Campaign Overview

The Radiant Citadel is a celestial harbor tethered to the Ethereal Plane, carved from an ancient fossil and powered by the Auroral Diamond. It stabilizes life-giving magic, fuels healing, and serves as a beacon for travelers lost in the Ethereal. Your party is drawn into courtly intrigue, planar peril, and a race to safeguard a city that is itself a living artifact.

Setting

Explore the Citadel’s fossil corridors—Lantern Court, Gardens of Dawn, Spires of Echo, and the Archivists’ Keep—where water runs true, crops grow with unnatural vigor, and healing spells surge through those within the Diamond’s halo. Ethereal pockets drift nearby, leaking echoes of forgotten prayers and dangerous phantoms.

The Main Quest

Protect the Auroral Diamond from a splinter faction known as the Veiled Conduit who seek to fracture its lattice and siphon healing energy to power a ritual that would birth a new, malignant vitality on the Ethereal Plane. To do so, the party must locate three Heart Shards, repair fractures in the Diamond, and renegotiate an ancient pact between the Citadel and the Ethereal, all while fending off rival factions and navigating political factions within the Citadel itself.

Side Quest: Echoes in the Ethereal

A caravan of refugees arrives, each bearing odd injuries and memories not their own. Investigate their stories in the Aerie of Whispers and the Gardens of Dawn to uncover an Ethereal Echo that can be bound to healings or unleashed as a weapon. A renegade archivist may hold a map to a hidden chamber where a fourth shard lies guarded by a trapped elder spirit.

Central Events & Triggers

• A festival ripple triggers a crack in the Auroral Diamond, weakening the Citadel’s blessing.


• Ethereal storms spill through the wards, bringing hostile entities and illusions.


• The Veiled Conduit activates a ritual circle beneath the fossil’s core, threatening to rewrite the Citadel’s purpose.

Hooks & Progression

Dream messages from a mysterious benefactor; refugees seeking safe harbor; a missing archivist with a map. As shards are found and fractures mended, factions tilt—some to defend the Diamond, others to claim its life-forces for themselves.

Objectives & Endgame

1) Stabilize the Auroral Diamond and seal rifts.
2) Foil the Veiled Conduit’s ritual and reforge the Diamond’s lattice.
3) Secure enduring peace for the Citadel and its Ethereal covenants.

Rewards

Unique magical items tied to healing and warding, such as the Lattice of Kinship (enhances spell efficiency within the Citadel) and the Auroral Shard (temporary power boosts for healing spells), plus renown, access to restricted districts, and safe passage for travelers between the Material and Ethereal Planes.