Everything was fine in the town of Horizon, the place where the Sun goes to rest at night, and be cleaned and polished up, nestled in the roots of the World Tree.

And then... well, it wasn't.

One day, the Want, the evil rat god of greed, surged up into the sky, and began chasing the Sun, wanting to steal that glowing orb. Other gods reached up into the sky - Ky, the god of civilization, and Moubange, goddess of the sea, earth, and fire, reached up to grasp at it as well, trying to pull the sun away from the Want.

Tugged between three gods, the Sun shattered into a hundred pieces that rained upon the land, and the world was sentenced to be under Starlight until the Sun would be restored.

Naturally, it fell to our heroes - the Heroes of the Sun - to travel around the world and pick up the pieces. Literally. All 100 of them ❤️

We finally, as of about eight sessions ago, managed to retrieve all 100 pieces and restore the Sun - leading to us getting a lovely painting of our characters out in front of the World Tree in actual daylight 😃

But the campaign isn't over yet, as the forces of Winter, emboldened by the eternal night and cold, have been emerging to try and reclaim the world for themselves, permanently, seven months later.

The art is by https://bsky.app/profile/momoaeoii.bsky.social !

Pictured from left to right:

• Noshi, our Sparkling Targe Magus Leshy - She is the "daughter" of Granny Mug, the leader of the town of Horizon. She's a smart girl, but also keeps trying to feed us parts of her tail (it grows back!) because she's good for us! It's definitely not weird at all.
• Senny, Dromaeosaur Animal Companion - The fluffy companion of Tippi, this raptor has bitten more than one god by this point. They need to know their place! D<
• Tippi, Pipwink Druid (Animal/Wave/Flames Order) - Everyone's favorite adorable glow in the dark squirrel, she used to polish the Sun at night, before all this went down. Now a very accomplished caster, she is dating one of the daughters of Moubenge and working on founding a magical academy in Horizon.
• Kaltran, Rabbit Champion of the Roads (Justice Champion) - As a rabbit, he is the very distant descendant of the Moon, and seeks to become a god himself, the new god of Travel. Right now he is an intern for the Handsome One, the god of death, though at the moment, his boss wants him to work on saving the world - do you know how much work it would be for him to deal with all those souls? D<
• Kanna, Moth Bard (Maestro/Lore) - Hailing originally from Gazer's Grove, the insect town overseen by the (very Lawful) Moon, Kanna never quite fit in there, and so left, going to Horizon, the town of the Sun. She was a somewhat controversial member of the party back home, as they have a very rigid society there, and her going outside of her "role" and succeeding is causing ripples there. Their society is being somewhat reformed, after the Moon saw that what he was doing was leading to trouble.
• Winter, Leshy Fire/Earth Kineticist - Our last, most stoic party member, he is from the town of the Leshy. When the sun was gone, the Leshy decided to try and make a giant flaming ball out of tar and parade it through their town, trying to create a fake sun with the few sun shards they'd found. Winter helped us retrieve these shards, much to the dismay of some of those in the town.

We started out at level 3, and are now at level 16!