Isles of the Scattered Skies

Elders of the Rune speak of a time when the world was whole. Before the Roil and before the Isles. When there was solid ground beneath feet and empty sky above. They teach that the peoples of “What Came Before” used magic too frivolously and violently, that it caused the great storm, the Roil, and blew the world apart. The debris and detritus of this dead world is what became the Isles, flowing with carefully channeled magic to keep them from falling back down to their oblivion. 

It’s been millennia since What Came Before and there are still new islands beings found and discovered to this day. Some isles are grand and large, whole countries where, unless you had been told otherwise, you might never know of the Roil below. Others are just floating harbors, buildings lashed together and held aloft by runes and dreams. Past what other isles might be out there, there are the mysteries of what lies beyond the Heave, where the air is too thin to breathe, and what secrets hide in the Roil below. 

What Isles are known are run and maintained by a dozen noble houses and guilds known simply as the Houses. Between them there is vast power and resources in a world where it feels like the isles shrink inch by inch every year. The only way to cement your future is to work with these Houses. Barter for power and watch your back for those that would steal it.

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This work is compatible with the Cortex Prime role playing game system, designed by Cam Banks, edited by Amanda Valentine, and owned by Dire Wolf Digital ™©.