[b]The setting[/b]: The name of the planet which this campaign takes place in is Terrus. More specifically, the primary focal point of the campaign will be in the country of Zenosia. 

Once a powerful and prideful collective, the Zenosian Empire once thrived many generations ago under the merciless leadership of Emperor Ivan Zenosia, who sought to conquer the world. Upon the tipping point at which he'd achieve his goal of global unity, a catastrophe occurred. Some say it was divine vengeance or unholy wrath, and others that it was the result of a powerful ritual gone wrong. Nobody knows the cause of it, but on the Zenosian Empire's final battlefield, the sky turned black and all types of horrible entities and aberrations appeared from a never-ending vortex that halted both armies. 

These monstrosities of extreme power quickly took to the battle on both sides, demoralizing all mortals involved and easily overpowering both forces. Ivan was among the casualties of his army, and presumably not one soldier from either army remained alive by the end. This incident came to be known as the "Vortex Massacre" in time.

Command was left in charge of his court wizard until the day when Ivan's son, Arleaux was to grow old enough to take over. 

It's been 80 years since then, and Arleaux has grown old and decrepit in his time as emperor. The empire has grown weak, and has lost 90% of its controlled territory. The capital city, a handful of nearby towns and some settlements deeper in the wilderness are all that remain. Trade has halted with other countries and kingdoms since the Vortex Massacre, and no one can venture far from Zenosia's remaining territory without disappearing off the face of the planet. 

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The basic premise, plot-wise, is that you the players will be a group of adventurers, mercenaries, soldiers, priests, farmers or whatever else on a quest to push back the monsters that emerged from the vortex and reclaim Zenosia's territory; otherwise, face extinction. Your reasons for doing so are entirely up to you, but generally I'd like if the whole party at least had that one goal in common regardless of alignment differences. It's not necessarily that you need to be heroes, just to at least have that goal in common to avoid the party killing each other in a PvP bloodbath which is never really fun.

Characters will start at level 1. All core races are allowed, and potentially featured races depending on which it is. For classes, core, base, hybrid and occult are all fine as well as any official archetypes you might be interested in. Multiclassing between the approved classes is fine too. Technology level is at black powder, with magic used to make things like golems or magical weapons of sorts.

Generally most of the common monster encounters will be present, but vortex monsters will be specially created by me and will act as boss monsters or arc villains of sorts. They'll require more strategy and caution to deal with than normal and will obviously be much more dangerous than an average monster of a similar level. 

Let me know if you're interested! I'm looking for 4 players, so once I get 4 people I'll be ready to make the OOC.