Introducing the City

The City of Falling Leaves is a High Fantasy setting inspired by films and series like Castle in the Sky, Kiki's Delivery Service, and She-ra and the Princesses of Power. As well as games like Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild and Skyward Sword. But the world is also based in a sense of myth, exploration, and adventure! But it always comes back to this mysterious city, the wonders, and the monsters that wait there.

To give a brief history of this world, we go back thousands of years to a time of ancient empires and the hey day of the Old City that would one day become the ruins of Falling Leaves. Little is known about these empires save for one, the elves, whose long lives and carefully kept oral histories open a window into the past, showing a world of ancient wonders and dragons that once dominated the land, sea, and air. A time of great machines and towering cities, mechanical soldiers and flying machines...

...but one day, every dragon disappeared without a trace, and no one, not even the long stories of the elves, knows why. What they do remember is what was left behind: the fearsome children known as the Dragonkind, a sprawling clan of hundreds of different dragon-like creatures, but none ever as mighty, as wise, or as long lived as the dragons who left them behind.

The ancient empires of the world fell in only a few short years after, but no one knows why or how. There are many theories and ideas, but it remains a mystery to every historian, young and ancient alike. Every city, every fortress, every wonder of the ancient world fell into the dust. All except one...

...it is an ancient city that no one knows the full scale of, the ruins dominated by the winding, red leaved trees that have sprouted up everywhere. In the beginning the city was essentially a dungeon, a place of monsters, wilderness, in treasure.

But as adventurers explored its depths, some decided to stay.

It started off small, camps and hideaways, fed and grown by the trade brought by other adventurer's exploring the ever deeper parts of the city. It grew and grew, like the very trees that wind around the ancient stone, and became a city of its own. A city within the ruins of another.

Many of the people who come to stay have nowhere else to go. Your characters are in a similar spot.

So be prepared for both forest and ruins, changing seasons, ancient traps and treasures, and old lives long buried...

...welcome,

to the City of Falling Leaves.