tighter ones soul is stitched into the Titan. Multiple deaths and resurrections risks leaving behind threads that could not be undone. This means that, past a certain point, those being resurrected begin to forget things - as their memory, those threads, have been left behind in the Titan. It can work the other way as well, where some threads which don't belong come along during the resurrection. Die and be resurrected often enough, and eventually you're going to end up an entirely different person.

It's led to some amazing moments in campaign - from Adra, Ilsa, and Talee kneeling for hours in the snow over Loam's body begging for his resurrection, to the playful ribbing of having to haul Ilsa's corpse up a ladder which took eight hours to fully climb. The current death count in campaign is Ilsa leading with three deaths, Loam in second with two, Talee with one, and Adra still untouched by death (not for my lack of trying huhu).

Thank you again for asking! If you have any more questions, don't hesitate, love thinking and talking about Winyul. Cheers!

[jawsandbones]

Titan: The Four of Four

Introduction (Start Here)| The Quarter Cities | Scarabae | The Four of Four

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What is Titan? Titan is my Homebrew DnD 5e Campaign. Everything in it is built from the ground up by myself.

Winyul. The main continent is composed of Scarabae in the West, the Widow’s Wood in the North West and the Quarter Cities in the East. Geest is an island nation.

This Primer. I’ll be imparting all important knowledge of cities and key players in the campaign, so you can have a good understanding of things once I start adding stories from the campaign into the mix. If it inspires you, heck, I’d be thrilled if it helps you have your own campaign in Winyul.

Special Note. Please check out @rennybu for all the wonderful artwork that they do for the campaign, and in particular, the piece they graciously allowed me to use for this packet.

Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy! Titan is my pride and joy and I’m thrilled to be able to share with you.

[jawsandbones]

Hi :) gotta know. where did Filimina get her nickname from????

HELLO!!!

Miss Filimina grew up in Tilden, close to the Witch Bog and by consequence spent a lot of time in it.

She had a friend who she grew up with that would follow her into any of her adventures, or misadventures. Despite whatever trouble they came across, or fell into while in the Bog, she would always get them out.

He would tell her that she was too tough to get rid of, like a weed. Her nickname comes from one of the hardiest plants in the Bog, and at first it was just a name between them.

They eventually grew up and got engaged, but on one of their adventures in the Bog, he died. She left Tilden after that, feeling too much like it was her fault, and began only introducing herself as Geb.

[jawsandbones]

Thank you @twiddletaffy for making all my dreams come true and doing this for me. Loam (@rennybu) and Tzipporah (ye humble NPC) on a midnight snack run to Walmart. Scoop.