For more than a thousand years, the continent of Revea was united under the prosperous rule of the Alidan emperors. However, fifty years ago, when Alidan Nevus took the throne, a reign of tyranny began. The young emperor abused and exploited his people, using the accursed Anathema to keep the population in line and crush any who would rise against him. So great was Nevus’ hubris that he even challenged gods, believing himself to be their better.

But his evil ways were not meant to last, for the Heroes arose all over Revea to challenge the tyrant, each wielding Divine Relics and leading a whole army against the hordes of Anathema which did the emperor’s bidding. There were 8 heroes:



After bloody struggle which lasted over many years, Heroes finally broke Nevus’ armies and forced him to wall himself within the Eternal City, the empire’s capital. Alas, Heroes were robbed of their final triumph, for the mad tyrant, loath to admit defeat, destroyed himself together with the city, cursing the lands for miles around it.

With Alidan Nevus defeated peace that many have given lives for did not return to Revea. With their common enemy gone Heroes turned to each other, carving their own countries out of the empire, waging series of ever escalating wars with ambition to one day become the new emperors of the entire continent.

There are three major gods in Revea, but they are not part of the same pantheon. Instead each is its own religion and their followers only begrudgingly accept (or not all) any god besides their own as a true divine being. Below are only their names and some attributes associated with each god (because exact views differ from region to region).

Kilin- Sun, Light, Justice, Wrath, Valour, Eternal Curse
Worshipers of Kilin are referred to as “Kilians”. Most of Revean countries are Kilian.

Meya- Moon, Luck, Change, Knowledge, Cunning, Madness
Worshipers of Meya call themselves “Meyans” but everyone else calls them “the Others” because the religion is not originally from Revea. Today Meya is worshipped only in the Celestial Empire.

Rusvaatti- Earth, Spirits, Primeval Force, Joy, Fertility, Entropy
Rusvaatti is worshiped only by Fay. It is unknown if Fay are Fay because they worship Rusvaatti or they worship Rusvaatti because they are Fay.

These are the things that people in Revea will often mention completely certain that you'll know what they're talking about.

Language
The way language works in Revea is very simple- all followers of one god are able to fully understand each other without actually bothering to learn other person's language. Pay attention, this doesn't mean that they speak one language! There are dozens of different languages, but between leaving your mouth and entering the other person's ear, the words you speak are magically translated to the listener's mother tongue.

This works only for spoken words, written texts remain the language they are written in. Fortunately for worshipers of Kilin a script was developed during the days of the first Alidan emperors made out of symbols which represent concepts, so despite words sounding different in another language when pronounced the meaning of the written text will be understood. The Celestial Empire uses a letter-per-sound script while Fay don't write at all!

Normally, when speaking with worshipers of other gods you hear their words as they are meant to sound, so you'll have to learn their language, but for some reason you are able to understand and be understood by everyone so every religion thinks you are one of theirs!

Money
Money is simple in this world: 1 gold = 12 silver = 240 copper. Now, different countries have different names for each type of coin, but the Heroes didn't change much how coinage works from how it was during the Alidan Empire so the coins have more or less the same worth throughout Revea.

Fay
Worshipers of the god Rusvaatti, Fay inhabit forests of Revea. They are not governed by the same laws as mortals- they cannot die a natural death, they are not born like mortals, they have strange way of interacting with their environments through contracts and they all possess some kind of supernatural bane. Because of their mysterious nature Fay often do things which seem nonsensical or downright suicidal. It is impossible to reason with them because their reasoning and common sense is different than that of the mortal folk. This has created a lot of tension between Fay and mortals, and since the demise of the Alidan Empire these tensions are only increasing, escalating to outright war in the
Confederation of Marath.

Anathema
Once upon a time, before there was even the Alidan Empire, there existed a mortal tribe which rebelled against Kilian and even attempted to kill the god. For this crime they were cursed and banished to live in the frozen land to the east (since then named the Savage Lands) forever the outcasts. During the reign of the emperor Nevus Anathema returned to the heartland of Revea, and stories of their atrocities are told to this day. Fortunately, with the tyrant gone they were again cast out of the civilised lands.

Adventurers
Adventurer is anyone registered at the Adventurer Guild who does various quests provided by the Guild. That’s the simple definition, but today, after the Guild’s network of Guild Halls has been greatly damaged by war against Nevus and the subsequent wars between the Heroes, anyone who wanders between towns doing odd jobs, monster and treasure hunting will be called an adventurer

Monsters
Just like with the adventurers, there’s a simple definition for what a monster is, and then there’s reality. Monsters are all animals that are capable of using magic- that’s the simple part. However, depending on how it’s convenient to a person, he may even label sentient beings such as dragons, Fay and Anathema as “monsters”.

Dungeons
Dungeons are magic-filled places put in the world by the gods as a test to see who is worthy of wielding the Divine Relics (see below). Dungeons are usually filled with myriad of monsters and traps which strive to thwart and even kill any would-be explorer who dares to trespass in it. Still, the lure of owning (or selling) a Divine Relic is too great of a temptation for most adventurers, not to mention that there is other treasure besides the Relics, so every day a new party tries to test its skill and often fails and perishes.

Divine Relics
Items made (or at least blessed) by gods. They hold abilities of incredible might that make the one who wields them without peer, not counting other Divine Relic owners. Holders of the Divine Relics are also made immune to natural death, allowing them to live for hundreds of years. Strange thing about the Divine Relics is that you are not required to worship the god who made it in order to use its full power. Divine Relics are found at the deepest (or highest) parts of a dungeon.

Exploration Quest: Citrouille Dungeon
Difficulty: Easy
Rewards: Depends on you, likely low
Known for critters which occasionally creep out of its depths and steal fruits, vegetables and sometimes cattle of the hardworking farmers in Verzales’ surroundings, Citrouille dungeon is, at a glance, just a simple cave. It’s plain entrance, a simple hole in a hillside, shows no sign that there’s anything magical about the place, and the monsters you can see on the first level appear more like your regular animals than actual monsters.

In part, this is because the Divine Relic of Citrouille dungeon is already taken, making the place lose its magical fuel, but it is also because the cave is often visited by starting adventurers who wish to train. Exploring this dungeon is relatively safe experience and only utter buffoon would manage to get himself seriously injured or killed here.

Escort Quest: To the Rousilon, And Further Beyond! (maybe)
Difficulty: Medium
Rewards: 10 Counts (copper) to Rousilon, positive reputation with merchants
Merchant Dolei is looking for a few good men to escort his wagon to the town at the edge of Yar-agna. Because there is not much danger expected on the road the pay is relatively small, but if he is satisfied with you he might offer you to escort him further, at which point you can negotiate for a better reward.

Merchant Guild of Verzales has quite a lot of influence among the nobility of the Draconic Kingdom and even outside the country, so having good relations with it is something a lot of people desire- you never know when you’ll need its wide web of connections.

Bounty Hunter Quest: The Warmag’s Band
Difficulty: Hard
Rewards: 10 Counts (copper), any loot you find
Although Yar-agna is considered a safe region, from time to time a bandit group would appear thinking that they will find people unaccustomed to danger and thus easily robbed. This is not entirely wrong, but while peasants and merchants may be unused to danger, the City Watch certainly isn’t such a pushover to let any bandit group hang around for too long and wreck too much havoc.

Still, as of yet, the Warmag’s Band has yet to do anything more serious than a road shakedown. There have been no murders or large property damage, so the City Watch is content with just putting up a bounty on Warmag’s head.

Messenger Quest: Charlotte’s Willing To Help
Difficulty: Medium
Rewards: 5 Counts (copper), positive reputation with the Ognien family
Somewhat aware of your situation, Charlotte’s noblesse oblige does not allow her to simply dump you after entering Verzales. She decided to give you a simple job to earn some starting money. You need to deliver her message to another person of the Ognien family who is already in the capital. That’s it. There’s a catch, however.

You see, Ognien family is very old Dragonborn family, descendant of the fire attribute dragon Ognien, and they have a lot of enemies. There will probably be individuals and organizations that would try and steal the message from you (dead or alive) or simply offer to buy it off of you. Work hard and don't disappoint Charlotte’s good intentions!

Exploration Quest: Qaizan Dungeon
Difficulty: Medium
Reward: Depends on you
In the main square of the Qaizan district of Yazai, located right before the gates leading to the courtyard of the High Temple of Meya, is a teleportation circle. This circle leads to the first of a series of structures hovering high above Yazai. They are all together called the “Qaizan Dungeon”, after the name of the temple district, and each structure is actually one dungeon floor. You can see first few floors from Yazai, but the dungeon goes so high up it is impossible to count their exact number.

Qaizan Dungeon is a favourite of the local adventurers: it is located right within the city so you can easily replenish supplies and sell loot, it has not been fully explored so there’s always possibility of acquiring great riches, and lastly, its Divine Relic has yet to be reached.

Extermination Quest: Sewer Pest Removal
Difficulty: Hard
Reward: Any items found on the corpses of the previous groups sent, 10 Yin (copper)
Down in the sewers some creature has made its home. The Council of Public Health is in a pinch because the few groups sent to deal with it have yet to come back, but the Black Helmed Guardians find the task of dealing with sewer vermin to be beneath them, so a call for any adventurers or people who feel that way has been sent out.

Yazai sewers are a labyrinth of tunnels stretching for miles beneath the city and nobody really knows all pathways and how deep it goes. Fortunately, most of the sewer system necessary for the City to work is close to the surface and all important tunnels are mapped, so there should be no danger of getting lost. Probably.

Gangsta Quest: Neck Deep in S***
Difficulty: Medium
Reward: Opportunity to become a member of Palepi Imps (and maybe even their leader)
A small time gang from Megdan district that bit off more than it can chew is now looking for help against its competitors. Originally bunch of homeless kids from Omari slums who thought of making it big in the arena district, Palepi Imps have pissed every already established gang in Megdan simply by existing. If they were good at diplomacy they might’ve been able to play various rivals against each other, but instead they managed to get them united in desire to crush the cocky upstarts.

Megdan district is the location of Yazai’s largest arena. The district is chuck full of the arena veterans who can’t fight there anymore due to age or wounds, and young punks who were refused access to the arena for various reasons, so it is a perfect place for strong and violent people to gather and form gangs.

Real Estate Quest: The Exorcist
Difficulty: Hard
Reward: An apartment
One of the better apartment buildings in Xixia district has become haunted by ghosts. More precisely, one of their apartments is, but the fear of the ghosts spreading out further has already made a lot of residents leave. The owner has offered to let anyone who exorcises the ghost take the haunted apartment as his own, free of charge. This has already created numerous corpses so more and more people opt not to take the offer.

Xixia is the central district of Yazai. It is located on both shores of Feng Qi straight. On its eastern shore is the Royal Palace, but the larger western part is home to many businesses, such as elite craftsmen, luxurious inns, expensive shops etc. Suffice to say that getting an apartment here is definitely not cheap.

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Character Concept: Small child with big guardian who doesn't know what's going on
Name: Eri
Gender: Male
Race: Human

Background: Eri does not remember much of his old life at all. All he really remembers is waking up with no memory in a hospital, then the hospital going up in a large gas explosion soon afterwards. He had memories for a grand total of 5 seconds so obviously when the option appeared he accepted without hesitation.

Level 2
Class: Vessel(of the Dunk Lord)
Attributes: Focus

Gift: Eri's Gift is the Basketball of the Fallen Dunk Lord. It allows him to summon the Fallen Dunk Lord, the only Dunk Lord remaining after the Overlord's purge. The Dunk Lord has lost much of his power making him merely a Dunk Adept. Since it was proven that his Dunks were not absolute but he still retained the will to live after his defeat, he was able to reincarnate into a weaker form if his Basketball were to be picked up by a vessel. It also imposes on him another weakness, if his vessel were to die, then he will not be able to manifest, and he will be trapped inside his own Basketball until another vessel picks it up.

Equipment: Basketball of the Fallen Dunk Lord

Character Concept: Guardian Dunk Lord
Title(name for Dunk Lords): Fallen Dunk Lord
Gender: Dunk Lord

THE LEGEND OF THE DUNK LORDS: The Dunk Lords were born in times long past. So long that none remember them, save for the Dunk Lords themselves. They looked like normal humans except much stronger, faster, and they were functionally immortal. They each had a special possession, each Dunk Lord was said to hold a basketball which would never leave their hands until the time of their deaths, in a grand ritual known as the Space Jam. Two Dunk Lords battle head to head on the basketball court of the Dunk Overlords to claim superiority over the other Dunk Lord.

The Dunk Lords used to only die in the Space Jam, as the Space Jam is the ultimate test of a Dunk Lord's dunking skill. Each Dunk Lord is meant to be the ultimate Dunker, if they ever come to a realization that they will never be the supreme, their existence loses meaning and they fade from reality. It rarely ever happened as the limits of the Dunk Lords had never been felt. None of the Dunk Lords felt that they would never be able to surpass another Dunk Lord and so the Space Jam continued for all eternity, until one day the Dunk Overlord appeared.

He was far greater than any other Dunk Lord before him, each step shook the Space Jam, each dunk turned the hoop into dust. Now they could feel their limits, and the Dunk Lords defeated by him began to disappear. Many came to challenge him but none succeeded, and soon enough even Dunk Lords who did not challenge him began to disappear as they realized there could be no one that could match him.

At last, there was only one last challenger. But unlike the rest, there was no doubt in his heart that the Dunk Overlord could be defeated. Even as the Dunk Overlord scored point after point, the final Dunk Lord did not give up hope. The siren rang out, signalling his defeat, and even then he held onto his hope. A part of him felt the despair that reached the rest of his people, but his heart refused to surrender. Regardless, he knew that he would die anyway, and he tossed away his Basketball to signal the end of his life. But his heart lived on inside the Basketball, and the one to receive it would be able to resurrect him, and begin a legend anew.

Level: Dunk
Class: Dunk Adept
Race: Dunk Lord
Attribute: Force

Martial Arts: Dunk Arts - The Dunk Arts are the fighting style of the Dunk Lords. It uses the movements of both the Basketball and themselves in order to confuse and overwhelm enemy defences, then uses raw power to deliver a devastating finisher. A Dunk Lord's techniques do not scale with level as their level will always be Dunk. But instead it scales with their class, the lowest being a Dunk Trainee, and the highest being a Dunk Lord. A Dunk Trainee is only fit to battle on a basketball court, and only the Dunk Lords are permitted to take part in a Space Jam. There are however, no more Dunk Trainees or Dunk Lords. Now there is only a Dunk Overlord and the Fallen Dunk Lord.

Adept Dunk: The most basic ability of the Dunk Lords at Adept Level. The Dunker leaps into the air and slams down their Basketball with explosive impact. To achieve the title of Dunk Trainee, you must at least be able to break the basketball ring and still deliver the dunk to the ground. At Adept level you must be able to break it 5 times over. It is unknown at what level the Dunk Overlord's dunk is, but it would at least be more than 1 million times over, as that is the level of a Dunk Lord.

Adept Dribble: The dribble is a symbolically important technique. It represents the Dunk Lord being free from the restrictions of logic, and their journey to rise into the air to become a part of the Space Jam. It is said that the Basketball never leaves the Dunkmaster, but it clearly does so during the dribble. The dribble in fact shows that the statement is more philosophical than literal. The ball leaves the Dunk Lord's hands but it will always return, so in away the Ball will never leave their hands even if they are thrown. They will never be separated from the ball until despair claims their lives and they cease to be. At an Adept level the Dribble cannot be stopped by any kind of terrain and can even be carried out on top of lava. Its intense footwork can confuse foes as they cannot tell where the ball will be. However, that function becomes pointless against a smart enemy, as they will realized all the Dunk Lord will do is dunk.

Right of the Fallen Dunk Lord: Each Dunk Lord has a unique ability over other Dunk Lords. Otherwise the Space Jam would purely be a contest of skill and the Dunk Lord who simply trains the most would win. An interesting thing to note is that the ball of the Dunk Lords will teleport back to their hands if the ball leaves the court. Some Dunk Lords have variations on this, some had their ball fly back to their hands creating many stylish turnarounds in the Space Jam. The Fallen Dunk Lord has the same sort of ability, but he could also move himself to the Basketball. Combined with Dunk Lord level dribbling techniques, not even the greatest of the Dunk Lords could defeat him easily. However, the Dunk Overlord easily saw through all of his techniques in their battle and cast them down as if they were nothing. If he seeks another battle with the Dunk Overlord, he will have to find something else to defeat him.

Unlike his other abilities this one stays at full effectiveness as it was since his days as a Dunk Trainee.

Equipment: Basketball of the Fallen Dunk Lord