Survival Horror Collides with High Fantasy in this D&D Campaign
Last Updated 7/2024
A malignant plague spreads unabated across the continent of Elidir.
Millions of afflicted have perished to The Red Scale, but death is not the worst outcome.
Some are cursed to rise up from their sickbeds, transformed into frothing, mindless husks bent on destruction.
Elidir is a realm on the brink.
Will you fight against the mounting cataclysm?
Introducing Shadow Over Elidir
Enter a world of darkness and light, death and beauty, bravery and corruption.
Our campaign takes place on the continent of Elidir, five years into The Red Scale Epidemic, a seemingly unstoppable blight caused by a strange disease with a high mortality rate that also transforms some unlucky souls into horrifying, bloodthirsty abominations.
Elidir is an expansive realm with multiple distinct cultures, regions, and biomes — and we’re putting it all into a downloadable, interactive Azgaar Fantasy Map to make your DM life even easier.
Our setting features a stark contrast of natural beauty and downtrodden, dystopian communities scourged by an unchecked epidemic and struggling to persist in the face of apocalyptic entropy. Similar to Europe during the Black Death, roughly fifty percent of the humanoid population has perished. There are now as many abandoned ghost towns as populated areas. This situation has brought about a great deal of suffering, but also a great deal of greed and profiteering.
And the worst opportunists of all are the bloodbrokers.
The populace of Elidir lives in fear of both the virulent Red Scale disease and the monsters it creates.
The only cure? Dragon blood. A substance that grows increasingly more rare as dragons and drakes have become hunted to near-extinction.
Corruption, crime, and vigilantism run rampant. The gap between affluent members of society and the poverty-stricken masses grows wider every day. Outside major cities, refugee camps have sprung up, filled with hungry, displaced people. Many believe the gods have abandoned them.
Heroes are few and far between in this world, and most don’t survive long.
Selfless, intrepid souls are needed now more than ever.
Death lurks in the shadows…
The word of Elidir was dangerous before the plague, and has only become more perilous. Brigands, cutthroats, and slavers roam the wilds and ambush unsuspecting parties on the road. Fey creatures skulk in the forests, swamps, and fens while horrors beyond imagination stalk in the shadows.
Will your party survive long enough to discover the cause of this otherworldly curse on the land?
“It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills, and empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after. Ends life, kills laughter.”
Coming 2025
Update: Due to multiple projects in the pipeline, this campaign setting and adventure has been pushed to 2025. However, we’re still working on it and very excited to launch next year, after we wrap up Six Ways to Doomsday and Alice in Wünderland.
