The Plane of Portent

The Plane of Portent, or "Mon Ogusp" in the Goblin tongue, is the southern part of the world of Archia. This planet is home to many beings; the noble Humans, the proud Orcs, the war-like Centaurs, the brutish Ogres, the reclusive Nerubians, the envious Beast Men, amongst many other sentient, civilized creatures. The Draenei, a humanoid race from another planet, have also made their temporary dwelling here - drawn to their presence came extradimensional demonic legions, who already have a strong hold over various parts of the world, to the misfortune of every living being who comes across them. Various unnatural, wretched races, who serve ancient, evil deities seeking to destroy all life on Archia, also have seen an increasing presence in certain regions.The Plane of Portent itself had seen many expeditions from the Northern Coalition, an alliance with members from several Human confederations, Dwarven kingdoms, Orcish clans, Naga empires, Draconian unions and Draenei societies. These expeditions have a two-fold purpose - aside from harvesting local resources, they are there to establish large societies which are to serve as the main line of defense against any threats coming from the south.This project had seen mixed results over the 125 years that it existed for. While it certainly provided more than adequate resources for the Coalition, internal demoralization and outside, unaccounted for influences have taken their hold over most of the groups sent to this region, resulting in in-fighting amongst the various races compromising them.While the Naga and Orcish groups have dealt with their own issues rather well, the Draenei, Draconian and Dwarven members find themselves dealing with military threats from the local Ogre and Troll empires, and the Human factions have been mostly destroyed from the inside - several of them have converted into demon-worshipping cults, even gaining unnatural features from the fel energies, whereas others yet are slowly starting the descent into it.In particular, the Crazy Realms still have small pockets of uncorrupted survivors trying to hold out against their former brethren, and the Confederations of Gladness have begun worshipping a dark creature as their master - one that isn't demonic, but nonetheless it is a physical manifestation of negative energy that is influencing the actions of the Confederation.This particular story starts in one of the hamlets of the Confederation, Rismuinnah, or "Tallchanneled" in our language. A conspiracy has been planned by the local government, the Councils of Flame, in order to finally depose the fallen pride, the tyrannical Elbens Jackalsneaks, who fooled the Confederation into believing she was one of their deities. A young man by the name of Olith Axeshatter, trained from birth to be the one to slay the pretender, has just been assigned his final, and most dangerous, series of training exercises.Wheter he succeeds or not, we don't know yet, dear reader. Make no mistake - there's no such thing as the legendary "chosen one" in this world. Should Olith fail, it is an inevitability that another will eventually pick up where he left off...OOC: So, this is something I haven't tried before; sorry if the writing isn't that great, but I figured we didn't have this type of thread in a while - the ones that I'm aware of don't seem to be active anymore, and I guess having lots of mods in might put a slightly different spin on it.I'll mostly be playing this "legit" - I'll do my best not to screw up and die, but if it does happen, we'll just make another adventurer in another part of the world, which could give some type of different narrative perspective, and I'll eventually do voting processes whenever we come across any decisions to make. I also won't do any attribute/skill boosting outside of whatever interaction knowledge we might come across, so no DFhack witchcraft or grinding.I'll start the adventure for real tomorrow, 'cause I'm writing this at 2am, so stay tuned. I'll be using my personal modding projects, if enough people get interested I'll do a full release, it's something I wanted to do for a while now.