Penzavie

Penzavie is the setting of most campaigns run by Alaska. It is an entire planet. Penzavie has five continents. It was created by Omkrei, the World Crafter. It was made so that there would be a world without evil, but once Omkrei realized they failed, he let the world progress without their influence.

The Age of Creation
Omkrei, the creator of Penzavie, had previously seen the evils in other planes and decided that it was unneeded to make a plan. Some claim that Omkrei was warned by other gods that such a world was impossible. Omkrei obviously ignored these warnings. The first portion of Penzavie created was the Prime Material Plane. Omkrei then made the Primordial gods of Penzavie. These five gods were intended to be temporary, but some still remain.

Omkrei then created part of the sentient races of the world using the memories of the previous planes he has visited. The first to be created were the Humans, the Elves, and the Firbolg. At this point, they all spoke the language Sylvan. Elves were almost exclusive to Summent, Humans were almost exclusive to Kiouek, and Firbolg were almost exclusive to Tunrock. Next, Omkrei created Dargonborn and settled them originally in the mountains and plateau of Kiouek in a region known eventually as Drakol.

Omkrei then needed a plain of pure Good to watch over their world. They created the plane of Bonomn above Penzavie. In an attempt to balance the planes, Omkrei then created a plane of void below Penzavie. With this creation, Omkrei made the race of partially celestial beings called the Aasimar to populate Bonomn and let them travel to the Prime Material plane after a great plea was made.

Omkrei then make more races so that the world may be more widely populated. Omkrei created the Dwarves to populate the mountains, they made the Halflings to live in the hills, and they made the Gnomes to live in the plains. The Dwarves would eventually conglomerate to create the Great Dwarven Cities of Penzavie. Meanwhile Gnomes would become mostly rural people and Halflings would become mixed between urban and rural. Halflings were not always called Halflings. Many Halflings still even prefer other terms, such as Hobbles, Hillfolk, Hobfolk, and other similar words.

The Age of Growth
Pan soon arrived at Penzavie. Omkrei saw Pan's ability to control nature and offered Penzavie as a garden for Pan to tend to. With this, Omkrei retreated to slumber, tired after creating an entire world. Pan supervised the world the world in the absence of Omkrei, but did not think to enforce all the rules they set. Koth, the Primordial god of Fire, who saw the creation of the sentient races, created his own race, the Orcs, to be as violent as fire. He shook Vermich into a rough mountainous land and populated it with his new creation. Additionally, breaking the trend Omkrei set, he also set the orcs upon Kieouk, but the people of the land defended themselves well.

Pan allowed for the Growth of the elemental planes of existence. During this time, the planes of Fire, Air, Water, and Earth came into existence. They came into existence around around the Prime Material plane, at 90 degrees to the orientation Bonomn and the plane of void.

Mer, somewhat copying Koth, created a race of sentient individuals. These aquatic creatures became known as the Merfolk, named after their creator.

With the creative energies of Penzavie still in full swing, a plane came into existence to bridge between Bonomn. The plane was that the plane of Light. There were not five elemental planes, but in the plane of Light pushes the Bonomn away from the Prime Material Plane which began the unbalance of the Penzavian Planescape.

The creative energy continuing to saturate the land, many new sentient races developed out of the species of the woods and wilds. These races are the Catfolk, Wolffolk, Kitsune, Catfolk, Kenku, and Lizardfolk. These races surprised the deities as the fact that they did not come into existence though divine intent, but simply divine energy.

During the Age of Growth, some additional deities from Earth arrived at Penzavie. Aphroditus and Dionysis arrived at about the same time at Penzavie. Aphroditus saw the lack any large populations and cemented herself as the goddess of Love in Penzavie. Additionally, she masturbated in Bonomn, spawning a great palace for the celestials and angels living in that plane to rule over their cities. The Residents of Bonomn were grateful for this great gift and swore to treat all deities who visited the plane to the most gracious hospitality and friendliness in the Ivory Palace of Beauty. Dionysis assisted Penzavie by introducing grapes and bees into Penzavie and presented great stone tablets into the Prime Material plane for mortals to learn how to brew various types of wines.

The Age of Divine Conflict
In the beginning of the Age of Divine Conflict, 7305 years before the Silioric Calender begins, Omkrei reawakened from their slumber. Upon discovering that new races of sentient creatures existed, they investigated, but was unaware of the fact that Koth and Mer had created some of those races, assuming that the energy of creation had brought the Merfolk and Orcs into existence. Ten years after Omkrei awakened, Koth created the Goblins and Hobgoblins, and Omkrei realized their ignorance. Koth was swiftly imprisoned and Omkrei plans to put him on trial in four hundred years.

It should be noted that no dates existed in the "time" before the Age of Divine Conflict. It can be assumed that the entirety of the Age of Creation and the Age of Growth happened both simultaneously and over a great length of time. This pre-historical legend cannot be established to have a solid chronology. Additionally, the advent of the Age of Divine Conflict is the first appearance of the god of Time, Vatimir, even though they were born much later in the timeline. Vatimir can tread though the timeline freely, but cannot access before Omkrei awakened from their slumber.

Omkrei also noticed at this point that Bonomn has become mostly unkempt in the lack of a deity living in it. None of the gods currently in Penzavie had taken to living in Bonomn. Omkrei spent years walking with mortals, talking to them, seeing how they acted, and learning of their ways, so that they could understand what deity would bring harmony to Bonomn and assist with the growth of the Pure Good plane that Penzavie was planned to be. Omkrei then went to Bonomn, and appeared as a great orb of light above the Ivory Palace and sang to the residents of the plane. After the Symphony of Birth, a new deity was brought into this plane. With this great song, Symphonia, the goddess of music, was born into the world and took her position as the keeper of Bonomn. It is said that on the day that Symphonia was born, the day and night were of equal length and the moon shone so bright that not a single candle was lit.

About 150 years after Omkrei awakened, Omkrei felt the need for a seat for more good aligned deities to exist in Penzavie. Symphonia had aided in the goal of creating a successful world of Good, but Omkrei still felt there was something lacking from the world. With this motion, Omkrei introduced the worship of Bahamut into Penzavie to help the mortals keep their good moral code. This also had the affect of creating the first clerics and the beginning of magic users in Penavie as well. (See: History of Magic in Penzavie). Bahamut never arrived in Penzavie, but the influence of the Platinum Dragon remained strong regardless. Additionally in this time, Omkrei created their Lawful Good plane of Bonomn-Durr to be the throne of the gods. Shortly after, they created the Chaotic Good plane of Bonomn-Val to house additional good celestial warriors.

As these planes were finishing being established, a new Earthen god arrived to Penzavie. Poseidon arrived at Penzavie by following Pan.

The Death of Mer
When Poseidon arrived at Penzavie, around 7040 years before the Silioric Library was created, the aspect of water and the ocean was controlled by Mer. Poseidon, known for being the deity of the Oceans, Earthquakes, and Horses, did not like that his domain was already controlled. He had expected that he would be welcomed as a major deity, as he was on Earth for so long. Poseidon became overcome with envy and rode upon Penzavie in a chariot pulled by Penzavie's first horses. A great quake shock the sea as Poseidon summoned the Kraken to Penzavie. The Kraken was let loose on the merfolk of the ocean, killing without care. Poseidon goaded Mer into an encounter. As Mer came forth with open arms to ask for Poseidon to stop destroying their creations, Poseidon rose up with no mercy and planted his trident into Mer. As Mer let out a final divine breath, Poseidon made the oceans deadly to merfolk. Poseidon let millions upon millions of merfolk die within only a few hours. Kelemvor had to be brought into Penzavie at this point. Kelemvor was not summoned, but they had to arrive at Penzavie at this time. One might even assume that the god of time allowed for Kelemvor to arrive at this important time. The Malice of this action, the Death of Mer, would fuel what came next.

Additionally at this time, Tern, the primordial god of stone and rock, went into hiding due to the violent and everchanging nature of the world. They began plotting revenge on Poseidon, which would be unacted upon for eons.

The Great Calamity
In Omkrei's attempt to create a world of pure Good, they ignored the concept of balance. There were hints of the requirement of balance when Limbo and Mechanicus came into being, showing the need of Chaos and Law need to be in balance. The negative energy of the planescape was filling into the astral plane of Penzavie. This was about to be disastrous for Omkrei's picture of a purely good world. 6990 years before the Library of Silio was created, a new plane was born. This new plane was Antibonomn, the plane on Evil. With this plane, spawned it's ruler, Malantus, the god of Evil. Malantus used the energy left over to create two more planes, the chaotic evil plane of Bosidurr and the lawful evil plane of Bosimal. With each plane came a new god to rule over the planes. Bosidurr is ruled over by the deity, Emontion, the god of Destruction. Bosimal is ruled over by the deity, Gramotos, god of Bureaucracy and Genocide. After this emergence of Evil to establish balance, a flood of Evil overtook many mortals in the Prime Material. A battle began, as the Chaotic Good celestial Archons and Lawful Good Angels went to war with the Chaotic Evil Demons and the Lawful Evil Devils. As the war began, they fought on the Prime Material, not taking consideration to the mortals and their fragility. A great death swept across the land as battles raged along the land.

Omkrei, distraught at the battle raging and the new balance that brought Evil to Penzavie. Omkrei looked to seek out Justice. With this effort, Omkrei looked to the Forgotten Realms and brought from the dead the god Tyr, who had moved from one planescape to another before.

As the battle raged on, the Devils and Angels saw that if the war raged any longer, the prime material plane of Penavie would be damaged to a point where creation would need to redone. Mortals were being harmed by the war. 6965 years before the Library of Silio was created, there was a great counsel of Lawful Outsiders on the Plane of Mechanicus. Before this counsel of Outsiders, all of great power, a great deal was struck. On a great monolith of Law, the contract was written that all wars of those outside the Prime Material Plane shall keep their conflict outside of the Prime Material. This contract also allowed for the Overlight, Underdark, and plane of Void to be used as battlegrounds. This choice affected the cosmology of Penzavie more than any individual could have predicted. As battles were fought in the plane of void, it soon became crowded with blades. Various blades of all sizes, shapes, and origin now were floating in this plane, reestablishing it as the Realm of Blades.

It can also be noted two important individuals were also born in this era. 6986 years before the creation of Library of Silio, Darvin Amblecrown, the first Druid was born. Additionally, 6823 years before the creation of Library of Silio, Lavimorre is born.

The Birth of Dragons
Before an event called the Birth of Dragons, the race of humanoids commonly known now as the Dragonborn were known simply as dragons. This was due to the lack of actual dragons in Penzavie. This fact caused some confusion when the worship of Bahamut was introduced into Penzavie. Bahamut was then categorized as a mystic dragons. At this point, lingual drift and spreading culture had been causing confusion and individuals have been drifting due to this.

About 6350 years before the Silioric Library was made, a group of human and elven clerics of Bahamut ask what the mystic dragons of old really looked like, being unconvinced of the images given of Bahamut. Omkrei in an act that was partly impulsive and partly a plot to bring more Good into the world, created The Original Dragons of Penzavie. Now that both Dragonborn and Dragons were called dragons, it was still confusing in a lingual sense to the denizens of Penzavie.

At this point, the clerics of Bahamut were now joined by other figures who were curious about the existence of chromatic dragons at this point in addition to what to call these new creatures that Omkrei just brought into the world. Omkrei then brought into the world, one grey dragon. Mortals were more confused at this point that the only chromatic dragon was not evil. Two individuals, Minis the female elven cleric of Gramotos and Turis the dragonborn cleric of Bahamut, began to collect all knowledge of language and systematically organizing this. At a certain point, the two realize that they cannot establish the rules of language without divine power, so they kill themselves together in ritual suicide during prayer to Omkrei. Omkrei, surprised but understanding, shifts the life and soul of the two into one being who became Minis-Turis, the twin-faced god of language. Minis-Turis then codified and standardized all the languages of Penzavie. The Greek deities present did not allow for the language of the Olympians to be forgotten, but all words were thus known and language of the past would never stray too far from the languages of the present. This way, lingual drift would be slow and uniform, making it easy for the people of Penzavie to know that everyone who knew elven, knew the exact same elven.

Sometime later however, the energy of creation combined with the creation of something objectively good in the world then required the spontaneous creation of evil chromatic dragons. Kobolds also were made at this point. Making the first generation of Chromatic Dragons, the second generation of Metallic Dragons, and Kobolds all were made at about the same time, approximately 6250 years before the creation of the Library of Silio.

The War of Dragons
At the time that dragons were created, they were not ageless yet. As the second generation of metallic dragons started to settle in their lairs, the chromatic dragons of Penzavie grew envious and greedy. It began with the murder of Pyromia, the first Brass Dragon of Penzavie. At the beginning of the war, there were 4 first generation metallic dragons, 20 second generation metallic dragons, and ten first generation chromatic dragons. At this time, the second generation of chromatic dragons had not grown up enough to fight yet. Additionally, not all 20 second generation metallic dragons were combatants. The War extended across the globe and brought in many casualties. The chromatic dragons employed and enslaved demons, devils, and humanoids in their armies, but ultimately were overpowered. In the heat of the war, Poseidon created a dragon turtle to reek havoc on a fleet of gnomes that had been allied with the chromatic dragons and had not given offerings to the deity of the sea, favoring the blue dragon, Acknor. At the end of a great battle, Fumeron the Warkite had three first generation chromatic dragons and two second generation chromatic dragons captured, at their mercy, and decided that no chromatic dragon dare be let free. With this execution, the deceased put a curse upon the world, summoning forward Angren, the Metallic Terror. The war concluded with an overall Good Metallic victory, but with great losses on both sides and the spawning of a great Evil.

Races
Main Page: Races of Penzavie

The races of Penzavie were mostly made from scratch by Omkrei themself. The races were made from the memories of previous worlds Omkrei knew of. Additionally, other races were created by other deities or simply came into being by chance.

The species of sentient creatures who potentially adventure are as follows: Elves, Dwarves, Humans, and Orcs all can produce children together, Gnomes, Halflings, and Dwarves can all produce children together, Dragonborns and Kobolds can produce children together, and Orcs, Goliaths, and Firbolg can produce children together. Most of these hybrids are fertile as well.
 * Humans
 * Elves
 * Orcs
 * Dwarves
 * Halflings
 * Gnomes
 * Dragonborns
 * Teiflings
 * Aasimar
 * Firbolg
 * Goliaths
 * Kenku
 * Catfolk
 * Lizardfolk
 * Wolffolk
 * Kitsune
 * Merfolk
 * Goblins
 * Hobgoblins
 * Kobolds

Deities
Main Page: Penzavian Pantheon

Additionally Penzavie is home to a host of gods. Some migrated to Penzavie from other realms.

Penzavie
Penzavie has five continents; they are Kiouek, Summent, Tunrock, Oppenfros, and Vermich.

Kiouek
Kiouek is the largest continent on Penzavie. It mostly open plains and forests, but also contains mountains, plateaus, arid plains, and southern tundras. It is said that dragonborn, gnomes, and humans were first created to colonize Kiouek. Drakol is the homeland of dragonborn, Gnemil is supposedly the homeland of gnomes.

Summent
Summent is a continent of rolling hills that move north into northern tundras. Summent is the homeland of the elves.

Vermich
Vermich is a arid and hot continent full of mountains. It has a scarred past and is said to be the battlefield for gods.

Planes around Penzavie
The Planecore is the combination of the Overlight, Prime Material Plane, and Underdark.

Main Page: Cosmology of Penzavie

Penzavie, as all world do, has planes parallel to it. These planes are different from the standard Forgotten Realms planescape.

Main Page: Aligned Planes of Penzavie

Around the Planecore there are eight planes with an alignment.
 * 1) the Chaotic Good plane of Bonomn-Val
 * 2) the Neutral Good plane of Bonomn
 * 3) the Lawful Good plane of Bonomn-Durr
 * 4) the Lawful Neutral plane of Mechanicus
 * 5) the Lawful Evil plane of Bosimal
 * 6) the Neutral Evil plane of Antibonomn
 * 7) the Chaotic Evil plane of Bosidurr
 * 8) the Chaotic Neutral plane of Limbo

Main Page: Elemental Planes of Penzavie

The Elemental Planes around Penzavie are beyond the four standard, Earth, Water, Air, and Fire. Each has a damage type associated with them. Penzavie is also parallel to a plane known as the Realm of Blades, which is associated with Slashing and Piercing Damage
 * 1) Fire = Fire Damage
 * 2) Water = Cold Damage
 * 3) Earth = Bludgeoning Damage
 * 4) Air = Thunder Damage
 * 5) Light = Radiant
 * 6) Darkness = Necrotic
 * 7) Acids = Acid
 * 8) Bases = Poison
 * 9) Energy = Force and Psychic
 * 10) Lightning = Lightning

Main Page: Dreamscape of Penzavie

There is a plane surrounding Penzavie created later in it's existence. Omkrei made the Dreamscape to prevent any gods from entering or leaving Penzavie. The plane allows for gods from other worlds to influence Penzavie to a lesser effect, but the gods will never truly be in Penzavie. This plane is also filled with emotions that conflict and create seas of horrors. This conflict is what powers the abilities of Psykers.

Souls, Death, and Ressurection
Hit dice and spell slots (in DnD) represent parts of an individual's souls. Additionally, the soul and the body are inversely related.

Every creature is born with a small soul, which will need to grow as the creature's power and endurance grows. As an individual overcomes obstacles and hardship, their soul grows. A large soul allows for the individual to endure greater challenges. Large souls can also store more spell slots. It was discovered slowly over time the proper collection of spell slots for safe casting.

When a creature dies, their soul is transferred out of the prime material plane.

In DnD's interpretation of Penzavie, when an individual is resurrected, they must make a Soul Saving throw of DC 10. Their Soul ability score is calculated to be 30 minus their Constitution.