Windtracer Tales Introduction and Season List

An introduction to the Windtracer Tales and the adventures of the Windtracer Company

Concerning History

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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. Its 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/Book 1: Dark Device of the Great Chasm

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Lost secrets, ruthless rivals, and a relic that could unmake the world...

Explorer and Windtracer Tela Kioni thought she was chasing old myths. Then a long-lost journal revealed the path to a forgotten relic of the Ancient Order. One buried deep in the nightmare depths of the Great Chasm.

But she’s not the only one on the trail.

A brutal mercenary guild called the Crimson Company will stop at nothing to seize the artifact for their enigmatic backer. A mysterious man obsessed with reviving the Ancient Order’s darkest legacy.

The deeper Tela goes, the more she realizes the relic may be far more dangerous than anyone guessed. Because the true cost of the past?
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It’s sometimes paid in blood.

Season/Book 2: Kingdom of the Slithering Maze

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Always bet on a Windtracer when a deadly relic is on the line…

When an old debt calls in Windtracer Tela Kioni, she turns to her companions Kiyosi Valchar and Mikasi Zenia for a little help. They quickly find themselves in the fractured kingdom of Jata, chasing a sacred relic thought lost to history. A device that nearly toppled the world.

But they’re not the only ones hunting it.

If claimed by the wrong hands, that relic could reignite ancient war machines and plunge Jata into conquest and chaos. Caught between zealots, treacherous nobles, and cutthroat thieves, Tela must find out who to trust. Not to mention whoever had the bright idea to plan mass murder on a scale the world hasn’t seen in centuries.

All while she has to keep her friends alive… and figure out who the “right hands” really are.

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.