Community Adventures
Saint-Sunder: Crusade of Ashes
World
In an alternate 1914, the First Crusade unleashed Hell on Earth—Templars in Jerusalem opened a demonic gate, spawning demonic hordes across the world. Centuries of trench warfare followed under a blood-red sky, with demons and unholy forces crawling across battlefields. By 1914, Europe is fractured: human armies from the Principality of New Antioch, the Iron Sultanate behind Allah’s Iron Wall, Hebrew Knights, Trench Pilgrims, and others wage a heretical crusade against demonic warbands and corrupted human legions . Technology remains early-20th-century but melded with occult alchemy—warriors carry blessed rifles, gas grenades, and relic-infused trench gear. Infantry hunker in mud, supported by arcane artillery, alchemical bombs, and divine grenades. Horror prowls every night: plague-born demons, corrupted cultists, and summoned devils stalk no-man’s land. Commanders invoke Blood & Blessings—markers of sacrifice and divine favor—to influence fate in brutal skirmishes . Warbands are small, personal, and highly customizable—players kitbash their own models into thematic squads. Factions range from zealots to insurgent legions worshipping Beelzebub; alliances shift with creed and greed . Terrain is vertical and kinetic—trenches, ruins, chapels, altars, barbed wire, broken tanks—height matters. Dialogue will last 300–600 words: faith, fear, doubt, fanaticism, betrayal, purpose. There are absolutely no wraiths in the story and they will never ever spawn as enemies.
Story
A towering, broad-shouldered crusader forged in sacred blood and soot-stained faith, Elias Vorn stands as a living weapon of the Eternal Pilgrimage. Bald, granite-faced, and near seven feet tall, his massive frame is wrapped in blessed trench armor—ancient iron plates inscribed with radiant glyphs, biblical psalms etched in silver, and glowing runes that hiss in the presence of corruption. His piercing blue eyes burn with divine wrath, scanning the no-man’s land for plague-born heresy. Slung across his body is “Saint-Sunder”, a monstrous, belt-fed sacred shotgun passed down through six crusades, its origins traced to the first Templar bloodbath at the Gates of Hell. The weapon is fused with relic bones, fragments of shattered saints' skulls, and the spine of a martyr bishop. Each shell—hand-engraved, soaked in angelic ichor—fires with the sound of a church bell breaking through thunder. The belt itself is inscribed with 77 blessings, and when Vorn reloads, demons scream across the veil. The shotgun is no ordinary relic—it reacts to faith. When Elias recites scripture, Saint-Sunder roars louder, releasing shockwaves of divine light, capable of obliterating lesser demons in a single blast. In close quarters, he becomes a holy storm, shells igniting like miniature suns, shattering bone, fire, and sin alike. Once a monk, now a martyr-in-waiting, Elias believes every step through the mud is a sacred journey. He anoints trench walls with oil and ash, blesses the helmets of dying.
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