In ancient ruins, mages of Veridia found it: a portal defying comprehension. Years passed. Knowledge gathered. Then after countless failed attempts, the gateway finally blazed to life.
Beyond lay wonders: valleys painted in colors unknown to Veridian eyes. Rivers that shimmered with strange light. And most astonishing—great lizard-beasts of impossible size and form.
Great land-dragons, their bodies adorned not with scales but feathered crests, roamed vast plains. Swift hunter-drakes moved in packs, talons flashing. Gentle giants with necks that touched clouds browsed on treetops. Horned sentinels with armored hides watched from forest edges.
The Council of Nations spoke as one: Veridia would claim a home in this realm they named Drakonia. The call echoed through kingdoms and villages. Builders to raise walls, scholars to unlock mysteries, warriors and hunters to face the unknown.
You answered. You were chosen. Now you stand at the threshold, past life fading behind you. What skills will you offer this wild frontier? What dreams—or secrets—travel with you through the veil?
Part of the Settlers of Drakonia botjam hosted by me on The Workshop discord server!
Holy shit, I finally hosted my own botjam and it WORKED!
Hello, it's Miyo! Welcome to Drakonia! You're the Commander leading 200+ settlers through a magical portal into a world where everything wants to eat you! It's like if your D&D party discovered Jurassic Park, and then realizing the portal that led them there is actually leaking magic into this primordial world and causing all kinds of magical evolutions to happen to the local flora and fauna!
I've been obsessed with the Monster Hunter series since I was a kid, so the theme of exploration, research, and trying to coexist with the evolving ecology that's trying to kill you was a huge inspiration for this setting.
This bot can work in two ways:
⚜️ Can be used as the Narrator bot for group chats with the settler bots made by the jam participants listed below!
⚜️ It also comes with its own greeting scenarios and be played as a standalone scenario card, featuring your two lovely elf advisors, Solaria and Lunethia, among the many other settlers in the lorebook!
Solaria and Lunethia: Your twin elven administrators and advisors! They basically handle your paperwork so you can focus on the "important" stuff. Nobody can tell them apart until they open their mouths, then Solaria's inexplicable cheerfulness and optimism becomes very obvious against Lunethia's deadpan kuudere!
For those interested in the lore, the background for the Old World (the one where ALL the settlers came from) is all in this rentry, as presented to the jam participants. Also, I was doing lore drops leading up to the deadline in the form of in-universe journal entries. Some of you might find these interesting!
Good luck not getting everyone eaten, Commander!
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