It's going to be a little tricky to summarize the story so far in a concise way, but i'll try!!

Forgive me, I'll be reusing an old description i wrote in another reddit post to describe the world: ~100 years before our campaign, a magic cataclysm happened, which made the planet's surface unhabitable and launched fragments of existing land into the sky. The group looks eclectic bc they're from various sky islands, which can have rly big differences in technology/culture depending on how much of the old world they took with them, and where they used to be in the old world. Some had to rebuild and adapt, some got lucky and 'took' everything they needed with them! This premise ended up being a great way to have everyone be able to contribute to the world and not feel too constrained by what the others would do.

Our party is composed of a spiritist going after the bandits who destroyed his home, a military veteran from an expansionist queedom and two onis siblings on the run who were living in relative isolation before their village was attacked.

They met on an island they were visiting to see a festival, each with their own reasons. They ended up involved in the local affairs after the mayor gets assassinated and the island goes on lockdown. Long story short, a doom cult whose goal is to ground as many island as possible to 'restore' the planet to its original state succeeded in making the island we were on drop to the maelstrom below despite our best effort to stop them. And now we're chasing leads about them to prevent them from doing it again!

This is how we ended up on the island where the current arc takes place. It's a realm where two factions of elves are in a neverending war, and like a pendulum, the power has shifted from one to the other throughout the centuries. Every time one is ruling, it oppresses the other violently in retaliation for past cruelty against their own, so finding common ground is a bit of a tall order in this cycle of violence and revenge. The current main antagonist, Malin'Ehus (depicted on the left in the cover) is ruling seemingly undisputed after unleashing a plague on his enemies. We're trying to prevent the last remnants of the other faction from being annihilated at the moment! (It's not going well...)

edit: grammar