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Arcanis is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons game, created and supported by Paradigm Concepts. A campaign setting is usually a Fictional world which serves as a setting for a Role-playing game or Wargame campaign Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a Fantasy Role-playing game (RPG originally designed by Paradigm Concepts, Inc is a small-press game publishing company located in Concord New Hampshire. It is also the name of the fictional world where the setting takes place. A fictional universe is a self-consistent fictional setting with unique background elements such as an imaginary history or geography and possibly fantasy or science The setting was launched in 2001 and is known for its odd twists on the fantasy genre, as well as its wide member approval and community-based design and construction. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting

Arcanis is set on the continent of Onara, where a crumbling Coryani Empire (reminiscent of the Western Roman Empire) struggles with newly created nations such as Milandir (reminiscent of the Holy Roman Empire) or Canceri (reminiscent of Russia during the Middle Ages and the Balkans). A continent is one of several large Landmasses on Earth. They are generally identified by Convention rather than any strict criteria with seven regions The Western Roman Empire refers to the western half of the Roman Empire, from its division by Diocletian in 285 the other half of the Roman Empire was the Eastern The Holy Roman Empire ( HRE; German Heiliges Römisches Reich (HRR, Latin Sacrum Romanum Imperium (SRI was a union of territories in Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending

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Races of Arcanis

The playable Races in Arcanis differ from the traditional races in other Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings. Arcanis is a Campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons game created and supported by Paradigm Concepts. Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a Fantasy Role-playing game (RPG originally designed by A campaign setting is usually a Fictional world which serves as a setting for a Role-playing game or Wargame campaign There are seven primary races: Dark-kin (infernally tainted), Dwarves (cursed Giants), Elorii (basically Elves, but with some significant differences), Gnomes (offspring of a human and a dwarf), Humans, Ss'ressen (there are two tribes [or "clutches"] that are playable, Black Talon and Ashen Hide), and Val (touched by the gods, there are many different bloodlines). Other playable races exist, such as half-orcs and half-hobgoblins, but their numbers are far smaller than the primary races. Notably, halflings are NOT a playable race.

Dark-Kin

Dark-kin are those born with demonic traits. They are usually born from human parents, and rarely sire Dark-kin children. Dark-kin are the results of a period of Onara's history called the Time of Terror, when Demons, Devils, and other Infernals controlled much of the known world.

Dwarves

Giants were assigned the task of protecting mankind. The Mythology and Legends of many different Cultures include monsters of human appearance but prodigious size and strength When they began to lord over man, the king of the gods, Illiir cursed the giants, diminishing them into dwarves. In the Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy Roleplaying game, dwarves are a humanoid race, one of the primary races available The key to lifting the curse of the Dwarves is to craft the perfect item. The Dwarves are divided into different groups, called Enclaves. Unlike other humanoids on Onara dwarves do not face the judgment of Nier, nor do their souls return to Beltine's cauldron. NIER or Nier can refer to National Institute Economic Review, a British economics journal Alfred O Beltane is the anglicized spelling of Bealtaine ( or Bealltainn ( the Gaelic names for either the month of May or the festival that takes place on Each Dwarf carries with him a gem, known as Soul Stone. Upon death a Dwarf's soul enters his soul stone.

Elorii

Elves in Arcanis are called Elorii. In the Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy Role-playing game, elves are a fictional humanoid race that are one of the primary Made of the traditional Greek elements: Fire, Water, Air, and Earth, the Elorii are immortal. Many ancient philosophies used a set of archetypal classical "elements" to explain patterns in Nature. Fire is the heat and light energy released during a Chemical reaction, in particular a combustion reaction. Water is a common Chemical substance that is essential for the survival of all known forms of Life. Temperature and layers The temperature of the Earth's atmosphere varies with altitude the mathematical relationship between temperature and altitude varies among five EARTH was a short-lived Japanese vocal trio which released 6 singles and 1 album between 2000 and 2001 Elorii are divided into different subraces based on their elemental ancestry, adding another subrace, Life Elorii or Ardekenes.

The Elorii were created by four very powerful elementals in conjunction with a "life spirit" called Belisarda. They originally imbued a dead orc with this power, giving Elorii fangs. These elemental spirits were worshipped by the Elorii as gods; they despise humanity because four of the human gods "absorbed" the four Elemental Lords, leaving only Belisarda. They eventually rebelled against their creators.

Gnomes

Gnomes in Arcanis are ugly, short half-breeds. In the Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy Role-playing game, gnomes are one of the core races available for play as Player characters. These Gnomes are not an independent race, but are considered an 'aberration' race, resulting from the unholy breeding between Dwarves and Humans. Gnomes in Arcanis are disgustingly deformed, as the curse applied to dwarves applies equally to the stature of their offspring.

Humans

Humans mirror the traditional Dungeons & Dragons human. Humans are a race available for Player characters in the Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy Roleplaying game. Most of humanity are latecomers to the continent of Onara (where most of the current story takes place), but at least one group, the Pengik, predate the Ss'regorean Empire, who have the oldest recorded history.

Ss'ressen

Ss'ressen are lizard-men and a major component of the Ssethregoran Empire. This empire consists of many races, many of them serpentine such as Naga and Ssanu snake-men (who replaced the Yuan-ti after the later were removed from the Open Gaming License content). In the Dungeons & Dragons Role-playing game, nagas comprise a variety of similar species of intelligent aberrations with widely differing The yuan-ti are a fictional species of monstrous humanoid snake -people in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons and also in The Open Game License (or OGL) is an Open content license designed for Role-playing games It was published by Wizards of the Coast in 2000 to The Ssethregorans are the oldest civilized group on the continent of Onara and at one point had conquered most of it. They are well known for their strange magics and were responsible for the creation of the Elorii. Originally, they worshiped the gods Kassegore and Yig, but with the rise of the Naga to a ruling position, they now worship vile gods known as the Varn. (Originally, they worshiped slaadi, but with the removal of these beings from the Open Gaming License content, Paradigm Concepts was forced to change this. The Open Game License (or OGL) is an Open content license designed for Role-playing games It was published by Wizards of the Coast in 2000 to )

The Black Talon ss'ressen rebelled against the Ssethregoran Empire and fled. They had come to worship a god known as Fire Drake. They live in a swampy area of the nation of Milandir. The Ashen Hide ss'ressen broke off from the Black Talons, deciding that Fire Drake was actually the human god of fire and war, Nier. The Ashen Hide Clutch now resides in the nation of Canceri.

Val

Val were created during the God War as the elite warriors of the Gods and thereafter, as the caretakers of Mankind. VAL is a type of automatic rubber-tired People mover technology based on an invention by Professor Robert Gabillard ( Université Lille Nord de France In their stead, every god sent his servants, the Valinor, to mingle with the populace, and create a semi-divine family capable of aiding mankind. Valinor (meaning Land of the Valar) is a Fictional location from J Every Val has a bloodline, which is tied to a specific god; they are gifted with divine powers which they may improve; these are related to their bloodline. For example, val'Ossan are tied to Yarris, god of the sea, and can gain Bloodline Powers such as walking on water and controlling sea creatures.

Val are also the only psionic race in Arcanis. Val always have steel grey eyes, unless they are psioncally active; in psions, the iris turns clear, leaving the eye almost entirely white.

Nations of Arcanis

The nations of Arcanis are mostly human affairs, all related to the First Imperium that fell thousands of years ago; most of these are ruled by the Val. The human nations are:

The three Elorii Nations are:

The Dwarven Enclaves are:

There are two major enclaves of S'sressen (outside of the Ssethregorean Empire), one of which is an offshoot of the other:

The other races are mostly outcasts and wanderers, though occasionally small racial enclaves arise in larger cities, rather than maintaining organized civilizations.

Religion in Arcanis

The Deities of Arcanis are sectioned off into different pantheons. The main pantheon is the Pantheon of Man, of which human gods reside. Human beings, humans or man (Origin 1590–1600 L homō man OL hemō the earthly one (see Humus See also List of deities A deity is a Postulated Preternatural or Supernatural Being, who is always Other pantheons such as the Pantheon of the Elves, are broken, or destroyed leaving only one or no gods behind.

In Arcanis, "true" gods are unconcerned with petty mortal morality, so have no alignment as gods in other settings do; only churches have alignment, depending on what aspects of a god they worship. The Pantheon of Man, for example, does not have alignment, but the Sethregoran Varn Gods do.

The foundation of the pantheon are three brother gods: Illiir, the Patron God of Emperors and Order, Sun God and Head of the Pantheon; Yarris, God of the Sea; and Neroth, God of Death. A tutelary spirit or patron deity serves as the guardian of or an entity to watch over and protect a particular site person culture or nation Further, three Goddesses are their sisters and in some cases consorts: Saluwé, Goddess of the Earth, consort of Illiir; Beltine, Goddess of the Soul, wife of Neroth; and Anshar, Goddess of Pain and Suffering. The children of Illiir and Saluwé are Hurrian, God of Storms and Honorable Combat, the Reluctant Warrior, Nier, God of Fire, War and Slaughter, and Larissa, Oracle of the Gods and (more recently) Goddess of Pleasure. The child of Neroth and Beltine is Cadic, the God of Shadows, Murder, and Music. Larissa and Cadic have a son named Sarish, God of Oaths and Binding of Demons. There is reference to Althares, God of Knowledge, Invention, and Artifice, as being the "Grand Uncle of Sarish," but exactly where he fits into the divine family tree is unclear.

Schisms

The Mother Church of the Pantheon of Man once held all the gods in equal worship, until a schism occurred which drove followers of Neroth, Sarish and Nier to form an independent church, the Dark Triumvirate in Canceri. The Mother Church and the Dark Triumvirate differ in several ways, primarily in that the Dark Triumvirate approves of activities the Mother Church fears: the creation of Undead and the summoning of demons and devils for the most part.

The Ss'ressen and Ss'regorean Gods

The Fire Dragon is the god worshipped by the Black Talon ss'ressen. The Ashen Hide split off from this group, believing that Fire Dragon was actually the human god, Nier.

The Ss'regorean Empire once worshipped the gods Kassegore and Yig. With the ascension of the Naga to a ruling position in the Empire, they have begun to worship a pantheon known as the Varn.

The Elorii Pantheon

The Elorii follow the Elemental Lords which created them, despite the destruction of four of them. The remaining Elemental Lord, the life spirit Belisarda, was believed to have been destroyed by The Other (or Umor, as the Elorii knew him), until the arrival of a Prophet who claimed this was not true.

Elorii Heresy

Recently a common movement among Elorii has been the practice of identifying elemental lords with one of the human gods that supposedly absorbed those elemental lords powers. For instance, some Elorii followers of the Lord of Air consider Hurrian, the Storm Lord in the Pantheon of Man, to be their God. To other Elorii this seems to be heresy and is considered to be so, although the Mother Church (and the Dark Triumvirate in the case of Nier) has little or no issues for Elorii who choose this path.

Myrantian Gods

The ancient Myrantian Hegemony had its own pantheon of gods, although much information about them has been lost to the ages. The Mother Church of Coryan considers worship of the Myrantian deities heresy, but allows the worship of traditional Pantheon of Man deities under the names of Myrantian gods. The Myrantian Pantheon seems primarily based on the Ancient Egyptian pantheon, though not entirely. Tzizhet is considered a combination of Sarish and Neroth. Shu is a god of storms, considered the same as Hurrian.

Factions and secret societies

The setting also has secret societies, factions that have beliefs and goals that can either aid, or impede the mission of players in other cases. Each faction varies in its goal, as well as how secret each faction is.

Living Arcanis

Living Arcanis is the name of the Living Campaigns set in the Arcanis setting. Living Campaigns are part Marketing tool part volunteer Campaign settings, which allow people all over the world to play Role-playing games in a It is run by PCI which hosts major events at some of the larger game conventions, such as GenCon and particularly Origins Game Fair. Gen Con is the one of the largest Despite a recent lawsuit from Lucasfilm and filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on February 15, Origins Game Fair is one of North America 's most prominent annual gaming conventions second in size only to Gen Con. Also, Living Arcanis is played at smaller regional conventions throughout the world, many of which host special events, as well as by players at home.

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