Roleplaying Tee-Two
RK-3-MM-52 was a member of the Rifleknights: a legion of automatons created by the Cielaterran Overseers’ Guild to keep the peace between people of the skies and defend against pirates and wyverns.
It was one of the third generation of these automatons, which were built with arcano-mechanically fashioned judgment cores. Intended to function with less direct oversight from the COG, this generation of Rifleknights quickly began “malfunctionin...
2025-01-21 22:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Roleplaying Volia
As an engineer for 213 years so far, Volia knows airships better than most people. Despite that experience and the reputation it brings, she still gets some push-back as an elf in a dwarf-dominated profession.
In her younger days as a dock mechanic, she’d tried to quietly let her work speak for itself, but that too often led to louder and prouder men overriding any of her input and ideas. Volia knew, however, that it should be more than pride...
2025-01-14 22:58:39 +0000 UTC
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Roleplaying Urrik
Urrik has the strong, silent charisma of a seasoned captain. He speaks little, knowing that makes his words carry more weight.
He inherited his captaincy by luck and quick thinking. When the ship he was on capsized in the air, sending its entire crew to the endless Cielaterran fall below, he was wearing a magical coat he’d won in a bet—the same one he wears now. It allowed him to Feather Fall himself, buying enough time to grab ...
2025-01-07 22:58:49 +0000 UTC
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The skyborne archipelago of Cielaterra is but a dream for many until they arrive. To live here, you need to master flight through magic, mechanics, or a trusty wingmount. The ever present threat of an infinite fall isn’t easy on your senses.
And if you do become an aeronaut skilled enough to navigate the skylands, then you’ll end up dealing with wyverns and pirates who believe the domain should be theirs.
Yet adventurers still explore the floating frontie...
2025-01-01 17:55:25 +0000 UTC
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Roleplaying Zarissi
Zarissi is curious and intelligent, looking to do the impossible: record every song and spell the Melorealm has ever known.
She believes music and magic are no different, and that “magic is quite simply what affects people.” Her approach to life and learning is bookish, contrary to the many denizens of the Melorealm who lead their lives with passionate emotion. She knows there are secrets to discover in the Melorealm for those who adventure...
2024-12-24 22:30:02 +0000 UTC
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Roleplaying Ellis
Honorable Ellis is a knight of the Harmonious Concord: a proud and passionate sect of knights and paladins who have pledged their lives to defending the Melorealm and the beauty they see in all things. She may as well be their zealous mascot.
She hails from a family of former nobles who abdicated their titles and fiefs on the material plane in pursuit of simpler lives, far from the politics and pettiness that surrounded their kingdom. She vaguely...
2024-12-17 21:19:28 +0000 UTC
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Roleplaying Carakor
Somber in demeanor and mute in voice, Carakor communicates with the grace of her rapier and the precision of her steps, like any good Bladeancer should.
Coming of age in the Melorealm without the ability to speak was difficult, but it’s what drew her to the art of Bladedancing and compelled her to excel. She expresses a compassion unlike any other in all she does, and lends her graceful blade to anyone in need of it—especially those on the ...
2024-12-10 22:51:22 +0000 UTC
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Roleplaying Corelle
Overly courageous, a little crude, and a bit conceited; Corelle believes she’s well along on her quest to become the Melorealm’s most famous bard of all time. She might be right.
Corelle’s talent for song and taste for hyperbole lead her to spin everything she does into a tale of adventure. She tends to get in over her head more often than not, believing her own autobiographical epics. But according to her, “you can’t tell what’s ou...
2024-12-03 20:34:54 +0000 UTC
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The bardic birthplace; the manifestation of music; the provenance of poetry; the upper plane known as the Melorealm is the origin of the Muses and the source of all song.
Those who have traveled to the Melorealm and back offer drastically different tales of what the plane is like, from a beautiful, euphonious heaven of angelic choruses to a dark, lonesome place of ghostly wails. Like lyrics, one’s perception of the Melorealm is shaped by their own disposition and experien...
2024-12-02 17:33:50 +0000 UTC
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Roleplaying Brynn
Adherent to the tenets of the Valkyr, Brynn is a stalwart defender of Cloudheim, its people, and all travelers who seek refuge there—as she once was.
Her home village was one of many in the region destroyed by ice giants, and were it not for the Valkyr who found her on her own quest for Cloudheim, she might not have made the journey. And although she’s now regarded as one of the bravest, wisest, and most compassionate among the Valkyr, it too...
2024-11-26 22:30:02 +0000 UTC
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Roleplaying Eleir
Eleir always knows a bit more than she lets on…except when it comes to her twin brother, Jomir, whom she happily puts in his place whenever the opportunity presents itself.
To most others in Cloudheim, Eleir Bottleheart is known as the kind and good-humored business partner of Elixitier Einrich Everelm, one of the city’s retired celebrity adventurers whose ego often obscures his skill. Nevertheless, she’s tolerant enough to put up with his ...
2024-11-19 22:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Roleplaying Sveida
Sveida is slow to speak, yet quick to act, listening with intent before expressing herself with deed sooner than word. She inherited that from the arbor giant tribe she grew up in.
She was found as a baby in the pine woods at the Mount Mammoth's base. And were she not recognized as having giant’s blood by her icy blue skin, the giants might have left her there.
That tribe of arbor giants, albeit kind to their own, practice nomadic isolat...
2024-11-12 23:20:14 +0000 UTC
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Roleplaying Jomir:
Loyal to his people and loud about his skill, Jomir Bottleheart grew up in Cloudheim, trained in archery by his mother. She's still the only person he's ever met who can shoot better than him.
Jomir knows he's from a city of extremely powerful people, and he likewise knows he's just as skilled as most of them. He withholds his respect for people that earn it by proving themselves to him. Typically, that means he wants to see someone fell an ice ...
2024-11-05 23:09:06 +0000 UTC
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A city shouldn’t be able to exist in the harsh, incessant winter of Mount Mammoth. Nevertheless, Cloudheim does.
Built with dwarven engineering, celestial enchanting, and druidic magic, the grand city of stone stands in spite of the intense regional elements that threaten to destroy it. But citizens of this city are familiar with danger.
Cloudheim was founded to be a sanctuary for anyone who would brave the journey to get to it. Over the centuries, the city...
2024-11-01 17:12:41 +0000 UTC
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Morning, folks! We are officially opening the Wayward Wonders Discord channel to even more people!
Starting now, the $9 tier will also have access to the secret #tenth-life-speakeasy channel in our Discord, where we give sneak peeks of MWT things in the works and talk all things Wayward. We're also working on more ways for people in that channel to help shape some of the content that comes out here.
And even if you're not a Wonderfuller subscriber, come ...
2024-10-31 15:49:22 +0000 UTC
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Akuzai wasn’t always a scroll. He wasn’t always that evil either.
The clever side of his ambition began to manifest centuries ago, when he was still a young gnome at the most renowned wizarding school on the prime material plane. He was eager for the rewards and recognition that came with being the college’s top student, but was humble enough to know that his magical capabilities fell short of receiving those marks.
He was also well aware that in the ei...
2024-10-29 21:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Lorenzo’s god turned him into a dragonborn.
Formerly human, he dedicated 80 years of his time on the material plane to meditation on Miyatatsu, the Weathered Scale—also known as the draconic god of time. To his surprise, the famously quiet deity spoke to him in a dream, telling Lorenzo his devout patience was needed elsewhere. He awoke in Latehaven with body and abilities anew, and much to the chagrin of Latehavenites, he was alive.
Avoiding extraplanar a...
2024-10-22 17:20:16 +0000 UTC
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Sakai died in the Battle of Sakai, which he named after himself.
Bandits attacked Sakai’s home village in the night, believing that the skilled warrior was not home. To their dismay, he was. He challenged them to follow through with their attack, and so they did. Although Sakai slew 23 bandits on his own and the people of the village were left unscathed, he succumbed to his wounds shortly after the battle.
Sakai’s skill in combat only grew in the afterlif...
2024-10-15 20:29:01 +0000 UTC
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Volpiko doesn’t know why she still exists.
There are some things she’s always known. She knows that she’s a spirit. She knows that she manifests in places and times that people need some sort of guidance. She knows that, each time she’s “reborn,” her memory starts over. She also knows she has never been anywhere for any longer than a decade.
But she manifested in Latehaven 258 years ago.
Volpiko quickly found the intended subject of...
2024-10-08 21:49:10 +0000 UTC
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Greetings, Tavern Patrons...today's the day!
The new, $3 Tier (Wondering) is available, which nets you the front of the current month's item cards!
And Annual Subscriptions are now available, offering a 15% discount for a year's upfront subscription!
And in case you missed it, 2024-10-03 15:33:59 +0000 UTC
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Muka died after she came to Latehaven.
She traveled to the afterlife to save her husband, Omir, who was swindled by a devil posing as a noble, promising a life of comfort for he and his wife should he come work for him.
As soon as she heard, she abandoned everything she owned, rushing to find someone willing to send her to the storied realm of Latehaven, ignoring people’s warnings that it’s only a paradise for the dead. Omir had been taken alive, after al...
2024-10-01 21:47:58 +0000 UTC
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You awaken to a pale, green sky.
You roll over—sorely—to sit up on an unfamiliar ground of blue-gray dirt. You struggle to focus your vision—a bleariness to your eyes you struggle to rub out. As your hands touch your face, something feels…off about them. Why are they so cold?
You manage to see a wooden post before you, nearly your waist in height. A scroll hangs nailed to it, facing you. You stumble towards it.
You touch the scroll, and you hear a voice in your...
2024-10-01 16:57:08 +0000 UTC
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Surprise, Wayward Wonderers, here's four new ancestries and a...Slibbert?
You might've noticed some of our characters come with unfamiliar backgrounds. To get specific,
Masques, the short-lived shapeshifters.
"Celestials," the golden-eyed seers.
Whiskerfolk, the quick-witted mouse people.
Slith, the super-fast, serpentine humanoids.
We've been holding out on 2024-09-30 20:58:19 +0000 UTC
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Nisk was trained as a cleric by a cult. That cult fractured.
Known as Kul-Gharoth’s Creed, the cult sought knowledge and artifacts of the old god for which they named themselves: Kul-Gharoth, Maker of Beasts and Forger of Scales.
Nisk was one of the dissenters of the Creed, believing the group was going too far in their quest for their titular god. The group that left called themselves Order of the Scale, not shying away from proving their convictions in ba...
2024-09-24 20:37:03 +0000 UTC
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Greetings, dearest patrons! We have some exciting announcements.
Let's get the biggest one out of the way first.
A new, $3 tier is coming in October
To put it plainly, we want to lower the bar to entry so more people can get to our content. Starting in October, the new Wondering tier will get access to the 20-item welcome pack and whatever the current month's items are. This will not affect the three higher tiers.
Below are the tier distinctions...
2024-09-20 17:02:23 +0000 UTC
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Aloria didn’t mean to destroy her village.
She was only 14 years old when it happened. A malicious gang of tamers—people of Flowcliff who live by subjugating beasts—rode in, demanding everything in the people’s possession. The small dragonborn village had no choice but to bow reluctantly, fearing for their lives. Aloria was furious at the injustice, and when she let her emotions burst from her, something in her changed. So too did the earth.
The groun...
2024-09-17 19:58:18 +0000 UTC
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Raxl’s fast.
His reflexive speed with his favored blade has saved his life countless times. His sharp tongue is usually what endangers him to begin with. His metaphorically sharp tongue, that is. His literally sharp tongue is just part of being slith.
Raxl was plainly lost in Meridia, the clifftop city central to Flowcliff, when he accosted a passerby for directions. Specifically, he said, “You! Yes, angry-looking dwarf. Where d—” before said stranger...
2024-09-10 20:54:50 +0000 UTC
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There are two things that send Olgur into a fit of rage: being thrashed off of a dinosaur he’s attempting to ride and being mistaken for a dwarf. Both happen regularly.
Hailing from a gnomish tribe of the northern Flowcliff plateau, Olgur set out to prove the strength of his people in a very literal sense. He left his fellow rock gnomes nearly 10 years ago with only his favorite morningstar and a furrowed brow—again, literally. He brought neither rations, equipment, nor...
2024-09-03 21:12:25 +0000 UTC
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It takes a skilled climber and expert survivalist to survive Flowcliff, where countless mile-high-and-wide rock faces are often characterized by enormous waterfalls atop them, whitewater rapids beneath them, and gargantuan reptilian creatures roaming about by land, air, and water.
Keen-eyed and steel-hearted travelers who brave the region can oft see ruins of an immense, overgrown aqueduct, supposedly created by an ancient people who had the means to morph the earth as they pleased.
...
2024-09-01 17:58:48 +0000 UTC
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Solierre wants to be the leader of the Coin’s Hand. They haven’t let her in yet.
Growing up in the whiskerfolk town of Mouston, the girl then called Sully yearned for something more than the tavern she would one day inherit. After a particularly inane request from a regular, she grabbed her trusty daggers and started walking to the place she had heard tales of her whole life: Loomside.
Taking on her full name, Solierre made her way to the mountain cities ...
2024-08-27 16:33:28 +0000 UTC
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