A F i n a l Fa n ta s y

player’s instruction manual

third draft
A campaign setting for Dungeons and Dragons v3.5, as
inspired by the games of Squaresoft, Inc.
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Table of C ontents

1: What You Need To Know......1 Tifereth......................................... 26

Introduction.................................... 1 Undine......................................... 26

The Game...................................... 1 4: Equipment and Items............27

Creating Characters....................... 2 Weapons...................................... 27
House Rules.................................. 2 Armor........................................... 33
2: Races....................................4 Items............................................ 34

Dwarves......................................... 4 5: The World..........................37

Elves.............................................. 6 Cosmology................................... 37
Gnomes......................................... 8 Geography................................... 38
Half-Elves.................................... 10
6: Potos..................................47
Halflings....................................... 10
The Village................................... 47
Thallesian Halflings.......................11
Village Personalities..................... 49
Kakkarian Halflings...................... 12
Creating Characters Who Live In
Spritelings.................................... 14
Potos............................................ 50
Humans....................................... 16
Sample Characters...................... 51
Orcs and Half-Orcs...................... 16
7: Additional Rules.................60
Penpens....................................... 18
Black, Red and White Mages...... 60
3: The Seven Aeons.................22
Cannon Travel.............................. 64
Cthon........................................... 22
Moogles....................................... 65
Lumos.......................................... 23
Languages................................... 69
Luna............................................. 24
Paladins....................................... 72
Salamandus................................. 24
Appendix: Art Credits.............75
Sylphus........................................ 25

Requires the use of the Dungeons & Dragons Third Edition Core
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1: W hat You Need To

K now
Introduction
A long time ago, three gods called the Archons – more commonly re-
ferred to as the Three – descended upon the void and created the world
and all of its races. Then one of the Three rebelled against the other two;
the result of that decision was a war between the Archons that lasted
for uncounted ages which nearly destroyed their creation. This was the
Long War. At the end of it, the rebel was killed, and the remaining two
Archons, exhausted and traumatized, left the world behind, never to
return.

They left behind them their servants, the Aeons, more commonly known
as the Seven. In the thousand years since the Long War ended, the
Seven and the races of the world – humans, halflings, dwarves, elves,
orcs, gnomes and the strange creatures called penpens, to name just a
few – have rebuilt a peaceful civilization.

But all is not well. In the last thirty years, a new power has arisen – the
Empire, a vast engine of war that commands technological and arcane
powers that challenge those of the Seven themselves. With an army
staffed by the Goblins, a new race created to be soldiers, the Empire
seems prepared to wipe out the peace the Seven have created and
conquer the entire world.

Yet, even on the eve of war, there may be a

glimmer of hope…

The Game
“A Final Fantasy” is a campaign setting for
Dungeons and Dragons 3.5, published by
Wizards of the Coast, which draws inspiration

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from the classic role-playing games created by Squaresoft, Inc. (now

Square-Enix), including Secret of Mana (Seiken Densetsu 2), Final Fan-
tasy VI (released as Final Fantasy III in the United States), Final Fantasy
IV (released as Final Fantasy II) and Chrono Trigger.

Creating Characters
Players whose gamemaster wants to
follow the campaign guidelines set
forward in the Gamemaster’s Instruction
Manual should consider the following
suggestions when creating characters:

1. First, your character will need to be a

resident of the village of Potos (see
Chapter 6: Potos). He or she must be
willing to take a job that might prove
dangerous, be it for money, love of
adventure, or just out of boredom.

2. Second, if you know anything about

the Squaresoft material this campaign
is going to be based on, you know
that this campaign is sooner or later
going to involve saving the world. So it
would be a big help if your characters
would be the type of people who might
be interested in saving the world — if
only because all their stuff’s there.

3. Third, character backgrounds are highly recommended. In general,

the more work that a player puts into his or her character, the more
he or she will get out of this campaign setting.

Please also note the house rules below before the game begins.

House Rules
The rules used in “A Final Fantasy” differ from standard d20 game rules
in the following ways:

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• Character death does not occur at -10 hit points in this campaign set-
ting. Instead, characters die at -20 hit points. (Please note, however,
that the Diehard feat still only applies while a character is above -9
hit points; afterwards, they are rendered unconscious).

• Players cannot take the Rapid Reload feat.

• Shortbows (but not composite shortbows) are to be considered

Simple Weapons. All classes that receive proficiency with Simple
Weapons are automatically proficient with the shortbow.

• Paladins may be of any good alignment. See Chapter 7: Paladins for

more details.

• The Halfling language has been divided into two different languages
— Thallesian and Kakkarian. See Chapter 7: Languages for more
details.

• There is no such language as Goblin.

• This campaign uses the optional Spell Points system for magic and
spellcasting. This system is considered open content under the Open
Gaming License. It is described in Unearthed Arcana (a Wizards of
the Coast sourcebook) and, as of this writing, can also be accessed
online at the following locations: [1] [2].

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2: R aces
Presented here are the common races of the world. All racial traits and
statistics are the same as presented in the Player’s Handbook, unless
where otherwise stated or contradicted.

Dwarves
These clever, neurotic subterranean dwellers are some of the most im-
pressive craftsmen and magicians in the world. Unfortunately, they might
also be the world’s most depressed race.

Personality: For reasons only vaguely under-

stood, dwarves tend to be somewhat unstable
in personality; depression and anxiety are their
constant companions, and they may often seem
completely unable to relax, even when in a con-
trolled environment. They have been known to
develop agrophobia, having been raised in con-
fined spaces. That having been said, some of the
greatest minds in the world can be found among
the dwarves; they are well known for producing
magical and technological items of great value.
Their culture values scholarship, education and
hard work. Other races who get past a dwarf’s ec-
centricities will often find an intelligent, loyal friend,
who tolerates and enjoys the company of other
peoples.

Relations: Dwarves tend to be extremely toler-

ant of other races – provided that tolerance is
returned. Spritelings have found a welcome home
in dwarf-held territories, for example. On the other
hand, dwarves tend to be wary of gnomes. They
also, while not prejudiced against other races, do
tend to be biased towards their own race; a dwarf
will tend to hire another dwarf before other races,
and will sometimes react to a new situation or is-
sue based solely on whether or not it is “good for

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the dwarves.”

Alignment: Dwarves have

a strong tendency towards
law, especially the lawful
neutral alignment. As with
all species, there are al-
ways exceptions, of course.

Lands: There are a great

number of dwarf settle-
ments under the mountains to the east of Jidoor. However, the center of
the dwarf community is the underground city of Gaia’s Navel, in the cen-
ter of the continent. The Earth Palace, residence of Cthon, is in Gaia’s
Navel, for example. Dwarves can also be found either temporarily or
permanently residing on the surface. Cannon Travel stations, owned by
the Masmer dwarf clan, are generally staffed by dwarves.

Religion: Dwarves are devoted followers of Cthon, who they sometimes

call Cthaim (in Dwarf: “great guy”). A dwarf who chooses to follow any
other member of the Seven has breached a major taboo in dwarf culture;
depending on the individual, reactions of the community may range from
quiet disapproval to utter rejection.

Adventurers: A dwarf’s motivation for leaving home generally falls into

two categories: she is either pursuing economic opportunity, in the form
of a job or treasure, or is seeking knowledge, of one form or another.
Dwarves tend to view adventurers among their own people, if not with
disdain, than with a certain kind of weariness: as if to say, yes, it’s very
nice that you’re seeing the world and all, but when are you going to
settle down and get married?

Dwarf Racial Traits

• Weapon Proficiency: A dwarf automatically receives the Martial
Weapon Proficiency feats for the light pick and heavy pick. Dwarves
become familiar with these items at an early stage in life, which are
commonly used in subterranean dwarf culture to tunnel through rock
and make home improvements. This replaces the dwarf’s Weapon
Familiarity.

• Dwarves do not receive a +1 racial bonus to attack roles against

orcs, half-orcs or goblinoids, since dwarves in this world have had

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little experience with fighting these races.

• Dwarves gain a +1 racial bonus to any two of the following skills

(player’s choice): Craft (any), Heal, Knowledge (any), Spellcraft.

• Automatic Languages: Common, Dwarven. Bonus Languages: Ce-

lestial, Kakkarian, Orc, Terran, Thallesian and Undercommon.

• Favored Class: Cleric. Dwarves are generally placed under a great

deal of pressure by their parents to become healers.

Elves
This strange, mercurial race lives freely in their home woodlands, doing
as they like with very little sense of obligation or motivation.

Personality: Elves value freedom above all else. That point aside,
they’re too laid back to care about anything else. Elves as a species are
almost completely without focus. Cheerful hedonists to the core, many
spend their long lives in their home villages, following whatever whim
happens to strike them. They tend to reject technology and most forms
of magic, living as simply as possible,
content to watch the world at large go by.

But the elves were not always this way.

Only a few members of the other races
have put the pieces together and realized
that elves are the only ones who have
lived long enough to still remember the
Great War a thousand years ago. Having
seen horrors that few in the modern age
might understand, the elves as a whole
reacted by rejecting reality as completely
as possible, living for the moment to for-
get the past. It might be working. Might.

Relations: Other races tend to see elves

as flighty, irresponsible libertines. A com-
mon expression to describe something
impossible is: “That’ll happen as soon as
the elves get jobs,” or something to that

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effect. That having been said, elves are generally too mellow to hate
others (except Sylphus), or to care about the opinions of outsiders; and
certain humans and halflings have learned to enjoy the elves’ permissive
culture and unique outlook on existence.

Alignment: Elves are quintessentially chaotic.

Lands: Elves live in scattered communities throughout the Crescent

Forest and the Great Forest of the Upper Land. A large population lives
just south of Pandora, where a number make a decent business trad-
ing homemade arts and crafts for food and other essentials. The entire
species has been banned from the mushroom citadel of Matango for a
number of years, following an elf doing something unspeakably insulting
to a member of the royal family.

Religion: When elves choose to follow a member of the Seven, they

generally pick Dryad, with Undine (who seems particularly sympathetic
to the elves’ past) as a close second. As a rule, however, elves never
follow Sylphus, towards whom they bear an uncharacteristically intense
hatred that they refuse to explain to outsiders.

Adventurers: There’s no telling what will drive an elf to walk the world.
Some just leave their home forests out of boredom, seeking thrills or
new amusements. Others might be seeking the great
truths behind existence. Whatever their motivation, it’s
rare that an elf will find a sufficiently compelling reason
to keep focused on a particular quest… rare, but not
impossible.

Elf Racial Traits

• +2 Dexterity, -2 Constitution, -2 Intelligence. While
elves have faster reflexes than other species, they are
fragile and more easily damaged. Elves also tend to
have too short of an attention span to be great learn-
ers or scholars.

• Receive a +1 racial bonus on all Survival and Knowl-

edge (nature) checks.

• Weapon Focus: An elf receives the Weapon Fo-

cus feats for the longsword, the rapier, the longbow
(including the composite longbow) and the shortbow

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(including the composite shortbow). An elf who is non-proficient with

these weapons does not receive this bonus until he or she learns
how to use these weapons. For some reason, these weapons seem
to be in the blood of the elves; they seem to become extraordinarily
skilled with them in a very short amount of time… that is to say, when
they actually bother to learn how to use them. This ability replaces
the elf’s Weapon Proficiency.

• Automatic Languages: Common, Elven. Bonus Languages: Abyssal,

Draconic, Gnoll, Orc, Thallesian and Sylvan.

• Favored Class: Druid

Gnomes
These technologically advanced craftsmen
and workers have recently taken a disturbing
turn towards xenophobia, hatred and
totalitarianism.

Personality: Gnomes have been suspicious

of other races for a long time. Under the
regime of Tom Kaiser, they have been
consumed by a hatred of all other races.
Military discipline has become a constant
throughout gnome society; gnomes are
trained from birth to be faceless soldiers for
Kaiser’s vision, willing to kill and be killed
for the cause. A few rebels try to go against
the grain; these non-conformists are either
executed as traitors – sometimes turned in
by their own families – or are forced to live in
hiding. A handful escape the confines of Davros and go to seek the true
face of the other races; even these, however, may still unconsciously
carry the prejudices of their culture with them.

Relations: The regime of Tom Kaiser declares all other races to be

inferior and unworthy of existence; their propaganda tends to emphasize
halflings, the traditional enemies of gnomes, and, oddly enough,
penpens. Members of other races, needless to say, do not react
positively to this position. Thallasian halflings, in particular, are at the

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very least suspicious, if not openly hostile, to all gnomes, regardless of

individual merit. The only other race that gnomes tolerate – just barely
– is humanity. Even this is primarily a function of politics, as Kaiser’s
regime sells arms to the human-dominated Empire.

Alignment: At this time, gnomes tend to be evil – or at least the ones in

power. There are a great many exceptions to this rule. All the same, too
few gnomes are truly good.

Lands: Gnomes hail from the city of Davros, nearby the Sunken Conti-
nent. They have no other territories… yet.

Religion: The Kaiser regime rejects the Seven, believing them to be

a foreign influence. Small followings of Undine and Sylphus, predating
Kaiser’s assumption of power, exist in Davros, carefully watched by the
secret police.

Adventurers: Gnomes who wander away from Davros fall into two
categories – rebels and spies for the Kaiser regime. Rebels might be
driven by the hope of returning home, someday, and driving Kaiser out
of power. Spies might claim to be rebels as a cover while gathering infor-
mation about the other races for Kaiser.

Gnome Racial Traits

• +1 racial bonus on attack rolls against halflings and penpens.
Gnomes are trained from birth in techniques to exterminate these
races. This replaces the gnome’s +1 racial bonus on attack roles
against kobolds and goblinoids.

• +1 racial bonus to any two of the following skills (player’s choice):

Craft (any), Intimidate, Knowledge (architecture and engineering), or
Search. This bonus is cumulative with all other racial bonuses.

• Weapon Familiarity: Gnomes may treat the following weapons as

martial weapons, rather than exotic weapons – the gnome hooked
hammer, repeating heavy crossbow, repeating light crossbow, hand
crossbow, flamethrower, and poisonthrower. As a race, gnomes tend
to be extremely capable with technologically advanced weaponry.

• Spell-Like Abilities: 1/day – detect magic (duration 1 minute). This

replaces the gnome’s speak with animals ability. The gnome’s other
spell-like abilities remain unaffected; however, due to the anti-magi-

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cal bent of the Kaiser regime, public use of these abilities is heavily
punished. The Davrosian police often use this ability to hunt down
illegal arcane practitioners.

• Automatic Languages: Common, Gnome. Bonus Languages: Abys-

sal, Draconic, Dwarven, Infernal, Orc and Thallesian.

• Favored Class: Fighter

Half-Elves
Half-elves tend to be more focused than their elf parents, deriving more
of a sense of purpose and motivation from their human sides. Some
half-elves are known to become stodgy and conservative in order to dis-
tance themselves from the elves, whose free-wheeling culture they view
with deep embarrassment and contempt. Other half-elves embrace the
ways of the elves, joining the endless revelry of their long-lived relatives.
Still others choose to strike out on their own path, neither defining them-
selves by nor forgetting about their heritage.

Half-Elf Racial Traits

• +1 racial bonus to any two of the following
skills (player’s choice): Bluff, Disguise, Forgery,
Knowledge (any) or Perform (any).

Halflings
There are three different types of halflings in
the world – the Kakkarian halflings of the Great
Desert, the Thallesian halflings, who live near
the Sunken Continent, and the spritelings, who
originally are from the Upper Land, but have
recently been spread out across the world by a
natural calamity.

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Thallesian Halflings
The solid merchants and sailors of the city of
Thalla are well-known throughout the world.

Personality: The Thallesians are a commercial

people, first and foremost. They tend to have high
standards of behavior, in terms of etiquette and
morality; their culture emphasizes hard work and
material success. The flip side to these attitudes
is a certain amount of contempt for the less for-
tunate. As far as Thallesian society is concerned,
if you haven’t achieved a measure of success or
stability in your life, you have no one to blame but
yourself. The extent to which these principles are
believed in vary widely from individual to individu-
al.

Relations: The Thallesians generally have excellent relations with the

peoples and countries of the world, as benefiting their entrepreneurial
spirit. They trade with everyone, regardless of race or background –
even the Empire. They are held in particularly high esteem by the Oni
Kingdom; of all the races, only the halflings of Thalla are directly allowed
to trade in the capital of Doma. The great exception to this tolerance are
gnomes, whom the Thallesians are generally hostile towards, They have
a superiority complex regarding the Davrosians; they see the gnomes as
merely resenting their economic and social betters. The situation has not
improved with the rise of Tom Kaiser.

Alignment: Generally neutral, with a certain tendency towards law in the

high echelons of Thallesian society.

Lands: Thallesian halflings come from the city of Thalla. However, they
can be found all over the world.

Religion: Popular members of the Seven among Thallesians include

Undine, Salamandus, Lumos, and Sylphus. The cult of Luna is also
popular among Thallesian thieves and merchants, though they generally
do not express their religious convictions in public.

Adventurers: Thallesian halflings can have any number of motivation to

explore the world. They are found throughout the world as merchants,

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traveling entertainers, bandits and explorers.

Thallesian Halfling Racial Traits

• +1 racial bonus to any two of the following skills (player’s choice): Ap-
praise, Diplomacy, Knowledge (architecture and engineering), Knowl-
edge (geography), Knowledge (history), Profession (any) or Swim.

• Automatic Languages: Common, Thallesian. Bonus Languages:

Dwarven, Draconic, Gnome, Kakkarian and Orc.

• Favored Class: Rogue

Kakkarian Halflings
These desert nomads combine a fierce warrior spirit
with a sense of charity and generosity.

Personality: These halflings tend to be cautious

around other races, expressing little and hiding their
faces, at least at first. However, once an individual
has earned a Kakkarian’s trust, they will find few bet-
ter friends in the world. Kakkarian culture focuses on
generosity and hospitality; there are few lengths to which a Kakkarian
will not go to assist an ally.

Relations: Kakkarians have cordial relations with the humans of Figaro,

a settlement on the outskirts of the Great Desert. They trade freely with
other races, even with the Empire; they have a strange relationship with
dwarves, who they simultaneously resent and value as trading partners.
They generally welcome Thallesian halflings and spritelings as cousins.
The Kakkarians have not had much contact with gnomes; generally,
when they learn of Kaiser’s philosophy, they react with hostility.

Alignment: Kakkarians tend to be more neutral than good or evil.

Lands: Kakkarians wander the Great Desert in individual tribes. Their

only permanent settlement is the holy city of Kakkara, near the great
Star Crater. They are also commonly found in Figaro and Kaipo, trad-
ing with the humans and dwarves there. Some Kakkarians have left the
Great Desert and moved south, in search of economic opportunity.

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Religion: Kakkarians have

their own religion that
revolves around the Star
Crater and Kakkara. When
they choose to follow a
member of the Seven, they
generally prefer Cthon,
who they worship in their
own way, separate from
the dwarf traditions. A few
bandits and thieves prefer
Luna, but these are con-
sidered outcasts by the
majority of Kakkarians.

Adventurers: When Kak-

karians leave the desert,
they generally do so to
find economic opportu-
nity. Though curiosity and
searching for knowledge
sometime come into play,
the Kakkarians generally
hold that any knowledge
that isn’t in the desert isn’t worth knowing. Wandering Kakkarians leave
behind close-knit family groups, with whom they go to extraordinary
lengths to keep in touch with.

Kakkarian Halfling Racial Traits

• +2 racial bonus to Survival checks in desert environments. Kakkar-
ian halflings are well-adapted to the dry, arid conditions of the Great
Desert.

• Weapon Proficiency: Kakkarian halflings automatically receive the

Martial Weapon Proficiency feats for the scimitar and the kukri.

• +2 racial bonus to Hide and Slight of Hand checks. Kakkarian hal-

flings do not receive a +1 racial bonus to thrown weapons and slings,
as do other halflings, since their culture emphasizes melee com-
bat. They also do not receive a +2 racial bonus to Climb and Jump
checks.

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• Automatic Language: Common, Kakkarian. Bonus Languages: Ce-

lestial, Dwarven, Ignan, Orc and Thallesian.

• Favored Class: Scout

Spritelings
This magical race, small even by
halfling standards, have been spread
across the world by a natural disaster.

Personality: It’s possible to walk into

a room with a spriteling and not even
know she’s there – even if she isn’t in-
visible. Fragile and vulnerable, spritel-
ings generally prefer it if larger people
don’t notice them – understandable
for a displaced race that has lost their
home. When placed in a more sup-
portive environment – around trusted
individuals – their personalities blos-
som. Under these conditions, spritel-
ings are energetic and boisterous,
even loud-mouthed.

Physical Description: Spritelings

are both the shortest of the halflings, and the shortest-lived. They are
generally an average of two feet and ten inches tall (2’10”), with a base
height of two and a half feet (2’6”) for both men and women. In terms
of lifespan, a spriteling reaches adulthood at 15 years, reaches middle
age at 25 years, is considered old at 30 years, and generally does not
live past the age of 50. In terms of other physical traits, they look about
the same as other halflings, though the vast majority of spritelings have
some form of red hair.

Relations: Spritelings get along best with races of similar height – the
other halfling races and the dwarves, for instance. They tend to be wary
around medium-sized creatures, including humans, elves and penpens,
though they can be talked out of it with time and patience. If a spriteling
sees a gnome, he runs for it – preferably while invisible.

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Alignment: Spritelings are more often good than

evil, and more chaotic than lawful.

Lands: Spritelings originally came from some-

where in the Upper Land. But about fifteen years
ago, a plague decimated their population and
forced them away from their village and into other
lands. Spritelings are now found wherever they
can find a place to live – among their cousins
in Kakkara, for example, or with the dwarves in
Gaia’s Navel.

Religion: Spritelings can end up following any

one of the Seven.

Adventurers: A spriteling out on the road is generally looking for a place

in the world – be it in terms of enough gold to buy a new home, or just
friends to replace a lost family. A wanderer from a refugee people isn’t
that uncommon.

Spriteling Racial Traits

• -2 Strength, +2 Dexterity, -2 Constitution, +2 Charisma.

• +1 racial bonus to Knowledge (arcana) and Spellcraft checks.

• Spell-Like Abilities: 1/day invisibility (self only). This effect lasts 1

minute, or until the halfling attacks another creature.

• Spritelings do not receive a +2 racial bonus to Climb, Jump and

Move Silently checks, or a +1 racial bonus to at-
tack rolls with thrown weapons and slings; they
are much less athletic than their halfling brethren.

• Automatic Languages: Common, Celestial. Bonus

Languages: Draconic, Dwarven, Elven, Sylvan
and Thallesian.

• Favored Class: Sorcerer

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Humans
Humans are humans. What more do you
want?

Lands: Humans are the most widespread

race in the world, living on all three con-
tinents and in all environments; from the
genteel kingdom of Pandora to the desert
republic of Figaro, to the great and mysteri-
ous Empire, which is primarily human.

Human Racial Traits

• +1 racial bonus to any two class or
cross-class skills of the player’s choice. If
the skill in question cannot be used un-
trained, the player must place a rank in the
skill to gain his or her racial bonus.

Orcs and Half-Orcs

There are quite a few “uncivilized” orcs
and half-orcs living throughout the world,
as nomadic wanderers, bandits, or pirates. These individuals follow the
standard rules for orcs and half-orcs in Dungeons and Dragons with little
modification (see below for the exceptions). However, the main center of
orc civilization is the Oni Kingdom, far to the east of Pandora.

The Oni Kingdom was founded shortly after the Great War by Emperor
Shizi I, a half-orc who collected a great number of his people together on
the large island on the east of the Pandorian continent. The result was
the oldest monarchy in the world, which still exists today amid a culture
that emphasizes honor, tradition, and communal obligations.

Personality: The orcs and half-orcs of the Oni Kingdom tend to strike
other races as reserved and inexpressive to the point of being almost
mechanical. This impression is further emphasized by the Kingdom’s rig-
idly observed rules of behavior and etiquette. It thus comes as a shock
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heat of battle; here, the aggression that is a part of the orc heritage, oth-
erwise checked, is unleashed with terrifying results.

Relations: The orcs and half-orcs of the Oni Kingdom are unfailingly
polite when dealing with other races. It can be extremely difficult for
outsiders to get past this façade. The Kingdom maintains cordial rela-
tions with all of the other world powers; if they have any suspicion of the
Empire whatsoever, they keep it well hidden. Their best relations may be
with the human settlement of Tascina, a city-republic founded with the
permission of the Oni Emperor a hundred years ago. The city is a major
trading point, and one of the few locations where the Oni come into con-
tact with other cultures and races.

Alignment: The Oni Kingdom orcs and half-orcs have a strong tendency
towards law.

Lands: The administrative capital of the Oni Kingdom is Damcyan. The

true capital, however, is the city of Doma, slightly to the north. This is
where the Oni Emperor officially resides, though more often than not he
and his court divide their time between the two cities. It is also where
the Fire Palace, residence of Salamadus, is located. The Kingdom also
holds the three islands in the Strait of Shizi.
This is well-known for being a relatively lawless
area; the island of Ichi, in particular, is a mag-
net for pirates and other criminals. A few tribes
of “uncivilized” orcs live scattered across this
area.

Religion: The Oni have an excellent

relationship with Salamandus, whom they
consider their national patron. They tend to
follow him when choosing a religious calling.
Other popular members of the Seven include
Lumos and Undine, respected as the consort of
Salamandus.

Adventurers: Oni explore the larger world for

a variety of reasons – among them the acquir-
ing of knowledge for their homeland, diplomatic
missions, or simple curiosity.

Oni Kingdom Orc and Half-Orc Traits

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• +1 racial bonus to Bluff and Diplomacy checks.

• Weapon Familiarity: Orcs and half-orcs from the Oni Kingdom may
treat the katana and the bastard sword as martial weapons, rather
than as exotic weapons.

• Automatic Languages: Common, Orc. Bonus Languages: Celestial,

Draconic, Dwarven, Ignan and Thallesian.

• Favored Class: Fighter

Uncivilized Orc and Half-Orc Traits

• +1 racial bonus to any two of the following skills: Bluff, Craft (any),
Heal, Intimidate, Knowledge (geography), Profession (farmer), Pro-
fession (sailor), Ride, or Search.

• Automatic Languages: Common, Orc. Bonus Languages: Abyssal,

Giant, Gnoll, Infernal and Thallesian.

Penpens
Also called “gwyniads,” these odd creatures are the loyal guardians of
Sylphus and the Ice Country.

Personality: Penpens are highly intelligent creatures, highly skilled in

magic and in the technical sciences, but often seem absent-minded or
lacking a certain amount of common sense. They are great lovers of
theory over practice. They are a mostly harmless race – unless their
homeland, the Ice Country, is threatened. When defending their home,
they become focused, coldly logical warmages, willing to use any strat-
egy, regardless of the cost in sentient life.

Physical Description: Penpens resemble nothing so much as five-foot-

tall penguins, capable of speech and with long, claw-like fingers extend-
ing from their “wings.” They usually weigh between 180 and 250 pounds.
They are generally live to be about 65 years old, having a slightly shorter
lifespan than humans. Skin color ranges from light grey to black, spotted
with white.

Relations: Penpens get along fine with most races, being a tolerant,
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stand. Though they rarely express this emotion, penpens as a whole are
extremely hostile to the Empire.

Alignment: Penpens are usually neutral good. They are almost never
evil.

Lands: The penpens live in the Ice Country, which contains the Ice
Palace, residence of Sylphus. Their three main cities – Whitehead,
Gywnius and Todo – stand on the otherwise inhospitable north coast
of the country. Since there are very few sailors willing to venture within
this area, the penpens have also established the cosmopolitan trading
center of Archangel on the south coast. These four settlements – plus
the massive fortifications around the Ice Palace – are politically aligned
in a civil republic; this nation is generally referred to as the Gwyniad.

Religion: The penpens as a whole tend to follow Sylphus, with very few
exceptions. The second most favored religious alignment is atheist, in so
far as it is possible to deny the existence of the Seven. Penpens of this
persuasion tend to make a go of it in any case; their arguments tend to
revolve around mirages, naturally-occurring illusion magics, and swamp

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gas.

Language: Penpens have their own language, an extremely

complicated tongue that makes use of grammatical structures from
nearly every other language on the planet. However, this language,
generally called Penpen, is under constant revision, with an individual
often creating new words on her own without telling anyone else.
The language has gotten increasing complex to the point that every
individual has a different concept of how it should be spoken, which
makes the common tongue more or less non-existent. The penpens
thus generally tend to speak Common when they must resort to mere
communication.

Names: Just as penpens frequently borrow the languages of other

races, they are also known for borrowing their names. A penpen might
bear an orcish, human or even gnomish personal name; he or she
might even change this name if they find one they like better. There are
only two things that do not change in a penpen’s name: first, their fam-
ily name, which ties them to a larger clan group, generally remains the
same. This surname is also frequently borrowed from other cultures;
hyphenated names are popular, especially when a family can’t make
up their minds as to which clan name they want. Second, since chang-
ing one’s personal name is a common occurrence, in order to be able to
practically conduct affairs, a penpen is given, as their middle name, their
date of birth. A typical penpen name might therefore well be Jebeddo 12
December Stevens-Ivellios. Outsiders dealing with this particular aspect
of gywniad culture tend to either come up with nicknames for their pen-
pen friends, or develop headaches.

Adventurers: A penpen who leaves her homeland generally does so in

the pursuit of knowledge or interesting experiences. They are generally
uninterested in material wealth; that having been said, penpens have
been known to join adventuring parties on little more than a whim.

Penpen Racial Traits

• -2 Dexterity, +2 Intelligence, -2 Wisdom. Penpens are extremely
intellectual creatures, with an average intelligence far into the range
of genius among humans. However, they are physically awkward
creatures, especially on land, and tend to be absent-minded and
easily confused.

• Medium size.

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• Base land speed of 20 feet.

• Base swim speed of 40 feet.

• Cold resistance 5. Penpens are adapted to cold temperatures and

climates.

• Penpens receive a -4 penalty to all Fortitude saves made to resist

heat dangers.

• Tremorsense 60 feet in water.

• +2 to Intuition checks with other penpens. Due to the particularities of

their language, penpen children learn early on to become extremely
sensitive to their parents’ body language. Otherwise, they would
have no clue what was being said.

• Automatic languages: Common, Penpen. Bonus languages: Aquan,

Auran, Celestial, Draconic, Ignan and Terran.

• Favored class: Wizard.

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3: T he S even A eons
The Aeons, also
commonly called Aeon Domains & Favored Weapons
the Seven, are Name Alignment Domains Favored Weapon
magical beings Earth, Knowledge, Magic, Scimitar or
Cthon NG
who were created Mind*, Rune* quarterstaff
as servents and Lumos LN
Sun, War, Glory*,
Lance
Inquisition*, Purification*
companions by the
Chaos, Trickery, Luck,
Archons, the three Luna CN Greed*, Moon*
Dagger

deities who created Fire, Law, Protection,

Salamandus LG Katana
the world. For a Courage*, Nobility*

time, it was good, Sylphus CG

Air, Knowledge, Travel,
Longbow
Creation*, Windstorm*
until the Three fell
Plant, Animal, Celerity*,
to warring among Tifereth N Elf*, Renewel*
Spear

each other, in what Water, Healing, Strength,

Undine NG Trident
became known Family*, Ocean*

as the Long War. * for specifications for the marked domains, see this.
When the Long War
was over, the two
surviving Archons left the world forever, leaving the Aeons behind to put
the pieces back together. In the thousand years that have passed since
then, the Aeons have helped mortals reconstruct civilization. They are,
in return, worshipped by many as gods, though they lack many of the
attributes and powers commonly accorded to deities in Dungeons and
Dragons.

For all of their powers, the Seven are still physical beings. They can
be killed, be it via physical force or sufficiently powerful magic – two
resources that the Empire, their primary foe, has in spades.

Cthon
Alignment: Neutral Good

Domains: Earth, Knowledge, Magic, Mind, Rune.

Holy Symbol: The Celestial letter dal —

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The Aeon of earth is also the patron of scholarship. The most eccen-
tric of the Seven, he officially resides in the underground city of Gaia’s
Navel, where he is often seen wandering the streets of the city, lost in an
absent-minded haze. Cthon appears to be a six-foot-tall dwarf shaped
from stone with glowing blue eyes. He usually dresses in a tattered white
bathrobe, and wears a pair of dwarf-made bifocals that he frequently
loses track of.

From his home in the Earth Palace, Cthon collects the wisdom and
knowledge of generations in his immense library. He is the great patron
of the dwarves, who affectionately call him “Cthaim” (dwarf: “great guy”).
He is also worshipped by the Kakkarian halflings, who do so in a manner
completely different from his dwarf followers. He is on generally good
terms with all other members of the Seven, with the exception of Syl-
phus, who he greatly distrusts, for unknown reasons (though it may have
something to do with their overlap in domains).

Lumos
Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Domains: Sun, War, Glory, Inquisition, Purification.

Holy Symbol: The letter uath —

Lumos is the Aeon of light and the sun. He sees it as his purpose in
life to spread his life throughout the world, through whatever means he
considers necessary. A great defender of truth and justice, his follow-
ers are often judges, officials of the law, military
officers, or hunters of the undead. He is the head
of an organization called the Inquisition of Light;
its members roam the world, seeking out and
destroying inequity and transgression wherever
they see fit. Of all the Seven, Lumos is the most
passionate in his hatred for the Empire; this is
somewhat understandable, since the Empire
forced him from his home in the city now known
as Vector. He has since relocated his residence,
the Light Palace, to the city of Mysidia. Undine
and Salamandus often visit him there.

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Ten years ago, Lumos quietly assumed

patronage of the Black Citadel in Mysidia – a
surprising turn of events, since he and the
black mages could not be more different.
Nonetheless, he has not asked any of the
other Aeons to take over for him since then.
He may consider himself the individual best
suited to reign in the black mages’ free-
wheeling, anything-goes curiosity.

Luna
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Domains: Chaos, Trickery, Luck, Greed,

Moon.

Holy Symbol: The letter pha —

The black sheep of the Aeons, Luna lives in

and out of the public eye. The other Seven do
not discuss her. The only one of their number
who still maintains contact with her is Undine. Sullen and selfish, Luna
is the patron of the ever-changing moon and the thieves who work in its
light. She is followed by rogues, pirates, spies and other residents of the
underworld. The location of her palace is unknown. She may not even
have one. She is rumored to be something of a wanderer; some of her
followers claim to have seen her in the form of a beautiful, pale woman,
drinking in bars across the world.

Salamandus
Alignment: Lawful Good

Domains: Fire, Law, Protection, Courage, Nobility.

Holy Symbol: The letter shin —

Salamandus is the Aeon of fire and law; he appears in the form of a

large, calm creature with the head of a dragon and the body of an orc.

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He is the protector of all life in the world, and gives help to honorable
warriors everywhere. Quiet and polite to a fault, he is well-matched to
the Oni Kingdom, of which he is the official patron; his residence, the
Fire Palace, is located in the city of Damcyan. He is the husband of
Undine, one of the few people able to make him smile. He is also the
patron of the Red Citadel in Mysidia and of red mages.

Sylphus
Alignment: Chaotic Good

Domains: Air, Knowledge,

Travel, Creation,
Windstorm.

Holy Symbol: The letter

alif —

Sylphus, otherwise known

as Father Winter or
Father Christmas, usually
manifests in the form of
a stout, somewhat worn
but still jolly old man in
his mid-sixties. He is the
patron of the penpens, with
whom he shares the Ice
Country. With the exception of Undine and Lumos, he is the most widely
worshipped of the Seven. Even non-worshippers join in the celebration
of his holiday, known by various names, around the time of the winter
solstice. During this holiday, Sylphus comes out of his Palace deep in
the Ice Country and makes his way around the world, teleporting from
house to house, spreading good cheer and charity to the good children
of the world. No one knows where exactly he gets all of the toys from;
cynics and paranoiacs also like to point out the ambiguities surrounding
someone who knows exactly who’s been bad or good, every single
time. Many have been known to refrain from Wintermas. These include,
in particular, the dwarves and Kakkarian halflings – followers of Cthon,
whose distrust for Sylphus is well-known – and the elves, who harbor a
strange hatred for the old man that they refuse to explain to outsiders.

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Tifereth
Alignment: True Neutral

Domains: Plant, Animal, Celerity, Elf, Renewal.

Holy Symbol: The letter resh —

The Aeon of nature, also called Dryad, is the

most reclusive of the Seven. The protector of
plants, animals and the environment, she is rarely
known to leave her residence in the Tree Palace,
on a small island that juts out from the Sunken
Continent. Her followers – who include druids,
rangers and others linked to nature – often go on
pilgrimages to the Tree Palace to seek her out. On
the rare occasions that she greets her followers,
she is known to be shy and nervous, and easily scared away. It is said
she lets her guard down to a small group of trusted priests, who reside
with her in the Tree Palace, and to her sister, Undine.

Undine
Alignment: Neutral Good

Domains: Water, Healing, Strength, Family,

Ocean.

Holy Symbol: The letter mim —

Undine is the patron of water; as such, she

sees herself as linked to every aspect of life in
the world, from the largest ocean to the tiniest
stream. Well known for her charity and good
nature, the Sea Queen (as she is sometimes
called) tends to appear in the form of a
beautiful, blue-skinned human woman. She is
generally the peacemaker among the Seven,
trying her best to resolve the various personality conflicts within the
pantheon. She is the wife of Salamandus and the patron of the White
Citadel in Mysidia.

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4: E quipment and I tems

The contents of this chapter are divided into three sections: weapons
(including magic weapons), armor and items (including wondrous items,
potions and common equipment).

Weapons
Game statistics for the light repeating crossbow Weapons By Price
and the heavy repeating crossbow can be
found in the core Dungeons and Dragons Weapon Price

rulebooks. Bokken 5 gp
Claw 30 gp
Blood Sword Flamethrower 300 gp
Poisonthrower 300 gp
Sometimes called “Drain,” these +2 longswords Mute arrow 347 gp
are highly esteemed among Imperial Army Flame knuckle 8,302 gp
officers. Three times per day, the wielder can Kazekiri 8,815 gp
choose to use the spell vampiric touch (as Blood sword 24,515 gp
if a 6th-level wizard) while attacking with the Midge hammer 53,312 gp
weapon; if the next melee attack succeeds, the Moogle halberd 74,310 gp
blood sword drains an additional 3d6 points of Dragon claw 97,130 gp
damage from the target and transfers it to the Break blade 153,010 gp
wielder in the form of temporary hit points. See
vampiric touch for more details.

New Exotic Weapons

Weapon Cost Dmg (S) Dmg (M) Crit Range Inc. Weight Type
Light Melee Weapons
Claw 30 gp 1d3 1d4 19-20/x2 -- 2 lbs. Slash
One-Handed Melee Weapons
Bokken 5 gp 1d4 1d6 19-20/x2 -- 3 lbs. Bludg.
Ranged Weapons
Flamethrower 300 gp 2d4 2d6 x3 5 ft. 28 lbs. Special
Fuel tank 50 gp 12 lbs.
Poisonthrower 300 gp Special Special Special 5 ft. 27 lbs. Special
Tank 200 gp Special Special Special 3 lbs. Special
Primer 20 gp 1.5 lbs.

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Moderate necromancy; CL 6th; Craft Magic Arms and Armor, vampiric

touch; Price 24,515 gp; Cost 12,415 gp + 968 XP.

Break Blade
Only two of these rare +3 adamantine battleaxes – artifacts from the
Long War – are known to exist. The first is in the private collection of the
Emperor of the Oni Kingdom. The other was last seen on a merchant
ship that sunk somewhere off the coast of Bolgan three hundred years
ago. In addition to the properties mentioned, any living creature hit by
the break blade must make a Fortitude save (DC 19) or be turned to
stone.

Moderate transmutation; CL 11th; Craft Magic Arms and Armor, flesh to

stone; Price 153,010 gp; Cost 76,500 gp + 6120 XP.

Bokken
Cost: 5 gp; Damage (Small): 1d4; Damage (Medium): 1d6; Critical: 19-
20/x2; Weight: 3 lbs.; Type: Bludgeoning

This one-handed exotic melee weapon is a wooden

practice sword fashioned in the shape of a katana.
It is often used by samurai trainees who have yet to
accumulate the skill or the capital necessary to be
worthy of a sword. A bokken is easily broken (having a
hardness of 5 and 10 hp) and easily sundered in combat
– the wielder of a bokken receives a -2 penalty when
rolling an opposed sundering check. However, if
wielded properly, it can break bones and knock lightly-
armored or unarmored individuals unconscious.

Anyone who has Exotic Weapon Proficiency (katana)

is proficient with a bokken.

Claw
Cost: 30 gp; Damage (Small): 1d3; Damage
(Medium): 1d4; Critical: 19-20/x2; Weight: 2 lbs.;
Type: Slashing

This weapon consists of a metal glove with three

sharp blades extending from above the knuckles.

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The claw is considered a special monk weapon; a monk can make

attacks with a claw using their unarmed attack bonus. An attack with a
claw is considered an armed attack. The listed price and weight is for a
single claw. Your opponent cannot use a disarm action to disarm you of
claws.

Dragon Claw
These powerful magic weapons – rumored to have been forged by
Salamandus himself – appear almost exclusively in the hands of a few
highly esteemed monks in the service of the Aeon of Fire. In addition to
the listed statistics for the claw, the dragon claw has a +4 enhancement
bonus. Three times per day, its wielder can create a cone of fire project-
ing from the claw that extends 60 feet outwards and deals 12d6 points of
fire damage (Reflex save for half, DC 18).

Strong evocation; CL 12th; Create Magic Arms and Armor, cone of cold,
fireball; Price 97,130 gp; Cost 48,400 gp + 3872 XP.

Flame Knuckle
This +1 flaming gauntlet is highly prized among the monks of Fabul.

Moderate evocation; CL 10th; Craft Magic Arms and Armor, fireball; Price
8,302 gp; Cost 4,000 gp + 320 XP.

Flamethrower
Cost: 300 gp; Damage (Small): 2d4; Damage (Medium): 2d6; Critical:
x3; Range Increment: 5 ft.; Weight: 28 lbs.; Type: Special (fire)

Flamethrower Fuel Tank (5 shots):

Cost: 50 gp; Weight: 12 lbs.

This horror of gnomish technology, produced by the Davros Workers’

Collective, shoots a short burst of flame out of a rifle-like device, held in
the user’s hands. The rifle is in turn connected by a hose to a large tank,
carried on the wearer’s back.

The device is considered a two-handed ranged weapon. Its use within

melee combat provokes an attack of opportunity, as is standard for
ranged weapons. The device also has a maximum range of 20 feet; it

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cannot hit a target that is further than this distance away. It is extremely
effective against wooden items; when sundering a wooden (or paper)
item or object, a flamethrower does an additional die of damage (+1d4
for Small, +1d6 for Medium). It also ignores the object or item’s hard-
ness.

The weight of the fuel tank is not accounted for in the flamethrower’s
listed weight.

Flamethrower fuel detonates if it is exposed to air. If this occurs, the fuel

reacts as if it were alchemist’s fire, one flask per each unexpended shot
remaining in the tank. Flamethrower tanks tend to be sturdy objects as
a result; the tank has a hardness of 12 and 15 hit points. The tank must
be fully destroyed, when sundering, in order to ignite the fuel.

If a flamethrower is being worn or carried by a character who fails his

saving throw against a magical fire attack, that character is in trouble. If
the damage done by the attack overcomes the fuel tank’s hardness – in
other words, does more than 12 points of damage – the fuel must itself
make a saving throw against the spell, with a bonus of +7. If this saving
throw fails, part of the tank melts and the fuel ignites.

Flamethrower fuel itself may theoretically be used as a thrown weapon,

like alchemist’s fire; however, the tank is not designed to be thrown.
The fuel must therefore be somehow poured
out and prepared to be thrown – a dangerous
operation, since any exposure to air will
cause it to ignite – or the tank
must be modified to allow
its use as a large grenade. To
use the second option, a player must
make a Craft (Weaponsmithing) check (DC 30).
The operation takes six hours, during which the
player cannot be disturbed.

Kazekiri
The name of these +1 katanas roughly
translates to “Tempest Blade” in Common.
These blades are made in a small village near
Doma, and are highly sought after by retainers
of the Oni Kingdom nobility. Three times per day,
the wielder of a kazekiri can use the spell gust

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of wind, as if a 3rd-level sorcerer.

Faint evocation; CL 3rd; Craft Magic Arms and Armor, gust of wind; Price
8,815 gp; Cost 4,240 gp + 339 XP.

Midge Hammer
This +1 merciful warhammer was crafted by a beautiful black mage in
Pandora who was frustrated by the horde of young men attempting to
court her. Anyone attacked with the midge hammer must make a Forti-
tude save (DC 17) or be immediately reduced in size, as if via the spell
reduce person. Unlike reduce person, however, this effect is permenant.
The victim’s former height can be regained via the spells break enchant-
ment, greater dispel magic (targeted dispel, DC 20), polymorph any
object, and (temporarily) via alter self and polymorph.

Moderate transmutation; CL 9th; Craft Magic Arms and Armor, baleful

polymorph; Price 53,312 gp; Cost 26,500 gp + 2120 XP.

Moogle Halberd
Anyone hit by this +1 speed halberd must make a Fortitude save
(DC 14) or be immediately moogled as per the spell (see Chapter 7:
Moogles). This effect lasts 7 rounds.

Faint transmutation; CL 7th; Craft Magic Arms and Armor, haste, moogle;
Price 74,310 gp; Cost 37,000 gp + 2960 XP.

Mute Arrow
This +1 arrow creates a silence effect centered in a 20-foot radius on
whatever (or whoever) it hits. Any caster caught within this area must
make a Will save (DC 13) or be rendered unable to cast spells with ver-
bal components. The effect of a mute arrow lasts 3 minutes. The listed
price is for a single arrow.

Faint illusion; CL 3rd; Craft Magic Arms and Armor, silence; Price 347
gp; Cost 20 gp + 2 XP.

Poisonthrower
Cost: 300 gp; Damage (Small): Special (see text); Damage (Medium):
Special (see text); Critical: Special (see text); Range Increment: 5 ft.;

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Weight: 27 lbs.; Type: Special (poison).

Poisonthrower Standard Tank (5 shots):

Cost: 200 gp; Poison: Injury, Fort Save DC 11, initial/secondary damage
1 Dex.; Weight: 3 lbs.

Poisonthrower Primer

Cost: 20 gp; Weight: 1.5 lb.

This gnomish device allows the user to deliver a dose of injury or contact
poison from long range. The poisonthrower looks similar to the gnomish
flamethrower, though slightly lighter, having been derived from the same
technology: the user holds a short rifle, connected via a hose to a tank
on the back. When the trigger is pulled, the rifle produces a short spurt
of clear liquid capable of arching across a battlefield.

The poisonthrower is a two-handed ranged weapon. Its use within me-

lee combat provokes an attack of opportunity, as is standard for ranged
weapons. The device also has a maximum range of 30 feet (slightly
longer than the flamethrower’s, due to a relatively lighter payload); it
cannot hit a target that is further than this distance away. The tank has a
hardness of 12 and 5 hp.

While the Davrosian army typically uses tiny centipede poison (con-
tained within the standard tank; see above), the poisonthrower is ca-
pable of delivering any injury or contact poison. The poison must be
dissolved within a chemical primer in order to be useable. The amount of
primer sold above is sufficient to prepare five doses of poison.

The poisonthrower does not produce an injury; therefore, a poisonthrow-

er using an injury poison can only affect targets that have already been
wounded. In game terms, a target must have taken at least 1 hp of dam-
age to be vulnerable to a poisonthrower using this type of payload.

If a poisonthrower is sundered, the poison can leak out and affect the
wearer or carrier. The bearer must have sustained at least 1 hp of dam-
age to be vulnerable to an injury poison. The tank must be completely
destroyed in order for the bearer to be at risk.

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Armor
Mirage Vest Armor By Price
This light, multicolored garment can be worn Armor Price
over normal clothing or armor. On command, Tiger bikini 18,000 gp
the mirage vest will grant the wearer a perma- Mirage vest 24,000 gp
nent blur effect (see blur for more details).

Faint illusion; CL 3rd; Create Wondrous Item, blur; Price 24,000 gp.

Tiger Bikini
The black mages of Mysidia have produced some of the finest magic
items in the known world. Unfortunately, quite of few of them are also
immature dorks.

Take the tiger bikini, for example. This highly revealing two-piece outfit
was first created as a joke gift by a team of (male) black mages twenty
years ago*. When worn, the item – despite its lack of, er, coverage –
surrounds the wearer with an invisible or tangible field of force, granting
her (or in some cases, him) a +8 armor bonus to AC.

Due to the particular spellwork involved, the bonus granted by the

tiger bikini does not stack with any other armor or deflection bonus.
Furthermore, the item is considered to take up the torso, body and cloak
slots when worn – any additional magic items worn in these areas will
render the tiger bikini non-functional. In fact, any clothing, magical or
otherwise, worn over the item makes it non-functional, as the tiger bikini
was deliberately designed to force the wearer to expose as much skin
as possible. Unfortunately, the item’s effectiveness as a replacement
for armor is without question, and many are the heroes who have been
forced to choose between survival and dignity.

* Rumor has it that female black mage Professor Alya the Reasonably
Mad spent some time researching what she considered an appropriate
response to this item. Her creation is still spoken of in fearful whispers
by student mages as “the Tiger’s Revenge.” However, when Lumos
assumed patronage over the Black Citadel, he immediately ordered
Alya’s funding cut – and all notes relating to her research burned, just for
good measure. He probably would have also suppressed the tiger bikini,
had not the secrets of its manufacture already escaped Mysidia by that

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time.

Moderate conjuration; CL 8th; Craft Wondrous Item, mage armor,

protection from law; Price 18,000 gp; Weight 1.5 lbs.

Items
Bandana
Items By Price
These thin scraps of enchanted Item Price
cloth, worn on the head, grant a +1 Healing candy (level 0) 25 gp
resistance bonus to all Reflex saves. Calming chocolate 50 gp
Goblin gas mask 50 gp
Faint abjuration; CL 3rd; Craft
Healing candy (level 1) 75 gp
Wondrous Item, resistance; Price 249
Fae seed 100 gp
gp; Cost 166 gp.
Phoenix elixir 125 gp
Bandana 249 gp
Calming Chocolate Fae acorn 300 gp
Healing candy (level 2) 350 gp
These gourmet chocolate bars,
Fae walnut 500 gp
manufactured and distributed by the
Healing candy (level 3) 825 gp
Lupin Company of Gaia's Navel,
alleviates fear effects as per the Potion of unmoogle 900 gp

spell remove fear when consumed. Healing candy (level 4) 1500 gp

The effect lasts 10 minutes. If two or Healing candy (level 5) 2375 gp

more bars of calming chocolate are Moogle pin 7500 gp

consumed within the same 10-minute See also — Chapter 6: the penitent's collar
and monitor ring.
period, the effects do not stack. It also
tastes pretty good.

Faint abjuration; CL 1st; Craft Wondrous Item, remove fear; Price 50 gp.

Fae Acorn
See fae seed (below). This item is indistinguishable from an everyday
acorn, except for a magical aura that a spellcaster can sense. When
eaten, a fae acorn restores 2 spell points to a spellcaster.

Cost: 300 gp.

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Fae Seed
This small, bitter kernel is harvested by the villagers
of Kohlingen from the neighboring Haunted Forest
and sold throughout the world. It looks more or less
like a sunflower seed. When eaten, it restores 1
spell point to a spellcaster.

A spellcaster who eats more than one fae item in

one day must make a Fortitude save (DC 20 + spell points recovered) or
become nauseated for three hours. This condition cannot be healed or
resisted by any spell or magical effect. Thereafter, any fae seed, acorn
or walnut that the caster eats will not restore spell points. The spellcaster
must make this check with every additional nut eaten after the first. Fae
seeds, acorns and walnuts cannot restore more spell points than the
caster already has.

Cost: 100 gp.

Fae Walnut
See fae seed (above). This large, brown nut tastes somewhat sweet.
When eaten, a fae walnut restores 3 spell points to a spellcaster.

Cost: 500 gp.

Goblin Gas Mask

This Imperial device is made out of a porous, rubber-like material that
– while difficult to breathe through – provides some minor protection
against chemical warfare. The wearer gains a +2 bonus to Fortitude
saves made against inhaled poisons. It is
often issued to goblins in service of the Red
Wings division.

Cost: 50 gp. Weight: 1.5 lbs.

Healing Candy
These small, foil-wrapped treats were
created by a white mage researching a
method to make cure potions more palatable
for children. In the century since their

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invention, however, healing candy has become Healing Candy

popular among all ages, and some estimate Level Heals Price
that roughly half of the White Citadel’s annual
0 1 hp 25 gp
budget is derived from its sale.
1 10 hp 75 gp
2 20 hp 350 gp
Healing candy heals an exact number of hit
3 30 hp 825 gp
points. The candy’s price depends upon its
4 40 hp 1500 gp
“level” – see the table to the right for details.
5 50 hp 2375 gp
Faint conjuration; CL 11 ; Create Wondrous
th

Item, heal, cure minor wounds; Price special (see sidebar).

Moogle Pin
This item grants immunity to the spell moogle (but not permanent
moogle). If worn by a creature who has been permanently moogled, the
pin allows its wearer to return to its natural form – but only as long as it
continues to wear the pin. Should the creature ever be separated from
the pin, it will again revert to a Moogle.

Faint transmutation; CL 5th; Craft Wondrous Item, unmoogle; Price

7,500 gp.

Phoenix Elixir
This extraordinarily popular potion, found throughout the entire world,
has saved countless numbers of lives. When applied to a person who
is dying – in other words, between 0 and -20 hp – a phoenix elixir
immediately stabilize them and automatically restores them to 1 hp,
regardless of their level of damage. The phoenix elixir can be used
as either a potion or an oil (it tastes horrible). The potion, instantly
recognizable to anyone in the world, is made and sold by various
merchants in glass jars, marked with the emblem of a phoenix.

Cost: 125 gp. Weight: ½ lb.

Potion of Unmoogle
This potion bestows a single use of unmoogle.

Faint transmutation; CL 5th; Brew Potion, unmoogle; Price 900 gp.

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5: T he World
Cosmology
The world in which “A
Final Fantasy” takes
place is a round planet
called In-World. It is
surrounded by two
crystalline spheres
called the Barriers,
the innermost of which
begins about a hundred
miles above In-World’s
sea level. Outside of
the two Barriers, there
is nothing save the
endless and empty Void
that the Archons came
from and departed into.
The sun and the moon
are contained in the
space between the two
spheres, where through magical processes incomprehensible to mortal
spellcasters they are moved around In-World.

The Barriers, the sun and the moon are maintained by the celestials, the
demons and the devils. Their cities are visible to the peoples of In-World
as the stars in the sky. The celestials live in the upper half in between
the Barriers; their section is called Up-world. The devils and demons
divide the lower half in between each other; their section is called Under-
world. The celestials are ruled by the Voice, who is elected through a
perfect democracy every century. The devils are ruled by King Death.
The demons are ruled by Prince Despair.

The outsiders generally do not fight amongst themselves. The demons

occasionally cause trouble by “mistakenly” allowing their section of the
Barriers to degrade. When this occurs, the celestials and the devils send
in joint work crews to pick up the slack. Ultimately, however, maintaining

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the Barriers is in the best interests of the outsiders; contact with the void
outside of their domains destroys them.

The outsiders tend to stay within their own realms. While powerful in
their own right, the Celestial Voice, Death and Despair are not wor-
shipped among mortals, since they cannot grant their powers to others.
Furthermore, the outsiders were restricted from interfering in mortal
affairs by the Archons, who decreed that In-World was the domain of the
Aeons. While the Archons have long since left the world behind, their
laws still remain in effect.

Summoners can draw celestials and fiends from Up-world and Under-
world through spells, as in the standard D&D cosmology. Elementals
are not drawn from their own particular planes, but
List of Locations instead are called together from the elements that
exist within In-World.
– Bolgan
– Crescent Forest
– Damcyan
–
–
Davros
Doma
Geography
– Eblan
– The Empire The following is a description of the world map,
– Fabul
– Figaro which can be found on the next page.
– Gaia’s Navel
– Gold Isle BOLGAN is mostly known for being a haven of
– Haunted Forest
– Ice Country
refugees. Enemies of the Kaiser regime in Davros,
– Ichi, Ni and San displaced persons from the Empire and exiles from
– Jidoor and Zozo the Oni Kingdom are all known to make their way to
– Kaipo
– Kakkara
this island.
– Kippo Village
– Kohlingen Village The CRESCENT FOREST contains the largest
– Mandela population of elves in the world. They are scattered
– Matango
– Mysidia
throughout the region in a number of autonomous
– Narshe communities, consisting of no more than a hundred
– Nikeah individuals. One of the more well-known communi-
– Oni Kingdom
– Pandora
ties is the collective of Tyuru, just south of Pandora,
– Potos known for the export of handcrafted objects and
– Silvera crafts. Some small tribes of wild gnolls roam the
– Solos and Inis
– Sonra Village
area.
– Tascina
– Thalla DAMCYAN is the official residence of the Oni
– Tree Palace Emperor Okatta IX. It is also the location of the Fire
– Uncharted Land
– Water Palace Palace, residence of Salamandus of the Seven.
– Witch Castle

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DAVROS is an industrial city, homeland of the Timeline

gnomes. Twenty-five years ago, the city was Thousands of years ago:
taken over by a dictator named Tom Kaiser. Ever The Archons arrive from out of
since then, the city has marched to the orders of the Void and create the world.

Kaiser’s Gnomish Revolutionary Party. The Party Approx. 2000 years ago:
promulgates a vicious dogma based on the hatred One of the Archons, since
of other races, who are fit only to be exterminated. called the Rebel, revolts against
the other Two. The Long War
Gnomish culture has accordingly grown more begins.
militaristic and xenophobic. However, Kaiser
hasn’t made any attempt to spread his rule or 1000 years ago:
The Two Archons, called the
follow through on his promises of genocide… yet. Lord and the Lady, defeat and
kill the Rebel. They then depart
DOMA is the administrative capital of the Oni into the Void, leaving the Aeons
in charge of their creation.
Kingdom, a metropolis of over fifteen thousand
orcs and half-orcs. Note that this is not the official 40 years ago:
residence of the Oni Emperor, who holds court in The Empire is founded in the
village of Tzen and begins to
the city of Damcyan. The only foreigners allowed spread across the continent.
in the city, other than the occasionally diplomatic
mission from Tascina, are Thallesian merchants. 25 years ago:
Tom Kaiser’s Gnomish
Revolutionary Party assumes
EBLAN is one of the rare Dwarf settlements on power in Davros.
the surface. It sits directly above a major entrance
to the Dwarf underground. It has the only Cannon 20 years ago:
The Incursion — the Empire
Travel station in the mountains, and is often used launches a surprise attack on
as a layover point for travelers heading to Jidoor the rest of the world. The Aeon
or Tascina. Lumos is pushed out of Vector.
Tascina, Pandora and Archangel
are bombed. The Pandorean
The EMPIRE may be the most powerful state in Navy is completely destroyed.
the world. Founded forty years ago in the small The Empire deploys Goblins,
port of Tzen, the Empire abruptly expanded across a species created for war, for
the first time. After a week of
its entire continent. It has since proven that it has military operations, the Empire
the military and arcane ability to dominate world declares success and pulls back
affairs – even to the point of matching the Seven, its forces. Civilian casualties are
estimated to be in the tens of
as the Empire proved when it pushed Lumos out thousands.
of Vector during the Incursion. Among the many
examples of advanced Imperial technology are the Present Day:
Since the Incursion, the Empire
infamous Goblins, an entirely new species created has held back from open
by the Empire for war. The state is ruled by aggression, but has still clearly
Emperor Obedius I, a former ship's captain who been preparing for a coming
war. It seems that the question
has somehow managed to gain power unheard of is not if another war will occur,
by other kings. Obedius and his supporters argue but when.
that the mortal races have allowed themselves

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The Battle Lines to be ruled by the Aeons for too long, and that it is
time for a unified, enlightened and representative
Politically, In-World is currently
divided into three factions government to take control of the world’s destiny…
– the Empire, the nations by force, if necessary.
supporting the Aeons, and the
neutral nations. Shortly after
Key locations in the Empire include the capital,
the Incursion, the Aeon-allied
nations signed the Treaty of Tzen; Vector, now the industrial center of the
Tascina, a mutual defense pact Empire; the city of Baron, home of the Imperial
against the Empire. These
Aerial Corps, better known as the Red Wings;
nations are called the Treaty
States. and the Gold Isle, which joined the Empire shortly
before the Incursion. While the vast majority of the
TREATY STATES
Empire’s population is human, the Empire officially
• Kingdom of Pandora (inc.
Narshe, Kohlingen, Kippo, accepts citizens of all races.
Sonra and Potos)
• Republic of Tascina FABUL is an isolated monastery fortress,
• The Dwarf Union (inc.
Gaia’s Navel, Eblan and
established by orcs from the Oni Kingdom. It is the
Kaipo) training grounds for the Kingdom’s elite guards.
• The Gwyniad (i.e. the Ice The monastery trains ninja and monks, among
Country)
• Thalla
other classes. Only orcs and half-orcs are accepted
• Mysidia into the citadel.
• Figaro
• The Aeons FIGARO is a city in the Great Desert. The majority
EMPIRE-ALLIED of the city was built out of ruins from the Long War;
• The Empire Figaro Castle, at the center of the city, may be one
• The Gold Isle (technically of the few examples of pre-War architecture left.
an Imperial property)
The city is a kingdom unto itself; its current ruler is
NEUTRAL STATES King Edgar VII.
• The Oni Kingdom
• Davros (but favorable
GAIA’S NAVEL is the underground capital of the
towards Empire)
• Jidoor and Zozo Dwarf Union. It is accessible through the waterfalls
• Kakkara at the end of the Middle River. The city contains,
• Nikeah
among other things, the headquarters of the
• Matango (though favorable
towards Treaty States) Cannon Travel Commission and the Earth Palace,
official residence of Cthon of the Seven.

The GOLD ISLE is a large, temperate island to

the west of the Empire. As its name suggests, it flag of the Empire
is well-known for the massive deposits of gold
and other valuable minerals beneath the island’s
surface. Historically, the island was unclaimed
by any specific nation, and was instead “owned”
by a number of different mining companies and
landowners – that was, until just over twenty

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years ago. Just a few months

before the Incursion, a dwarf
robber-baron named Mamon
Farshtinkener allowed
the Empire to occupy his
property (and subsequently
the rest of the Isle) in
exchange for his being made
the Imperial Governor. The
island has since been one of
the Empire’s most valuable
territories, providing much
of the raw capital behind the
Imperial war effort.

The HAUNTED FOREST is a mysterious place. Large numbers of

incorporeal undead have been known to wander the area. The Forest,
however, is the only known source of fey acorns and walnuts, which
are harvested by the inhabitants of the local village of Kohlingen. The
inhabitants do so in teams of at least a dozen individuals, heavily armed,
who enter, gather all the nuts they can find, and leave as quickly as
possible. Not all of these teams have been known to return.

The ICE COUNTRY – more formally known as the Gwyniad – is a frozen

continent far to the north of the Empire. This inhospitable wasteland is
home to the penpens and the Ice Palace, official residence of the Aeon
Sylphus. The three main penpen cities – Whitehead, Gywnius and the
capital of Todo – stand on the inhospitable north coast of the country.
Since there are very few (non-penpen) sailors willing to venture within
this area, the penpens have also established the cosmopolitan port of
Archangel on the south coast.

The Empire has long resented the penpens’ intrusion into regional trade.
As a result, Archangel was one of the cities attacked by Imperial forces
during the Incursion. Ever since then, the majority of penpens have been
– perhaps understandably – hostile to the Empire.

ICHI, NI and SAN are the three islands in the Shi-zi Strait, between the
mainland and the Oni Kingdom. They are relatively lawless areas; Ichi,
in particular, is a known haven of pirates.

JIDOOR and ZOZO, the Twin Cities, are a combined, independent city-
state on the coast of the Shi-zi Strait. The city’s affairs are dominated

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by the aristocracy of Jidoor, the wealthier of the two cities. Jidoor is

known for being clean, well-regulated, and cultured; its Opera House, for
instance, is a famous landmark. Zozo, in comparison, is known for being
poor and crime-ridden. Zozo is also well known for its large population of
ogres, uncivilized orcs, and the mysterious race known as the kenku.

KAIPO is a Dwarf settlement in the Great Desert. It contains the only

Cannon Travel point in the entire desert, Figaro and Kakkara having
refused the Commission’s offer to build sites in their towns.

KAKKARA is the holy city of Kakkarian halflings, near the mysterious

Star Crater. The Kakkarians have banned all outsiders from the area
on pain of death. The city’s population is in constant fluctuation, as the
otherwise nomadic inhabitants enter and leave the city during various
parts of the year.

KIPPO VILLAGE is a community of two to three hundred individuals,

lying in between the larger cities of Pandora and Narshe. The town is
mainly notable for serving as a waypoint between Pandora, Narshe and
Gaia’s Navel.

KOHLINGEN VILLAGE is a community of about two hundred

individuals. Its main export is fae seeds, acorns and walnuts, which grow
in the Haunted Forest to the north.

MANDELA, also known as the Great Monastery, is a peaceful

community in the mountains east of Pandora. Monks have lived there at
least since the Long War, quietly seeking enlightenment. The monastery-
city, home to hundreds of individuals of all races, is ruled by a wise and
mysterious man called the Saint or the Enlightened One. Not much is
known about him outside of the community. The Seven are known to
visit the monastery occasionally. Undine and Salamandus are known to
meet there, since it is roughly equidistant between their palaces.

Players should note that Mandela is the only

place of origin for non-orcish monks.

MATANGO is a unique city; it is the only known

community of the sentient mushroom-like
myconids in the world. The myconids – also
known as the “mushroom people” – exist simply
in a small community of anywhere between a
hundred to a thousand individuals (reports vary).

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They are not necessarily isolationist; they have been known to trade
with Nikeah and Figaro, mostly in alchemical creations. A small group of
elves live in the woods just outside of the city, having been banned from
the city proper some time ago.

MYSIDIA is a large city dominated by the three famous Colleges of

magic, known as the White, Black and Red Citadels. The Colleges were
founded roughly a hundred years after the Long War by the Seven, in
order to better train their followers in the magical arts. The colleges have
since taken on a life of their own; while each Citadel has one of the
Seven as official patron, they run themselves more or less independent
of the Seven’s control. The White Citadel trains white mages; the Black
Citadel, black mages; and the Red Citadel, red mages. For details on
white, black and red mages, see Chapter 7.

Mysidia is also home to the Light Palace, official residence of Lumos.

Lumos was forced to relocate to the city when the Empire forced him
and his followers out of their previous capital, now known as Vector. The
Aeon has since become a force to be reckoned with within the city.

NARSHE is a industrial
city of over ten thousand
individuals, making it the
largest community in the
Kingdom of Pandora. It
is mainly known for coal
mining. The industry
is managed by the
powerful Narshe Mining
Corporation, under
charter from the King of
Pandora. The NMC owns
and operates the vast
majority of the town.

NIKEAH is an
independent port in
the Upper Land. It is
easily the largest and most well-traveled port on its entire continent,
rivaled only by Jidoor, and the smaller port of Sonra to the south. The
city is well-known for its free-trade attitudes. It trades with anyone and
everyone; even the Empire and Davros do a fair share of business in the
town.

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The ONI KINGDOM is the center of orc civilization and the oldest of the
world’s nations. It was founded shortly after the Long War by the half-orc
Emperor Shizi I, who led a large group of war refugees across the Strait
that now bears his name.

The current Oni Emperor is Okatta IX. Despite the nation’s historically
close relationship to the Aeon Salamandus – who officially resides
in the Imperial capital of Damcyan – Okatta has chosen to keep his
nation out of the conflict between the Aeons and the Empire, inhering
instead to a policy of neutrality and strict isolationism. As a result, the
Oni Kingdom was not attacked during the Incursion twenty years ago,
and has not signed the Treaty of Tascina. Despite Salamandus’ best
efforts to change the emperor’s mind, it does not seem likely that the Oni
Kingdom will participate in the coming war.

PANDORA is the capital of the Kingdom of Pandora. It is also a city of

roughly five to six thousand individuals, with many more in the outlying
farmsteads throughout the neighboring countryside. King Cecil II rules
the city from the Tower of Pandora, in the center of the city.

POTOS is a large village on the Mainland, populated by about three

to five hundred individuals. It was founded about three hundred years
after the Long War, and was absorbed without conflict by the Kingdom
of Pandora. Historians have found some indications that the village was
built on the site of a pre-War settlement, but of what size and type, none
can say. The village is a crossroads for trade between Nikeah, Pandora
and Gaia’s Navel. It is a popular stop among pilgrims heading towards
the Water Palace. One notable landmark is the Sages' Leap, the largest
waterfall on the continent.

SILVERA is a small town and port, which exists primarily as a point

of departure for pilgrims on their way to the Tree Palace. The town is
inhabited by a variety of different races, including a large number of
elves. They are nearly all, however, priests or worshippers of Tifereth.

SOLOS and INIS are mostly uninhabited islands, south of the Imperial
continent. Inis is well known to be the habitat of various monstrous
creatures, including trolls, giant vermin and dire animals. Sailors
accordingly tend to give the island a wide berth.

SONRA VILLAGE is a port town of about a thousand individuals. The

port handles trade from the larger port of Nikeah, to the north, as well as
the city of Thalla, the island of Bolgan, and the Republic of Tascina. It is

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also the base for what little remains of the Pandorean navy.

The REPUBLIC OF TASCINA is a heavily fortified city located on

the coast of the Oni Kingdom. About four hundred years ago, the Oni
Emperor allowed a group of humans to found a city there; Tascina
soon became a popular port, being one of the few locations through
which trade with the Oni was possible. Most of the city was reduced
to rubble by the Empire twenty years ago during the Incursion. Rather
than reconstruct from scratch, the Tascinians connected the remaining
buildings and turned the entire city into an enclosed fortress. The city
remains a powerful force in trade and commerce.

THALLA is one of the largest cities in the world, a famous commercial

metropolis. The city is dominated by the Thallesian halflings, a reserved,
business-minded people. Thalla is one of the greatest trading ports in
the world; all matter of individuals and goods pass through the city every
day. The inhabitants of the city are mortal enemies of the gnomes of
Davros.

The TREE PALACE, residence of Tifereth of the Seven, is on a small

island that juts out above an otherwise sunken continent. It is a massive
fortress, constructed around a gigantic tree. Pilgrims visiting the Palace
must generally do so by boat, usually from the nearby town of Silvera.

The UNCHARTED LAND is just that – a blank spot on the map.

Powerful currents keep vessels from approaching this area; what
fragmentary reports have come back describe a blasted, icy wasteland,
surrounded by mountains and rocked by a never-ending storm. It’s
said that even the Seven are reluctant to approach the land. Explorers
sometimes try their luck; very few have ever returned.

The WATER PALACE is the official residence of Undine of the Seven.

The goddess herself is often out and about, but, when home, has been
known to greet pilgrims and boon-seekers personally. The complex is
overseen by the Chief Priestess, Luka Chere.

The WITCH CASTLE is spoken of in whispers by the inhabitants of

Kohlingen. Some of them claim that is a massive, unaccountably ancient
building somewhere in the Haunted Forest to the north. It is said to be
the home of “Elinee,” an evil, insane witch of immense power. She has
taken the position of boogeyman in the folklore of the town; children are
known to lock their windows at night, lest they be stolen away by Elinee.

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6: Potos
The Village
Potos is a large village on the Mainland, populated by about three to
five hundred individuals. It was founded about three hundred years after
the Long War, and was absorbed without conflict by the Kingdom of
Pandora. Historians have found some indications that the village was
built on the site of a pre-War settlement, but of what size and type, none
can say.

The village’s central position between Pandora and the Great Forest
places the community as an excellent trading point. The village is often
a staging point for pilgrims on their way to the nearby Water Palace of
Undine; goods from Gaia’s Navel, Pandora and the ports of Nikeah and
Sonra often cross through the town. Durring the summer months, a large
marketplace called the Spring Market is open on all weekdays in the
Town Square (#8 on the town map; see next page). The general store,
managed by a Mr. Benjamin Jeyyid, is open throughout the year, and is
well regarded within the merchant community. There is a Cannon Travel
Station just outside the village limits.

The village is well known for its care facilities. The Temple of Undine in
the village is the best healing center north of Pandora, second only to
the Water Palace. The village priestess, a Miss Elizabeth, is well-known
as a miracle-worker. The Potos Orphanage is another notable feature
of the village; run by a Mrs. Rose Farrell, the institution raises between
twenty and forty children at any given time.

The village is surrounded by a short wall made out of stacked rock,

about five feet high, sufficient to keep the local predators out. There are
two entrances through two wooden gates into the village; the first, to
the west, leads to the Sages’ Leap, a great waterfall and popular tourist
attraction about a mile’s hike in that direction. The second, to the south,
connects to the King’s Road, which in turn leads to the Water Palace,
Nikeah, and Pandora.

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Village Personalities
The VILLAGE ELDER (commonly called “Elder” or “Grandfather” by
the other people in the village) is a man by the name of Rev Branford,
a widowed gentleman in his late sixties. He is more or less the leader
of the community, though he answers to a Village Council, made up
of himself and six other long-time residents. He’s a peaceful man
who tends to bear most things with a patient and gentle nature –
compromised only when some of the more unruly orphans vandalize
his vegetable garden. He lives in the house on top of the short mound
in the center of the village (7). He hasn’t always stayed in Potos; rumor
has it that, as a younger man, he traveled the world as an officer in the
Pandorean Navy. His career came to a close when the navy was wiped
out by the Empire twenty years ago. He returned to the village soon
afterwards. He’s been the Village Elder for about ten years.

LUCIUS FARRELL owns and runs the Lord and Lady Tavern (9). A
big, burly ox of a man, who, even though in his mid-fifties, can still beat
any man or woman in the village in arm-wrestling. Given his physique,
it comes as a surprise to many people that he studied at the Black
Citadel in Mysidia. Though he doesn’t use magic very often, he’s still a
competent wizard; he runs a side business identifying enchanted and
magical items. He is the husband of Rose Farrell, who operates the
Potos Orphanage.

BENJAMIN JEYYAD (“that’s Mr. Jeyyad to you”) is the middle-aged

Kakkarian halfling who runs the village’s General Store. A shrewd
businessman, he is the center of the commerce that passes through
Potos, as well as a member of the Village Council. He lives in the
basement underneath his store with his wife, Rachail, and his three
young sons, Omar, James, and Al-Cthon (commonly called “Al”).

ROSE FARRELL owns and runs the Potos Orphanage (6). She’s
the sort of woman who can raise twenty children at the same time,
combining a gentle and loving nature with a violent temper that is the
terror of every man, woman and child in the village. Rumor has it that
she used to be a red mage; however, she no longer seems to practice
magic. Why this is, no one can say – though it might have something to
do with her husband, Lucius, a former black mage. She is a medium-
sized woman in her early fifties. All the children in the Orphanage call
her “Grandma Rose.”

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XAGU SEIKAKU is the middle-aged half-orc who runs the Pilgrims’ Inn
(1). His business is popular among the large number of travelers who
pass through Potos; though a quiet person, generally, he’s known for
running a tight ship. His employees talk secretly in terrified whispers as
to what happens when towels are lost, or when a guest’s wake-up call
is late. Originating in the Oni Kingdom, Mr. Seikaku somehow ended up
serving with Elder Branford in the Pandorean Navy. When the Navy was
destroyed, he followed Branford to Potos, where he bought the Inn from
the previous owner.

HYM KANDIJ is the young dwarf who runs the Cannon Travel Platform
just outside of town (11). An entrepreneur, he’s constantly trying to
find ways to upgrade or better market his business. He is somewhat
unhappy with his posting in Potos; he’d prefer somewhere closer to
Gaia’s Navel. He has a strange relationship with Mr. Jeyyad; they seem
to get into a screaming match outside the Lord and Lady Tavern every
Wednesday night a few hours after sunset.

PRIESTESS ILSE ELIZABETH, the village healer, manages the Temple

of Undine (5). She is an excellent healer, known for being one of the
few magicians in the area capable of resurrection magic. Personality-
wise, “Miss Elizabeth,” as she’s often known around the village, is
somewhat neurotic and introverted. She shelters about twenty cats in
her Temple, each of whom has a name and a distinct genealogy, which
she keeps careful track of. She is nonetheless regarded as one of the
more attractive bachelorettes in the village, though she doesn’t seem to
realize it. She is very good friends with Rose Farrell, who runs the Potos
Orphanage.

Creating Characters Who Live In Potos

Players in a campaign following the guidelines written in the
Gamemaster’s Instruction Manual will need to create characters who
are residents of Potos. When creating said characters, players should
keep in mind that much of the above information is negotiable, and it is
suggested that gamemasters feel free to modify the above descriptions
to accommodate players’ ideas.

Character Hooks
• orphan at the Potos Orphanage

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• tour guide who shows visitors the Sages’ Leap.

• mercenary who hires out his services as a guard/escort to travelers.

• flight attendant at the Cannon Travel Center

• village fool

• village drunk

• village lush

• bartender at the Lord and Lady Tavern

• trainee black mage seeking tutelage from Lucius Farrell

• thief who quietly robs the merchants who come into town.

• schoolteacher

• merchant who ran out of money and is in hiding from debtors.

• traveler who is only staying in town

long enough to work up the money he/
she needs to backpack to Nikeah.

Sample Characters
These sample characters were created by
the players in the first “A Final Fantasy”
campaign. They can be used either by
players, or by the gamemaster as non-
player characters.

ANYA BRANFORD
Level 1 Human Paladin of Lumos
Character Concept by Alison Fisher
Hit Points: 13 (1d10+3)
Initiative: +0 (Dex)
Speed: 20 feet (30 feet w/o armor)
Armor Class: 15 (+5 chainmail), touch

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Penitent’s Collar &

10, flat-footed 15.
Monitor’s Ring Base Attack/Grapple: +1/+4
Penitent’s Collar Attacks: Greataxe +4 melee (1d12+4; x3;
Moderate necromancy; CL 9th;
slashing); or throwing axe +1 ranged (1d6+3; x2;
Craft Wondrous Item, mark of
justice; Price 1,125 gp. range 10 feet; slashing).
Monitor’s Ring Special Attacks: Smite evil 1/day
Faint divination; CL 3rd; Craft
Special Qualities: Aura of good, detect evil at will.
Wondrous Item, status; Price
7,560 gp; Special: Wearer must Saves: Fort +5, Ref +0, Will +2
be a paladin (see text). Abilities: Str 17 (+3), Dex 10, Con 16 (+3), Int 13
(+1), Wis 14 (+2), Cha 15 (+2).
These paired items are often
loaned out to paladins operating Skills: Concentration +4, Climb* +4, Diplomacy
in isolated locales far from jails, +3, Handle Animal +3, Heal +3, Intimidate* +5,
where prison sentences for
Knowledge (nobility and royalty) +3, Knowledge
minor crimes (like pickpocketing,
for instance) are impractical to (religion) +2, Ride +4, Sense Motive +3.
enforce. Each penitent’s collar is Feats: Power Attack, Cleave.
keyed to a particular monitor ring.
Challenge Rating: 1
When placed around the neck of
a criminal, the penitent’s collar Gear: Chainmail, greataxe, 3 throwing axes,
forces him to stay within a half- monitor’s ring (see sidebar), wooden holy symbol
mile radius of the wearer of the
of Lumos, hooded lantern, 2 pints of oil, backpack,
corresponding monitor’s ring. If
the criminal moves outside of this flint and steel, 50 feet of hempen rope, grappling
area, the item will curse him as if hook, winter blanket, bedroll, 2 days of trail
with the spell bestow curse. Once
rations, 1 gp, 2 sp.
the criminal returns within the
general area of the monitor ring, Alignment: Lawful good
the curse will be (temporarily) Languages Known: Common, Kakkarian.
lifted, at least until the next
trespass.
The penitent’s collar can
The nineteen-year-old granddaughter of Village
be removed with a break Elder Rev Branford, Anya was appointed the
enchantment, limited wish, acting Sheriff of Potos a year ago. She lives with
miracle or wish spell, or by
remove curse if cast by a cleric
her grandfather in his house at the center of the
of 9th level or higher. Otherwise, village. Anya spent most of her adolescence
the item can only be removed by training as a paladin at the Light Palace in
the wearer of the corresponding
monitor’s ring. Physical force
Mysidia. This experience left her with a rather
or finesse is ineffective. After severe attitude when it comes to matters of
a penitent’s collar has been the law and propriety – not to mention a highly
removed, it cannot be used again.
If the wearer of the monitor’s
aggressive style in combat. In more social
ring dies, the curse immediately situations, however, Anya is a warm and friendly
springs into effect. girl, if perhaps a little naïve.
The wearer of a monitor’s
ring can activate or dismiss
the penitent’s collar’s curse on Other than the occasional wandering monster,
command. He or she can also Anya’s term as sheriff has been uneventful. The
immediately learn the relative one exception was her capture of the thief Celeste
location and general condition of
the bearer of the corresponding in the midst of a major heist. Rather than send the
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penitent’s collar (as if through the
spell status). A monitor’s ring is thief south to serve a prison sentence in Pandora,
only functional when worn by a Anya chose to use the penitent’s collar loaned to
paladin. Should a non-paladin her by a superior in Mysidia, in a bid to try and
attempt to put on the monitor’s
ring, the item is rendered non- reform the thief. Results have been decidedly
functional and the curse of mixed, but Anya has yet to give up.
the penitent’s collar goes into
effect. Should the wearer of the Motivation: Protection. Anya feels highly protective
monitor’s ring lose his or her
paladin abilities – as might occur of her community, and takes any infraction of its
through the abuse of a paladin’s security and well-being as a personal affront.
authority – the bearer of the
penitent’s collar is immediately
freed. CELESTE
The penitent’s collar worn by
the thief Celeste was placed Level 1 Elf Rogue
on her by Anya Bradford, a few
days after the former was caught
Created by Molly Schlemmer
stealing in the town of Potos. Hit Points: 6 (1d6+0)
Should Celeste move any further Initiative: +4 (Dex)
than a half-mile away from Anya
(who wears the corresponding
Speed: 30 ft.
monitor’s ring), she will suffer a Armor Class: 16 (+4 Dex, +2 leather armor),
50% chance each round of being touch 14, flat-footed 12.
unable to take an action (see
bestow curse). These expensive
Base Attack/Grapple: +0/+0
items were loaned to Anya by Attacks: Composite shortbow +5 ranged (1d6; x3;
a superior officer in Mysidia. (In range 70 feet; piercing); or dagger +0 melee (1d4;
other words, the gamemaster
gave the players these items
19-20/x2; range 10 feet; piercing or slashing).
for free to make things more Special Attacks: Sneak attack +1d6
interesting.) Special Qualities: Trapfinding, immune to
magic sleep effects, +2 saving bonus against
enchantment, low-light vision, Weapon focus
(shortbow).
Saves: Fort +0, Ref +6, Will +2.
Abilities: Str 10, Dex 19 (+4), Con 10, Int 13 (+1), Wis 14 (+2), Cha 15
(+2).
Skills: Balance +5, Bluff +6, Disguise +3, Escape Artist +8, Forgery
+2, Gather Information +6, Hide +8, Knowledge (geography)* +2, Move
Silently +8, Open Lock +5, Sleight of Hand +8, Spot +8, Survival* +4.
Feats: Light Sleeper**
Challenge Rating: 1
Gear: Leather armor, penitent’s collar (see sidebar), composite
shortbow, 12 arrows, dagger, thieves’ tools, 50 feet of silk rope,
grappling hook, winter blanket, bedroll, 4 sp.
Alignment: Chaotic neutral
Languages Known: Common, Elvan, Thallesian.

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This quirky, happy-go-lucky girl

wandered away from the small
elven commune of her birth to seek
adventure several years ago. She was
making a good living as a thief and
a pickpocket until she attempted a
major con/robbery against a merchant
caravan on its way through Potos…
and was caught by Anya Branford (see
above).

Needless to say, Celeste’s life has

been a lot less fun ever since. Thanks
to the penitent’s collar she now bears,
she’s been forced to stay in Potos to
honestly work off her sentence under
Anya’s close watch, a situation she
detests. She currently resides in the
basement of the Village Elder’s house.

… or at least, that’s the story she tells people.

In truth, Celeste only got caught in the first place because she was
ordered to. Back when she first left the Crescent Forest, she brought
along her younger brother, Loki. Things were going fine until the pair ran
afoul of the Empire. Loki was taken into “protective custody” and Celeste
was forced to be an Imperial spy, with her brother being held to assure
her cooperation. Her first assignment was to go to Potos and infiltrate
the community there. Why exactly her handlers would be interested in
such a hole-in-the-wall village, Celeste doesn’t know (and hasn’t been
told). However, until she can figure out some way to get her brother out
of this mess, she has little choice but to play along.

Motivation: Celeste is actually highly protective of her younger brother,

and will do just about anything to assure he isn’t harmed. That said,
she keeps the truth very well-hidden. As far as the people of Potos
are concerned, she is solidly a fun-first sort of character, shirking
responsibility and seeking amusement whenever she has the chance.
She otherwise hates physical labor and anything that bores her. On a
side note, Celeste is also highly amused and fascinated by penpens (in
a matter that Zill finds more than a little disturbing).

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DABICL
(pronounced “Dabikal”)
Level 1 Spriteling Cleric of Undine
Created by Jeff Force
Hit Points: 7 (1d8-1)
Initiative: +4 (Dex)
Speed: 20 ft.
Armor Class: 17 (+4 Dex, +3 studded
leather armor), touch 14, flat-footed 13.
Base Attack/Grapple: +0/+1
Attacks: Quarterstaff +1 melee (1d4+1; x2;
bludgeoning); or sling +4 ranged (1d3+1;
x2; range 50 feet; bludgeoning).
Special Attacks: Spells
Special Qualities: Aura of good,
spontaneous casting (heal), turn undead,
invisibility (self only) 1/day.
Saves: Fort +1, Ref +4, Will +5
Abilities: Str 13 (+1), Dex 18 (+4), Con 9
(-1), Int 15 (+2), Wis 17 (+3), Cha 19 (+4)
Skills: Concentration +1, Diplomacy
+6, Heal +7, Knowledge (religion) +6,
Spellcraft +7.
Feats: Resistance to Magic**
Challenge Rating: 1
Gear: Studded leather armor, sling, 50 bullets, walking stick/quarterstaff,
spell component pouch, explorer’s outfit, backpack, bedroll, bullseye
lantern, two flasks of oil, winter blanket, 50 feet of silk rope, wooden holy
symbol, wooden flute.
Alignment: Neutral good
Languages Known: Common, Celestial, Dwarven, Sylvan.
Spell Points: 3
Domains: Water, Healing
Typical Spells Prepared: 0 – Detect magic, light, read magic. 1st –
Bless, shield of faith, obscuring mist.

This sickly-looking but good-natured young spriteling has been a

resident of Potos from a young age. Years ago, a group of spriteling
refugees passed through Potos. Some of these spritelings – including a
young infant – seemed to be infected with a strange illness that resisted
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parents left him at the Potos Orphanage, in the hopes that the priests at
the Village Temple might someday be able to find a cure.

That child was Dabicl, of course. He is now sixteen years old. He has
never really recovered from his childhood sickness; he still walks with
a limp (often relying on a walking stick for additional support), and he
has a cough which comes and goes. The strange illness has also left its
mark on him in that he seems to have gained some of its resistance to
magic. In any case, he has survived, and chose to join the priesthood of
Undine. He has been serving Priestess Elizabeth as an assistant for the
past several years.

Motivation: Faith. Dabicl is sincerely and honestly devoted to Undine,

to whom he attributes his survival as a child. That said, Dabicl remains
interested in the fate of his parents. If he ever gains the strength, he
might end up leaving Potos to search for them.

XHAO SEIKAKU
(pronounced “zhao”)
Level 1 Half-Orc Samurai
Character Concept by Thomas Gonyea
Hit Points: 13 (1d10+3)
Initiative: +1 (Dex)
Speed: 30 feet
Armor Class: 15 (+1 Dex, +4 chain shirt),
touch 11, flat-footed 14.
Base Attack/Grapple: +1/+6
Attacks: Bokken +6 melee (1d6+7; 19-
20/x2; bludgeoning); or handaxe +6
melee (1d6+5; x3; slashing); or shortbow
+2 ranged (1d6; x3; range 60 feet;
piercing).
Special Attacks: —
Special Qualities: Darkvision 60 feet, orc
blood, daisho proficiency.
Saves: Fort +5, Ref +1, Will +1
Abilities: Str 20 (+5), Dex 12 (+1), Con
16 (+3), Int 13 (+1), Wis 13 (+1), Cha 15
(+2).
Skills: Concentration +4, Craft
(woodworking) +2, Diplomacy +5,

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Intimidate +3, Knowledge (history) +2, Knowledge (nobility and royalty)

+2, Profession (innkeeper)* +2, Ride +2, Sense Motive +3.
Feats: Quick Draw, Exotic Weapon Proficiency (katana) (class feat).
Challenge Rating: 1
Gear: Chain shirt, bokken, handaxe, shortbow, 20 arrows, woodworking
tools, backpack, tent, bedroll, flint and steel, winter blanket, waterskin, 4
days of trail rations, traveler’s outfit, 15 gp, 4 sp.
Alignment: Lawful good
Languages Known: Common, Orc, Ignan.

Xhao is the son of the village innkeeper, Xagu Seikaku. He and his
father settled in Potos when Xhao was an infant. Now a quiet, eighteen-
year-old half-orc, Xhao spends most of his time helping out at the
inn and being trained by his father in Oni fighting techniques. If Xhao
resents his father’s overbearing influence in his life, he bears it quietly
– or perhaps he is merely waiting for the right moment to assert his
independence.

Xhao currently wields a bokken. While Xagu does own a katana and a
wakizashi – the two swords traditionally carried by a samurai – he has
yet to judge Xhao to be of sufficient skill to practice with them.

Motivation: Xhao is intensely curious about the identity of his mother –

a subject that his father flatly refuses to discuss. A very long time ago,
Xagu let drop that her name was Liira; he also once mentioned that
Xhao is three-quarters orc, making his mother a half-orc. Other than
these small details, however, Xagu has kept utterly silent about his past.
Curiosity regarding his heritage may be the only thing keeping Xhao in
the village and under his father’s thumb.

ZILL
Level 1 Penpen Conjurer (Wizard Variant)
Created by Matt Gruen
Hit Points: 6 (1d4+2)
Initiative: +2 (Dex)
Speed: 20 ft., swim 40 ft.
Armor Class: 12 (+2 Dex), touch 12, flat-footed 10.
Base Attack/Grapple: +0/-1
Attacks: Club -1 melee (1d6-1; x2; bludgeoning); or light crossbow +2
ranged (1d8; 19-20/x2; range 80 feet; piercing).
Special Attacks: Spells.
Special Qualities: Cold resistance 5, -4 to Fort saves against heat

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dangers, tremorsense 60
ft. in water, +2 to Intuition
checks vs. other penpen, rapid
summoning, spontaneous
casting (summon monster).
Saves: Fort +2, Ref +2, Will
+4.
Abilities: Str 9 (-1), Dex 14
(+2), Con 15 (+2), Int 18 (+4),
Wis 11 (0), Cha 13 (+1).
Skills: Concentration +6,
Decipher Script +8, Gather
Information* +2; Knowledge
(arcana) +8, Knowledge (the
planes) +8, Speak Language*
1, Spellcraft +8.
Feats: Iron Will, Augmented
Summoning (class feat).
Challenge Rating: 1
Gear: Club, light crossbow, 20
bolts, spellbook (contents: level 0 – all; 1 level – mage armor, summon
st

monster I, identify, feather fall, grease, burning hands, magic missile),

spell component pouch, flask of seal whiskey, chalk, waterskin, small
mirror, ink, inkpen, two glowrods, bottle of alchemist’s fire, 10 gp.
Alignment: Chaotic neutral
Languages Known: Common, Aquan, Auran, Draconic, Terran,
Celestial.
Spell Points: 3
Typical Spells Prepared: 0 – Detect magic, ray of frost, read magic.
1st – mage armor, magic missile. (Note: Can also spontaneously cast
summon monster I.)

The middle-child in a family of good standing in the Ice Country, Zill was
enrolled in the one of the finest magical academies with the hope that
he would live up to the example of his older brother, a famous ice mage.
He soon proved to have a highly independent spirit, a rabid desire
for knowledge, and a complete lack of concern for safety. His habit
of jumping head first into advanced arcane experimentation caused
great problems for the academy – with one academic building burned
down and another permanently infested by several minor horrors (and
an especially frisky medium-sized horror). The administration couldn’t
simply kick Zill out, as his influential family was a major financial

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benefactor of the institution. Instead, they awarded him the rare honor
of “foreign study” for his achievements. A location was chosen through
an intricate divination process (involving a map, a dartboard and a bottle
of seal whiskey) and Zill was off. He wandered into Potos soon after.
He can be found daily in the Lord and Lady Tavern, drinking through his
travel stipend and bugging Lucius Farrell for leads into magical research.

Motivation: Discovery. Part of Zill’s deal with the academy administration

is that he will only be allowed to graduate if he returns from his “studies”
with a major breakthrough or innovation in magical research. Zill is
determined to earn his diploma – if only so that he can flaunt his success
in front of his former teachers.

* denotes cross-class skill

** In the prototype AFF campaign, players were allowed access to the Talent feats described in
Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved, published by Malhavoc Press. Arcana Evolved © Monte J. Cook,
2005–2007. Used with the express permission of the author/publisher.

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7: A dditional R ules
Black, Red and White Mages
Bards, clerics, sorcerers and wizards are common in
the world of “A Final Fantasy.” Less common, how- Mage Feats
ever, are the famed black mages, white mages and The classes and prestige
classes listed in this section are
red mages – all graduates of the three great colleges available only to mages in “A
of magic in the city of Mysidia. Final Fantasy.” In order to take
levels in these classes, player-
characters must be initiated
Legend holds that Mysidia was founded sometime
as a black, red or white mage.
during the Long War by three magicians named This is represented in-game
Gevurias, Gedulla and Hod, who are traditionally by the player taking one of the
following feats:
believed to have been students of the Archons
themselves. The city is said to have been a BLACK MAGE INITIATE
fortress of learning, intended to protect whatever [GENERAL]
Prerequisites: Spellcaster lvl 1
shreds of knowledge could be saved from the
Benefit: You have either trained
war’s devastation. Following the War, the Aeons at or been accepted into the
incorporated Mysidia into their plans to rebuild the Black Citadel at Mysidia, and
have therefore been granted
world. The Seven chartered three universities within
access to the teachings and
the city to further train their followers in the magical techniques of the black mages.
arts. These were the Black Citadel (which focused You gain access to the black
mage prestige classes, and can
on magical research), the White Citadel (focused
dress in the traditional uniform.
on the healing arts and divination), and the Red You additionally gain a +2 bonus
Citadel (focused on the use of magic for defense to all Knowledge (arcana) and
Spellcraft checks.
and warfare). Graduates of these institutions are
Special: This feat replaces any
called black mages, white mages and red mages, Special prerequisites otherwise
respectively, and are hailed as the most powerful required by any of the black
mage prestige classes.
mortal spellcasters in the entirety of In-World.
RED MAGE INITIATE
The titles of black mage, white mage and red mage [GENERAL]
have little to do with gameplay mechanics, as they Prerequisites: Str 12+; Con 11+
Benefit: You have either trained
do in the Final Fantasy games. Instead, they are at or been accepted into the
primarily social roles within the game world. Not all Red Citadel at Mysidia, and
clerics are considered white mages, just as not all have therefore been granted
access into the teachings and
wizards and sorcerers are black mages (though many techniques of the red mages.
aspire to be). The mages are simply considered the You gain access to the red
elite among these classes. Furthermore, as a result mage prestige classes, and can
take levels in the beguiler,
of their education in Mysidia, player characters who (continues on next page)

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are mages have access to character options and duskblade and warmage
prestige classes that other magicians do not. (note: classes. You additionally gain a
this system has not been playtested.) +2 bonus to all Intimidate and
Survival checks.
Special: This feat replaces any
Black Mages Special prerequisites otherwise
required by any of the red mage
The headaches of the arcane world, the black mages classes or prestige classes.
Note: Players who wish to begin
are an order known equally for their enthusiasm, their play at first level as a beguiler,
love of raw magical power, and their lack of restraint. duskblade or warmage must
While not necessarily evil, it is true that there are very take this feat.
few lines that a black mage won’t cross. The driving WHITE MAGE INITIATE
force behind a black mage’s personality is ultimately [GENERAL]
a kind of curiosity; as an order, they are fascinated Prerequisites: Spellcaster Lvl 1
Benefit: You have either trained
by all forms of magic, and will go to any lengths to at or been accepted into the
make the latest discovery – be it in the form of a new White Citadel at Mysidia, and
spell, the latest magical effect, or a new summoning have therefore been granted
access to the teachings and
technique. The resulting mess might be as little as a techniques of the white mages.
singed hair on a lab assistant’s head, or as big as a You gain access to the white
tarrasque (though that’s only happened once, and of- mage prestige classes, and can
dress in the traditional uniform.
ficial representatives of the Black Citadel swear they You additionally gain a +2 bonus
know what went wrong). to all Heal and Knowledge
(religion) checks.
Black mages traditionally dress in dark robes and Special: This feat replaces any
Special prerequisites otherwise
wide-brimmed, pointed hats. Most applicants to required by any of the white
the Black Citadel are mage prestige classes.
sorcerers and wizards,
Characters can only take one of
though the university these feats; one cannot be both
recently added a a black mage and a white mage,
program for bards (after for example. Gamemasters
are encouraged to toughen the
a professor decided he prerequisites of these feats as
could teach bards “real they feel necessary, or to link
magic”; see the sublime the acquisition of these feats to
plot events.
chord prestige class). The
official patron of the Black
Citadel is currently Lumos – who took over
patronage of the Citadel from Cthon twenty
years ago, much to the surprise of the world.

BLACK MAGE PRESTIGE CLASSES

Arcane Trickster; Archmage; Argent Savant;

Effigy Master; Malconvoker; Mage of the
Arcane Order; Master Specialist (schools of

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Conjuration, Evocation, Necromancy and Transmutation only); Master

Transmogrifist; Spellwarp Sniper; Sublime Chord; Ultimate Magus; Wild
Mage.

Red Mages
Trained at the Red Citadel, the red
mages are the elite warrior-magicians
of the world. Their training focuses on
creating soldiers who are formidable in
both conventional and magical combat.

Initially founded as to train the guards

and law enforcement operatives of the
Seven, the Red Citadel is known for
being the most selective of the Mysidia
academies. Less than a hundred
applicants a year are accepted, after grueling mental and physical
testing. As a result, red mages have a reputation for being the toughest
of the tough. Applicants are usually warriors with some magical ability
(especially paladins, rangers and bards), though some sorcerers and
wizards have been occasionally known to “toughen up” sufficiently to
make the grade. In addition, with the rise of the Empire, the Red Citadel
has also begun to train red mages as spies and
intelligence operatives.

Red mages (when “in uniform”) traditionally dress

in red robes and cocked or three-cornered hats.
The patron of the Red Citadel is Salamandus.

RED MAGE CLASSES

Beguiler; Duskblade; Warmage.

RED MAGE PRESTIGE CLASSES

Eldritch Knight; Abjurant Champion; Master Specialist (schools of En-

chantment and Illusion only); Mountebank; Occult Slayer; Spellsword;
Unseen Seer; Warpriest.

White Mages
Known as the best doctors and diviners in existence, the white mages

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are among some of the Seven’s most valued

servants and followers. They are highly esteemed
throughout the world, even within the Empire; dur-
ing the Incursion, Imperial forces refrained from
attacking hospital ships operated by white mages.
These “White ships” were some of the few surviv-
ing vessels in the Pandorean navy.

Even more so than the other schools, the White

Citadel focuses on training followers of the Seven.
Applicants are generally clerics, though some
arcane casters devoted to a particular Aeon are
accepted. The university’s curriculum emphasizes
defensive or peaceful forms of magic… though
rumor has it that this has begun to change. Word
has it that some students and teachers who are
particularly loyal to the Seven have begun to
prepare themselves for the coming war with the Empire. Some worry
that, when the war begins, the Empire may corrispondingly be less
merciful…

White mages traditionally dress in white habits and headdresses. The

White Citadel’s official patron is Undine.

WHITE MAGE PRESTIGE CLASSES

Hierophant; Mystic Theurge; Thaumaturgist; Contemplative; Divine

Note from the Author: Black, Red and White Mages

Back when I was writing the first make a prestige class for each In that case, I might have used
“A Final Fantasy” campaign, I type of mage. the sorcerer and wizard classes
decided to make black, red and Basically, it didn’t work out. I for the black mage; the clois-
white mages prestige classes couldn’t come up with a way to tered cleric variant for the white
rather than specific spellcasting completely encapsulate every- mage; and the battle sorcerer,
classes – mostly because I was thing a red mage or black mage beguiler, duskblade and war-
unsure of my ability to success- was within a single prestige mage classes for the red mage.
fully revise the base classes and class. The system described While not perfect, I admit that
the d20 magic system (both of here was ultimately the best this translation might have been
which would have been neces- I could come up with. Game- a little more accurate to the
sary to completely mimic the masters who believe they can source material. Gamemasters
Final Fantasy series). I figured improve on this system are who prefer this system are
that at least that way, while play- welcome to do so. again welcome to use it; they
ers would be unable to start off In retrospect, I could have also should be forewarned, however,
playing a black/red/white mage, replaced all of the D&D spell- that I have not playtested it, and
they could work their way up to casting classes with black, red cannot vouch for how it affects
becoming them. So I set out to and white mage base classes. game balance. – JS

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Oracle; Elemental Savant (fire, worshippers of Salamandus only;

cold, worshippers of Undine or Sylphus only; electricity, worshippers
of Sylphus or Lumos only; acid, worshippers of Cthon only); Master
Specialist (schools of Abjuration, Conjuration and Divination only); Ollam
(dwarf worshippers of Cthon only; in this setting, members of this class
are called rabs rather than ollams, singular rab); Paragnostic Apostle;
Radiant Servant of Pelor (as Radiant Servant of Lumos; followers of
Lumos only); Sacred Exorcist; Sanctified One (path of Ehlonna only;
open only to worshippers of Tifereth).

Cannon Travel
This unique form of transportation was created
by the Masmers, a large dwarf clan, by reverse
engineering a cache of magical objects from
before the Long War that the dwarves stumbled
upon deep underground. The Masmers founded
the Cannon Travel Commission, and have since
expanded across the globe.

Simply put, Cannon Travel involves the traveler being placed in a large
cannon (capable of fitting one Large creature, two Medium creatures,
and four Small creatures) and being fired in the direction of the intended
destination. Upon ignition of the cannon’s powder, powerful enchant-
ments step in to toss the traveler magically to their destination in a
speedy fashion. The effect is somewhat like a fly spell, with the following
exceptions: first, the speed of travel is equal to 200 feet per round, or 30
miles per hour. Second, the traveler has no control over his or her flight
path, including descent. Third, there is no limitation in duration; the effect
lasts until the traveler has reached the maximum range of 100 miles.
Fourth, a powerful magic shield falls into place around the traveler,
protecting him or her from wind friction, mid-air collisions, and powder
burns. In game terms, the traveler gains a +4 magical bonus to AC. Fifth
and finally, the Masmers have never been able to integrate a feather fall
effect into the cannons. As a result, they were forced to go with the next
best method; the traveler falls from the air and strikes the ground at full
speed. However, thanks to the shielding effect, he or she does not take
any damage of any sort from the fall whatsoever.

Needless to say, the population has been reluctant to embrace this new
form of transportation. When all is said and done, though, the Cannon

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Cannon Travel Rates Travel Commission offers rates much cheaper

than what a wizard typically charges for a
Base price 100 gp teleportation spell; and it’s much faster and
Per each mile even cheaper than any form of conventional
to destination
(maximum 100
+1 gp transportation. Slowly, people are being won
miles) over. Slowly.
10 to 50 lbs. of
+100 gp
luggage or gear The Cannon Travel Commission owns plat-
50 to 100 lbs. of
+150 gp forms throughout the Kingdom of Pandora.
luggage or gear
Other terminals include Jidoor, Tascina, Eblan,
100 to 150 lbs. of
luggage or gear
+200 gp Nikeah, Kaipo, Thalla, and Mysidia. These
200 lbs. “Cannon
stations are generally manned by at least
+400 gp one dwarf, who may or may not have hired a
Capsules”
Halfling discount -100 gp number of assistants from the local popula-
Child discount -50% tion. The Oni Kingdom has respectifully de-
Blindfolds and clined the Commission’s offer to build travel
earplugs (sold 10 gp platforms in their territories. The Empire has
separately) warned the Cannon Travel Commission that
Sleeping potion 50 gp any breach of its airspace – by anyone – will
be met with deadly force. The Commission’s
flight paths therefore tend to give Imperial territory a wide berth.

The Cannon Travel Commission charges extra from the base price of
100 gp based on distance and weight of luggage carried. An individual
cannot use cannon travel while carrying more than 150 pounds. As an
alternative, the Commission offers “Cannon Capsules” – essentially a
small, aerodynamic capsule that can carry up to 200 pounds of gear.

The Commission will not transport any animal larger than Small size.
Even these animals must be, for humane reasons, be given a sleeping
potion to induce unconsciousness during the flight. The Commission ab-
solutely will not transport horses in any size, shape or form; when asked
about this, the Commission dwarves will mutter something underneath
their breaths about “that Kippo incident” and refuse to comment any
further.

Moogles
Moogles are colorful, fluffy creatures that resemble winged teddy bears.
They are not an naturally-occurring species within In-World; they are, in
fact, creatures of other species that have been magically transformed

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(either temporarily or permanently) through the use of a magic spell.

Moogle Spells
MOOGLE
Transmutation
Level: Sor/Wiz 3
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: One creature
Duration: 1 round/level
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates
Spell Resistance: Yes

This spell – invented by an ancient black

mage as a way of both disabling and humiliating his enemies – works
somewhat like baleful polymorph, with the exception that the targeted
creature – rather than being permanently transformed into a small
animal – is instead temporarily turned into a Moogle. A Moogle is a
strange-looking creature, unknown in the natural world save through
the use of this spell, resembling a winged teddy bear. It is generally
incompetent at combat.

The target of the spell immediately gains the Moogle template (see
the next page for details). When the change occurs, all equipment on
the target’s person – including weapons, armor and worn magic items
– meld into the new form and become nonfunctional. Furthermore, a
Moogle is incapable of speaking in anything except a high-pitched,
infant-like gibberish – and is therefore incapable of casting any spells
or using any magic items that require a verbal trigger or component.
Please also note the effect of the target’s alignment upon their coloration
as a moogle.

Creatures with the undead or ooze type, or the incorporeal or gaseous

subtype, are immune to this spell. A creature with the shapechanger
subtype (such as a lycanthrope or a shapechanger) can revert to its
natural form as a standard action (which ends the spell’s effect).

Moogle is countered and dispelled by unmoogle. Dispel magic and

remove curse also remove the spell’s effects. The spell alter self has no
effect on a moogled creature.

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Moogle Template
CREATING A MOOGLE
Size and Type: Size decreases by one category (i.e. Medium to Small, Small to Tiny, etc.). Type
changes to Magical Beast. Do not recalculate base attack bonus, hit points, or saves.
Hit Die / Hit Points: Unchanged.
Speed: Based on creature size after size decrease. Tiny or Small Moogle, 30 feet; Medium Moogle,
40 feet; Large Moogle, 50 feet.
Armor Class: Natural armor increases by +5.
Attacks: The creature loses all natural weapons it has. It gains two claw attacks (if it does not already
have them), which become its primary attack.
Damage: Claw base damage is based on size after size decrease – Tiny, 1d2; Small, 1d3; Medium,
1d4; Large, 1d6.
Special Attacks: None. In addition, moogles are unable to use spells, spell-like abilities or any
magical effect that requires a verbal component (unless they have the Silent Spell metamagic feat or
the Moogle Dance feat).
Special Qualities: A Moogle gains the following special qualities, if it does not already possess them
in its natural form:
• Darkvision 60 feet
• Low-light vision
• Sanctuary (Su): Any opponent attempting to strike or otherwise directly attack a moogle – even
with a targeted spell – must make a Will save (DC = 11 + moogle’s Cha modifier). If the attacker’s
save fails, he or she is unable to attack the moogle for the next round. If the save succeeds, the
attacker may proceed normally, and cannot be influenced by this ability for 1 hour. This ability is
permanent. It is otherwise identical to the spell sanctuary as cast by a 1st-level cleric.
Abilities: Increase and decrease from the base creature as follows: Str -6, Cha +4.
Skills: Unchanged.
Challenge Rating: Same as base creature.
Alignment: Same as base creature. Note: the color of a moogle’s fur is determined by its alignment.
If it is good, its fur is ecru; if neutral, pink; and if evil, cerulean with lavender polka dots. Any spells that
hide or obscure alignment – such as undetectable alignment – defeat this effect, in which case the
moogle is pink by default.

SAMPLE MOOGLE
Moogled 1st-level Human Bard
Small Magical Beast
Hit Dice: 1d6+1 (7 hp)
Initiative: +1 (Dex)
Speed: 30 feet
Armor Class: 17 (+1 Dex, +1 size, +5 natural), touch 12, flat-
footed 16.
Attack: Claw -3 melee (1d3-3; x2)
Space/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Spells
Special Qualities: Darkvision 60 ft., sanctuary, bardic music,
bardic knowledge, countersong, fascinate, inspire courage +1.
Saves: Fort +1; Ref +3; Will +1.
Abilities: Str 4 (-3); Dex 13 (+1); Con 12 (+1); Int 14 (+2); Wis 8
(-1); Cha 19 (+4).
Skills: Bluff +5, Diplomacy +6, Escape Artist +2, Hide +4,
Knowledge (local) +3, Move Silently +3, Perform (dance) +8, Perform (guitar) +8, Sleight of Hand +4,
Tumble +2, Use Magic Device +6.
Feats: Dodge, Moogle Dance.
Challenge Rating: 1
Treasure: Standard
Alignment: Chaotic good; Advancement by character class.

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Material Components: A small, hand-sewn Feat: Moogle Dance

teddy bear.
MOOGLE DANCE [GENERAL]:
You are able to cast spells while
PERMANENT MOOGLE moogled. By engaging in a fast-
Transmutation paced, awkward dance, you man-
Level: Sor/Wiz 4 age to compensate for your inability
to speak the verbal components
Components: V, S, M and cast spells normally. You must
Casting Time: 1 standard action have both hands and feet free,
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels) as well as a relatively free range
of movement, in order to use this
Target: One creature ability; for example, you could not
Duration: Permanent make use of Moogle Dance while
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates bound. You cannot use this ability
while sharing your square with
Spell Resistance: Yes another character, even an ally.
Even with this feat, you cannot use
As moogle, except that this spell’s victims magic items with verbal triggers
are permanently turned into a Moogle. while moogled.
Furthermore, all items worn or carried by the
subject fall to the ground at the subject’s feet, even if they could be worn
or carried by the new form.

Permanent moogle can be dispelled or countered by remove curse,

greater dispel magic, and polymorph any object. Unmoogle and dispel
magic are only temporarily effective, returning the creature to its natural
form for 1 minute per caster level; after this duration, however, the
creature again reverts to a Moogle.

Material Components: A small, hand-sewn teddy bear – with two

polished buttons carved from malachite (worth 10 gp) as eyes.

UNMOOGLE
Transmutation
Level: Sor/Wiz 3
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Touch
Target: One moogled creature
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: None (harmless)
Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless)

Counters and dispels moogle. This spell has no effect on creatures who
are not moogled. This spell is only partially effective against permanent
moogle; the target reverts to its natural form for 1 minute per caster

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level, but afterwards becomes a Moogle once again.

Languages
Many of the languages in “A Final Fantasy” have the same characteris-
tics and fulfill the same functions that they do in the standard Dungeons
& Dragons rules. The exceptions are described below.

Language Parent Language Alphabet Typical speakers

Abyssal – Abyssal Demons
Aquan Celestial Aquan Water-based creatures
Auran Celestial Auran Air-based creatures
Celestial – Celestial Spritelings, good outsiders
Common – Common Pretty much everyone
Draconic – Draconic Magicians
Druidic Celestial Druidic Druids, followers of Tifereth
Dwarven Celestial Dwarven Dwarves
Elven Draconic Elven Elves
Giant Infernal Common Giants, ogres
Gnome – Common Gnomes
Gnoll Abyssal Common Gnolls
Ignan Celestial Ignan Fire-based creatures
Infernal – Infernal Devils
Kakkarian Celestial Kakkarian Kakkarian halflings
Orc Draconic Orc & Draconic Orcs, half-orcs
Penpen All Any Penpens
Sylvan Celestial Draconic Dryads, fae
Terran Celestial Terran Earth-based creatures
Thallesian – Common Thallesian halflings, merchants
Undercommon Dwarven Common Underground creatures, dwarves

CELESTIAL is commonly believed to be the oldest language in the

world. Legend says that it was the tongue spoken by the Archons
when they first came out of the Void. While Celestial is still spoken
by spritelings and good outsiders, not many others bother to learn it.
Still, most people can recognize at least a few letters of the Celestial
alphabet, since the Seven use them as holy symbols.

DRACONIC is a mostly dead language used mainly in arcane practice

and scholarship, as most of the dragons and draconic creatures in the
world were wiped out during the Long War. Orc and Elven are linguistic

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descendants of Draconic; some orcs in the Oni Kingdom utilize the

Draconic writing system in formal letters and compositions.

DRUIDIC is a secret language invented by the Aeon Tifereth sometime

in the distant past for her followers. It is generally only known to druids
and clerics that follow her.

DWARVEN is the harsh, guttural and somewhat whiny tongue of the

dwarves. It is also highly popular among scholars, as it is the language
of choice within Cthon’s Great Library in Gaia’s Navel. Speakers of
Kakkarian have a 25% chance of understanding the gist of spoken
Dwarven, as the languages share many similarities.

ELVEN is the language of the elves. Though it bears some linguistic

similarities to Orc, the two languages sound almost nothing alike.

KAKKARIAN is the language of the desert-dwelling Kakkarian halflings.

Speakers of Dwarven have a 25% of understanding the general
meaning of spoken Kakkarian, as the languages share many similarities.

ORC is the official language of the Oni Kingdom. Like Common, many
dialects of Orc exist, from the flowery poetry traditionally written by the

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nobility to the rough cant of dockworkers and pirates. This language is

also unique in that it uses two different writing systems – the vernacular
Orc, used for everyday matters, and the more obscure Draconic system,
used exclusively for formal communication.

PENPEN, the tongue of the penpens, is an unusual language in many

respects. To begin with, it is a invented tongue, first created about
five hundred years ago when the penpen government decided that
its species (who had up until then utilized either Common or Aquan)
required its own language. Unfortunately, the massive committee of
linguists the government assembled to complete the task proved unable
to decide on just one proposal (one preeminent member is recorded to
have said, “they just all look so neat…”). Ultimately, consensus was only
reached by combining all of the proposed languages into one single,
unwieldy language, the mere mention of which can send scholars across
the world into screaming fits. To make matters worse, the committee
– known as the Linguistic Council – continues to operate to this very
day, issuing major revisions and changes to the language on an annual
basis.

Penpen combines vocabulary and linguistic features from every single

language on the planet. Due to its nature as a fusion of languages, even
non-penpens have a chance (10%, +10% for each additional language
spoken, maximum 80%) of understanding the general meaning of a
spoken phrase in Penpen.

Written Penpen, on the other hand, is infamously difficult to read. The

Linguistic Council tends to change the writing system (currently Draconic
with Celestial numerals, and with certain features of Auran and Infernal
orthography included for good measure) at the metaphorical drop of
a hat. Non-native speakers suffer a -10 penalty to all Decipher Script
checks when attempting to decode written Penpen. Even penpens must
make a Decipher Script check to read writing that is over twenty years
old.

THALLESIAN is the language of the halflings of Thalla. Given that city’s

preeminence in the world economy, Thallesian has more or less become
the language of high commerce and banking. It is the second most
popular language in the world after Common.

UNDERCOMMON is a fusion of simplified Dwarven and Common,

invented long ago by dwarves to better facilitate communication with
other species. It is especially popular among underground-dwelling

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creatures. On a side note, roughly a third of

the language’s known vocabulary consists of
obscenities.

Paladins
Paladins fill a specific role in the world of “A
Final Fantasy.” First and foremost, they are
agents of the law, similar to modern-day po-
lice officers, appointed and empowered by the
Seven to protect the peoples of In-World. Like
police officers, paladins are required to take an
oath of service, and are beholden to courts of
law throughout the world – as well as to, ulti-
mately, the Seven themselves.

Unlike the standard class rules in Dungeons

& Dragons, paladins in “A Final Fantasy” may
be of different alignments than lawful good. In
general, paladins may be of any good align-
ment (except those of Lumos; see below). The
Seven recognize that, at times, a paladin’s alle-
giance may need to be with the spirit of the law
as opposed to its exact letter. Lawful good and
neutral good paladins are therefore common.

Chaotic good paladins are rare, but possible. In

order to be acceptable as a paladin, a chaotic
good character’s personal sense of morality
must be more or less in line with the principles
of the Paladin’s Oath. These characters – who
generally take the paladin of freedom class
variant – are usually employed by the Seven
specifically against the Empire.

Paladins of Lumos are an exception to these

rules. Lumos, who generally holds his pala-
dins to an even higher standard than the other
Aeons do, requires his servants to be of ei-
ther lawful good or lawful neutral alignment. A
certain number of Lumos’ paladins – members

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of the so-called Inquisition of Light – act as a kind of “internal affairs”

service for paladins. The Inquisitors monitor the conduct of paladins
worldwide and report any violations or suspicions directly to the Seven
themselves. Even veteran paladins tread lightly around Inquisitors.

Regardless of their alignment, the Seven do hold all paladins account-

able to their Oaths, and will very quickly disempower a paladin for viola-
tions of conduct – even in situations where a paladin’s actions may have
been justified (if only as a precaution). A paladin so disempowered must
either repent for his action or argue his case in front of a cleric or repre-
sentative of his Aeon – who, if honestly convinced, may cast atonement
on the paladin as per the standard D&D rules. In addition, the Seven
themselves have been sometimes known to personally decide or debate
issues regarding a paladin’s conduct.

The Paladin’s Oath

A paladin generally swears the following oaths:

• To protect and to serve the greater interests of the mortals under the
Seven’s protection, even if it should be at the cost of one’s own life or
well-being;

• To execute one’s duties as a paladin to the absolute best of one’s

abilities;

• To be honest and to show integrity in one’s actions – except where

deception is necessary to save one’s own life or the lives of others;

• To act with fairness and impartiality;

• To abstain from abusing one’s authority or powers as a paladin in any

way;

• To obey all lawful orders and regulations which have been approved
or authorized as lawful by a majority vote of the Seven1;

• To exercise reasonable care to prevent damage to property owned

1 Note that this excludes the laws of states deemed non-lawful

by the Seven – which currently consist of the Empire, the Gold Isle,
Davros, and the Twin Cities of Jidoor and Zozo. Non-orc paladins are
also exempt from having to enforce the more... rigorous laws of the Oni
Kingdom.

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by others, and to act to restore stolen property to its proper owners2;

• To constantly maintain one’s armor, weaponry and fighting abilities to

one’s utmost;

• To avoid acting in any way that might bring discredit upon all
paladins.

Paladins of Salamandus also add:

• To honor and keep the traditions of one’s ancestors, and to respect

the aged.

Paladins of Lumos also add:

• To abstain from any form of intoxication;

• To refrain from actions motivated by lust or love.

2 Exceptions to this rule: Paladins in a time of war are legally

allowed to confiscate enemy property as salvage. Right of salvage also
applies to property where the true owners are long-dead or forgotten –
such as treasure within dungeons and ruins. Paladins should keep in
mind, however, that they may be required to prove items were properly
salvaged in a court of law; for example, in one famous case a hundred
years ago, a paladin was stripped of his powers and title when a tribe
of gnolls brought suit against him in a Pandorean court for the unlawful
confiscation of their property. In general, however, a paladin can safely
invoke right of salvage when in an unlawful or hostile environment, when
under attack, or during a time of war. A paladin can also (temporarily)
commandeer property when he or she deems it necessary for the
greater good.

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