YUMPU TEST SPREAD

there. Hey
you're reading this then you're either one of my players
If
someone who found this on Reddit or wherever. If you're
or
former then you can just skip ahead, if you're the latter
the
some context might be in order.
then
put together this document to be a more impressive and
I
presented version of a previous setting document I
better
for a dungeons and dragons fifth edition in... 2017, I
made
Lemme check.
think.
July 2017. I made it for a campaign I started
Yeah,
then. At the time of writing this paragraph, July
running
it's still ongoing (although about to end). It was a
2019,
fun time, for me at least, and I got a lot of really fond
great
out of it. The lore in this document, the original
memories
and connective tissue, built up over that time.
stuff
main reason I'm giving this context is because... I
The
People can be weird.
dunno.
goal of this document and the headcanon I had for
The
setting was to produce a coherent and largely
the
universe to play tabletop games in. In a
comprehensive
you can skip over plot details and just not
videogame
questions. Tabletop games make that much harder.
answer
such there had to be more connective tissue, and since
As
the kidn of DM that over-prepares that meant that there
I'm
to be a lot of connective tissue.
had
possible I've stayed close to canon. I've used
Whenever
names, characters and places whenever possible,
canon
haven't omitted or changed many major canon events-
and
is not, for example, comparable to the Hyrule
this
setting where iconic elements are taken and
Conquest
to create a largely original universe (although I did
used
a lot of elements from Undying Nephalim's wonderful
steal
because the man is a genius in many ways).
ideas
original ideas were needed I've tried to stick
Whenever
things which were at least implied or which didn't take
to
leaps in logic (... mostly). For those "original" ideas (in
vast
throbbing quotation marks) the main sources of
big
have probably been Dragon Age (specifically the
inspiration
Hyrule Conquest (most predominantly the darknuts),
Fade),
honestly Warhammer Fantasy (I like big ol' wars and
and
where everyone dies. They're fun.)
battles
this goes against your headcanon... sorry, I suppose. I
If
some popular theories I liked and dumped ones I
picked
Termina isn't an afterlife, etc. Hopefully you can still
didn't-
it. enjoy
I'm not an artist and none of the art in here is
Oh!
I made this without saving artist names so I'll try
original.
source what I can when I'm done. If you see something
and
yours you want me to take out, tell me.
of
enjoy the thing.
Anyway,
Welcome to Hyrule!
Or more realistically welcome to the
document.
Prior

year is 1554, the one hundredth year of the Age of Twilight, the second age of the Shaded Era, the fifth era of man. The
The
of Light reigns as king regent of Hyrule, the first and greatest of the world’s kingdoms. Yet though his rule is just the
Hero
is far from at peace. It is a time of change and uncertainty. Since the beginning of the last age, the Age of Men, the
world
kingdoms have been fractured and contentious. National lines have been drawn and redrawn in anger, and even Hyrule
mortal
has been wounded by these wars of greed and pride. Worse still, the last hundred years have seen the return of that
herself
grave of threats. From beyond the veil of the world, arcane dangers have returned from their aeons of exile and sealing.
most
has fallen twice in two generations to the forces of darkness, recovering only through the strength of great men.
Hyrule
the people may spend their days as they always have, those with the knowledge are aware of how precarious the
Though
ancient terrors rise up, ancient secrets are brought to bear against them. When wrathful men march to take what is not
When
bright hearts stand in serried lines. For every torch that splutters and dies, a new light is born in the dark. Sometimes
theirs,
lights are pale candles only just holding out against the shadows, and other times they burn blinding white, a
these
flare that scythes back the dark and roars its crackling laughter at the night which seeks to send it scurrying.
phosphorescent
the coming years will bring the last twilight of Hyrule, or maybe its new sunrise is just over the horizon, waiting to
Perhaps
dawn.
world's peace is.
But there is always hope.

The Nature of Things
Being a quick summation of the reality of the world today.

is the centre of the world, the greatest kingdom of mortals. It is a feudal kingdom and an absolute monarchy, ruled by a
Hyrule
It was founded approximately one and a half millennia ago, and since then has endured countless disasters and
queen.
untold glories.
achieved
the jewel of the world, Hyrule is the favoured land of the Goddesses, and by all means the home of civilisation. Hyrule is
As
and its queen is also the head of its religion, which venerates three high deities known as the Golden Goddesses,
theocratic,
Nayru and Farore, three impossibly powerful and distant deities of creation and preservation. Below those three are the
Din,
who is the fourth goddess, Hylia. Level with the queen are three other deities- the Great Deku Tree who is the patron
queen,
of humanity, the Infernal Dragon who is the patron of the gorons, and the Prime Leviathan who is the patron of the zora,
deity
of which are beings of great power who reside in and on the mortal world. From this solid bedrock of faith a government
all
stable and strong, at least on its face, against the troubles which the world brings.
springs,
eight hundred miles from north to south, Hyrule has a temporate climate with weather which varies quite strongly
Around
its four seasons. Most of its landscape is farmland, with the remainder being forests. Mines dot its hills. It has a
through
of around twenty million, of whom around ten percent live in its cities. In the north the country is warmer and
population
until it eventually reaches the Snowpeak and Eldin mountain ranges, and in the south the country becomes cooler and
rockier
until it borders the Faron woods. Its east coast is dominated by the Lanayru sea, which brings rain and trade, and on its
wetter
the country is hemmed in by the gerudo desert and the area known as the green frontier.
west
largest city of Hyrule is Acre Nova, its capital since the destruction of the old Castle Town in the Nihil War. Tolemac,
The
Akkala and Kakariko are also major cities, each the seat of power of a major duke or duchess who wields power
Necluda,
continent Hyrule sits on is generally known as Deis, and comprises the entirety of what is conventionally considered to be
The
known world.
the
north of the continent merges with the great mountain ranges of the Eldin volcanoes, snowpeak mountains and Tal Tal
The
The east borders the vast and uncrossable World Sea, through which one must pass to reach the distant colonies of
heights.
and Labrynna. The south is hedged by the seemingly infinite Faron Woods, a forest so vast it passes into the land
Holodrum
winter never ends and which no man has found the edge. The west ends in the areas known as the Green Frontier and
where
Desert, the very edge of where Hyrulean civilisation expanded to in its early golden era. The centre of the continent is
Gerudo
by the Lanayru Sea, a great inland body of saltwater plyed endlessly by the world’s traders.
dominated
and a half millennia ago Deis was the heartland of a vast empire known as the Empire of Faron, or the human empire.
Two
hundred years ago Hyrule ruled over all the kingdoms of Deis, and its nations were provinces in its magnificent realm.
Three
those days are past Hyrule remains the most powerful kingdom on the continent, but now Deis is a fractured land of
Although
fighting and trading with one another. This is the reality of the time.
nations
the world needs a name it is called Hlofa, generally considered to be a corruption of the goron word for blood. Beyond
When
the world is largely a mystery, with modern records being scant to non-existent and imperial records being lost and
Deis
As such most of any map of Hlofa is based on second hand accounts, hypothetical suppositions, and outright
corrupted.
falsehoods.
include lands like the Xin (a rich and powerful empire in the distant north about which little is known, worshipping
These
Golden Goddesses like Hyrule but holding their own emperor as another deific figure) the Yind kingdoms of the far west
the
only for the fact that they trade wth Hyrule across the gerudo desert, exchanging spices and dyes for glass and iron.
(known
are said to revere Farore alone of the Golden Sisters, but hold a multitude of lesser gods) and the Transvin kingdoms (a
They
assembly of perpetually warring minor states on the far side of the desert, about whom little is known to be constant)
motley
and a half millennia ago the Faron Empire ruled much of the world, but was brought low by an invasion of demons
Two
also crippled the Xin and Yind. This was a dark time known as the Great Invasion, and has dictated much of the history
which
follow it.
to
The Nature of the Land
The Kingdom- Hyrule
second only to the Queen.
The Continent- Deis
The World- Hlofa

is a land of significant variety, especially amongst its
Hyrule
populations. From the zora, a short-lived race of
intelligent
humanoids to the gorons, biologically immortal
piscine
behemoths, there is, at first glance, little rhyme or
stone
to the peoples who inhabit Hyrule. Some are
reason
and equal across all of the kingdom- to kill them
respected
murder, to rob them is theft- and others are considered
is
of the land and all that is good- to kill them is war,
enemies
as stated there are a great many sentient species in
Though
the vast majority of its people are of species listed
Hyrule
live in Hyrule’s lakes and rivers, and have their own
They
in the frozen mountains. They have shorter
country
have their own country in the volcanic regions north
They
Hyrule. They live for many centuries, and have no
of
exactly like normal humans from other worlds, and
look
generally considered practical if slow. Human as a term
are
also refer collectively to all true humans, sheikah,
can
and gerudo.
hylians
Hylians are very similar to true humans, but longer
•
and with pointed ears. Most Hyrulian nobles- and
lived
most of the population of Hyrule- are hylians,
indeed
they are less common in other countries
although
aren’t many sheikah in Hyrule, in the order of a few
There
They speak their own secret language and have a
thousand.
and are generally disliked in Hyrule. They have
humans
own nation to the west. A gerudo whose blood has
their
diluted from interbreeding with other types of
become
in their ancestry is instead known as a hegrud.
human
to the nomadic bulblin and the towering
miniblin
They are widely despised all over the world.
megablin.
• Zola or river zora are aquatic crocodilian people prone
raiding merchant shipping up and down Hyrule’s
to
and off its shores. They are generally
waterways
in Hyrule, and have a particularly vicious
unwelcome
with the zola, who they despise above all others.
emnity
Alifos are reptilian humanoids divided into two main
•
There are the militant alifos- a group of violent,
groups.
creatures which includes the dinolfos, geru,
nasty
and sordes races- and the peaceful alifos- a
rampholeon
obssessed with their way of life, whatever that may
people
which includes the industrious zuna, the subterranean
be,
and the hedonistic tokay. Peaceful alifos are
subrosians,
welcome in Hyrule, but militant ones are not.
usually
They make their normal home in the depths of
disposition.
desert, in thirteen vast stone citadels beyond the lands
the
the gerudo. They have a rigid code of warfare, with those
of
break these rules becoming the exiled Goriya
who
Watarara are avian humanoids distantly derived from
•
zora. They are very rare in Hyrule, except for once a
the
when they arrrive as a great migratory flock tens of
year
strong.
thousands
Undead, particularly those who retain their
•
are exceptionally uncommon in Hyrule. They
intelligence,
distrusted, and generally encouraged to finish whatever
are
brought them into existence as quickly as possible
business
Oocca, Picori and Kokiri are also found in Hyrule,
Maku,
in extremely small numbers or secluded from daily life.
but
most of Hyrule the peoples of the world can be divided
To
into civilised and non-civilised. Mostly. A civilised
neatly
is one with a Domus, a single individual who rules
species
their people with the authority of the crown, as
over
by the queen. Any manner of behaviour is
appointed
from a Domus by law, but a cruel or corrupt
permitted
would swiftly find their title rescinded.
Domus
species with a Domus can generally expect to be
A
well and fairly in Hyrule, with a few exceptions.
treated
without a Domus are generally considered savage
Species
dangerous, and strictly speaking have no rights in
and
Hyrule.
peoples include the humans, zora, and gorons,
Civilised
course, but also other groups. Darknuts, subrosians and
of
have Domus to represent them, as do the eldritch
zuna
like the oocca, fairies, maku, leviathans and dragons.
races
zola and lizalfos on the other hand are
Goblins,
to be barbarous people, and have no rights in
considered
to the Golden Faith, the chief religion of Hyrule,
According
Golden Goddesses chose three races as their Chosen
the
These were the gorons, the zora, and the humans.
People.
are the divinely appointed inheritors and owners of all
They
world, and are inherently separate from all others.
the
races friendly with the chosen, such as the peaceful
Other
and many arcane races, are considered Lesser
alifos
and afforded many holy rights which are
Chosen,
solely the purview of the chosen.
otherwise
barbarous peoples of the world are, by and large,
The
as the Unchosen, a term often used (incorrectly)
marked
with Nihil, the mortal people who betrayed
interchangably
world to the demonic forces of the Great Invasion.
the
Unchosen, such as the wosu, are just about accepted
Some
Hyrule. Most, including the goblins and zola, are not,
within
are considered active threats to civilisation.
and
The Nature of The People
Sentience Abounds
Darknuts, or Wosu in their own tongue, are large, dogheaded
•
humanoids possessed of an incredibly militaristic
and to rob them is plunder.
below.
Zora are wise and graceful fish-like aquatic humanoids.
•
as to cease perverting the laws of nature.
so
Arcane races, such as the Dragons, Leviathans,
•
than humans.
lifespans
Gorons are strong and stoic rotund stone humanoids.
•
Civilisation and Barbary
or family structure.
genders
True humans, also known as round eared humans,
•
to true humans.
compared
Sheikah are rare, secretive hylians with red eyes.
•
religion unique to their people.
clandestine
Gerudo are an all female race of desert dwelling
•
Goblins are a widely varied race of tribal raiders, with
•
subraces from the warlike moblins and tiny, vicious
many
the kingdom.
The Chosen

is everywhere. It suffuses every part of existence,
Magic
thing that lives and dies or stands or falls contains
every
The world runs on magic, it is sustained by magic.
magic.
the world also runs on rules, on law and science and
But
systems. In the daily lives of most people magic is
reliable
In times past, in the Imperial and Nubian and even
rare.
Royal Eras magic may have been common, but now
maybe
most certainly is not. A peasant who tills the fields of
it
can go their whole life without seeing irrefutable
Hyrule
activity. Only the more senior or otherwise
magical
priests can control an inkling of magic, and
exceptional
and sorcerors of any note are uncommon outside
wizards
largest cities. For most people magic is strange and
the
and often quite scary.
otherworldly,
the rarity of magic the field still has its scholars, its
Despite
and studiers. The first thing these individuals
practitioners
is of the elements of magic.
learn
are seven elements. Six of these are the imperfect
There
of which four are impure and two are pure.
elements,
imperfect elements are arranged like the spokes of a
These
around the seventh, perfect element, and each
wheel
the seventh is opposed by its opposite. Each
except
flows through the realms of the universe, in a
element
sense at least, creating and being created by
metaphysical
existing mundane forms of that element in a selfsustaining
the
loop.
element has its uses to magicians and is expressed
Each
a differing way, although all can be used for direct
in
attacks. Each of the Imperfect elements has a
destructive
an immortal and often unreachable guide to its flow,
Sage,
a Maiden, a mortal but reachable guide. Sages are
and
the most powerful manipulators of magic in the
amongst
Yellow Element, Diamond Magic, Luxormancy
The
is an Imperfect, High, Transorganic and Pure
Light
It is the element of the Goddesses and has
element.
over the Impure High elements. It is used to
dominion
and bathe the soul, removing and abjuring foul
protect
It burns where it touches evil. Its symbol, the Three
forces.
three, represents the Goddesses and their people
over
them.
below
Sage of Light is the ancient Sage Rauru Gaepora, a
The
man elevated to the position more than one and a
Hylian
millenia ago and the founder of the order of Sages. He
half
in the Sacred Realm of the Goddesses.
dwells
Green Element, Emerald Magic, Vitomancy
The
is an Imperfect, High, Organic and Impure element.
Life
is the element of the forests and the trees, and is also the
It
of lightning and air. It is used to restore flesh by
element
the energies of life, and to perform great
manipulating
such as teleportations with the energies of air.
movements
symbol, the Four Curling, is representative of the evermoving
Its
flow of life in the world.
Sage of Life is the Sage Saria, a kokiri girl given the
The
after the Nihil War when her predecessor, the
position
Sage Bucha, was killed. She lives in a great cryptic
Ancient
deep in the Lost Woods.
mansion
Red Element, Ruby Magic, Pyromancy
The
is an Imperfect, Low, Inorganic and Impure
Fire
It is the element of all heat, especially open fire
element.
also molten metal and stone. It is used to destroy,
but
when that destruction facilitates further creation,
especially
the smelting of ore. Its symbol, the Three Overcoming,
like
the creep of destruction over all things which
represents
or have existed.
exist
Sage of Fire is the ancient Sage Gorko, a goron
The
for the position by Rauru Gaepora shortly after the
chosen
of Hyrule. He resides in the great temple of fire in
founding
creater of death mountain.
the
Purple Element, Amethyst Magic, Obscuromancy
The
is an Imperfect, Low, Transorganic and Pure
Shadow
It is the element of dark forces, especially the
element.
It is used to decieve others and taint souls with
demonic.
It cannot survive the presence of light. Its symbol,
curses.
Three Surrounded, does not mean what you think it
the
not matter what that may be.
does,
Sage of Shadow is the ancient Sage Purah Lysane, a
The
woman who took the title on behalf of her whole
Sheikah
Her Hermitage is deep below Kakariko, in the
people.
Orange Element, Amber Magic, Necromancy
The
is an Imperfect, Low, Organic and Impure
Death
It is also known as the element of Spirit or of
element.
It is the element used to raise the dead, or to cause
Earth.
and infirmity. It is not an element to use lightly. Its
sickness
the Two Entwined, represents the permanent and
symbol,
cycle of life and death.
unstoppable
Sage of Death is the Sage Aaliyah Dragmire, the
The
of Ganondorf Dragmire the Dark Shah, who
daughter
her temple in the depths of the western deserts.
holds
Blue Element, Sapphire Magic, Glaciomancy
The
also known as Ice, is an Imperfect, Low, Inorganic
Water,
Impure element. It is an element used for creation and
and
of all types. Its symbol, the Six Emerging,
protection
creation and formation from nothing.
represents
Sage of Water is the Sage Ruto Nalis, a zora
The
of many centuries ago who makes her home in the
princess
beneath Lake Hylia.
caverns
White Element, Infinity Magic, Chronomancy
The
seventh element, Time, is beyond the grasp of
The
or so it is believed. Time is Perfect, and has no
mortals,
other than the Goddess of Time, Hylia. It is not an
Sage
to be trifled with by any means, and is studied only
element
a furtive few.
by
The Nature of Magic
The Rarity of the Arcane
Fire
The Seven Elements
Shadow
of caves in which the sheikah test themselves.
warren
Death
world and dwell in Hermitages far from civilisation.
known
Light
Water
Life
Time

Hyrule there are a great many gods, deities by the score.
In
people has a god of its own, and the nature of their
Every
varies with the nature of these people. Some gods
worship
organised churches, heirarchies, and holy books.
have
are informal arrangements of offerings and oral
Others
tradition.
Hyrulian scholars a god is any entity which can grant
To
to a mortal supplicant. This is generally a broad
powers
which many laypeople would disagree with, for it
definition
in its number (amongst others) the fey, the pagan
includes
and the hated demonic forces beneath the world.
deities,
to this there is the further definition of High and
Due
gods. High gods are those who dwell beyond the
Low
while Low gods are present in physical forms or
world,
reliable contact with their worshippers. High gods
make
vastly more powerful than Low gods, but have vastly
are
official faith of Hyrule, the Golden Faith holds that the
The
Goddesses created the world before departing. It
Golden
holds that the Goddesses raised up four lesser gods to
also
the world during their absence and relay the prayers
watch
eldest of the golden goddesses, the goddess of power,
The
creator of the world, the goddess of strength and fire,
the
by gorons and dragons, as well as warriors and
beloved
High God, Chaotic Good
labourers.
middle of the golden goddesses, the goddess of
The
writer of laws and forger of magic, the goddess
wisdom,the
knowledge and water, the deity of zora and leviathans, as
of
as scholars and artisans. High God, Lawful Good
well
youngest of the golden goddesses,the goddess of
The
the creator of all life, the goddess of virtue and
courage,
the deity of humans and maku, as well as the
wind,
folk and most druids. High God, Neutral Good
common
hereditary title passed matrilineally between the queens
A
Hyrule, the goddess of time. Many Hylias are dormant,
of
title passed between great dragons who nominate
A
to bathe in the Spring of Power. Patron deity of
successors
title passed between the wisest of the Leviathans who
A
successors to bathe in the spring of Wisdom.
nominate
hereditary title passed along a line of maku trees, from a
A
originally bathed in the Spring of Courage. Patron
seed
Old Faiths, the Pagan Faiths, are religions which were
The
in one way or another before the arrival of the
followed
They are looked down on in Hyrule, and are
Goddesses.
forbidden if they start to cause trouble or approach
often
is the head of the Jovian faith, a strict monotheistic
Jove
focused on philosophy and way of living. His faith
religion
expressly allowed in Hyrule, and is popular amongst the
is
High God, Neutral Good.
poor.
the guardian of the gates of death, is an ancient
Gomess,
deity whose followers revere as the guardian and
pagan
golden wolf, Arbitrax, is the judger of the guilty in the
The
life, and the final punishment of all monsters, or so it
next
jackal-headed god of the Wosu, Seth was an angry and
The
god of warfare, who wished for violence across the
vicious
He is now departed from this earth, but remains
world.
by his people. Low God, Chaotic Evil
venerated
great leviathan of the oceans and the pagan god of
The
fishermen, and those who live on the coast, Oshus
sailors,
supposedly sequestered himself in a distant plane of
has
Low God, Chaotic Neutral.
existence.
popular in the land which would become the Faron
Once
(and later Hyrule), fae cults worshipping the fairies
Empire
maku trees above or instead of the Goddesses are now
and
but by no means nonexistant. Low Gods,
uncommon,
deity of the gerudo, the desert mother Bagamanah is
The
unknown entity who seems utterly capricious,
an
between decrees of extreme good and terrible
oscillating
High God, Chaotic Neutral
evil.
the coming of Farore the most popular deities
Before
many humans, particularly famers, were the
amongst
Kings, reptilian creatures who could control the
Storm
and give terrible rains or parching droughts if
weather
They had a wide and sprawling family pantheon,
angered.
forgotten in modern time. Low Gods, Varying
largely
the arrival of the goddesses there were a thousand
Before
faiths which persist on the periphery of civilisation to
tiny
day, especially amongst goblins. They may be entirely
this
or worship demons, fae, or far stranger entities.
false,
The Nature of The Divine
The Servants of the Divine
The Old Faiths
power of the Golden Faith.
the
Jove
Gomess
day-to-day impact on the world due to their absence.
less
The Golden Faith
of the dead. Low God, True Neutral
shepherd
Arbitrax
believed. High God, Lawful Neutral.
is
Seth
their chosen people to the golden goddesses.
of
Din
Oshus
Nayru
Fairies
Farore
Chaotic Good
Bagamanah
Hylia
little active power. Low God, Neutral Good
with
The Infernal Dragon
Storm Kings
gorons. Low God, Lawful Good
the
The Abyssal Leviathan
Alignment
Small Faiths
deity of the zora. Low God, Chaotic Good
Patron
The Deku Tree
Varying Status, Varying Alignment
deity of humanity. Low God, Neutral Good

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to theologians and arcanists the universe can be
According
into three Realms - the Sacred Realm above all
divided
the Material Realm of mortals, and the Dark Realm
things,
demons. Each is undeniably and absolutely separated
of
the other two, and can only be accessed by extremely
from
magic.
powerful
one enters the Sacred or Dark realms they enter
When
surface, that layer closest to the material realm. As they
the
deeper into the Realm they come closer to its great
pass
the Golden Goddesses or the Calamity
authority-
This will tax their body and soul, until their
respectively.
form is burned away and only their spirit remains.
physical
Sacred Realm is the realm of the Golden Goddesses,
The
to the Golden Faith at least. It is a perfect,
according
place which reflects the hearts of its inhabitants.
glorious
natives are said to be the angels, perfect, benevolent
Its
who serve Jove or the Golden Goddesses,
beings
on who is asked. It is the location of the Castle
depending
Sages, the great Hermitage of Rauru Gaepora. the Sage
of
Light, and is also the land in which the first Infernal
of
Dinraal resides after his brutal maiming at the
Dragon,
of the Dark Dragon Onox the Black. In times past-
hands
between the Scrambling and the Nihil War, the
specifically
was kept here in its entirety. According to the
Triforce
Faith the souls of mortals are judged by the
Golden
with the virtuous being taken to an eternal
Goddesses,
in the Sacred Realm and the despicable being
paradise
into the endless nothingness beyond the Realms.
cast
neither virtuous nor despicable are reborn as
Those
once again, with the hope that they will achieve
mortals
Dark Realm is the realm of demons. It is a shadowy
The
filled with malign intelligences who want
nothingness
more than to destroy the material world. It is a
nothing
of insubstantial emotion, with dark clouds eternally
place
and unforming horrifying, twisted shapes of
forming
design. There is nothing solid save for what is
monstrous
and nothing can ever last. Though the Realms are
brought,
by the eternal expanse of the Void, which
separated
powerful magic to cross, the nature of demons
requires
they are constantly striving to breach the Void, and
means
the Dark Realm can be comparatively easily accessed
so
the Material Realm. In the depths of the Dark Realm
from
the Calamity, the great opponent of the Goddesses.
lies
save the Everking have ever seen its face and lived to
None
Material Realm is the home of man and other mortals.
The
is a world that functions by laws and reason, rather than
It
reflection and emotional flux. Time flows
metaphysical
and sensibly, and the principles of physics and
linearly
make it, to a certain perspective, utterly
chemistry
and sensible.
predictable
is a place of life and death and order and chaos and
It
and ice and a thousand other dualities. It has the
fire
to be whatever its inhabitants wish, however good
potential
evil that may be.
or
the Three Realms there are many other smaller
Beyond
orbiting and passing through the infinite void of
realms,
These are small, self-contained existences which
Nothing.
separate intermediary points between the Material
form
and its neighbours. They can be created by powerful
Realm
or occur naturally.
magics,
Twilight realm lies between the Material and Dark
The
It is a dark, dying place, with little life or light but
Realms.
some permanency. It is the place to which the traitors
still
the Scrambling were banished nearly one thousand
of
ago, and the place from which the Twili emerged one
years
ago during the Twilight Invasion. It is only
century
through three mirrors, of which two are
accessible
and one is hidden.
destroyed
Dreaming realm lies between the Material and Sacred
The
It is a reflection of the past of its few real
Realms.
taking samples and pieces from their history
inhabitants,
imagination and with them forming a prison of space
and
time, a reflection of those they have met and the places
and
have been.
they
homeland of the picori is a small, parasitic realm
The
drifts through the cosmos. It is largely material and
which
in nature, but everything inside it is sized for its
reliable
with the tallest mountains barely the size of
inhabitants,
and the greatest rivers barely wetting a man's knee
hills
he stands in them. The picori realm can only be
when
Antiplace is a realm parallel to the Material Realm and
The
appearances a reflection of it, inverted and changed. It is
by
favourite hideaway for the most powerful wizards of
a
and has a small native population.
history,
King's Sea is an elemental plane of water, containing
The
a vast ocean which stretches to every horizon, dotted
only
occasionally with islands on which the few natives live.
only
is supposedly the home of the great leviathan Oshus, the
It
of his race and the pagan god of the sea. The only
father
to enter the King's Sea is by following a mythical
way
through choking fogs in the furthest reaches of the
current
ocean- none have ever successfully made the passage
open
The Nature of the Realms
Above and Below
Beside and Beyond
The Sacred Realm
The Twilight Realm
The Dreaming Land
virtue with time.
The Dark Realm
The Picori Realm
from Hyrule once every hundred years.
accessed
The Antiplace
The King's Sea
speak of it.
The Material Realm
and returned.

The Years Since Gone
If a man does not know where he has been then he cannot find his path onward.

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of time-3000 PF)
(Dawn
years before the arrival of the goddesses were cold and dark. Almost nothing is known of these years, which stretch
The
into the dawn of time.
long
is known, or at least believed in Hyrule, is that the goddesses wrought the world from the Nothing, with Din giving it
What
Nayru giving it law, and Farore giving it life. They then departed to watch their world develop and grow over uncounted
form,
years.
can say what truly occurred during these years. The wosu, those hound-headed men who the Hyrulians call darknuts,
None
that their god Seth lived among them and they created a glorious civilisation of uncounted Citadels in his name. The
maintain
call the Mythic Era the time of the Glory World, the utopian years in which they lived in a glorious state of war or labour
alifos
craft (the exact nature of the time varies depending on which alifos is asked) until the Allfathers sent them to the modern
or
in great arks. The Jovians call it instead the First World, that long-distant time when the Warlord and the Son and the
time
walked the mortal realms in physical form. The gorons sing and dance their legends of the Iron Dawn War, that
Shepherd
conflict which finally earned them Din’s praise, and the zora speak of their first empire, the greatest civilisation to ever
endless
stand.
thousand contradicting stories remain of the Mythic Era. What is important to Hyrule however is how it ended- with the
A
returning to the world to grant their favour to humanity, the zora and the gorons, bringing the Imperial Era and the
Goddesses
The Mythic Era
time of greatness that came with it.

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and a half millennia ago the Goddesses appeared to their chosen people and gave unto them the divine favour. The
Four
goron, Eldin, the wisest zora, Lanayru and the bravest human, Faron. Each took up the holy praise on behalf of his
strongest
and with this praise unified his race to produce one of the three empires- the empire of the zora who ruled the oceans,
people
empire of the gorons who ruled the mountains, and the empire of humanity who ruled the lands.
the
are few reliable, historic records of the Imperial Era. It is a time so very separated from the modern day, with untold
There
and calamities serving to destroy remaining knowledge. What is known for certain is that the empires were advanced
years
the understanding of the modern day, with sciences and magics which can no longer be replicated. The world
beyond
under the watchful eye of the Patron Deities. Soaring towers stretched into the sky and great edifices to the power
prospered
glory of the goddesses were created to sprawl across the land. There was, according to the scriptures, “peace and milk
and
honey for two thousand years”.
and
Book of Mudora, the holy bible of the Golden Faith, paints the Imperial Era as ideal in every way, a perfect and pious
The
where there was no war or strife or disease or famine. This is likely a fiction. The empires were not necessarily utopian,
land
they were certainly greater than the kingdoms which followed them.
but
the early days it was said that the Goddesses walked the world of the Empires. A very different force walked that same
In
when the Empires ended. The Empires had been raised by benevolence and light and order, by the Goddesses' will.
world
The Imperial Era
They would fall to malice and darkness and chaos, the will of demons.

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(c.1000
Imperial Era ended in an instant.
The
Goddesses had long departed for the Sacred Realm, and left the Patron Deities and Hylia to rule the spirituality of the
The
in their stead. The mortals of the world had grown fat and content with peace, and magic itself was considered a minor
world
In time it became a myth, and mundanity spread across the world.
triviality.
without warning or reason, the very earth tore asunder. From fissures in the ground rose monsters, demons. Hordes
Then,
horrifying abominations and infernal lords of war spread over the land. The otherworldly invaders were unexpected and
of
unknown to the ancient humans- they brought ruin to the world on an unprecedented scale, and changed the
completely
of history forever by razing the three empires to the ground over the course of three decades of warfare.
course
golden ages of the world were over, and the age of struggle had begun.
The
of the time are fragmentary and direct sources of information are practically non-existent- almost all knowledge of
Records
Great Invasion comes from oral tradition, the tales of various peoples who speak of the time the world burned and man’s
this
crumbled down to the earth. What is known is that the world was pushed to the absolute brink of survival. The
monuments
Deku Tree was slain and burned, the Infernal Dragon Dinraal was crippled, the entirety of the zora population who
Great
within the open sea- approximately ninety percent of the race- perished. In all perhaps two thirds of all life was
dwelt
Demise, Malladus, Majora, Bellum, Yuga, Ghirahim, Cholerin, Onox, Veran. These are names which echo with
destroyed.
in all of the known world to this day for their actions in the Great Invasion.
infamy
the world was not undefended in this time. At first the Archdemons ran rampant across the world, carrying out the
But
will of their master, the Calamity who sprang from the Nothing. But soon they found themselves opposed by the
destructive
of the mortal world and, eventually, even by the deities of the land themselves. Legends sprout like weeds from the time
forces
the Great Invasion, incredible heroes and impossible battles burned deep into the racial memory. The Father of Snakes, the
of
of all sheikah, gained the power he would pass to his ancestors in this war, as did the Thunder and Deluge dragons,
ancestor
Divine Beasts, the minish progenitors and a thousand others, and above all these stood the Prime Hylia and the Everking.
the
Hylia of the time, known as the Prime Hylia, was a woman of staggering drive and power. In all things she was
The
by the first Great Hero, the legendary Everking, the second chosen of Farore after Faron two millennia ago.
accompanied
they led the mortal world in a war that lasted through unimaginable strife and loss, but which ultimately saw the
Together
of the mortals over the demonic forces.
victory
world was scarred, the losses had been unimaginable, but the world still stood, and the mortals of the world had
The
The Great Invasion
survived.

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Great Invasion had scarred the world like nothing before it. All three of the empires had fallen to dust, and victory had
The
come at unimaginable cost. The zora were practically extinct, and the other races of the world fared little better. The land
only
was sick, choking with ash and darkness, the fallout of the demonic incursion.
itself
Archdemons were dead, but they were not destroyed. Demise was imprisoned in the very place from which Farore had
The
to proclaim her love for Faron, locked behind a sacred seal which the Father of Snakes and his followers swore to
emerged
over forever. Malladus was barely defeated, and would need to be restrained with chains that spanned a continent. Both
watch
return with time, this was inevitable, and humanity would still be sick and recovering.
would
was as the Everking prepared himself to become the final link in those great binding chains that Hylia made her decision.
It
had in her possession a relic of impossible power, a gift from the Goddesses themselves, the Triforce. Three golden
She
representing Power, Wisdom and Courage, the three great virtues. Nothing was beyond the grasp of the Triforce, but
triangles
greater the request the more the requester would need to be in absolute balance between its three aspects. Hylia could not
the
the Triforce to restore the world, but she could use it to escape the sickened land.
use
the world, beneath the feet of mankind, the ground split and reformed once again. High into the sky soared great
Across
of rock and soil, forming the sky lands. Beyond the reach of demons, mankind would be safe, to prosper and recover,
islands
what it had lost.
rebuild
such was the intention. The result was different. Mutation came to humanity, a gradual change of form which gave rise to
Or
two races- those around Hylia becoming profound, slender and long-lived, and those around the Everking's sons becoming
the
stout and of short lifespans. With this disparity came division and with division came resentment. The sky became
practical,
fractured as the land had been in the times before the empire, politicking nations bickering and fighting.
as
time there came a new war, between the Purple Kingdom headed by the Everking’s sons and the White Empire, headed
In
Hylia. Loosely divided along these lines of race, the willowy followers of Hylia took the name hylians, while the followers of
by
Everking’s son maintained the name humans. These people pursued a war against each other for centuries, until the once
the
sky became wracked with terrible dark storms, and on the world below the Demon King Demise began to stir.
calm
The Nubian Era
The FINISH WRITING THIS BIT I HATE THIS FUCK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

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the death of Demise the last of the darknesses plaguing the surface was destroyed, and the Hylia of the time knew it
With
time for humanity to return to the land. All over the world the floating islands on which mankind had made its homes, the
was
which had seen the birth of the Purple Kingdom and the White Empire, descended slowly but unstoppably to the
islands
With the exception of a few stubborn holdouts of the old ways the cities in the sky returned to the earth.
ground.
the descents the people found themselves in an untamed new world, untouched by civilisation for more than a
Following
The people chose their elders and leaders, and these notables met in a great conclave with the Hylia, who explained
millennia.
actions and decisions, as well as what had just occurred. She was joined in this by her father the high knight Rauru
her
her closest friend the Hero of the World, and the sheikah matriarch, Purah Lysane. Overcome with gratitude and
Gaepora,
the elders pledged their love and support to Hylia and declared her their leader, the Queen of all the land. Thus it
admiration
that these settlers in this strange new land found themselves unifying under one banner, the nascent kingdom of Hyrule.
was
the years passed the kingdom grew, spreading the power of civilisation across the land. Everywhere settlers went they
As
the scars of the Great Invasion, the long overgrown ruins and ancient temples of the Imperial Era. It was to this land
found
they brought a new hope and a new life, and a glorious new prosperity. This time, and the times of great troubles which
that
The Royal Era
followed it, are the Royal Era, the times when Hyrule ruled all it surveyed as the lone kingdom of man.

PF-562 AF)
(0
first age of the Royal Era was the Age of Prosperity, that wonderful golden time when plenty and happiness lay over
The
horizon. The kingdom of Hyrule’s borders spread ever outwards for more than five centuries, constantly learning and
every
New laws were penned to direct and guide the people of the kingdom, many being revivals of the old Imperial
expanding.
The prominent men and women of the age became the nobility of the day, and the Hyrulian feudal system was
ways.
Castles were built to secure the new land and around them grew the homes of settlers, who found the blessing of
established.
Maku Trees to cut back the old dark forest to produce plentiful farmland.
the
church became entrenched in daily life. The Book of Mudora was codified and finalised. The Sages were established,
The
far and wide to find and establish their Hermitages. The fey were found in the depths of nature and returned to the
travelling
fold. New cities were built on the bones of old, and in them settlers found knowledge long since lost which was used to
divine
the basis for new philosophy. The almost mythical oocca established their cities on the few aerial islands which
provide
and resumed their eternal watch over the world. The zora were reborn, returned from their time as the parella race
remained
the magic of the Leviathans.
by
was the golden age, the greatest years which Hyrule would ever produce, all overseen by the watchful and caring eye of
This
steady succession of Gaeporan queens and their attendant kings. It must have seemed like these days of glory would not
a
could not end while the favour of the Goddesses was with them.
end,
The Age of Prosperity
But of course this was not the case.

AF-826 AF)
(563
Age of Chaos saw the end of Hyrule's early glory days, its rapid expansion ended by a series of four interconnected
The
For a little under three centuries Hyrule was beset by wooes and disaster, beginning with the calamitous
calamities.
and ending with the Second Coming of Vaati, an otherwise meagre attack on what was by then a haggard and
Scrambling
world.
weary
Scrambling (563 AF)
The
Age of Chaos began, as the Royal Era had, with a dream. A shared dream, in the sleep of all mortal peoples. A dream of
The
Triforce, and the infinite possibilities it offered. Whispers of the world which could be created accompanied a vision of
the
power in every mind across the world, and the greedy and the soulless and the mad were tempted into betrayal. This
ultimate
The Scrambling of 563, and it would be the first conflict to beset the kingdom of Hyrule.
was
these days the Triforce was largely unprotected, held in a vault in the mortal world behind great stone doors beneath
In
would later become the Temple of Time. All that would be needed to take it was sufficient martial or arcane force. When
what
knowledge escaped there were many traitors vying for the ultimate power, banded together into fragile, fractious alliances.
this
and lizalfos were of course amongst their number, but they were also accompanied by humans and gorons and zora of
Goblins
types. Even more worrying were the supposedly divine peoples who attempted to seize the Triforce- fey and oocca and
all
and leviathans.
dragons
greatest alliance, calling themselves the Interlopers, came the closest to securing the Triforce, making pacts with
The
and eldritch entities for greater power and becoming Archtraitors, the first since the Great Invasion one and a half
demons
ago. They rampaged across the world and brought great pain and suffering- slaying the Great Deku Tree and the
millennia
Dragon Volvagia, besieging the Oocca Sky City and summoning untold numbers of demons. However despite their
Infernal
efforts in time they were beaten along with all others, defeated and humbled by the newly emerged Light Spirits
despicable
by the Sage Rauru.
created
traitors were of such vast numbers that following their surrender they could not be executed in good conscience. It was
The
decided that they be imprisoned in a world between the mortal world and the Dark Realm, sealed behind three portals
instead
a shadowy world of twilight forever. These portals were the Twilight Mirrors- the Ashen, Rotten, and Frostbitten mirrorsdisks
in
of silvered steel forged by the greatest of picori artisans. The traitors would be banished through them and would be
beyond the sight of man forever, hopefully bringing peace to Hyrule by preventing the Archtraitors from emerging
hidden
Their locations, designs, and even existence would be kept a secret, to keep the traitors from ever returning.
again.
The Age of Chaos

War of the Bound Chest (626 AF)
The
the Mirrors were successful in keeping the Archtraitors hidden the woes of Hyrule were not over. Hyrule had less
Whilst
a century to rebuild before a new threat came, an invasion of Shades and monsters of incredible size, led by the Demon
than
Majora who was thought to have been the architect of the dreams which inspired the Scrambling. This was to be
Prince
later as the War of the Bound Chest.
known
detailed records survive of this time, but it is known that the world was saved by the intervention of the picori and the
Few
Great Hero, the Hero of Men, a golden child who wielded a sword forged by the picori against Majora. Though the Demon
fifth
could not be killed he could be defeated, sealed away inside an artefact the nature of which goes unrecorded. His
Prince
in turn were imprisoned within another device, a chest made of maku wood and bound with bands of iron and silver.
Shades
First Coming of Vaati (726 AF)
The
War of the Bound Chest had once again strained Hyrule. The Gustaf dynasty, a royal lineage raised to replace the
The
who were destroyed in the Scrambling, was in turn destroyed by Majora’s followers and replaced with the Daltus
Gaeporans
Eldin, who had resumed his title of Infernal Dragon following Volvagia’s death in the Scrambling, was also dead. Hyrule
family.
time and space to heal, but it would not receive it.
needed
hundred years later in 726 the world was beset again. A picori archtraitor and peerless Wind Sorcerer, Vaati, released
One
Shades from their imprisonment and laid the kingdom low. Once again the picori came to the aid of mankind, aiding the
the
of the Unseen against the turncoat and allowing him to destroy the demonic minish sorcerer. For this he was rewarded
Hero
marriage to the heir of the time, Zelda Daltus, reuniting the bloodlines of the Great Hero and the Goddess Hylia for the
with
time in seven hundred years.
first
there had been suffering during Vaati’s brief reign, as there always is when a dark overlord rules, it was undone
Though
his fall. An artefact of great power, a wish-granting device crafted by the minish smith Ezlo, was employed to restore the
after
to its unharmed state. The artefact was destroyed in the process, and has since proved impossible to replicate.
world
Second Coming of Vaati (826 AF)
The
expected a disaster to return following another hundred years of peace, and they were not disappointed. When the
Many
to the world of the picori opened once again- as it did every century- some vestigial magic flooded through and allowed
door
to restore his body, with little of his old mind but retaining his vast well of power. Though the picori Archtraitor
Vaati
and slew to the best of his ability he was defeated by another Great Hero, the Hero of Four, and sealed away to
marauded
his return once again.
prevent
this seemingly final defeat of Vaati the world returned to peace, and though many expected another disaster in the
With
century they were to be pleasantly surprised- 926 passed without incident, and the peace was maintained. The Age
following
of Chaos was, seemingly, over.

AF-1210 AF)
(1206
was a year of great celebration across Hyrule. The Civil War, that decade long conflict which had pitted brother
1206
brother and daughter against mother was over. Concessions had been made by both sides in open and fair negotiation.
against
had been found in the public life for wide and sweeping changes to be implemented, and the ringleaders of all factions
Room
had managed to agree on a future they all found acceptable. There were pains remaining for certain- an
concerned
sickness had claimed the life of the Great Deku Tree, and the Sage of Forest Bucha was not responding to
unidentifiable
for his aid, but these were problems which would surely resolve themselves with time.
entreaties
future was bright and promising and at the centre of all this hope was one heroic figure, the great Ganondorf Dragmire,
The
of Shahs, the man who had brought peace to Hyrule on Hylia’s behalf through assassination or subdual of all prominent
Shah
supporters, a man to be crowned Duke of the Deserts and who promised to bring his kingdom back under the control of
war
Queen- to-be, Princess Zelda Daltus. There were even talks of royal union, of a marriage between Zelda’s elder brother and
the
of Ganondorf’s favoured daughters, the bewitching priestess Aaliyah Dragmire. In military circles there was a mustering
one
a new war, thousands of men making their way to the Shahdom to take the fight to the Wosu in a coalition of Hyrule and
for
Shahdom never seen before.
the
this changed at the ceremony in which Dragmire was to be crowned duke. At the apex of the day the proceedings were
All
by a boy dressed all in green, who stormed into the Chapel of Three moments before the crown was placed on
interrupted
head in a shocking and surprisingly competent attempt to kill the Shah. The boy was arrested, proceedings were
Dargmire’s
for the day, and the Shah left the capital to return to his own people, outraged.
halted
night the king of Hyrule, Martin Daltus, went to see the boy. The words they exchanged are unrecorded, but when
That
emerged he proclaimed that the boy was a Great Hero, the Hero of Time, and that the Shah was not to be trusted. The
Martin
ordered the Shah's immediate arrest, and geared the war-weary country to fight once again.
king
war that followed was the Nihil war, a disastrous conflict more costly than any which had preceded it, save perhaps for
The
Scrambling. The Shah had long planned for this day, and the armies he mustered covered the horizon as a thousand plots
the
secret alliances came to fruition. This vast force called itself the Nihil alliance and marched beneath a new banner- not
and
golden banner of the Shahdom, but a jet black banner with a single blood red eye, the banner of the ancient demon
the
hordes.
demons marched with the alliance, percolating out of the air. Devils and daemons and gorgons and fiends and shades
Indeed
the score. Powers not seen in the world for centuries returned in force- Onox the Black walked the world for the first time
by
the Scrambling, accompanied by his progeny and the possessed body of Volvagia the Incendiary. The demon witch
since
was seen directing the forces of the Nihil with elemental power rarely seen on the world. It seemed like the end of
Twinrova
once again.
days
retaliation the kingdom of Hyrule opened every vault it possessed. Dora Dora returned from his self-imposed exile. The
In
and the Sages lent their full power. The child in green was dubbed a Great Hero, the Hero of Time, and used as a focus for
fey
hope of the people. There was little left unutilised, save for the impossible power of the Triforce, but the siege of the Great
the
changed even that.
Castle
the apex of the siege the Hero of Time, against the urgings of the Sage Rauru, attempted to use the unified Triforce, to
At
the Nihil with a single wish. He failed, and the ancient artefact shattered into its constituent parts. Hope seemed lost
destroy
battle was joined, and it was revealed that though the Hero's heart had not been in balance he was of sufficient virtue to
until
a piece of the Triforce, the fragment of Courage. Against all offs and aided by the princess herself the hero successfully
retain
Ganondorf in a duel, the boy striking the Shah in the stomach with a footman's sword.
broke
The Nihil War

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(1210
Ganondorf's defeat the Nihil alliance collapsed within hours. The goblins returned to the forests, the wosu marched
With
to their citadels, and the zola melted back into the waterways. Victory had been achieved, but it had not been without
back
cost.
as the Shah was taken for execution by the Sages he knew he had dealt a deathblow to Hyrule. The golden years were
Even
and the continent-spanning kingdom had been crippled by two vast wars. The dominance of the goddesses' faithful had
over,
to a close, and the years that would follow would be ever harder. The World Tree and the Infernal Dragon were dead.
come
capital was razed to the point it would be abandoned altogether, and the royal family had been all slain, save for the
The
herself. The people were starving from sixteen years of poor wartime harvests, and the watch and army were so
princess
that the kingdom could not hope to protect itself.
undermanned
Hero of Time was not celebrated for his victories, but reviled for his failure. He travelled into the furthest reaches of the
The
Woods, never to be seen again. In his absenc, and the absence of other great heroes, the world spiralled into a pit of
Lost
and strife as men fought each other and the monstrous peoples grew ever bolder.
bickering
was to be the Shaded Era.
This
The Shaded Era

AF -1454 AF)
(1210
Nihil war had wounded Hyrule, and crippled her ability to rule herself. The kingdom was too large, too depopulated,
The
constantly beset by troubles. The queen had the holy right to rule over all of humanity, but that was simply no longer
and
feasible.
solution to these problems was found to be the Writ of Dissolution. The provinces of Hyrule would be made into
The
states, with only the Lanayru, Eldin, and Faron provinces- the true heartland- remaining with the kingdom. Six
independent
states were created; Ordona, Arcadia, Calatia, Gamelon, Signum, and Teddin. These states, plus Hyrule, would form the
new
seven independent nations of Deis, and would maintain a peace amongst themselves with each nation being ultimately
first
to the Queen of Hyrule.
subservient
system collapsed almost immediately. Few of the newly independent rulers recognised the distant ruler of Hyrule as
This
their Sovereign. Others within the new states were not content to be ruled by one who ultimately was not a deity in the
being
the Queen was. They fell to bickering within a matter of months, followed by war- not with Hyrule, never with Hyrule, but
way
and within themselves.
between
split peacably along the Corda river, forming Ordona and Sarios. Signum split following a devastating civil war of its
Ordona
into Signum, Morias and Trajo. Calatia suffered from ever-increasing strife until the Talan Amber dynasty of dragons
own
to bring order and shattered the country into Calatia, Raal, and Unstis. Gamelon let the island of Koridai become
descended
through neglect. Of the original seven states only Arcadia and Teddin remained as they had been designated, with
independent
latter becoming impossibly proud and renaming itself to Hytopia.
the
Writ had chnged the world. Before the Queen had retained at least theoretical sovereignty over all of humanity. Now
The
divine right was, to an extent, dead. This was not an age of divinity versus the demonic, or of heroes and monsters. It was
that
Gamelon War (1444 AF-1451 AF)
The
Age of Men, that long and terrible time when mortals forgot their true enemies, came to a head in 1444, when Hyrule
The
was invaded by those who in theory owed her everything.
herself
reasons for the war were, as all things, infinitely complex. However a brief version would be thus: The Princess of the
The
Kohm Harkinian, fell for the young and capable patrician Dandolus Onkled, the head of the Onkled house and a great
age,
in Gamelon politics. Buoyed by the wealth which would come his way in the near future when he became king of Hyrule
figure
financed his way to becoming serene Doge of the city-state, and was poised to become both the most powerful and
Onkled
wealthy man in the world.
most
then, as she traveled to Gamelon to wed her beloved, Kohm died in a shipwreck.
And
mantle of Hylia passed to Kohm's younger sister, Lucretia. When Onkled realised his fiance was dead, that he would not
The
king, and that he was ruined, he requested that he marry Lucretia when she came of age. Then, as the situation in Gamelon
be
worse, he began to demand it.
became
this lead to war. Using a small horde of mercenaries Dandolus took advantage of a simultaneous upswing in
Ultimately
activity and did the unthinkable. He marched on Hyrule, attacking the new capital of Acre Nova, the city which had
goblin
the city of Great Castle following the Nihil war. He beseieged first the city and then the citadel at its heart,
replaced
his supposedly rightful bride.
demanding
response to this and seeing no true options, Lucretia cast herself from the tallest tower of the castle. The army of Onkled,
In
what they had done and what horrors they had been a part of, promptly turned on him and cut the Doge down.
realising
there were other methods of resolution, but none were apparent. The Harkinian line ended, and the mantle of
Perhaps
passed to a nun named Zelda Boone. Hyrule's divinity, its position as the celestial kingdom of man, had been tested, and
Hylia
The Age of Men
of men, fighting one another.
it had barely survived that test.

AF-1554 AF)
(1454
Twilight Invasion (1454 AF)
The
Age of Twilight began, appropriately, at the close of day.
The
the sun set on the distant horizon the world shifted. The Ashen Twilight Mirror moved unbidden, and it opened tears in
As
opened across the world's surface, gaping rents through the sky, tunnels through space glowing unearthly green. From
space
rents poured hordes of monsters, a ravening tide of jet-black monstrosities. This was the Twilight Invasion, and it
these
with it something far more insidious than mere monsters.
brought
epic magics still not fully understood the tyrant king Zant began to subsume all of Hyrule into his home plane, the
Using
of twilight. The people of the land wasted away to spirits under the corrupting influence of the realms power, while
realm
who accepted the darkness inside themselves became horrifying beasts of darkness and stone.
those
was the descendant of those terrible traitors of the Scrambling, and he was excercising a terrible revenge over Hyrule.
Zant
seemed there was no hope, that all the world would be consumed by the Twilight, but Hyrule's champion returned again.
It
eighth Great Hero, the Hero of Twilight, came from Ordona to destroy the dark king, Aided by the rightful ruler of the
The
the mischievous imp Midna, the hero's exploits are known to every child. The saviour of the zora, the man who
Twilight,
gorons and rediscovered the ancient oocca, and most importantly the slayer of Zant and liberator of the kingdom.
wrestled
Hero of Twilight restored Hyrule's faith in the Great Heroes, and his actions changed history.
The
after the defeat of Zant the Hero was wed to his childhood love, a farm girl named Ilia. Together they attended the
Shortly
of Queen Zelda Boone, who in turn married the brother of the late princess Lucretia and took his name to become
coronation
VIII Harkinian.
Zelda
generation passed, and another began. For fifty years Hyrule enjoyed growth and prosperity. A mining boom in Kakariko
A
the city from the ground up. The oocca prime Sky City descended to remain several hundred yards above Lake Hylia.
rebuilt
realm was at peace, but this peace was far from universal. The threat of the arcane, of demons and monsters and utter
The
The Age of Twilight
annihilation, had returned.

Pretender Ganon and the Gerudo Civil War (1498 AF)
The
Hyrule was recovering the gerudo were embroiled in civil war between the armies of Shah Hashem and the
Whilst
Shah Bahrom. In 1501 the forces of Bahrom were victorious and Shah Hashem was deposed, forced to flee alone
prospective
escape execution.
to
know to whom Hashem fled, but the events that followed are well chronicled. Somehow, most likely with significant
None
Hashem managed to take the Trident of Power, the former weapon of the Jackal-Headed god Seth, from where the wosu
aid,
secreted it in the furthest depths of the desert. With the power this artefact provided flowing through him Hashem grew
had
vengeful, and dangerous. He declared himself Ganon, the rebirth of Ganondorf Dragmire who had died at the close of
proud,
Nihil war.
the
entered the Lost Woods and, once again using knowledge and means of source unknown, found the Rotted Mirror of
He
at the location in which the previous Sage of Forest Bucha had hidden it nearly a millennia prior. With it he opened a
Twilight
bringing Dark Simulacra servants of Zant’s old regime into the mortal world. He used these as servants, freeing the
portal,
mage Vaati from the prison he had been trapped in for seven hundred years and took the heir to the throne and
wind
of Zelda Boone, Princess Zelda Harkinian, captive.
granddaughter
them the Pretender Ganon and the picori Archtraitor wielded impossible power. An endless unseasonal winter
Between
Hyrule with monsters uncounted lurking in the blizzards. Dark clouds gathered over the world to spit a deathly rain on
beset
Hero of Light and the Long Cold Winter (1504 AF)
The
Hero of Twilight was a great man, but like all great men he was mortal. History records him as a quiet, reserved man,
The
of the kind of calm only found in those who know exactly how bestial their own anger can be.
possessed
the coronation of Zelda Harkinian VIII the Hero of Twilight returned to Ordona, spending the rest of his days as a
After
and goatherd as far from the circles of nobility or magic as he could possibly be. In time he had a son, who he named
farmer
after the Hero’s own adoptive father and who he raised to live a simple life on the frontiers of civilisation.
Rusl
the ways of children are unpredictable, and Rusl was raised on stories from his mother about his father’s heroics. As
But
as he could Rusl became a knight, achieved great glory, married a countess, and had his own children born straight into
soon
affairs of nobility.
the
Jaichen was the son of Rusl Jaichen, and grandson of the Hero of Twilight. Though his father died when Link was but a
Link
he remained with his mother in Acre Nova and grew up a friend of Princess Zelda. When Vaati escaped his seal and took
child
away he found a great measure of courage within him- he could and would not see her suffer at the hands of the
Zelda
and an Archtraitor.
Pretender
the tender age of twelve Link Jaichen took up the Four Sword as his distant ancestor had before him and became the
At
Great Hero, the Hero of Light. Travelling as the Hero, the Warrior, the Mage and the Demon he overcame every
tenth
and defeated every opponent. He reunited the seven maidens, the distant successors of those seven women who
challenge
maintained Vaati’s seal for so many years. He fought simulacra and ghosts and Frozen Watchers and monsters too
had
to comprehend. It was by his hand that Vaati was slain finally after centuries of plaguing Hyrule, and it was thanks to
terrible
efforts that the Pretender Ganon was defeated and sealed away in the prison which had formerly held the wind mage.
his
Hero of Light returned to Acre Nova and became ever closer to his princess. Hyrule had suffered, but not nearly as
The
the earth, an omen of the demons who would surely come. A hero was needed, and one was found.
much as it had in previous incidents. The world was still shaded, but the future was brighter.

AF) (1554
Hero of Light married his princess and became king
The
Hyrule. The princess became queen, and ruled fairly and
of
for twelve years until her death in 1540. In this time
well
bore five children. Rusl, the heir to the mantle of Great
she
and a boy who vanished into self-imposed exile as
Hero
as he could. Torald, who married a Sarion duchess
soon
lives happily and well. Yosef, who became a preacher in
and
Green Frontier. Rindovus, who trained with all gusto
the
became the leader of the elite Kingsguard. Zelda, the
and
and only daughter, who waits to become old
youngest
to take her mother's throne.
enough
Hyrule is a country of mixed fortunes. The King-
Modern
has ruled for fourteen years, but his health is failing
Regent
his staggering personal power that has kept the lords
and
Hyrule in line for so long is dwindling. Princess Zelda
of
on the cusp of adulthood, and will have to choose
stands
king at last, which will finally end the careful political
her
her father has been performing. Many whisper that
dance
is too headstrong for her position, swayed by her
she
brother towards nationalism. Will such a queen
youngest
unwilling to sign the Writ? Can Hyrule afford the
prove
that would follow?
wars
threats remain constant. The Pretender Ganon
Arcane
at his prison. Vaati’s return is expected by many, and
rails
inevitable by the pessimistically inclined. More
considered
of twilight, unbreakable without the tear of their
mirrors
undoubtedly remain. Eldritch mists touch the
queen,
of the Great Bay, and peasants whisper of Ghost
shores
plying the moonlit waves. The dragons bark and
Ships
at one another and plan another civil war of their
snarl
The psychically inclined dream of staring yellow eyes
own.
the situation is no better. Signum, Morias and Trajo
Abroad
against each other and seek to expand themselves
plot
new wars. Even these plotters are not safe, for
through
the lords of a southern coast kingdom meet each is
when
to undo the other and take what he has. On the
seeking
border of Hyrule the Shah grows ever older, and
opposite
old followers of Hashem doubt him even as they
the
for his successor. Further afield the tribes of the
prepare
Frontier struggle against goblins and zola to
Green
lands of their own, and beyond the great desert
establish
Xin remain mired in their eternal struggle to pursue the
the
of the Golden Sisters, beset as always by the beasts
wishes
the Howling Wastes.
of
wosu prepare, as always, for war. Another year of
The
is coming for them, and their neighbours must be
battle
Goblins and zola and lizalfos make raids in the dead
ready.
night or ambush in the day, descending silhouetted by
of
noonday sun and screeching their ferocious roars.
the
demon lords as ever make their moves against the
The
Dethl maintains the eternal nightmare of
world.
Bellum makes designs on the lands of Oshus.
Tamaranch.
rebuilds following his devastating defeat. Yuga
Majora
his way into the nobility of the Antiplace. The
insinuates
of Demise stir and plot revenge. Malladus strains
ashes
the chains that bind him to a continent. Onox and
against
other twelve dark dragons stand ready to do the bidding
the
the Calamity, and the Calamity itself... does as it wills.
of
plumb tombs for lost powers. Knights travel the
Delvers
saving the innocent and crushing the villainous.
land,
follow and slay beasts that prey upon men. Hyrule
Hunters
towards tomorrow on the labour of a thousand
spins
virtuous men and women. Now, as ever, Hyrule
thousand
The Present Day
needs heroes.
and deep, cackling laughter.

The Peoples Abundant
Those who walk the lands of Hyrule, the inheritors of the Goddesses, both intended
and non

The Chosen
And the Goddesses looked upon them and said: "You are the chosen. You are the
Courageous, the Brave and the Powerful and you will inherit All Things."

RODE ALONG THE SERRIED
CYLLA
the queen's long black hair trailing
ranks,
her as she passed. In the face of each
behind
she saw the same expression- absolute
man
a desire to do right by her, their homes
resolve,
the Goddesses. Her heart began to stir in
and
chest as she pulled her horse around to
her
them.
address
of Hyrule!" She called out. "This is our war! This is
"Men
time! We are here to bring the light of Hyrule, my light,
our
light, to these dark times and dark lands. We have all
your
much, and I look on each of you and I see these
suffered
few terrible years, but today the course of history
last
back into our favour!"
changes,
drew her sword, and a little sorcerous talent made
Scylla
shine from the leading edge as she held it aloft. “We
light
the heroes! We are the kings and the warriors and the
are
of the goddesses! There is no good above us on this
chosen
and no evil beyond our grasp.”
earth,
cheer was deafening.
The
are the the most common race in the kingdom of
Hylians
A variant of humanity formed during the Nubian
Hyrule.
in the core of the White Empire, Hylians are
Era
by their slender forms, quick minds, and
characterised
pointed ears, through which the Golden Faith claims
long,
can hear the voices of the goddesses. They are a
they
gifted people, arcane in thought and deed, and
magically
naturally talented leaders and scholars. Hylians have
make
an extremely prominent role in history. The great hero
had
a hylian bloodline, as is the incarnation of the goddess
is
from which the race takes its name. The kingdom of
Hylia,
was founded by and primarily for hylians, and
Hyrule
make up most of its population, especially its
hylians
and clergy. There is nowhere in the civilised world
nobility
hylians cannot be found or where they are not
where
welcome.
.
Hylians
S

first Hylians were born of the ancient humans in the
The
Nubian Era. These new children were shorter and
early
than their parents had been, and possessed of
slighter
ears. Their very blood was affected by their
pointed
by the vast magic which had been weaved by
circumstance,
goddess Hylia to bring the survivors of the Great
the
into the sky. This alteration- benign and pleasant
Invasion
it was- had been brought about by continual exposure to
as
goddess and her magics, and gave them their name of
the
literally those of the goddess Hylia.
"Hylians",
the years passed it emerged that the hylians
As
a number of advantages over the previous
possessed
They were faster and wiser than their parents,
generation.
just as stong and resilient. They were also more
and
connected to the magic of the world- by no
inherently
mighty spellcasters, but with a much deeper link to
means
divine, to Hylia and through her to the three Golden
the
Their traits bred true, with hylian mothers
Goddesses.
birthing hylian children- they were a people,
always
and self-replenishing. The hylians considered
continuous
the chosen of their goddess thanks to these
themselves
gifts, and grew haughty with time.
new
was this arrogance which would eventually pit them
It
those humans who had been more seperated from
against
Goddess. Forming the nation of the White Empire
the
their harp banner the hylians made skyborne war
beneath
the Purple Kingdom of the humans... but that is a
against
for another time.
story
the Descent the old islands of the White Empire
After
what is now the heartland of Hyrule. The first
formed
to crown Hylia as queeen of Hyrule were held
conclaves
the old imperial nobles and officers, and they
between
the core of the old nobility. They became the
became
gentry, the officers of the army, the new clergy. This
landed
a tradition which has held through the generations of
is
and which has become ingrained in the Hyrulian
Hyrule,
culture.
are considered formal and cerebral, if not
Hylians
practical. There are things which are not
particularly
for hylians to do, too mucky or too physical, and
appropriate
not appropriate for them to act. Though there are
ways
hylian peasants they are decidedly different to
certainly
types of human- or at least that's how things are
other
percieved.
truth of the matter is that hylians live largely the same
The
humans. They make up the majority of Hyrule's
as
perhaps seventy percent of it, and must turn
population,
hands to practical pursuits ultimately.
their
opinions of humans on this issue is.... complex. Most
The
are content to be ruled by those who are at least
humans
the same as they are, and consider the hylians
mostly
rulers. It would not, however, be wise for a hylian
capable
to push their luck regarding their supposed divine
ruler
providence.
divine magic in hylian blood gives them a number of
The
over other peoples, which are detailed below.
advantages
Score Increase: Your ability scores all increase
Ability
one, except for two of your choice which increase by
by
two.
Hylians mature and age at around the same rate as
Age:
humans, but it is unusual for them to die of old age
normal
the age of one hundred.
before
Alignment: Hylians have completely free will,
Typical
have no strong alignment tendencies.
and
Hylians are slightly shorter and slighter than
Size:
typically being between five and five and a half
humans,
tall and weighing eighty pounds. Your size Medium.
feet
Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Speed:
of the Goddesses: You know one clerical cantrip
Favour
addition to any other spells you may or may not know.
in
is your spellcasting ability for this cantrip.
Wisdom
the Divine: Hylians have advantage on
Hear
Born of the Divine Sky
Hylian Traits
The Founders of the Kingdom
wisdom(perception) checks based on sound.

they're just humans. Illiterate peasants and salt of
"But
earth farmers. They won't understand the campaign,
the
fathom the reasons we're out here."
won't
that everything you said was ridiculous, it
"Ignoring
matter. They're strong, brave, determined, and you
wouldn't
need decorum to chop off a goblin's head. I'd rather
don't
a dozen humans on my side than a score of hylians or
have
gerudo."
that ever-present umbrella that encompasses all
Humans,
humanity, are the world’s dominant race. Humans are
of
tilling their fields, fighting their wars, raising
everywhere,
children. True humans are, globally, the most
their
subtype of this race, although they are not a
common
in Hyrule itself.
majority
and broader than hylians, and notably shorter
Taller
humans live hard, full lives, most commonly as
lived,
or merchants. They make poor philosophers, but
peasants
are fine farmers and cobblers, and while a nation can
they
for many decades without revolutionary new
survive
it needs a steady supply of food and shoes or it
thoughts
Humans
MAN IS NO OBSTACLE,
but a hundred is a militia, a
thousand is an army, and ten
thousand is a legion. Give me a
legion of humans and I will crush
“ONE
anything you put in front of me.”
will collapse under its own weight in a matter of days.

the days of the Mythic era the ancient humans were
In
and contentious, always fighting amongst
splintered
with no unifying presence to speak of. They
themselves
for gods, for wealth and for safety, but whenever
fought
fought they were brave. They feared little, and what
they
did fear they sought to defeat.
they
was this bravery whichearned humanity the
It
of Farore, the Golden Goddess of Courage and
admiration
progenitor of all life. She appeared to the greatest and
the
courageous human of all, a man named Faron, and
most
to all of humanity saying that they were her chosen
spoke
and Faron was her prophet. With this divine
people
Faron forged the first great human nation, the
mandate
Empire or the Empire of Faron.
Emerald
Emerald Empire of humanity, the Sapphire Empire
The
the zora and the Ruby Empire of the gorons met and
of
up the world- all things below the waterline would
divided
to the zora, all things above the treeline would
belong
to the gorons, and all things between these
belong
would belong to humanity.
extremes
agreement held, and the Emerald empire achieved
This
things with its new allies. There was peace for
great
Imperial Era could not last forever, and met its death
The
the fires of the Great Invasion. For decades humanity
in
to preserve the world, and upon its victory they were
fought
to the heavens, to live safely among the clouds
transported
demon hordes ravaged the earth.
while
was in this new state that the ancient humans began
It
alterations. The children born to them were
experiencing
by the great magics Hylia had wrought to bring the
affected
people to the skies, and were born with subtle
entire
The new children had completely rounded ears,
changes.
the slight points of the ancient humans or the
unlike
points of the then also newly born hylians.
extreme
this was strange and new it was no cause for
Although
and the people accepted it as part of their new
concern,
lives.
the years passed further changes became apparent-
As
new children were taller than their parents had been,
the
also stronger and more resilient. These benefits were
and
offset by a more troubling revelation- the new
eventually
were also shorter lived than previous ones,
generations
a matter of decades earlier. Even humans raised in
dying
healthy environments could rarely expect to exceed
happy,
ninetieth year, and most died of old age before their
their
The new humans became humble and pious and
eightieth.
their old names of humans, seeing themselves as at
kept
merely the continuation of the old empire.
best
the humans learned to travel the sky they
When
the hylians, and were dismayed to find that
encountered
long-eared counterparts had recieved the opposite
their
they were longer-lived, and had become arrogant
changes-
humans had become humble. War came shortly
where
and it was harsh.
afterwards,
that war ended more than a millenium ago, old
Though
between the two main children of the empire do
tensions
flare from time to time, and those flares can and have
still
raging infernos.
become
the Descent came the human-dominant islands
When
on the peripheries of what is now Hyrule. Though
landed
first laws of the new kingdom forbade anyone to see
the
as different or lesser the absence of any humans
humans
the first conclaves also kept them from the first
from
of power.
positions
to this day humans remain something of a peasant
Even
This is not to be derided- they are practical, earthy,
people.
capable, but they are not poets or mages, and certainly
and
nobles.
not
humans accept this position. They live in closeknit
Broadly
but extended families, and work hard at their tasks.
have short lives but make the most of them, and
They
great feats in their limited time. They favour
accomplish
other than Hylia, especially Farore, with much of
deities
population preferring to worship the Great Deku Tree
the
all others. Most Jovians within Hyrule are also human,
over
they have a stronger tendency towards fringe folk
and
biology and upbringing of humans have noted affects
The
their lives, no matter their paths. Humans recieve the
on
Score Increase: Two ability scores of your choice
Ability
by one, and your Charisma, Dexterity,
increase
and Strength scores also increase by one.
Constitution
Humans can walk by the age of three and are
Age:
fully matured in their late teens. They can
considered
to live for around eighty years before their bodies
expect
functioning, although few will reach that age.
cease
Alignment: Humans have completely free will,
Typical
tend towards moderation. Strongly good and evil
but
are rare.
humans
Humans stand at around five and a half to six and a
Size:
feet tall, and weigh around one hundred and twenty
half
Your size is medium.
pounds.
Your walking speed is 30 feet.
Speed:
Humans may choose one feat at character
Practical:
creation.
The Chosen of Farore
Practical Problems
than any other people.
religions
Human Traits
thousands of years, and all was well.
The Birth of the New Humans
following benefits.

STRETCHED HIS ARM AS FAR
AIR
he could towards the gem below. He
AS
as the blood rushing to his head
winced
to build up to uncomfortable
started
he had been hanging here upside
levelsfor
nearly half an hour. One arm in
down
of and below him, reaching for the
front
and the other went down his front, between his legs
rupee,
grasping the chain that hung from the ceiling, from the
and
series of gears that was gradually moving
slowly-winding
around the room. They'd been carrying him for the last
him
minutes, over the noxious and lethal cloud that
thirty
the floor of the chamber, and now the glittering
covered
rupee was nearly in his grasp.
silver
on, COME ON!
Come
felt himself slip. He snatched outwards, flailing
Nair
for the crystal. His hand closed around its smooth
blindly
He smiled as he fell to the ground, the fog
surface.
Whatever happened next didn't matter. he was
dissipating.
man now.
a
most of the world the sheikah are a completely
To
quantity. Despite appearing identical to hylians
unknown
for their blood-red irises, sheikah live in their own
save
communities, follow their own strange ways, and
little
they are entirely cooperative with outsiders they
while
ever reveal their secrets. They speak their own
never,
preserved amidst the broader culture of
language,
they settle. They live in the cities of others, but
wherever
as little as possible. They are known to be an
mingle
culture, one that follows the Golden Faith in some
ancient
but all details are obscured by deliberate mists of
way,
secrecy.
those mists is the truth of the sheikah. Each and
Behind
member of the people is sworn to the Hyrulian
every
an ancestral pact more than one and a half millenia
throne,
Every sheikah is trained in secretive ways- a spy, a
old.
an assassin. They form a network beneath their
soldier,
church of darkness, a spreading lattice of agents and
own
beneath the ever-watching Sage of Shadow.
contacts
sheikah are more than a people. They are an order.
The
.
Sheikah
N

worship of the six Sages as intermediaries to the
The
Goddesses is not uncommon in Hyrule- many
Golden
for example add prayers to Saria into their normal
humans
routine, and the veneration of Gorko by the
religious
as a living ancestor borders on fanatical. The
gorons
however are different. All sheikah, everywhere, are
sheikah
by the same culture, the same ways and traditions.
bound
by the sage of shadows, whoever that may be, the
Headed
worship their ancestors and through their
sheikah
their single, distant progenitor, the Father of
ancestors
Seeking his approval they subject themselves to
Snakes.
trials, through which they may become greater.
terrible
only the most rudimentary knowledge of their
Taught
faith as children, all sheikah must travel to the city of
own
at some point in their lives, to undertake one of
Kakariko
seven deadly trials that can be found in the secret
the
beneath that city. Each trial is more dangerous
warrens
the last, each after the first is increasingly lethal, and
than
reveals another fresh truth about the red eyed people.
each
the first trial a sheikah can consider themselves an
After
and may fight and drink and act as any grown
adult,
may. After the second they may marry and have
sheikah
having proved their worth to the Sage of Shadow
children,
through her, their ancient ancestor. It is here that most
and,
end their dalliance with subterfuge, returning to
sheikah
which may be mundane or fantastical, but which could
lives
lived by anyone who has not passed the further tests.
be
may be smiths or merchants or soldiers and grow old
They
ever again visiting those terrible catacombs,
without
ever again putting their life on the line to earn the
without
sheikah do return to the trials. They take the further
Other
and become fully inducted into the Church of
tests,
as members of its travelling clergy, a clergy with
Serpents
churches or fixed abode beyond the tunnels of Kakariko.
no
they pass each trial they ascend in the ranks of their
As
from acolyte to Arch-Shadow. Each rank brings with
faith,
new knowledge, secrets long hidden from the wider
it
these secrets bring magical power, either
world,and
from the knowledge or taught by those higher in
gleaned
faith. It is with this knowledge and this magical
the
the clergymen travel Hyrule, guiding their kin
powercthat
the ways of the red-eyed faith.
in
is rare for a non-sheikah to know of the trials or the
It
in anything other than the absolutely broadest terms,
faith
no sheikah would dream of speaking of them or
and
their tongue to a non-sheikah on pain of death or
teaching
The few who know the secrets of the sheikah are
exile.
such as the queen of Hyrule or have extracted the
notables
reason for the extreme measures of the sheikah is
The
and based in a pair of oaths and a deep betrayal,
complex,
the Great Invasion two and a half millenia past, when
In
ground ruptured and horrific demons crawled from the
the
to tear down the kingdoms of man, there was a
depths
human warrior who stood against them. This man's
great
is long forgotten, but he is remembered by his
name
the Father of Snakes, and he was a peerless
honorific,
In time the Father assembled a following of many
assassin.
and women who wished to fight with him, and
men
these followers delved deep into dark, dangerous
together
in order to enhance their abilities. These magics
magics
the blood of these shadow warriors, turning their
tainted
white and their eyes red. Their children bore the same
hair
stigmata, and so did their childrens' children. Thus
arcane
Father of Snakes became the ancestor of all sheikah.
the
Hylia lifted the mortals of the world to the sky it
When
the Father of Snakes and his followers who swore to
was
the seal on the Demon King Demise, and that
maintain
children and grandchildren would uphold this oath.
their
a millenium they held true to their word, never once
For
in their vigil until at last the Hero of the World
wavering
the new Hylia descended from theheavens and slew
and
great evil which the sheikah had been guarding. In
the
the ancient sheikah swore a new oath, a promise of
thanks
to the Hero and his Queen, an oath which they hold
loyalty
to today. The modern sheikah honour, serve,
themselves
protect the royal family, above all things. This is their
and
which all must take.
vow,
has been but one breaking of that oath. At some
There
in Hyrule's early history the sheikah committed a
point
sin which lead to untold death and suffering. Its exact
grave
is not known to any, save the Archshadows and the
nature
herself, but its existence reminds the sheikah to
Sage
themselves and each other, to uphold their promise
watch
any cost.
at
The Binding Trials
favour of the Sage of Shadow.
The Shadowed Clergy
information through less than voluntary means.
Oath Eternal and Shame Forever
all in the distant past.

sheikah are a friendly enough folk, and nobody could
The
them of being unkind as a people, but their
accuse
is something many find suspicious. The sheikah
seperation
be people like any other, but not all appreciate their
may
presence.
Hyrulians distrust the sheikah, making their own
Many
signs when they see the red-eyed humans scuttling
warding
their cities. Few could argue that they are any real
through
sheikah can be relied on absolutely, and they are
threatfollowers
of the royal family for sure- but there is
loyal
that niggling doubt.
always
Hyrule the fate of sheikah can be much worse.
Beyond
no real loyalty to foreign crowns, crowns which
With
oaths say must be disobeyed if they ever go against
sheikah
sheikah can be considered treacherous and often
Hyrule,
unpopular. Their population beyond Hyrule remains
deeply
as a result, and they are unwelcome in many cities
small
towns beyond Hyrule's borders.
and
have every reason any mortal has to become an
Sheikah
money, fame, an escape from a dull life or an
adventurer-
of rebellion against another. On top of this all sheikah
act
trained as elusive spies and assassins, skills which will
are
any adventurer well on their travels.
serve
make fine warriors and magicians of all stripes.
Sheikah
may serve in any faith, although they must also
Sheikah
true to their own ways, and may be clerics for any
remain
The Church of Snakes also has its own clergy, of
deity.
but many of its members would be best expressed
course,
paladins, or even warlocks should Purah see fit to grant
as
some of the power she has available from her
them
magics in the sheikah bloodlines and the training they
The
in order to pass their trials set them up well for the
recieve
of an adventurer. All sheikah characters recieve the
life
adjustments to their profile.
following
Score Increase: Your Dexterity score increases
Ability
two and your Intelligence score increases by one.
by
Sheikah age identically to Humans, but can live for
Age:
and a half centuries before death.
one
Alignment: Sheikah have completely free will,
Typical
tend towards the extremes of good and evil. Evil
but
are rare, but often exceptionally dangerous.
sheikah
Sheikah are built identically to hylians. Your size is
Size:
medium.
Your walking speed is 35 feet.
Speed:
Trials: Sheikah characters gain proficiency in
The
blowpipes, shortswords and hand crossbows, as
daggers,
as the dexterity skills of stealth, acrobatics, and sleight
well
hand. of
Sheikah have darkvision to a range of sixty feet.
Senses:
You can speak, read and write Hyrulian and
Languages:
Darkness Breeds Suspicion
Roaming Darkness
Sagehood.
Sheikah Traits
Serpentine.

all the world there is no place quite like the Shahdom,
In
no people quite like the gerudo. Superficially
and
similar to hylians save for their vividly golden
appearing
the gerudo are an all-female race of humans hailing
eyes,
the deserts west of Hyrule of Hyrule, bound by an
from
curse born from their ancestors' treachery. They
ancient
in an incredibly strict caste system, in which the
live
of your birth determines your entire life. It is a
manner
where people can be sold like cattle, and witchcraftthe
place
act of liaising with demons for power- is commonplace.
gerudo are all women, with one exception being born
The
every one hundred years. The one man is crowned
roughly
once he comes of age, and every gerudo woman at
king
time is considered his wife. The gerudo society is
that
stratified into castes based on the distance of their
strictly
to the king.
relations
daughters of a king- any king- are the highest cate,
The
priestesses. They are caste of scholars and mages and,
the
clergywomen. They are the governors of the
indeed,
and its leaders, who direct the nation in all
Shahdom,
Gerudo
Ten Thousand Daughters
things.

daughters of priestesses are high warriors, the elite
The
and generals of the shahdom, and their daughters
forces
in turn the low warriors, the soldiers of the nation. The
are
castes provide security and law in times of peace
warrior
are the only ones who may possess weapons when the
and
is not directly at war.
Shahdom
children of low warriors are, unless they are
The
of the priestess class through having the King as
members
father, no longer gerudo. Instead they are hegrud, halfgerudo,
their
and form a caste of artisans and other skilled
The hegrud lack the golden eyes of gerudo in
workers.
(but not all) cases, and the children of hegrud are
most
to also be hegrud. Hegrud can be male or
considered
but males are considered lesser and can never
female,
women.
command
there are the slaves, the untouchables, the lowest
Finally
of society. Slaves have no gerudo blood by their very
caste
and no rights beyond those their mistresses
definition
to give them. Some gerudo treat their slaves
choose
well, as household slaves in the old imperial
comparatively
but others own hordes of undesirables in a form of
way,
slavery, mining or farming until death. The worst
chattel
to await slaves and captives however is that of mindcutting,
fate
also known as Cleaving, using witchcraft to open
slave's brain, mind and soul in order to remove
the
aspects of all three and making obedient, tireless
unwanted
Cleaving is frowned upon by many, but as with
servants.
activities of the Priestess caste it is not explicitly
most
gerudo Shahdom- named for the Shah, the title of the
The
who rules it- is an extremely wealthy nation
man
its comparatively low population. The gerudo
considering
is the overland pass to many distant lands almost
desert
in Hyrule. The Transvin kingdoms, the Yindus
mythical
and the mighty Xin empire can all be reached
peninsular,
a sandship which wishes to brave the deep desert. The
by
is the gateway to and from these places, and it
Shahdom
a constant and lucrative trade, exchanging the goods
does
Hyrule and its neighbouring kingdoms for those of
of
lands. Spices, silk and tea flow one way, and in
distant
flows tallow and iron and worked glass, all meeting
return
the markets of the Shahdom which buzz with a hundred
in
languages.
clamouring
Shahdom also grows rich from raiding, although
The
this is far from sanctioned. Gerudo pirates
officially
sporadic outposts on the west coast of lake Hylia
maintain
their own eastern border, and periodically send raiding
and
across the borders of Sarios, Arcadia and Hyrule
parties
The outer territoties of the darknut citadels and the
itself.
of the Green Frontier also often find themselves
kingdoms
attack, masked women on horseback striking farms
under
the dead of night before vanishing into the dark
in
times of peace the Shahdom is a hub of culture and
In
producing some of the world's most beautiful
artistry,
and works, as well as being at the forefront of
structures
arcane fields- demonology is not forbidden in the
many
meaning that the gerudo are one of the few
Shahdom,
who truly appreciate the nature of the monsters
peoples
lie below the world. It is also a land with a deep
which
with many ancient and vast structures of the
history,
and mythic era rising from the sands of the desert.
imperial
Shahdom is both a great partner and terrible rival to
The
The two nations have a difficult but working
Hyrule.
and the future between them is always
relationship,
suspect.
hundred years ago the Sage of Spirit, Gerus, took
Fifteen
family and followers deep into the desert to the west of
his
This clan of followers grew and grew, developing a
Hyrule.
presence and culture of its own in the depths of the
unique
Over time the name of the tribe changed, corrupting
desert.
contracting to become "gerudo", meaning children of
and
in an extremely roundabout way.
Gerus
gerudo's seperation from Hyrule only grew over the
The
This came to a head when, five centuries after Gerus
years.
for the desert, Hyrule was split by a great civil war
left
as the Scrambling. This was a titanic, truly tragic
known
which would have impacts throughout the rest of
conflict
in which dozens of independent factions vied to
history,
the omnipotent power of the Triforce. The mortal
seize
of the Gerus tribe saw this as an opportunity, and on
king
orders a pair of twin witches were used to form a
his
with an eldritch entity known only as Bagamanah.
covenant
covenant of witchcraft would be formed on behalf of
This
entire tribe, and the entity gave the tribe great power in
the
for its worship.
exchange
the Sage of Spirit heard of this he returned to his
When
to dissuade them from their dark path, but he
descendants
ignored and eventually slain by the twin witches, once
was
on the order of the king. The gerudo went on to
again
in the scrambling, and though they fought fiercely
compete
were ultimately unsuccessful in claiming the Triforce.
they
to their desert to lick their wounds the gerudo
Returning
accused Bagamanah of failing the gerudo. This sent
king
sand goddes into a terribe rage, causing her to place
the
blood curse of the gerudo. This curse meant that the
the
a people obsessed with their lineage and birthrightwould
gerudoonly
have one man born to them every century, and
through the will of Bagamanah would he be born at all.
only
this way Bagamanah ensured the future subservience
In
the gerudo, a subservience which continues to this day.
of
modern gerudo faith may be bizarre to outsiders,
The
as it does around scraps of old religions and the
revolving
faith, but it is still a religion venerating Bagamanah
Jovian
The Blood Curse
illegal.
The Jewel of the Desert
at its core.

have a tendency towards distant, elegant-sounding
Gerudo
Obviously all gerudo names are female. The names
names.
hegrud are usually the same as the names of gerudo but
of
a hard consonant (such as an d or k) affixed to the end
with
denote masculinity.
to
female names: Alina, Anahita, Ariana, Atusa,
Gerudo
Bita, Daria, Fariba, Farzaneh, Fereshteh, Hana,
Azadeh,
Khorshid, Kira, Mahd-i, Mahnoosh, Mahshid,
Hayat,
Maryam, Marzieh, Mozhgan, Nadia, Nargess,
Mahtab,
Nazanin, Negar, Negin, Nika, Niloufar, Nina, Parisa,
Nasrin,
Roya, Rudaba, Sanaz, Sareh, Sepideh, Setareh,
Roshanak,
Shantia, Shohreh, Sima, Simin, Sindukht, Soraya,
Shai,
Tahmina, Tala, Taraneh, Ulya, Wafaa, Yasmin,
Susan,
Zohreh
innate magic and living conditions of the gerudo have
The
them to deviate markedly from other hylians. These
caused
Score Increase: Your Dexterity and Charisma
Ability
increase by one.
scores
Gerudo age identically to hylians, although male
Age:
remain in good health until the day they die.
gerudo
Alignment: Gerudo are free willed and
Typical
but their society in which slaves are common
intelligent,
them towards evil. More senior gerudo tend to be
tends
chaotically inclined.
more
Gerudo are built identically to hylians. Your size is
Size:
medium.
Your base walking speed is 40 feet (if a Warrior
Speed:
gerudo) or 35 feet (if a hegrud or Priestess Caste
Caste
gerudo).
to One: Gerudo have advantage on saving
Cursed
and skill checks to resist mental effects (such as
throws
charms and fear, but not paralysing effects) and
sleep,
illusions, unless the effects or illusions are being
discern
by the power of Bagamanah.
produced
Score Increase: Your Charisma score increases by
Ability
one.
Scholars: You know one warlock cantrip in
Arcane
to any other spells you may or may not know.
addition
is your spellcasting ability for this cantrip. You
Charisma
not choose the Eldritch Blast cantrip with this feature.
may
and Wisdom: You have proficiency in the
Guidance
(History) and (Arcana) skills.
Intelligence(Religion),
Score Increase: Your Dexterity score increases by
Ability
one.
Training: You are proficient with light armour,
Warrior
bows and crossbows, slings, daggers, shortswords,
all
and the scimitar.
glaives,
You have proficiency in the
Cavalrywoman:
Score Increase: Two different ability scores of your
Ability
other than Charisma or Dexterity, increase by one.
choice,
of the Curse: Hegrud receive a +1 modifier
Remnants
saving throws and skill checks to resist mental effects
on
as sleep. charm and fear, but not paralysing effects)
(such
discern illusions, and increase their passive perception
and
one point for this purpose. They do not benefit from
by
to One.
Cursed
Caste: You gain proficiency with any one type of
Artisan
tools, and any two skills or tools.
artisans’
Names
Warrior Caste
Handling) skill.
Wisdom(Animal
Hegrud
Expies make life easier.
When in doubt, gerudo names and titles should
be persian, preferably ancient. Cultural affects
from the area also work well.
Bagamanah and her religion are deliberately
vague and entirely up to the DM, as all things are.
However it would be most fitting to base her off
Ahura Mazda, the deity of the Zoroastrian faith.
She is not intended to be islamic in nature- that
is instead the purview of Jovianism.
Gerudo Traits
traits affect gerudo characters, and are detailed here.
A note on Half-Breeds
Although there are a great many sentient races in
Hyrule almost none are interfertile. No race can
have children with another- a zora and human
cannot ever concieve a child no matter the love
they feel any more than a bear could mate with a
shark. Different types of goblin also cannot
interbreed, and nor can zora and zola.
The only case of interfertility is the various
clades of humanity, who are fully interfertile.
Gerudo, hylians, sheikah and humans can all
interbreed easily, with the child produced being
wholly of the same race as its mother.
The hegrud are a s;oght alteration to this rule.
The child of a low warrior gerudo will always be a
hegrud. After this hiccup normalcy reasserts
itself- the children of female hegrud will in turn
also be hegrud, and the children of male hegrud
will inherit the race of their mother.
The only exception to these rules is that the
child of a male gerudo will always be a full
gerudo of the priestess caste. The king renews
the curse, bringing the touch of bagamanah to
the child and completely dictating the child's
nature.
You must pick one of the subraces below.
Subrace:
Priestess Caste

is nothing quite like a goron. Not fish nor fowl nor
There
red herring, a goron is a rocky humanoid, eight foot
good
and nearly as wide. His flesh made of stone and his
tall
of crystal. He eats rocks instead of meat and plants,
eyes
doesn’t require air or water. He wades through lava
and
like a man might swim a river, but sinks in water like
floes
stone he is. He lives an odd life, without family ties or
the
of his own, being but a cog in a vast
possessions
of brothers, eking out a living from the harsh
community
mountains of his homeland.
volcanic
and often even beloved in Hyrule, the
Accepted
strong gorons have been close allies of
impossibly
for millenia, for all their strange little quirks.
humanity
are friends to most, and there is nowhere they are not
They
.
Gorons
G
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oron
welcome.

stated, gorons do not have anything resembling a
As
anatomy. There are no female gorons, nor
conventional
ones. The rocky spines that sprout from a goron’s
male
grow over its life until they fall to the ground, burrow
back
the bedrock, and begin the long progress of digesting it
into
form a new goron.
to
do not see the world conventionally either- their
Gorons
receive sound and impact from the world around
eyes
letting them see without even the tiniest slivers of
them,
They can drink lava as sport, but grow slow and
light.
in cold weather. Their teeth are impervious
sedentary
and can grind even solid granite into dust for
crystal,
Their skin is stone, their nerves are silicon,
consumption.
their blood is a thick, grainy gel.
and
rocks as they do and having no real biology a
Eating
would recognise, gorons are incredibly resilient.
human
cannot be harmed with mere heat, and do not
They
with age, only grow. As he ends his first century of
degrade
a goron will be considered an adult, and stand a little
life
than a human. At the end of his fifth century he will
taller
more than twice this height, and have accrued a wealth
be
experience he will use to guide his kin. He will also grow
of
more lethargic, until he reaches around a millenium of
ever
At this point he will be as tall and broad as a castle,
age.
barely willing to move, instead content to sit and wait
and
merge with the very rock itself, returning to one-ness
to
the bones of the world.
with
is for these reasons that gorons have historically
It
been friends of humanity- once one surmounts their
always
fear of such physically imposing creature one finds
natural
to recommend about gorons. They do not compete
much
humans for land or food, and make strong, tireless
with
Without a traditional family structure gorons form
workers.
bonds easily, making them loyal friends and staunch
strong
Cynics and the generally impious have long noted
allies.
perhaps it is no coincidence that the “chosen” races of
that
and zora have long cooperated so well with
gorons
and question whether the choice truly predated
humanity,
cooperation as opposed to just being a justification of
that
it.
the modern day the gorons possess a bare fraction of
In
former strength, but are still a formidable and
their
people. In the craggy heights and cavernous
memorable
of the volcanic Eldin range north of Hyrule the
depths
have carved their own kingdom, a communal
gorons
in a truly inhospitable place. It is a place in which
society
are welcome but few other than the gorons would ever
all
to stay, where smoke fills the scorching air and little
want
could ever hope to grow.
nature
travel often into the lowlands to work as miners
Gorons
farmers or traders, and can be found throughout the
or
and uncivilised world. There are few places a
civilised
is not welcome- even goblins and zola feel little ill
goron
towards the gorons, as the gorons are very difficult to
will
or rob- and the stone men of Din take full advantage of
eat
fact, making their way across the world to any home
this
the gorons, history begins many millennia before the
To
of humanity. The gorons believe they arose from the
rise
magma that flowed across the world and slowly
primordial
their own civilisation, the only creatures on the
built
surface. Their songs tell of how the world cooled,
world’s
how plants and animals arose across the world.
and
millennia upon millennia the gorons bore the weight
For
sentience alone, the sole intelligent race in existence.
of
grew lazy and fat in their luxurious world, and so the
They
Goddess of Power and Fire, Din, sent them a test.
Golden
gorons were beset by terrifying new creatures for ten
The
years- a war against goron-hunting monstrosities,
thousand
dodongos and nejiron and worse. This was the Iron
against
war, and it was fought for the very survival of the
Dawn
as a people.
gorons
the end the gorons were triumphant, and Din
In
to Eldin, the strongest of their people, to reward
appeared
with her favour. With her love binding them the gorons
him
a glorious empire, unifying themselves under Eldin’s
forged
They discovered other intelligent creatures- first the
flag.
dragons, but later they were blessed by the
mighty
of the zora and eventually humanity.
appearance
gorons led the world in the ways of artifice and
The
enjoying millennia of peace with their new
civilisation,
until eventually war came to them once again. First a
allies
with the zora came to divide them, and then the Great
war
of demons laid the world low. Although the gorons
Invasion
much of their great civilisation they fought without
lost
or retreat, and were rewarded with their
compromise
once again.
survival
Men of Stone
Chosen of Din
Communes of Fire
that will accept them.

utterly alien as they are there are many aspects to a
Being
which would be worth noting for an adventurer.
goron
Score Increase: Your Strength and Constitution
Ability
increase by two.
scores
Gorons are “born” aware and intelligent. As they
Age:
gorons get larger, slower, and more lethargic. They are
age
physically capable and coordinated by the end
considered
their first century, and it is at this age thatt most gorons
of
to experience the world. After five centuries they will
seek
considered "fathers", the largest and most powerful
be
gorons. A goron ending their first millennia will still
active
alive and healthy, but almost completely nonresponsive
be
will soon simply choose to stop moving.
and
Alignment: Gorons tend to be staid, communal
Typical
traditional, and so tend towards a lawful alignment.
and
Your walking speed is 20 feet.
Speed:
Gorons are made of stone, and do not need
Monolithic:
sleep (and cannot be forced to), breathe, or drink. They
to
however need to eat rocks as other races eat food, and
do
fatuigue as normal.
accrue
Biology: Gorons are immune to poison
Lithovoric
and the poisoned condition. A goron's AC is
damage
increased by one at all times.
permanently
Gorons gain fatigue at half the normal
Endothermic:
in warm environments (such as volcanic reaches and
rate
but twice the normal rate in cold environments
deserts)
as tundra or mountaintops). Gorons who choose to
(such
immune to cold damage at character creation have this
be
reversed.
trait
Most gorons are made of stone with
Fireborn/Iceborn:
of gelatinous sand, but some few are of a more
blood
frosty nature. Gorons are immune to either fire
crystalline,
cold damage, but vulnerable to the other damage type.
or
Gorons see through refracted sound. They have
Senses:
normal sight, accurate blindsight to a range of thirty
no
and perceive the world beyond this range only as a
feet,
of dim, indistinct shapes, which should frequently
series
disadvantage to many types of rolls. If a goron is
give
it is also blinded, and they cannot see through
deafened
silence.
magical
of Arm: Gorons have double the normal
Strong
capacity.
carrying
Group: Pick one of the growth groups
Growth
to repesent your age.
below
Sons are the youngest fully mobile gorons, and are
Size:
between three and six feet tall. You weigh around
anywhere
Brothers are generally anywhere between six and ten
Size:
tall, and roughly as broad. You weigh around 700
feet
and your size is large.
pounds,
You have disadvantage on all dexterity saving
Oaf:
Fathers are the oldest gorons still active, generally
Size:
to fifteen feet tall, and roughly as broad. You weigh
ten
6,000 pounds, and your size is huge.
around
Curse of Lethargy: You have automatically fail all
The
saving throws and skill rolls, and go last in the
dexterity
order. Your AC is permanently decreased by two
initiative
points.
Skin: You may take the Tough feat for free.
Thickened
Goron Traits
Growth Groups
Son
pounds and your size is medium.
400
Brother
These aspects are detailed here.
and skill rolls, including initiative rolls.
throws
Father
The Price of Eternity
Gorons are long-lived to the point of functional
immortality, but their lethargy eventually proves
lethal as they merge with the ground around
them. This fate can be avoided by repeatedly
removing a goron’s outer layers to keep it small
and responsive, but this has disastrous effects on
the goron’s physical ability.

audience, his fins bristling and gills
the
in excitement as he recited his
trembling
His voice was clear and bright, and
verse.
out across the amphitheatre and
rang
to the surface above. "For where is
stretched
heart in the body? The core of the body,
the
the lungs? A foolish notion says I, for it cannot be
betwixt
such a great component of my soul has such earthly
that
form.
our hearts are ethereal, ephemeral, the core of
""Instead
soul and beyond. They are our virtue and our hopes.
the
it not Lanayru himself who said, 'the heart is the seed
Was
which the spirit grows eternally, an absolute core
from
which all reality springs..."
from
soliloquy went on for nearly ten minutes, but the
The
ovation nearly matched it.
standing
the surface of Hyrule’s many waters swim the
Beneath
A more graceful and wise people you could never
zora.
to meet, but also possessed of an indefinable sadness
hope
sense of loss. To many in Hyrule the zora are cursed to
and
fortune- certainly this would explain the many disasters
ill
have befallen them as a people.
that
are an odd people, seperate from the surface
They
but not completely apart from them, a piscine race
dwellers
a mammalian world. They have their own customs, land,
in
bizarre biological processes, but while many find the
and
strange and unnerving they are still ultimately people,
zora
possess every quirk and flaw that any people do.
and
and lithe, there is something unspeakably alluring
Tall
the zora. Humanoid for certain with finely scaled
about
that nearly glows from within, perhaps with an
skin
shimmer or a soft pastel hue. Hairless by nature,
iridescent
tails or tendrils falling from their scalp in an
with
of the appearance of other races.
emulation
eyes vary wildly in design, from unusually colourful
Their
eyes to solid black orbs from which no pupils can
human
discerned. On their limbs grow fins and on their necks
be
allowing them to swim at incredible speeds beneath
gills,
water’s surface.
the
are a beautiful and serene people, and one never
They
Zora
TSULITS CAST AN ARM OUT TOWARD
People of the Second Sphere
truly gets accustomed to their presence.

zora can be found in moderate numbers across
Although
and the world the majority of the race lives in The
Hyrule
a small, semi-independent nation in the Snowpeak
Domain,
northwest of Hyrule. A series of interconnected
mountains
rivers and glaciers, the Domain’s location gives the
lakes,
both a tremendous power and a great responsibility-
zora
of the water in Hyrule flows from its lakes, and if it
most
to fall to an invading force the results could be
were
disastrous.
zora are ruled by a king or queen, a position passed
The
by the judgment of the ruler. A zora monarch is rarely a
on
of their predecessor, and is instead chosen
descendant
the population based on their skills in crucial fields of
from
governance such as poetry, sculpture and their
national
of classical zora philosophy. In theory these
knowledge
are completely independent of Hyrule- in
monarchs
the depth of the alliance the two nations share and
practice
level of power disparity between them means that the
the
rarely refuse the requests of the Hyrulian crown. It is
zora
likely that they would be unable to resist even if they
also
to their own legends the zora arose in the deep
According
many years before humanity, a naturally formed
oceans
watched and fostered by the Golden Goddess of
race
and water, Nayru. In them she nurtured
wisdom
which culminated in the creation of a beautiful
intelligence,
by the primitive zora, something so complex and
artwork
that it could not be remembered or explained.
wonderful
with pride and awe, Nayru chose the zora as
Overcome
favoured people, appearing to the wisest of them all, the
her
artist Lanayru. Bound by Lanayru’s vision the
venerable
united beneath him, praising Nayru as their deity
zora
all others. This utopia lasted for several centuries
above
what is known as the deep war.
until
day, without warning or reason, the ground of the
One
floor cracked asunder. From the trenches beneath
ocean
waves came the zola, a horrifying abomination of the
the
who tore the zora empire to dust. For millenia the
zora,
struggled as primitive savages until Nayru sent them
zora
greatest gift- the Leviathans. Colossal aquatic creatures
her
staggering intelligence, the leviathans forced the zola
of
and allowed the zora to rebuild their former glory.
back
time the zola were driven out of the ocean and into
In
and onto the land, and the zora declared their
freshwater
empire, venerating the Leviathans alongside Nayru
new
Although it was beset by many woes, not least a
herself.
apocalyptic war with the gorons, the new zora
seemingly
lasted for centuries until being torn once again in
empire
Great Invasion.
the
Invasion was hard on the Sapphire Empire of
The
Much of the zora race was slain as their empire
Lanayru.
and indeed they suffered worse than any others at the
fell,
of the demons. Even today the zora hate the demon
hands
Bellum above all other things, and his existence
prince
the strongest base for their current divide with the
forms
zola.
zora have never recovered their old glory. The Deep
The
the Stone War, the Great Invasion, the Scrambling,
War,
Civil War, the Nihil War- each of these hit the zora hard,
the
they remain weakened. Nevertheless the zora retain a
and
belief in their own qualities, and hope for what the
great
race of fish people is strange, even in Hyrule, and this
A
translates into changes which would be
strangeness
Score Increase: Your Wisdom score increases by
Ability
and your Charisma score increases by one.
two,
Zoras mature rapidly but strangely- they are born as
Age:
which can swim from the moment they hatch, and
tadpoles
the age of three have undergone a kind of
by
to produce legs. They are considered
metamorphosis
by eight, and venerable by fifty, but can live in this
mature
state well into their second century, during which
venerable
grow rotund and slovenly.
they
Alignment: Zora tend to be free- willed and
Typical
if poorly organised and disparate, and so tend
independent,
chaotic alignments.
towards
Zora are tall and humanoid, but very slight and
Size:
typically being between six and six and a half feet
slender,
and weighing eighty pounds. Your size Medium.
tall
Your base walking speed is 30 feet. Your base
Speed:
speed is sixty feet.
swimming
Zora can be frozen solid with no ill effects,
Cryostasis:
are still vulnerable to snap freezing. Zora are resistant
but
cold damage, and become sapped for one hour whenever
to
take cold damage or are exposed to cold weather.
they
sapped a zora is immune to cold damage and the
While
of cold weather, and can be frozen alive without
effects
Their dexterity is also reduced by two points for
penalty.
duration.
the
Zora have a natural ability to produce
Bioelectricity:
Zora are resistant to lightning damage. As an
electricity.
they can discharge their bioelectric pouches- all
action
within ten feet (or twenty feet if you and they are
creatures
must pass a dexterity save, with a DC equal to
underwater)
plus your proficiency bonus plus your Constitution
eight
or take d6 lightning damage. This ability’s damage
bonus,
by 1d6 when you reach 5th level (2d6), 11th level
increases
and 17th level (4d6).
(3d6),
Zora can breathe underwater. They must drink
Aquatic:
as much as a land based creature and cannot benefit
twice
a long rest without access to enough water to wash
from
themselves.
of the sea folk...: Zora are vulnerable to fire
Each
but resistant to lightning damage.
damage,
The Domain
Zora Traits
experienced by zora characters.
to, although history has many notable exceptions.
wished
Legacy of Loss
future will bring.

The Barbarous
The fire of life burns in us, bright even when unbidden by you and yours, beyond the
sight of law and order and regimented life. There, on the edges of the world, you will
find us, waiting.

the dawn of time the goblin tribes have been the
Since
rivals of humanity. Since aeons immemorial they
greatest
contested mankind's control of the land, raiding
have
settlements and taking whatever can be found.
human
are a slightly animalistic people, possessed of a
Goblins
culture with an intricate heirarchy of peoples.
complex
speak their own language, and worship their own
They
Long since pushed to the edges of the habitable
gods.
goblins strike back whenever they can, and the
world,
people are all entirely aware of this.
civilised
is little to unify the goblins as a people beyond a
There
opposition to humanity. Their sizes differ wildly, as
shared
their stances, builds, and facial appearances. Their
do
are different too, and with different minds come
minds
different dispositions.
wildly
are the most commonly encountered goblins,
Moblins
arguably the greatest constant threat to Hyrule. Tall,
and
heavily muscled, reasonably intelligent, extremely
broad,
and highly militaristic, moblins peer out at the world
brave
small piggy eyes over an equally porcine snout. Their
from
coats are usually a mottled red to better blend into the
fur
in their forested hunting grounds, but other
undergrowth
are known to exist.
colours
can be found anywhere their mounts can take
Bulblins
Wiry and short, with round faces, short snouts,
them.
green fur and very red eyes, bulblin are quick
dappled
but not especially intelligent- their thoughts are
thinkers,
but small. They eke out a nomadic existence, always
rapid
the move, arriving as vast bands of ululating beast riders
on
firing a hundred arrows.
and
live in the deep forests, where they war
Bokoblins
with the deku tribes. Around the height of a
constantly
but rangy and potbellied with ugly, stretched faces,
man,
are masters of the undergrowth, moving with stealth
they
belies their pale purple and blue fur. Guerillas without
that
actions to oust them from their homes with
compare,
short of vastly overwhelming force is inevitably
anything
to failure, to the point where they sometimes form
doomed
Goblins
Goblin Quote
The Measure of a Goblin
an additional ring of protection for the forests.

are small, vicious creatures that make their
Miniblins
in and around the camps of the tribes of other,
homes
goblins. The size of a child, their faces are wide and
larger
mouths filled with fangs that protrude even when
their
mouths are closed. Their fur comes in all colours,
their
specked with black. Their weapons are as vicious
usually
they are, barbed spears and tridents which make the
as
stab the least of a victim's worries.
initial
are the largest sentient creatures on the face
Megablins
the planet, excepting gorons and the deeply arcane races
of
dragons and leviathans. They are enormous,
like
muscled, and bandy-legged, with a dim-witted
grotesquely
that stays hunched below their shoulders, and faces
head
of the more ugly kinds of hound. Most are a
reminiscent
bluish-grey in colour. Hinoxes are a rare mutation
mottled
megablin, born with only one eye for reasons unknown
of
science, which is as apatthetic on the subject as the
to
themselves are.
hinoxes
goblins themselves have no written history, and
The
have no fathoming of where they may have come
humans
Goblins are recorded as having been in constant
from.
with humanity- and later the zora- since the
conflict
era, and likely the mythic times. There is no real
imperial
for this enmity- it has simply always been.
origin
goblins hold that they were the creations of
Some
Others hold that they came from othersources,
demons.
as the allfathers of the alifos. The Golden Faith itself
such
that the goblins are the goddesses' mistake, and that
says
calamity harvested their weakness to birth the first
the
Most goblins don’t particularly care either way
demons.
they came from. Their religions instead focus
where
the here and now- around local spirits who will
around
their path, around small gods who will give them the
guide
they need to achieve victory, around the strongest
strength
brightest of their tribe who they hold will lead them to
and
prosperity.
hunt and gather for their food, and farm little.
Goblins
to all of these options however is theft- humans
Preferable
taken all the best land for themselves, and grow fat on
have
they produce on land bought with violence. As such
what
raid civilisation whenever possible, and are a
goblins
threat that must be watched for. Caravans are a
constant
prey, but more confident goblins may attack
preferred
farmsteads or even villages.
isolated
prefer to attack on foot, usually armed with
Moblins
Bulblin arrive on the backs of bulbos, enormous
glaives.
of vile temperament and smell, firing as they come.
boars
often resort to waterborne piracy, sailing from
Miniblin
coves along the Hyral sea. Wherever one goes, one
hidden
find goblins there ready to attack.
can
Score Increase: Your Wisdom score increases by
Ability
one.
Goblins age at different rates.
Age:
mature at roughly twice the human rate, but
Moblins
age twice again as fast, with bulblins and
miniblins
forming a rough middle ground. Megablins age
bokoblins
to humans.
similarly
Alignment: Goblins are very bad at accepting
Typical
authority and very poorly organised - they are usually
any
chaotic.
Goblins have a walking speed of 30 feet, except
Speed:
miniblins who have a walking speed of 25 feet.
for
and Fanged: Goblins can use their unarmed
Clawed
as a versatile weapon. If they do so then their attack
attack
1(d6) damage instead. This ability’s damage increases
does
dice size when you reach 5th level to 1(d8), 11th level 10
a
and 17th level 1(d12).
1(d10),
Sense of Smell: Goblins have advantage on
Keen
checks based on smell.
wisdom(perception)
You must choose one of the following
Subraces:
Score Increase: Your Strength score increases by
Ability
two.
Moblins are tall and broad and muscular- they
Size:
at around seven feet tall and weigh one hundred and
stand
pounds. Your size is medium.
fifty
You are proficient with shields, light and
Militarised:
Score Increase: Your Dexterity and Wisdom
Ability
increase by one.
scores
Bulblins are short and rangy- they stand at around
Size:
and a half to five feet tall and weigh seventy pounds.
four
size is medium. Beastmasters: You are proficient with
Your
Wisdom(animal handling) skill. If you have interacted
the
the animal in question for a day or more you instead
with
expertise.
have
Score Increase: Your Dexterity score increases by
Ability
two.
Bokoblins are wiry in the limbs but stout in the
Size:
they stand around five and a half feet tall and weigh
belly,
hundred pounds. Your size is medium.
one
Hunters: You can try to hide when lightly
Woodland
by foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and
obscured
natural phenomena. You also have proficiency in the
other
Score Increase: Your Dexterity score increases by
Ability
two.
Miniblin are small and slight, around three feet tall
Size:
weighing around twenty pounds. Your size is small.
and
You can re-roll any rolls when rolling damage
Vicious:
a critical hit.
for
Score Increase: Your Strength score increases by
Ability
Size: Megablin are around twelve feet tall and around
two.
broad at the shoulders, weighing around one thousand
as
Your size is large.
pounds.
The Intelligence and Wisdom scores of a
Imbeciles:
cannot be raised above ten without external
megablin
such as magic. Megablins also have
assistance
on all wisdom, intelligence and charisma
disadvantage
subraces.
Moblin
No Past, No Memories
armor, and all reach weapons.
medium
Bulblin
Bokoblin
To the Strongest
skill.
Wisdom(survival)
Miniblin
Megablin;
Goblin Traits.
saves, as well as all initiative rolls.

humanoids with long fangs and sharp claws, the
Saurian
are a people with a clear and stark divide. On one
alifos
of this are the militant alifos- bestial, violent creatures
side
dwell in tribes in the hot, humid places of the world
who
strike at civilisation when they can. On the other side
and
the peaceful alifos, obsessive reptilian creatures who
are
militant alifos (sometimes known collectively as
The
are, like the zola, obsessed with violence. Some
lizalfos)
more organised than their aquatic counterparts, but
are
could be said to be collected or regimented. The
none
of you enemies- whoever you choose for that to be- is
defeat
to a lizalfos, and comes before all other things.
paramount
Geru, and Daira are the largest of the militant
Dinolfos,
Tall and strong, with jaws that can crush a man’s
alifos.
like an eggshell, they are naturally built for intensive
head
The physical distinctions between the three
combat.
are difficult to discern, being based largely around
peoples
differences in build and the pattern of their scales,
minute
their habits are notably different. Dinolfos tend towards
but
fighting while daira and geru prefer larger, more
collectivist
weapons and individual combat, habits which are
powerful
in every facet of their lives. The dinolfos are
reflected
more regimented, more organised, and better
always
while the daira and geru possess a greater
equipped,
skill and far more low cunning.
individual
common are aerial and chameleonic lizalfos, or
Less
and rampholeon as scholars know them.
sordes
are slightly smaller than lizalfos, and notably
Rampholeon
They do however possess a startling level of
weaker.
cunning and the ability to completely alter the
animalistic
of their skin in order to deceive their foes,
pigmentation
practically invisible while they wait in ambush.
turning
Alifos
Lizalfos quote goes here
Cold-Blooded Slaughter
value their particular field above all else in life.

meanwhile are the smallest and weakest of the
Sordes
but possess large wings that sprout from their
lizalfos,
and allow them to maneuver in the air, often (but
shoulders
always) extending to full flight.
not
alifos are very different to their militant brothers.
Peaceful
have much shorter snouts and smaller builds. They
They
generally considerably more intelligent on top of this,
are
have proven capable of constructing civilisations of
and
own. their
most commonly seen of the peaceful alifos are the
The
Spindly and slight, they are found primarily in the
zuna.
deserts, often around the darknut citadels. The zuna
deep
craftsmen without compare in this world. Their smiths
are
the best armour and weapons, including the
produce
of the darknut legions.
armaments
on the other hand are rarely seen above
Subrosians
and when they are they are tilling the fields of other
ground,
they are labourers above all else, and consider sloth
races-
ultimate failing. Short and broad, they can work for
the
on end with only the slightest rests, and will work for
days
with little reward. They will perform any labour, but
anyone
mining above all other things. When underground
prefer
gather their valuable heat from magma pools, an act
they
would be dangerous if it weren’t for their absolute
that
to extreme heat.
immunity
last of the peaceful alifos are the tokay. Short and
The
and simple, the tokay live hedonistic lives and
potbellied
concern themselves with the rest of the world. The
rarely
are also the only alifos who do not follow the beliefs
tokay
all their kind- that in some distant time they lived in a
of
of glorious war, artifice or labour, watched over by
land
benevolent lords the allfathers, before being sent in
their
All alifos mature by the age of five and can live long
Age:
their third century.
into
Alignment: Alifos are more likely to be lawful
Typical
any other uncivilised race, particularly the somewhat
than
and sane dinolfos, but are still usually chaotic.
organised
Your move speed is 35 feet.
Speed:
Militant alifos are all roughly the same size.
Size:
Geru and Daira are all around seven feet tall with
Dinolfos,
minor distinctions from one another, weighing around
only
hundred and seventy pounds. Chameleonic alifos are
one
and hunched, being around six and a half feet tall
smaller
weighing one hundred and thirty pounds. Aerial alifos
and
a great deal of strength for the ability to swoop,
sacrifice
are around five and a half feet tall, weighing around
and
pounds. All are medium sized.
ninety
Blooded: Alifos rely on external sources of heat to
Cold
If they are in a cold environment such as a tundra,
survive.
or deep cave, they gain two levels of
mountaintop,
whenever they would normally gain one.
exhaustion
if they are in a warm environment such as a
However
jungle, or volcanic crater they only gain one level of
desert,
for every two they would normally gain.
exhaustion
and Fanged: Alifos can use their unarmed
Clawed
as a versatile weapon. If they do so then their attack
attack
1(d6) damage instead. This ability’s damage increases
does
dice size when you reach 5th level to 1(d8), 11th level 10
a
and 17th level 1(d12).
1(d10),
You must pick one of the following subraces.
Subrace:
Score Increase: Your Strength score increases by
Ability
and your Constitution score increases by one.
two
Pick a damage type: slashing (daira)
Slaughtermasters:
bludgeoning (geru). You are proficient with all melee
or
which deal this damage type. Alternatively you
weapons
be proficient in all melee weapons which can be
can
in one hand (dinolfos). No matter your choice you
wielded
also proficient with shields, light and medium armor,
are
Score Increase: Your Strength, Wisdom, and
Ability
scores all increase by one.
Constitution
skin: You have proficiency in the
Shifting
skill. As long as you are stationary you
dexterity(stealth)
Score Increase: Your Dexterity score increases by
Ability
one.
You have a fly speed of fifty feet, but must end
Swoop:
turn in contact with the ground or fall all the way
your
While you can move you are immune to falling
down.
not brought about by this rule.
damage
At level 6 and above you no longer benefit from
Flight:
Instead you gain a flying speed of fifty feet, and are
Swoop.
Lizalfos (Dinolfos/Geru/Daira)
Reptilian Genius
and all bows (but not crossbows).
Chameleonic (Rampholeon);
advantage on all dexterity(stealth) rolls.
have
Aerial (Sordes);
immune to falling damage while you can move.
great arks of stone to the present day.
Alifos (Militant) Traits

peaceful alifos think, act, and live very differently to
The
warlike brothers.
their
All alifos mature by the age of five and can live long
Age:
their third century.
into
Alignment: Peaceful alifos are generally more
Typical
than their militant counterparts and conform
intelligent
to lawful alignments, except for Tokay who
overwhelmingly
too simple for such concepts.
are
Your move speed is 25 feet.
Speed:
Blooded: Alifos rely on external sources of heat to
Cold
If they are in a cold environment such as a tundra,
survive.
or deep cave, they gain two levels of
mountaintop,
whenever they would normally gain one.
exhaustion
if they are in a warm environment such as a
However
jungle, or volcanic crater they only gain one level of
desert,
for every two they would normally gain.
exhaustion
and Fanged: Alifos can use their unarmed
Clawed
as a versatile weapon. If they do so then their attack
attack
1d6 damage instead. This ability’s damage increases a
does
size when you reach 5th level (1d8), 11th level (1d10),
dice
17th level (d12).
and
You must pick one of the following subraces.
Subrace:
Score Increase: Your Constitution score increases
Ability
three. by
Subrosians are small but very broad, like short
Size:
reptilian boulders. They tend to be around three or
round
feet tall and weigh around one hundred and twenty
four
Your size is small.
pounds.
Workers: Subrosians accrue one level of
Tireless
for every two they would normally gain (and thus
fatigue
one level of fatigue for every four levels they would
gain
gain when in warm environments). Subrosians
normally
one level of fatigue on completing a short rest, and all
lose
on completing a long rest. They do not sleep and
levels
be forced to.
cannot
Through Lava: Subrosians are immune to fire
Mine
Score Increase: Your Wisdom, Dexterity, and
Ability
scores all increase by one.
Intelligence
Zuna are frail and spindly, with delicate limbs and
Size:
They tend to stand around four feet tall and weigh
features.
seventy pounds. Your size is small.
approximately
Artisans: You are considered proficient
Incomparable
Score Increase: Your Charisma score increases by
Ability
and your Constitution score increases by one.
two,
Tokay are potbellied and plump, but short, and
Size:
in the limbs. They stand at around four feet tall and
spindly
around ninety pounds. Your size is small.
weigh
Tokay are resistant to poison and psychic
Hedonists:
and have advantage on all saving throws to resist
damage,
charmed. If a creature immune to being charmed is
being
to an effect that is meant to affect a tokay then roll
immune
d2- on a roll of 2 it also does not affect the tokay for the
a
month. Tokay are also immune to all fear-based
next
effects.
Alifos (Peaceful) Traits
Subrosian
damage.
Zuna
all artisans’ tools, as well as all crossbows.
with
Tokay

flowing beneath the hull of the ship.
LAZILY
Breath of Jabun parted the water with the
The
of wash, leaving a pleasant enough
gentlest
which slowly made its way to the banks
wake
it spread behind the trading vessel. The
as
beneath the water stirred and waved in
weeds
current, rippling with the motion of the craft. The young
the
laughed as a fish jumped from the water behind the
boy
glinting silver and white in the sunlight before
Breath,
back down. It leapt repeatedly, struggling further
splashing
the air each time. Eventually it was joined by others, all
into
to be free of the river.
striving
come look at the-"
"Mummy,
water parted with explosive force and something
The
larger than a fish broke the surface. It had teeth and
much
and bright blue scales and staring, mad yellow eyes,
fins
the last thing Saul thought was that perhaps he should
and
considered what a fish would be trying to escape
have
zola are a widely despised race, considered ugly and
The
and violent. This is because they are. Zola are broad,
crude
imposing creatures. They are strong, brutish,
physically
unthinking. They prize physical strength and proensity
and
violence above all else, and can fight almost from the
for
they can walk. A combination of crocodilian and
moment
in appearance, they stand hunched and coiled,
shark-like
ready to spring for the throat of their enemies. They
always
in anarchic subaquatic tribes in which little to nothing
live
ever certain. A zola is always prepared to fight, even for
is
zola, sometimes called river zora, are most easily
The
to somebody who has not met one by what they
described
not. With the exception of their sub aquatic traits,
are
the zora prize the zola lack, and everything the
everything
lack the zola possess in spades. Perhaps it is
zora
then that the zola and zora despise each other
unsurprising
an incredible degree, and each takes pride in the fall of
to
other. the
zola live in tribal structures, scattered throughout
The
and the broader continent. They have a habit of
Hyrule
dificult to reach areas- remote marshlands and
infesting
depths of the largest lakes. They also live in large
the
above the snowline, finding refuge in mountain
numbers
where their metabolism slows to a crawl and they can
lairs
freely both on the slopes of the mountains and down
hunt
the valleys below.
in
tribes of zola are always shifting, never static. They
The
with conquest and split due to infighting. Their
merge
are ever-changing as challengers rise and
chieftains
the rulers or die trying, executed and eaten for
supplant
insolence. This constant anarchy makes it hard for
their
real cohesion to form- zola do not create, they do not
any
Zola do not marry, and their mating is better left
build.
of. They are a vicious people, without compare in
unspoken
Zola
SAUL WATCHED THE RIVER BELOW,
Fangs Beneath the Waves
below the surface.
the mortal realm.
the most trivial things in life.

one constant in the tribes is the gyorg, the predatory
The
who accompany the zola. Gyorg are enormous,
fish
and shockingly intelligent despite their bestial
powerful,
The gyorg exist above and beside the normal
ferocity.
tribal organisation as priests and shamans, guiding
feuding
zola in their worship of their deities. Though the gyorg
the
not be chieftains they are the power behind the throne,
may
no zola could call himself a ruler without the consent
and
the demonic aquatic monstrosities which watch over
of
them.
zola have two religions. Their local, old gods are the
The
and least, consulted for luck and guidance when
first
or migrating. The true divine power however is
raiding
the Demon Prince of Anger. In the Great Invasion
Bellum,
appearing most frequently as a cephalopod of
Bellum,
scale, led the zola to many victories over the
incomparable
empire. Even today he is with them, appearing as an
zora
at times of great importance or sending his gorgons
avatar
aid the tribes who exalt him.
to
zola worship of him forms their deepest divide with
The
zora, humanity, and even other uncivilised people such
the
the goblins. Nobody who worships demons openly can
as
trusted. In truth, the zola do not care- the world is to be
be
and taken.
fought
are powerful beings who lead hard lives, and this
Zola
traits which should be applied to a zola player
creates
Score Increase: Your Strength score increases by
Ability
and your Constitution score increases by one.
two,
Zolas hatch able to swim and walk. They do not die
Age:
old age until well into their second century.
of
Alignment: Zola are rebellious and violent, and
Typical
tend towards chaotic evil.
so
Zola are barely humanoid, hunched and broad.
Size:
stand at around seven feet tall and weigh around one
They
and eighty pounds. Your size Medium.
hundred
Your walking speed is 30 feet, and your
Speed:
speed is 45 feet.
swimming
Zola can be frozen solid with no ill effects,
Cryostasis:
are still vulnerable to snap freezing. Zola are resistant
but
cold damage, and become sapped for one hour whenever
to
take cold damage or are exposed to cold weather.
they
sapped a zola is immune to cold damage and the
While
of cold weather, and can be frozen alive without
effects
Their dexterity is also reduced by two points for
penalty.
duration.
the
Bile: Zola have a natural ability to produce a
Flame
bile which burns even underwater, boiling the
flaming
around it. Zola are resistant to fire damage. They are
space
always equipped with the weapon below, which they
also
from their mouths.
spit
If the target of this weapon is underwater then
Boiling:
rolls to hit it with this weapon have advantage.
attack
This ability’s damage increases a dice size
Internalised:
on the wielder's level, increasing when you
depending
5th level (1d8), 11th level (1d10), and 17th level
reach
Zola cannot run out of ammunition for their flame
(1d12).
attack, and cannot be disarmed of it without invasive
bile
surgery.
Zora can breathe underwater. They must drink
Aquatic:
as much as a land based creature and cannot benefit
twice
a long rest without access to enough water to wash
from
themselves.
Is the bane of the other: Zola are resistant to fire
...
and vulnerable to lightning damage.
damage
The Prince of Fury
Zola Traits
character,
Name Damage Rules
Flame
Bile
1d6 fire
thrown (range 30/120), boiling,
internalised

The Rare
A world of millions will always have... another. Another exception, another example,
another outlier. You could no more hope to count them or account for them than you
could the stars in the sky.

sun on the far side of his
SCORCHING
even through the padding, even
helmet,
the cooling wind produced as he
over
The rebonack licked his nose
rode.
his long canine tongue darting
reflexively,
behind the armoured mouthguard to
out
himself down.
cool
horse clattered onwards, utterly fearless beneath its
His
rider. Nedjem kept his eyes focused forwards on
darknut
enemy, praying to Seth for the resolve to bring the
the
home. His grip tightened on his lance, bringing it
charge
a couch as he rode down towards the small horde of
into
The goblins were jeering, their spears levelled,
moblins.
they could receive the charge comfortably.
sure
could not. Nedjem hit the goblins first, followed by
They
rest of his wing. Each rebonack - horse, armour, and
the
included - weighed the best part of half a ton, and
darknut
the goblins at around forty miles an hour.
hit
darknut- or wosu as they call themselves- stands head
A
shoulders above a human. From the neck down their
and
appear normal, if slightly oversized and over
bodies
and covered in a fine fur, usually brown or black.
muscled,
heads however are entirely canine, with the
Their
senses that come with that. They are rare in
increased
and this is a good thing- Darknuts are possessed of
Hyrule,
love of warfare and violence beyond that of all but the
a
maniacal humans. In their own lands far to the west
most
live in great citadels and train endlessly for war, both
they
external forces and each other, using slaves for their
with
needs. Though not all wosu are evil they follow a dark
daily
of chaos and war, and act in his image. There is only
god
and the blade to the Wosu, and anyone who
strength
darknuts have a written history that allegedly stretches
The
to before the first humans harnessed fire. They have
back
myths, only factual history, a history which is only an
few
of brutal warfare.
account
Darknuts
NEDJEM COULD FEEL THE
disagrees is weak and insane.
The Children of the Ma'at
The word Nedjem would use later was 'liquified'.

to the wosu they are the children of a great being
According
Seth, a being they revere as a god. Seth and his
named
Wra and Toth fell from the skies above the world,
brothers
and plummeting into the deserts to the west of the
burning
where the darknuts now live. Wounded and
Shahdom
the three brothers were beset by three families
vulnerable,
dragons, who they fought for thirteen years in constant
of
Seth slew dragons until he stood on a heap of their
battle.
as tall as the highest mountain. Seeing his glory the
bodies
of one family knelt before him before turning and
remnants
against their own kind. In this they were led by
battling
patriarch, the great dragon named Onox the Black.
their
was the first to swear his loyalty to Seth and his
Onox
and it was thanks to Onox that Seth's victory was
brothers,
assured.
and Toth then made the races of the world. Humans
Seth
goblins and zora and gorons, each of them
and
Some were exterminated, some were cast
unsatisfactory.
and some were kept as slaves for when the perfect
out,
were finally created. Last of all Seth made the wosu,
people
were perfect. To them he taught strength and integrity
who
the correct manners in which to live, and they grew
and
powerful.
darknuts raised up hundreds of mighty castles
The
they named citadels, each the size of a small city.
which
on Seth’s instructions, they made war. For the first
Then,
they fought each other. Then as their own
millennia
dwindled they fought tribes of savages, of humans
numbers
goblins and alifos. Then they fought the new empires
and
humanity and the other “chosen” races. Always the
of
were fighting, and always they won. Even as Toth
darknuts
to places unknown the darknuts were still
vanished
by Seth, his rule enforced by his own strength and
watched
obedience of his mighty dark dragons.
the
time Seth grew more reserved, speaking and
Over
less to the wosu, until eventually he vanished
appearing
Fearful and bereaved the darknuts fought ever
altogether.
and many more citadels fell in these desperate
harder,
leaving a power vacuum into which the Empires of
wars,
Eldin and Lanayru grew, until it looked as if the
Faron,
might consume themselves in their violence and
wosu
the world over to the lesser peoples.
hand
the Great Invasion shook the world Seth returned,
When
led his children as a unified people for the first time in
and
The darknuts fought against the demons with all
millennia.
strength until, eventually, those otherworldly monsters
their
destroyed.
were
cost had been great. Many citadels had fallen. The
The
dragons had betrayed Seth and joined the demons.
dark
darknuts lay in ruins, but Seth was proud of them. He
The
the world forever, his leadership in the Invasion
left
the wosu the correct path, his last act saving them
showing
themselves. None could deny what they had achieved
from
their fighting.
in
country cannot be of warriors alone. Around the citadels
A
cities of lesser peoples, slaves and serfs, the majority
grow
which are subrosians and zuna. The former produce the
of
materials the darknuts consume- ore for their weapons
raw
food for their bellies. The latter craft the arms and
and
of the legions, endlessly producing swords and
armour
mail of incredible quality- zuna craftsmanship is
plate
in Hyrule and beyond, on par with that of the gorons,
prized
few outside the citadels can afford or find even a dagger
but
by the reptilian artisans, and those who can are
produced
proud of their possessions.
understandably
remaining slaves are of a variety of species, many of
The
unique to the citadels. The leonine lynel, a humanoid
them
rising from the neck of a horse with a lion's head in
body
of its own, fight as the legions' skirmish cavalry and
place
its most valuable mounts. The mazura, horse-
occasionally
eight foot tall giants, labour to construct the
headed
of the citadels. The fokka, flightless but incredibly
buildings
avian humanoids, work as scouts and messenders.
fast
and hundreds of other species are the grease in
These
gears which keep the citadel machine turning, and are
the
the few Hyrulians who reach the citadels are often
why
by the sheer variety of the slave races, and many
staggered
if there’s truth in what the wosu say of Seth.
wonder
military of a citadel is a professional one, with every
The
training or fighting constantly throughout their life.
soldier
does however have strict rules, a code of marshal honour
It
by Seth tens of millennia ago. A soldier must
dictated
attempt to prove themselves- duelling is always
always
to massed combat, and massed combat is
preferable
preferable to a siege. It is also absolutely
always
shameful to fight from a distance- archery and
disgustingly
use of siege weapons are only to be used when the
the
enemy flees or hides behind his walls. At all other
cowardly
darknuts are expected to fight in their supremely
times
armour- chainmail if they have yet to prove
heavy
plate once they are considered adult- and
themselves,
their enemy with sword, mace and axe.
engage
is frowned upon- any use of beasts of burden is
Cavalry
an admission of personal weakness and
considered
to either carry your own burdens or force a slave
inability
do it- but not forbidden. The mounted forces of the wosu,
to
as rebonacks, tend towards irreverence and
known
as a result as they are already living on the
rebelliousness
The Invasion
Slaves and Scum
The Dogs of War
Then the Demons came.
fringes of acceptable morality.

last thing forbidden, hated by Seth above all others, is
The
All magic is weakness, save for that which He gives
magic.
as a reward for diligence and service. Even today, two
out
a half millennia after his leaving, Seth's magic arrives
and
the wosu through unknown means, a secret to all but the
to
themselves. Darknuts know their mages as
mages
and there are never more than thirteen in a
Jermafensers,
each a source of immense pride.
citadel,
there is a law there will be those who break it,
Wherever
there is an inviolable code of honour there will
whenever
those who seek to violate it. The wosu have a strict code
be
demonstrate their strength, but there are of course those
to
would break that code.
who
break the code of Seth is to label yourself a goriya-
To
worthless in the eyes of society and the great
essentially
A lucky goriya may escape, and make their home
god.
the lands of the citadels. An unlucky goriya will face
beyond
usually by trial of combat (with the combat of course
death,
forced into terms acceptable to the code).
being
escaped goriya must be careful. A goriya who is too
Even
too open in their actions or even in their existence,
brazen,
face a hunt and ensuing destruction at the hands of
will
violent and strong as they are, have unique traits
Darknuts,
all darknut characters possess.
which
Score Increase: Your Strength score increases by
Ability
and your Constitution score increases by one.
two,
Darknuts are considered mature in their early teens
Age:
live for around sixty years, although they maintain good
and
for most of their lifespan.
health
Alignment: Darknuts are either organised and
Typical
or unbridled and religious. They tend towards
militarised
strongly lawful or chaotic alignments. Many darknuts
either
Darknuts are tall humanoids, solidly built and wellmuscled.
Size:
They stand at around seven and a half feet tall and
around two hundred pounds. Your size is medium.
weigh
Your walking speed is 30 feet.
Speed:
Martial Training: Darknuts are proficient with
Darknut
simple and martial melee weapons, except for reach
all
as well as all armor. In addition they always use
weapons,
improved damage dice when wielding versatile
the
weapons.
As Standard: Even before they fully prove
Equipped
darknuts are equipped by their citadels for war.
themselves
matter their class’ starting equipment darknuts can
No
choose to start with a longsword and a suit of chain
always
instead of one of their weapons and the suit of armour
mail
available to them (if the class does not normally
normally
with armour then a darknut may still choose to start
start
a suit of chain mail).
with
Warriors: Darknuts who reach level five without
Proven
declared goriya can request a longsword, a suit of
being
armour and a shield for free from any sufficiently
plate
member of their own people- the citadels will
wealthy
the provider later. Darknuts who start at level 5
reimburse
choose plate armour instead of the chain mail provided
can
Equipped As Standard.
by
Sense of Smell: Darknuts have advantage on
Keen
checks based on smell.
wisdom(perception)
Darknuts can speak Setian, Hyrulian, and
Languages:
other language, most likely vordic.
one
The Fate of the Defiant
wosu, lest their disgusting ways spread further.
other
Darknut Traits
Expies Make Life Easier
When in doubt, copy it out. Darknut names work
well when modelled off the ancient egyptians,
and their military structure is very similar to that
of ancient Rome.
It's not possible for Darknuts to be too
militaristic or too focused on violence. That's
just kind of who they are and what they do.
are evil, although not all are.

ago, when humanity abandoned a world ravaged by
Long
Great Invasion to seek refuge above the clouds, the
the
were faced with a great crisis. The waters of the world
zora
polluted and dried by fifty years of constant war, with
were
a few refuges left where they could make their home.
only
these refuges were, in truth, unsuitable- the zora
Even
in flowing waters and open spaces, and simply
thrived
not live in these separated lagoons.
could
solution was found. The prime leviathan of the age,
A
used the malleable properties of the zora
Tamaranch,
to transform them on an enormous scale. Half of
biology
race became the parella, scyphozoan creatures that
the
dwell in the lagoons. The other half would become
would
watarara, avian humanoids who would migrate across
the
land in search of food and homes. This act of great
the
sent Tamaranch into a deep slumber from which he
magic
not be woken, but he gave this sacrifice gladly for his
could
people.
was two and a half millenia ago, one thousand
That
before the start of the Royal Era. The parella
years
to their old forms when the kingdom of Hyrule
returned
founded, becoming the modern zora population, but
was
migrating flock of bird-men, the watarara are seen in
A
but once a year, but arrive in enormous numbers
Hyrule
their month comes. They are treated as exotic objects
when
most of Hyrule, but are also often considered something
by
their flocks descend on cities they spend wildly on
When
and accommodation, occupying the traders and
food
and roosting on rooftops, for weeks on end. They
streets
civilised and sensible, living in large families within
are
flocks, and though they have no tongue of their own
their
tend to be educated and wise in their own way.
they
Watarara gain the following abilities to represent their
All
racial traits.
innate
Score Increase: Your Wisdom, Dexterity and
Ability
scores all increase by one.
Intelligence
Watarara can fly within days of hatching, have
Age:
around the age of ten, and die old by the age of
children
or so. fifty
Alignment: Watarara tend to be entirely
Typical
and the only authority they accept is that of
meritocratic,
flight leader. They tend to be chaotic.
their
Watarara are short and slender, with long arms
Size:
double as wings. They tend to be around five feet tall
which
weigh a mere seventy or eighty pounds.
but
Your walking speed is 30 feet.
Speed:
Hunters: Watarara have proficiency in the
Eagle-eyed
skill, advantage on wisdom(perception)
wisdom(survival)
to discern things over three hundred feet away.
checks
You have a fly speed of fifty feet, but must end
Swoop:
turn in contact with the ground or fall all the way
your
While you can move you are immune to falling
down.
not brought about by this rule.
damage
At level 6 and above you no longer benefit from
Flight:
Instead you gain a flying speed of fifty feet, and are
Swoop.
to falling damage while you can move.
immune
Watarara
quote goes here, going to try and fit Watarara
guys on one page.
these
Fins to Feathers
Watarara Traits
watarara never surrendered their new wings.
the
Flocking Together
A Bird By Any Other Name
Watarara are based on a noncanon race from the
Ocarina of Time manga, but are primarily included
to allow a player to play a rito in a timeline where
they don't exist. I think. It's all a bit weird.
of a pest.

light plummeting from the sky.
emerald
her Mido, a kokiri - her kokiri - was on
Below
ground, yelling in pain as a pair of
the
fell on him with blades and fangs.
lizalfos
on! Hold
struck mido in the small of the back,
Teal
him into the ground hard enough for him to bounce
forcing
up. Mist billowed from the entry point and obscured
back
pair. Teal felt herself spreading throughout Mido's body,
the
crystal merging with his flesh and bone, a union of soul
her
form so familiar to them both. The plants and ground
and
the forest twisted around them, and there was a strange
of
cracking, organic sound.
creaking,
stood up had crystalline fangs the length of a man's
What
and arms and legs made of trunks. It towered over the
arm
reptilian creatures, and Teal could feel the glint in
two
look like children, almost. On the surface they
Kokiri
as normal hylian youths of between six and twelve
appear
old, with pointed ears and brightly-hued eyes, but the
years
one looks the more discrepancies one finds.
longer
don't blink enough, their hair moves in wind which
They
there. Even in bright sunshine their skin and clothes
isn't
dappled with shade, and the air around them smells
are
cut grass and peat bogs.
like
lack basic
They
about daily life
knowledge
know things no child
but
about the secret parts
should,
the world and the
of
of gods. Their
mechanisms
of time is skewedthey
perception
react to questions about their
with confusion, recall seasons
age
since past but cannot
long
the ills of yesteryear, and
remember
they wear normal enough
though
they believe that things
clothes
leather last no time at all
like
they rot away.
before
of a great arboreal god, there are two forms of
Servants
each with their purpose. The friendly, personable
kokiri,
Children (as most are known) are the envoys of that
Glade
and generally normal enough, after a fashion. On the
god,
hand there are the lost ones, the Skull Children. The
other
may be eerie, but the Skull Children fade out of the
kokiri
with wide smiles and wooden skin, playing songs
darkness
Kokiri
TEAL FELL LIKE A COMET, A BLAZING
Mido's eyes as he looked down on them.
which seep into your bones.
Skull Children are terrifying.
And we don't talk about the puppets.

have always been spirits in the lost woods. They live
There
the deepest glade where the arboreal magic waxes
in
where few outside peoples have ever trod,
strongest,
around the roots of the Great Deku Tree. In long
gathering
times there were the kaddi- crystalline and tall,
gone
in sharp thorns and nearly fey in appearance. After
covered
Invasion they vanished and were replaced by the kikwismall,
the
mammalian and unassuming creatures which
for berries in the dirt. When the darkness of the
foraged
and the disasters to follow beset Hyrule the
Scrambling
vanished in turn, and in their place came the Kallevast
kikwi
and incredibly powerful plant-based entities, a fusion
flora and fauna which could tear down a village.
of
the prevalent spirits are the kokiri. Childlike and
Now
the kokiri spend their days playing in the deep
whimsical,
in the winter they fight in the snow. In spring they
forests-
flowers, in summer they swim in the rivers and in
pick
they eat apples from the trees. Always they are
autumn
by their fairies, each kokiri having their own
accompanied
flitting companion.
little
with the symbiotic relationship the kokiri seem to
Along
with their fae friends- and by extension the great
have
of the wilds- the forest children revere the Great
fairies
Tree as their father and god, and follow his leadership
Deku
all things. Despite their apparent youth and
on
all kokiri possess magic of varying strengths,
helplessness
some cases being extremely powerful manipulators of
in
flows of life and wind magic.
the
this strength however it is rare for a kokiri
Despite
venture outside of their glade, an act which they
to
extremely dangerous. Usually leaving is
consider
forbidden by the Great Deku Tree, but
expressly
rare occasions the Tree has a task which
on
only be accomplished by a direct agent, and
can
a kokiri is sent into the world. Most often
so
is an act of reward, a kokiri appearing
this
weave some magic over a pious village or
to
escpecially a newborn child, but
person,
the Deku Tree is the patron of humanity he can
Though
tolerate so much desctruction of nature, and those
only
take from the forests or the land too quickly or
who
may be visited by a Glade Child requesting they
greedily
for a time. The kokiri will implore that those they
stop
with stop their actions, turn back their paths. The
speak
does this because they know the alternative, and so
kokiri
wish to avoid it. No Glade Child wants the Skull
dearly
the Glade Child's words are ignored, the alternative
When
Nobody knows exactly from where the Skull
arrives.
come- to some they are hylian and human
Children
who were lost in the deepest forests. To others
children
are a dark reflection of the kokiri, twisted and inverted
they
with a deeper connection to the forests than even the
and
Children. No matter their origin, their appearance is
Glade
as is their method.
known,
in rags and leaves, with their wooden faces split
Clad
by toothy grins and sunken eyes of shimmering ruby
wide
give them their name, the Skull Children emerge
which
the forests around the logging camp or fade out of the
from
depths of the mines playing their eldritch songs.
darkest
follows changes depending on the situation and who
What
telling the story. An avalanche of ferocious wildlife fils
is
tunnels. The lumberjacks put down their axes and
the
a merry jig after the children. Every man listening
dance
falls to the floor dead, or has his flesh vanish
spontaneously
a puff of smoke revealing a grinning skeleton who will
in
the site for centuries to come.
haunt
there are the puppets which march at the behest of
Then
Skull Children. Those wooden automatons which fall
the
the sky on strings connected to nothingness, their
from
unfolding to reveal fingers glinting with blades and
limbs
teeth sharp like stakes, moving soundlessly except for
their
click and clack of their wildly flailing arms...
the
Children to be needed.
The Skull Children.
Forest Spirits
We don't talk about the puppets.
it is also often a warning.

eadily become adventurers by their very naturethey
Kokiri
fear little in the glade, and by the time they have
to fear they have also learned to be brave. Kokiri
learned
have the natural adventurous spirit of children, and
usually
pair this with enough arcane power to back up their
most
and keep them safe. This means that the world
ambitions
to reward their curiosity, and since they want for little
tends
in the glade they have plenty of opportunities to
back
this curiosity.
indulge
addition the Deku Tree is more than capable of
In
at least an impression of the future, and can and
foretelling
send Glade and Skull Children on journeys of
will
to change or ensure that future. If there is a
importance
adventure of great import it is entirely reasonable for
fated
Tree to send a kokiri He considers capable of
the
to whatever group may be undertaking it. An
contributing
party that finds itself accompanied by a forest
adventuring
may be fated for greater things than it knows.
spirit
names are very simple- they are names which sound
Kokiri
or pretty or neat. They tend to use hylian names, if
cool
a little, and so won't be detailed here. Fairy
simplified
on the other hand tend to follow a strict pattern-
names
are four letters, two consonants and two vowels.
they
names: Aeth, Aren, Biki, Bolo, Croo, Deir, Diol,
Fairy
Faor, Hine, Julo, Lora, Midi, Navi, Nour, Nule, Oort,
Eren,
Rale, Seti, Tael, Tatl, Teal, Vili, Zien
Pado,
inherently eldritch beings, kokiri have many traits
Being
are not found in other creatures and are conferred to
which
Score Increase: Your Charisma score increases
Ability
two. by
Kokiri do not seem to age.
Age:
Alignment: Kokiri tend towards whimsy and
Typical
and are usually chaotic good, but other good and
kindness
aligned kokiri do exist. On the other hand, although
neutral
kokiri may be petty or selfish or cruel there are most
some
no evil kokiri, as the Tree would not tolerate them
definitely
continue as they were.
to
Children also have a whimsical tendency, but not
Skull
the kokiri understand their motives. Perhaps some
even
what they do, perhaps not. Skull Children tend
relish
chaotic neutral, but it is far from inconcievable for
towards
to be evil or good.
them
Glade Children appear to be slightly fey hylian
Size:
Skull Children are similar, but their exposed skin
children.
like teak. They are both around three feet tall and weigh
is
thirty pounds, with both having a size of small.
around
Your walking speed is 20 feet.
Speed:
Gaze: Kokiri can re-roll attack rolls and
Yggdrasil’s
throw results of one.
saving
You can try to hide when lightly obscured by
Arboreal:
heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and other natural
foliage,
You are also vulnerable to fire damage.
phenomena.
Companion: You are permanently accompanied by
Fey
fairy, your closest and dearest friend. This fairy is
a
by the DM but has an initial personality,
controlled
name and disposition set by you. Its profile is
appearance,
If your fairy is killed then it dissipates, returning to
below.
as close as possible to you at the end of your next
existence
or long rest. If you die then your fairy is destroyed
short
such a time as you return to life, at which point it also
until
and Scare: You have proficiency in the charisma
Lure
of performance and intimidation.
skills
to Kill: If damage reduces you to 0 hit points and
Hard
are in your original form (for example are not
you
or subject to the spells polymorph, true
wildshaped
or shapechange) you may make a Constitution
polymorph
throw with a DC of half the damage taken or ten
saving
is higher) unless the damage is fire or from a
(whichever
hit. On a success, you drop to 1 hit point instead.
critical
Whenever you use a spell or item which
Puppetmaster:
a creature or a number of creatures you may
summons
summon Skull Puppets. Your spell still functions as
instead
except any limitations on creature type or specific
normal,
are ignored. For example a spell that lets you
creature
a bear would let you summon a Skull Puppet, and
summon
spell which lets you summon 100 hitpoints worth of
a
would let you summon 100 hitpoints worth of skull
beasts
You may also raise Skull Puppets instead of
puppets.
skeletons or zombies from a corpse when using
raising
undead. Skull Puppets follow you unconditionally,
create
no motivations beyond those you choose to give them,
have
only obey you, regardless of what magic may be
and
The Wide World
Glade Child
as close as possible to you.
reappears
Skull Child
Kokiri Names
Kokiri Traits
employed to change their minds.
Playing a Kokiri
Regardless of subrace, the presence of a kokiri is
A Big Deal. Your presence in the party will be
notable, even moreso than other rare peoples,
and this may not be something your DM wants.
Whether or not the kokiri are available as a PC
race is absolutely up to your DM, even moreso
than with other races.
It's also worth mentioning that the background
of the kokiri is deliberately vague. Although
suggestions of your true nature will be available
to your DM, this is your DM's Hyrule and it works
how your DM wants. Being a kokiri means by
definition not knowing everything about your
nature or past, and possibly having elements of
your character dictated to you, including secrets
about yourself which you may not have been
aware of and may not be positive. If this does not
appeal to you or you do not trust your DM to
make decisions you will like then do not play a
kokiri.
kokiri characters.
Subrace: you must pick one of the following subraces.

Skull Puppet
Medium Construct, Nonaligned
Armor Class 8
Hit Points 22(3d8+9)
Speed 0ft., fly 20ft. (hover)
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
13 (+1) 6 (-2) 16 (+3) 8 (-1) 12 (+1) 5 (-3)
Damage Immunities poison, psychic
Damage Vulnerabilities fire
Condition Immunities charmed, poisoned,
stunned, frightened
Senses passive Perception 11, blindsight to 30ft.
but cannot otherwise see
Languages understands Fey but can't speak
Challenge 1/4 (50 XP)
Constructed: If damage reduces the puppet to 0
hit points, it must make a Constitution saving
throw with a DC of 5 + the damage taken, unless
the damage is fire or from a critical hit. On a
success, the puppet drops to 1 hit point instead.
Tools of the Skull Children: Puppets cannot be
convinced or forced to knowingly disobey the
Skull Child who summoned them through any
means, including magical.
Actions
Slash. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft.,
one target. Hit: 4 (1d6 + 1) slashing damage.
Fairy
Tiny Fey, Any Alignment
Armor Class 15
Hit Points 2(1d4)
Speed 10ft., fly 40ft
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
3 (-4) 18 (+4) 10 (+0) 14 (+2) 13 (+1) 11 (+0)
Damage Immunities poison
Damage Vulnerabilities thunder
Condition Immunities charmed, poisoned
Senses passive Perception 11
Languages Those of the kokiri it is bonded to.
Challenge 1/4 (50 XP)
A Fragment of Soul: A fairy's abilities, actions and
statistics change as its kokiri levels up, as detailed
below. When a level is stated, assume this is the
level of the kokiri the fairy is bonded to.
Fragmentary Build: At level 4 a fairy becomes
around one foot tall. At level 8 it is around the
height of its kokiri and its size becomes small.
Fragmentary Vanishing: A fairy can cast invisibility
as a bonus action at will. At level 4 this instead
becomes greater invisibility. Both of these spells
can only target the fairy and no other creatures.
Fragmentary Traits: At level 4 the fairy's Dexterity
score increases to 20(+5), its Constitution
increases to 13(+1), and its Charisma increases
to 16(+3). At level 16 these increase again to a
Constitution of 14(+2), and an Intelligence of
16(+3).
Fragmentary Resilience: At level 4 the fairy's
maximum hitpoints increases to 14(4d4+4). At
level 16 it increases again to 40(9d4+18).
Fragmentary Speed: At level 4 the fairy's flying
speed increases to 60 ft.
Fragmentary Spellcasting: The fairy's innate
spellcasting ability is Charisma. It can innately
cast a number of spells, requiring no material
components. As the fairy's kokiri gains levels it
gains additional spells, as detailed below. A fairy
does not lose spells as its kokiri levels, and
retains all spells it has previously unlocked.
Level 4:
1/day each: dancing lights, mage hand, minor
illusion, color cpray, mirror image.
Level 8:
1/day each: major image, hallucinatory terrain,
polymorph
Level 16:
at will: mage hand
1st level (3 slots): magic missile, shield
2nd level (2 slots): blur, flaming sphere
3rd level (1 slot): fireball
Actions
Stab. Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft.,
one target. Hit: 1 piercing damage.
Fey Beam: Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit,
range 40/160 ft., one target. Hit: 1 radiant
damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 10
Constitution saving throw or become poisoned
for l minute. If its saving throw result is 5 or
lower, the poisoned target falls unconscious for
the same duration, or until it takes damage or
another creature takes an action to shake it
awake.
Fairy Dust (level 4+ only): The fairy blows a puff of
scintillating dust at one creature within 5 feet of
it. The target must succeed on a DC 11 Wisdom
saving throw, or for 1 minute, the target can't
take reactions and must roll a d6 at the start of
each of its turns to determine its behavior during
the turn:
1-4. The target takes no action or bonus action
and uses all of its movement to move in a
random direction.
5-6. The target doesn't move, and the only thing
it can do on its turn is make a DC 11 Wisdom
saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a
success.
Major Fey Beam (level 16+ only): The fairy
performs the following Ranged Weapon Attack
twice: +5 to hit, range 30 ft., one target. Hit: 10
(3d6) radiant damage.