Starter Player Character — Ashen Dominion
Name: Kaelor Varr
Race: Human
Class (Suggested): Fighter (Battle Master), Barbarian (Path of the Zealot), or Warlock (Fiend—state-sanctioned)
Faction: Ashen Dominion
Appearance:
Kaelor bears soot-stained armor and ash-gray cloaks marked with the Dominion’s iron sigil. His skin is weathered and scarred, hair cropped short in military fashion. Faint burn marks line his arms—proof of both battlefield survival and ritual war magic.
Backstory:
Kaelor was raised in a border garrison where obedience meant survival. Trained from youth in formation combat and siege warfare, he learned that the Ashen Dominion values results over mercy. After witnessing his legion raze a Sylvanreach grove to secure a supply route, Kaelor began questioning whether conquest alone justifies the cost. Now deployed as an advance operative, he serves the Dominion—but quietly weighs loyalty against conscience in a world shaped by fire.
Important Characters of the Ashen Dominion
1. High Marshal Vorrek Ashhand
Race: Human
Class/Role: Fighter (Champion)
Faction Role: Supreme Commander of the Dominion Armies
Appearance & Backstory:
Vorrek is massive and imposing, his left hand permanently blackened by warfire—hence his title. A career soldier who rose through merit and brutality, he believes war is the only honest form of governance. Vorrek orchestrates campaigns against Sylvanreach, Frostvein Hold, and the Obsidian Satrapy’s rivals, seeking total dominance through fear and annihilation.
2. Magister-Pyre Selentha Korr
Race: Human
Class/Role: Wizard (Evocation)
Faction Role: Director of War Magic
Appearance & Backstory:
Selentha wears crimson-lined robes scorched at the hem, her eyes glowing faintly like coals. She pioneered the Dominion’s use of ritualized fire magic to devastate enemy lands. Raised in the academies of war-magic, Selentha sees forests, tundra, and cities alike as tactical resources—meant to be burned if they impede victory.
3. Legate Durn Volskar
Race: Half-Orc
Class/Role: Paladin (Oath of Conquest)
Faction Role: Enforcer of Imperial Will
Appearance & Backstory:
Durn’s armor is etched with kill-runes and Dominion scripture. Once a mercenary feared across Andorea, he was granted rank and purpose within the Ashen Dominion. He leads shock legions tasked with breaking resistance through terror, believing absolute rule prevents greater chaos.
4. Ash-Seer Maevrix
Race: Tiefling
Class/Role: Sorcerer (Pyromancy / Wildfire-themed)
Faction Role: Prophetic Weapon
Appearance & Backstory:
Maevrix’s horns are cracked and blackened, his skin glowing faintly from internal flame. Declared “chosen by fire” after surviving a city-leveling ritual, he is used as both oracle and living siege engine. Though loyal to the Dominion, Maevrix fears the flames whisper a fate beyond even their control.
5. Quartermaster-Prefect Helga Bronzewrit
Race: Dwarf
Class/Role: Artificer (Artillerist)
Faction Role: Logistics and Siege Architect
Appearance & Backstory:
Helga is stout, severe, and perpetually smudged with oil and ash. Recruited from conquered Ironhold territories, she designs engines of war and supply chains that allow the Dominion to burn without starving. Though pragmatic, Helga secretly despises waste—seeing the Dominion’s scorched-earth doctrine as inefficient cruelty.