Campaign Timeline
- Book One: The Brinewall Legacy
- Part I - Fires over Brinestump (currently in the middle)
- Part II - The Legacy's Lure
- Part III - Ruins of Brinewall
- Book Two: Night of Frozen Shadows
- Part I - Into the North
- Part II - A Gathering of Shadows
- Part III - Assault of Ravenscraeg
- Book Three: The Hungry Storm
- Part I - To the World's End
- Part II - The High Ice
- Part III - A Darker Road
- Book Four: Forest of Spirits
- Part I - Ordu-Aganhei
- Part II - The Forest of Spirits
- Part III - House of Withered Blossoms
- Book Five: Tide of Honor
- Part I - The Ronin and the Bandits
- Part II - The Shadows of Enganoka
- Part III - The Pearls of Sakakabe
- Part IV - The Honor of Sikutsu Itsuru
- Part V - The Siege of Seinaru Heikiko
- Book Six: The Empty Throne
- Part I - The Imperial City
- Part II - Honoring the Past
- Part III - Honoring the Future
- END
The Path of Destiny
North of Minkai, the land is dominated by expansive and mysterious woodlands known as the Forest of Spirits. It was here, long ago, that the gods created the protector spirits known as kami. Kami were not the only inhabitants of the Forest of Spirits, however. A powerful group of oni known as the Five Storms (symbolizing the five elements sacred to oni—fire, water, air, earth, and void) dwelt deep in the forest. The Five Storms did not want to stay in the forest, for just as they wore humanoid flesh so to did they lust for humanoid triumphs—they wanted the nation of Minkai as their own.
Numerous rules set in place by the gods prevented the oni from taking direct action to seize control of Minkai. When the collapse of the vast empire of Lung Wa on mainland Tian Xia threw the continent into chaos at the beginning of the Age of Lost Omens, the Five Storms saw their opportunity. With Minkai distracted, focusing its attention on aggression from beyond its borders, the Five Storms infiltrated the ranks of dozens of organizations, from the imperial army to powerful merchant guilds and ninja clans.
Over the century that followed, the oni, patient and deliberate, worked to gain power. Yet the greatest threat to their plan was the fact that as long as anyone of the divine line of emperors existed, there would always be someone capable of removing any pretender to the throne. The oni decided to prune the royal family trees to stumps. Over the course of several generations, they murdered, corrupted, and disposed of any who could trace their lineage to one of the five families to whom the gods had, in Minkai’s ancient past, granted the right to rule. In the case of most of these families, the task was relatively simple. Rule in Minkai had for several generations rested with the Higashiyama clan, and the other four families either had fallen into obscurity or were otherwise unprepared for what the oni had planned for them. The Five Storms managed to destroy three of those five families, taking possession of the families’ royal seals (minor artifacts capable of investing the divine right to rule in new families in the event that a previous family line dies out) and locking the royal seals away in a vault. The current ruling clan, the Higashiyamas, were so thoroughly infiltrated and corrupted by the oni that they were no longer a threat.
By 4652 ar, only one family remained as a viable contender for the Jade Throne—the Amatatsus. Yet the oni underestimated the Amatatsus’ ability to react and interpret world events. When the Amatatsus realized what was happening, the family patriarch made a scandalous choice—he decided to abandon his homeland. He took his family and f led north over the Crown of the World, following the trade route known as the Path of Aganhei all the way to the Lands of the Linnorm Kings. The oni discovered the plan too late, but sent agents after the Amatatsus, hoping to slay them to the last child and claim
the Amatatsu Seal as their own. Complicating this was the fact that as long as a royal seal remained unused in its magical warding box, it could not be magically tracked or located—effectively serving to obscure those around it from divination, making it the perfect cloak to hide under as the Amatatsus f led north.
When they reached Kalsgard, the Amatatsus went into hiding. They changed their name to Kaijitsu and took up the role of merchants and glassblowers to hide from their pursuers. Today, the legitimate heir of the Kaijitsu line is Ameiko Kaijitsu. After her father’s death during a recent attack on her home town of Sandpoint at the hands of a group of goblins allied to her estranged half-brother (also deceased at this time), she became the heir to the Kaijitsu fortune. As an available noble, she’s had no end of wouldbe suitors, but she’s rebuffed them all. She has no idea what destiny has in store for her.
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Sandpoint Hinterlands
