Arcanis is an award-winning campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons game, created and supported by Paradigm Concepts. It is also the name of the fictional world where the setting takes place. The setting was launched in 2001 and is known for its odd twists on the fantasy genre, as well as its wide member approval and community-based design and construction. A campaign setting is a fictional fantasy world which serves as a setting for a role-playing game or wargame. ... For other uses, see Dungeons & Dragons (disambiguation). ... Paradigm Concepts Inc. ... A fictional universe is a cohesive fictional world that serves as the setting or backdrop for one or (more commonly) multiple works of fiction. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... // For other meanings see Fantasy (disambiguation) Fantasy is a genre of art that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. ...

Arcanis is set on the continent of Onara, where a crumbling Coryani Empire (reminiscent of the Western Roman Empire) struggles with newly created nations such as Milandir (reminiscent of the Holy Roman Empire) or Canceri (reminiscent of Russia during the Middle Ages and the Balkans). To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... In Dungeons & Dragons, Onara is the main continent of the Arcanis campaign setting. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Holy Roman Empire and from the 16th century on also The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation was a political conglomeration of lands in Central Europe in the Middle Ages and the early modern period. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Races of Arcanis

Main article: Races of Arcanis

The playable Races in Arcanis differ from the traditional races in other Dungeons and Dragons campaign settings. There are seven primary races: Dark-kin (Infernaly Tainted), Dwarves (Cursed Giants), Elorii (Elves), Gnomes (Child of a humans and a dwarf), Humans, Ss'ressen (Two Tribes, Black Talon and Ashen Hide), and Val (Touched by the gods, many different bloodlines). There are seven playable races in the world of Arcanis // Dark-Kin Dark-kin are those born with demonic traits. ... There are seven playable races in the world of Arcanis // Dark-Kin Dark-kin are those born with demonic traits. ... The original Dungeons & Dragons set Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) published by Gary Gygax and David Arneson in January 1974. ... A campaign setting is a fictional fantasy world which serves as a setting for a role-playing game or wargame, such as Dungeons & Dragons, Warhammer and various d20 System games. ...

Nations of Arcanis

Main article: Nations of Arcanis

The nations of Arcanis are mostly human affairs, all related to the First Imperium that fell thousands of years ago; most of these are ruled by the Val. The human nations are: // Altheria (The Republic of) East of Coryan and north of the Morass is The Republic of Altheria, origin of blastpowder (gunpowder) and many mages in Onara. ...

• The Republic of Altheria
• The Theocracy of Canceri
• The Coryani Empire
• The Hinterlands
• The League of Princes
• Milandir
• Ymandragore

The three Elorii Nations are:

• Elonbe
• Entaris
• Malfea

The Dwarven Enclaves are:

• Solanos Mor
• Nol Dappa
• Tulipet
• Tir Betoq
• Encali

There are two major enclaves of S'sressen, one of which is an offshoot of the other:

• Black Talons
• Ashen Hide

The other races are pretty much outcasts and wanderers, though occasionally small racial enclaves arise in larger cities.

Religion in Arcanis

Main article: Religion in Arcanis

The Deities of Arcanis are sectioned off into different pantheons. The main pantheon is the Pantheon of Man, of which human gods reside. Other pantheons such as the Pantheon of the Elves, are broken, or destroyed leaving only one or no gods behind. // The Pantheon of Man The three brother gods, the Head of the Pantheon and his two brothers, are the first three gods of the pantheon: Illiir, the Patron God of Emperors and Order as well as the Sun God Yarris, God of the Sea Neroth, God of Death Further, three... Trinomial name Homo sapiens sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Humans, or human beings, are bipedal primates belonging to the mammalian species Homo sapiens (Latin for wise man or knowing man) under the family Hominidae (the great apes). ... Look up deity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

In Arcanis, "true" gods are unconcerned with petty mortal morality, so have no alignment as gods in other settings do; only churches have alignment, depending on what aspects of a god they worship. The Pantheon of Man, for example, does not have alignment, but the Ss'regorean Varn Gods do.

Factions and Secret Societies

The setting also has secret societies, factions that have beliefs and goals that can either aid, or impede the mission of players in other cases. Each faction varies in its goal, as well as how secret each faction is.

• The Orthodoxy seeks to eraticate heretical worship of the Human Panthenon.
• The Hawk and Shield seek to eradicate the minions of the Sorcerer King or protect those who are arcanely gifted from his predetations.
• The Emerald Society are Archelolgists who seek to discover anything and everything about the history of Onara, especially from the First Imperium
• The Mourners in Silence believe that the gods of Arcanis have died and now work with other worldly allies towards unusual goals.
• The Order of the Twilight Bough
• The Swords of Nier

Living Arcanis

Living Arcanis is the name for the Living Campaigns set in the Arcanis setting. It is run by PCI and hosts major events at most of the larger game conventions, including Winter Fantasy, GenCon and particularly Origins International Game Expo. Living Campaigns are part marketing tool, part volunteer campaign settings, which allow people all over the world to play role-playing games in a shared universe. ... Winter Fantasy is an annual gaming convention that takes place on the east coast of the USA every January or February. ... Gen Con is the largest and most prominent gaming convention in North America. ... Origins International Game Expo is one of North Americas most prominent annual gaming conventions, second in size only to Gen Con. ...

See also

External links

• Onara Online, Official Homepage of the Arcanis Campaign
• Paradigm Concepts' website
• Living Arcanis Talk Yahoo group
• Character Generation Guidelines