Windtracer Tales Introduction and Season List
An introduction to the Windtracer Tales and the adventures of the Windtracer Company
Concerning History
For generations, the Ancient Order unified the world, bringing prosperity like never before seen. Then, it was gone. Swept away by what some call The Great Collapse.
After a thousand years, we still don’t know what happened.
But there are clues. Hints. Pieces to the greatest puzzle in history in ruins of the Ancient Order. Remnants of their greatest works.
There are many that debate if the knowledge of the Ancient Order should be rekindled. It’s former glory restored to life. Others argue that the Ancient Order’s legacy should remain lost. Some even suggest that the Collapse may still be happening now. Certainly, the magic storms and other wild magics that scour the world suggest that something dire lingers from the disaster.
But there are guilds that look to preserve the lost knowledge. The Windtracer Company is one of those organizations that seek to preserve the knowledge of the Ancients. These mercenary-historians scour the forgotten corners of Awldor, into restricted ruins and the dark places. They explore, learn, and share what they find.
They collect this knowledge so that others can learn from the past. Not to rekindle the old Order, but to build something new… while not repeating whatever dire mistake the Ancient Order made.
In the end, the Windtracers hope to decipher why the Great Collapse happened. Through that, perhaps a way to prevent it from happening again.
- Lorekeeper Nicol Oldbuck, 1277 by Windtracer reckoning
Season 1: Dark Device of the Great Chasm (current)
Just joined in? Start Here: Chapter 1, Summer, 1277, deep in the rain forest of the Chivit Continent
Chapter 2, Five weeks of sail later. Amates 15, 1277. Windtracer Company Records Hall, City of Ishnanor. Planus Continent
Chapter 3, Amates 15, 1277. Later that afternoon. Underside District. City of Ishnanor. Planus Continent
Chapter 4, Amates 15, 1277. Salty Nightingale. Underside District on the marsh-side. Where the trouble really began…
Chapter 5, Amates 15, 1277. Tagrica Silk Square. Underside district, Ishnanor. Walking to a safer place because there was a lot of explaining to do…
Chapter 6, Amates 19, 1277. Somewhere on the Planus continent, aboard the Sheldrake, moving northeast of Ishnanor.
Chapter 7, Amates 19, 1277. Town of Banye, on the Planus continent, northeast of Ishnanor.
Chapter 8, Amates 19, 1277. Town of Banye, in the Buckhorn Boardinghouse. The only inn in town.
Chapter 9, Amates 19, 1277. Mid-afternoon. Town of Banye. Walking down the south side of town.
Chapter 10, Amates 20, 1277. Just past midnight. Town of Banye, aboard the Sheldrake, trying not to wake anyone up.
Windtracer Tales is a work of pure, unashamed fiction. In fact, it considers itself rather fancy and quite proud of itself. Names of characters, places, events, organizations and locations are all creations of the author’s imagination for this fictitious setting. Any resemblance to persons living, dead, or reanimated is coincidental. The opinions expressed are those of the characters and should not be confused with the author’s, since the characters and the author tend to disagree a lot.
Also! Windtracer Tales and Windtracer: Adventures in Awldor is written with much respect to Starfarertheta and their work on the other half of Awldor.