Legend of the Archons
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Introduction
Legends. Folktales. Myths. Gilgamesh, Odysseus, Heracles, Roland, El Cid, King Arthur, Grutte Pier, Sinbad the Sailor. These are names and stories that have captured the imaginations of humanity for centuries. Every legend has a beginning, and many hold a kernel of truth, either historically or with regards to insights about human nature or society. In Legend of the Archons, you will discover and create many more legends. Men and women live in a world where Fate plays an active hand, though most can barely feel its caressing, guiding hand in their lives for its own inscrutable purposes. Some, however, play a more active part in the drama of history, and Fate seeks them out and fills their path with dangers, rewards and most importantly, with choices that will shape their own Fate as well as that of the world about them. They are marked out for great and terrible things, and their deeds for good and ill are told and retold for generations to come. These men and women are living Legends, vessels of Fate itself. Welcome to the world of Legend of the Archons.
Legend of the Archons is a stand-alone heroic fantasy roleplaying game set in a world somewhat similar to (yet very different from) Renaissance Europe following the Thirty Years War. This is a land across which armies have battled incessantly for a generation of men, and which is finally getting a chance to catch its breath - yet where continent-wide war could spark again at any time. This is a land in which religion plays a major role, where matters of faith may also be matters of life and death.
The system used in Legend of the Archons is based on and reimagined from the brillaint and justifiably award-winning Spirit of the Century game system from Evil Hat Productions, which is itself a heavily revised version of the acclaimed FATE roleplaying game. Unlike Spirit of the Century, Legend of the Archons is intended for ongoing campaigns though it is also easy to utilize for pickup games as well. Characters can be made quickly, and gameplay is structured so that the game is necessarily focused on the players and their characters. This is not a game about sitting back and looking at how cool the gameworld is (though it is cool), it is a game where the ongoing saga of the game will be inherently built around showcasing your character - not just how cool the character is, but how the character's actions mold the Fate of the world around him - actions have meaning, and players' choices will have consequences both personal and epic.
Setting
Dramatis Loci - An overview of Occida and places in which your legends might be set.
Peoples of Occida - An overview of the sentient denizens of Occida.
Dramatis Personae - A few characters existing in the setting, waiting for use in your Legends. Perhaps they might be potential mentors, allies or enemies.
Cosmology - An overview of how the universe of Legend of the Archons is laid out, and how the Otherworlds touch upon one another and the World.
The Thrice Three Principles - An overview of magical philosophy.
Religion - The religions of Occida and its surroundings
Languages - A listing of langauges spoken in and about Occida.
System
Legend SRD - System Resource Document
Character Creation
Aspects
Resolution
Skills
Edges
Magic
Devices & Artifacts
NPCs
Play aids
Online Game - The Prophet's Gambit
This wiki is also home to a repository of information for an online game of Legend of the Archons that is at least partially a playtest.
The Forum - That's right, it's a forum-based play-by-post game. Check it out! (Coming Soon!)
Legends - Player characters in the online game (Coming Soon!)
Each character will soon have their own page, but they have not yet been constructed.
What's New?
- Added a new character to the Dramatis Personae. 12/31/2009 HC
- Added some more (and more detail to) a few Dramatis Personae. 12/23/2009 HC
- Tweaked a few items on the Keys page, and added the new Key of Venom. 10/26/2009 HC
- Fixed the stress tracks for those characters that have their information up on their respective Legends pages and added information on characters' Keys to the Quick Reference page. 10/20/2009 HC
- Created the Legends Quick Reference page for the forum-based game. Linked it to the Legends page. 10/6/2009 HC
- Added the (previously and embarrassingly omitted) chase rules to the Running page. 9/29/2009 HC
- Added a bit more flavor text to the Dramatis Personae page. 9/24/2009 HC
- Added The Key of the Savage, The Key of the Pariah and the Key of the Conqueror to the Keys page. Also modified the Key of Bloodlust. 9/21/2009 HC
- Added further details on Sentierism to the Religion page. 8/20/2009 HC
- Added the Key of Autumn to the Keys page. 8/14/2009 HC
- Added new edges to the Occult and Survival skills on edges2. Also cleared up a slight error on edges1. 8/9/2009 HC
- Edited the Eimhir page 8/9/09 Eimhir
- Added new edges for Magic and Occult. 6/28/2009
- A few more tweaks to the Devices page. 6/23/2009 HC
- Began the process of tweaking the Devices page to fit the in-game time period more closely. 6/22/2009 HC
- Updated the companions and minions rules, and then moved them to the newly created NPCs page. Also added a considerable number of new edges to Edges pages 1 & 2 and edited the existing Riding edges. 6/19/2009 HC
- A collection of minor updates to the Cosmology and Religion pages, presaging things to come. Also posted a new picture of Gottfried the Lost to the Personae page. 6/12/2009 HC
- Created character pages for all remaining characters from the online game that have names so far and linked them to the Legends page. Also a further clarification on when players can spend their banked advances was added to the SRD. 6/4/2009 HC
- Finally expunged all references to "stunts" from the entire wiki, since our system uses the term "edges" for this mechanic, and gave similar treatment to most instances of "gadget" becoming "device." 6/2/2009 HC
- Added the Key of Deduction to the Keys page. Hooray for forum discussions! Also updated the rules for companions on the Resolution page. 6/1/2009 HC
- Still more (and more extensive) updates to the Keys page. Obsessed, much? 5/30/2009 HC
- Combined the Keys of Dogma and the Zealot. Also added a while slew of Keys including four (Chivalry, Exploration, Faith and the Sea) that were proposed on the forum. 5/29/2009 HC
- Added reference to the species Keys to the Peoples page, and added the Key of the Zealot and Key of Hatred to the Keys page. 5/28/2009 HC
- Massive updates on the Keys page. 5/26/2009 HC
- Added additional headings to the Keys page, in preparation for the new Keys I'm working on. 5/25/2009 HC
- Added further details on magic-users in society, withcraft and the Archons to the Thrice Three page. Also tweaked the SRD section on Companions for formatting reasons. 5/19/2009 HC
- Updated the Siofra page. 5/18/2009 Sonstress.
- Added details on the Yenisarii, the Colossi and the Sanctum to the Religions page, and added the name of the online game The Prophet's Gambit to this page. 5/15/2009 HC
- Created the Siofra page. 5/12/2009 Songstress
- Added the Uhlrik page and linked it to Legends. 5/12/2009
- Added the new pages to the sidebar and did some minor formatting work on Devices. 5/9/2009 HC
- Added details on the Mad Doge to Personae. 5/7/2009 PPayne
- Added more details to Personae - now all characters referenced there have at least a little bit of explanation. Also added a little more detail to Loci. 5/7/2009 HC
- Added a sample default page layout for the Legends pages - template is here. 5/6/2009 HC
- Updated the Personae page quite a bit. 5/5& 5/6/2009 HC
- Added the Play Aids page and put the Character Story Worksheet up on it. 5/3/2009 HC
- Prettied up the wiki with the new logo and color scheme, and gave the forum similar treatment. Also created the Legends page. 5/2/2009 HC
- Added the Devices and Artifacts page as well as a large amount of text, though it is in dire need of editing to better fit the time period. Also added a few slight tweaks to the main SRD page. 5/1/2009 HC
- Clarified some text in the Magic page and added a couple of magic-related Edges to the Edges page, of all places. Also added a list of those PCs for the first game that have been named, peparatory to making pages for them. 4/30/2009 HC
- Added a couple of notes to the Cosmology page, and a link to the brand-spanking-new forum. 4/29/2009 HC
- Added the Online Game section to this page, and added descriptions to the links here to various other pages as well. 4/23/2009 HC
- Added Principle glyphs to ThriceThree and organized the Languages page a little bit more as well. 4/21/2009 HC
- A brief Introduction added to FrontPage. 4/20/2009 HC
- A few general updates to Loci, Religion, Cosmology and Peoples. 3/31/2009 HC
- A little bit of clarification was added to the character creation section on LoASRD. 2/26/2009 HC
- Descriptions of species aspects and a little bit of other detail were added to the Peoples page. 2/26/2009
- Slight adjustments to Languages, Loci and a bit more work on Peoples to account for all of that languistic stuff. This stuff's not nearly done though. 1/20/2009 HC
- Added the Languages page and added a few ethnic details to the Peoples page, plus tweaked Loci a great deal more to reflect new information! 1/19/2009 HC
- Yet more updates to Peoples and a bit more details on a couple of the lands on the Dramatis Loci page. Also, happy new year! 12/31/2008 HC
- Further updates to the Peoples page. 12/29/2008 HC
- I've finally begun writing descriptions for the various species on the Peoples page. 12/22/2008 HC
- Updated the Magic section slightly, adding more details on the Magic skill. 12/17/2008 HC
- Tweaked a couple of the Principle descriptions on the ThriceThree page. 12/4/2008 HC
- Conflict resolution (specifically stress and consequences) were modified on SRDresolution. 12/3/08 HC
- Expanded concept descriptions on LoASRD. 12/2/2008 HC
- All nine Principles now have a writeup on the ThriceThree page. 12/1/2008 HC
- More work on magic in particular, but other stuff as well 11/28/2008 HC
- I've started inputting the SRD. 9/28/2008 HC
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