Welcome to South District Ascala

Hello. C J here. Welcome, friends, to South District Ascala. This setting region, and this District of it, is my main focus for the next while. I’m still doing some cards for Carthia, my Ancient China setting, later this summer. Otherwise my two focuses are South District Ascala and the Wild Lords faction in Eternity. Find out more about the Wild Lords of Eternity in my YouTube video Wild Like the Wild Lords, under my channel C J Mcpherson.

I’ve managed through a lot of planning to reduce my list of product lines down to mostly three. We have Quantum, the Legend Setting’s official card game. The Starter Set for Quantum that comes bundled with the core rules details the food, magic culture and technology of Ascala. We have my video game slash animation software Dragon Engine. The starting area for its main storyline, Absolute, and its prologue is set in South District Ascala. Dragon Engine will be free and supported by my Patreon. I’ll set up the links to the Patreon here in a bit.

The Starter Set and Absolute are being done in tandem with each other. That leaves my new romance themed tabletop roleplaying game Heart and Fur World. You probably guessed this, but Heart and Fur World features a sample of the Legend Setting as its setting and I’ve chosen South District Ascala. This game will go into detail about every street, house, resident, cultural practice and magic style in that region and might be over 100 pages when it’s done.

Ascala is a fun setting to work with now that I’ve got the math part of it done. This region in particular is interesting. It’s the animalia ethnic region, contains a clothing optional District, has parkland within it, hosts block parties on certain full moons, has the oldest cafe in the city, is the centre of international shipping, has vast residential regions as old as the city, practices ancient nature mysticism, has lodgings for mercenaries, contains a number of corner grocery stores and has a spa. More soon.

C J Mcpherson

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