Gathering Myths about the Storm Trident

[DuncanDill]

Hello there everyone! I am here to make sure the lore for my campaign about the first storm trident makes sense. Because this campaign will eventually be released (1.18) most of my messages will have spoilers, and I would appreciate if you could do the same for potential spoilers, and if so, thank you! Without further ado, let me get started!



A bit of context
Just so I don't have to type for 2 days to finish this post, as well as not confusing you, I will give you a bit of a context to the campaign. So listen up kids! The campaign has 2 narrators (although one of them is not very competent) which are two merfolk, a young child called Nudd (he was actually named after one of the main-ish characters so from now on he shall be called NTN or Nudd the Narrator, as to avoid confusion) aswell as his grandmother Mami. The narration seems to be some sort of bed time story commonly told by the merfolk, with some hopefully comedic interceptions from NTN (I never claimed to be a comedic genius). The story is separated into five chapters. The first is The Crafting which stars approximately 480BW and ends one year later in 479BW. Next is The Bloodbath which starts 30 years later in 450BW and ends in 445BW (give or take). Then in a rather hefty time skip of 500 years (if any of you have ideas for something to happen here, I'll be happy to take them) The Resurrection takes place starting in 64YW and ending in 94YW. Then The Cleansing takes place in 284 YW ending in the same year. Finally The Betrayal takes place in 454YW and ends in 437YW. Thus marks the end of the campaign, unless you count some extra scenarios namely taking place In 3000BW and 626YW. As for the content of each chapter, the length is around 6 scenarios each.

[DuncanDill]

The Crafting

Spoiler:

This chapter stars 5 main heroes (Nelu, Nudd, Thexiepia, Ocanie and Dithunllur) and 3 villians (Xhsoogg, Queen Hippolyxta and Zatros). The chapter starts with the ancient kingdom of the mermen being attacked Xhsoogg for seemingly no reason, as the Xhsoogg is deemed to be a monster that only wants to bring on desctruction. Although the two guards of the city walls - Pontus and Absu - seem to be holding out fine, they know that the battle cannot be won, unless they manage to find a way to kill Xhsoogg. For this Pontus sends his children - Nelu, Thexiepia and Nudd - on a journey to find the amanuensis also known as Ocanie. When they flee from the battle, they travel down the Great River, as they were told to find Ocanie in a place deemed to be the Bitter Swamp. Here they are attacked by the wildlife, and clear the area before setting camp up halfway down the river. After this they travel some more, and come across a naga camp where they see a group of captured mermen. After freeing the mermen, they learn the mermen were about to storm this naga camp when the nagas jumped out of no-where. This is strange as there is no way the nagas would have seen the mermen, causing the rescued mermen to be doubtful of each other. They group eventually enters a swamp where they are attacked by and army of saurians. Due to Thexiepia reasoning with the violent Nudd and Nelu that these fierce warriors may make good allies, they eventually make it to the center of the tribe without killing any of the saurians. Here they learn that Ocanie is not a mermaid as they thought, but rather a disgruntled, genius Seer for the saurians. After alot of arguing, they eventually convince her to help them - bribing her with the fame of such a feat. After alot of thought, Ocanie believes that the only way that the Xhsoogg can be killed is with a weapon of ulitmate power - A trident made of metal from the earth's core, shaped into a trident by a master runecrafter so that it can bare all the power, and embewed with the heat of a dying Storm Dragon. Ocanie then says this is impossible, as no creature would be able to bare the heat of the first task. Nelu convinces her that he will find a way, and the merfolk and saurians set on their way. Eventually they reach a flooded cave that seems to be bottemless. As they venture down they find a dwarven mining city, in which the Arcanister Dithunllur says he knows how to get such a power, as he has enchanted his hammer as such. He decides that he and a group of his mechanics should travel with the merfolk down to the earth's core to get the metal (by carving heat resistant runes on the merfolk), which he will then shape into the trident. In return he asks that they help the dwarves fend off the trolls. After that battle is fought, they venture down and collect the metal, while having to fight of fire monsters. They finally return to the surface, but the ash has gotten into Ocanie's lungs making her sick. The trident is forged, but they are still missing the final ingredient. They ask Ocanie how to get the dragon, but she says it's pointless as the heat from the dying Sea Dragon is much too much to bear. Nelu points out that Dithunllur could do the runes again, but even the dwarf admits that it would be impossible to withstand such an explosion. One of them must sacrifice themselves... After alot of arguing, Ocanie puts herself forward reasoning that she does not have much left of her life anyways. The group travel towards the lair of the only known sea dragon Zatros. After entering the cave, they are put through a series of tasks and puzzles, before they enter the central throne room. Here, they attack Zatros and almost kill him, before Ocanie leads him away. In the distance a massive explosion is seen. They eventually find Ocanie's corpse in the fog and Nelu almost immediately grabs the newly made storm trident. Although he is unable to control it at first, causing him turn against his soliders, he is subdued and brought back to his senses. When they return, they find the city ransacked by nagas, apart from the central palace. The Xhsoogg has also taken a rather large chunk away, leaving some strange sort of palace made of earth, opposite to the normal one. Here, Nudd finds the corspe of their father, instilling a sense of duty in him and giving him a more serious demanour. Nelu, on the other hand, seems completely unconncerned. They enter the palace and find alot of naga guards. Here, Nelu uses the trident for the first time and easily kills the guard. The power seems addictive though, as Nelu storms ahead in order to kill more. Here he finds the queen talking to a naga, proving she was the traitor. Nelu takes the palace on, and is only seeming to become stronger. They enter Xhsoogg domain, where they find 5 rooms each with a tentacle guarding it. One is deceptive, one is cowardly, one is motherly, one is violent and the last is sadistic. After killing all of these they find the Xhsoogg and Nelu kills it with the Storm Trident. Nelu is then crowned the new king of the Mermen, but Nudd and Thexiepia are doubtful about these changes they have seen in him. Chapter 1 ends.