Qandela Obscura

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Qandela Obscura is an online Illuminated Worlds community campaign that began in December of 2023.

The campaign involves investigators of Candela Obscura seeks to procure phenomena of the Flare to research and protect the world from its dangers and magick, based on the TTRPG of the same name.

About

In the city of Newfaire, located in the Northern end of Noma on the continent of Osugbo, a revolution has just begun. Since the cut off from all other planes, the world has fallen into a mundane forgetfulness and in this quiet area of the continent that has always been simple and mostly human, a new danger awaits.

In the settling dust of the Great No Man’s war of 27 CR, three great powers has arisen and split Newfaire among themselves. The Ascendancy, the religion of this area, The Primacy, the national government, and the Periphery, a militant police force.

Now, in 34 CR, strange happenings have begun to take hold in Newfaire’s streets, the Scarlet Woods, and the Bridleborn mountains surrounding. A realm, completely cut off from all others and nearly forgotten what dangers they hold finds itself on the threshold of another plane, The Flare. The Flare has found itself brushing against Newfaire in thinning and releasing the aberrant and eldritch horrors that those who now occupy the city, have long forgotten.

It is up to a crack team of investigators, made up of every day professors, street magicians, occultists, and even lowly criminals to find, secure and protect the citizens and keep them none the wiser. They do so by working for a quaint organization, Qandela Obscura.

Player Characters

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Important NPCs

Dr. Imelda Francis

Former Lightkeeper returned to the rank, Imelda is a middle-aged doctor who specializes in the effects of the flare and phenomenon in the medical field. She is not always a ray of sunshine but she is always ready to lead and tend to those who are affected by bleed.

Jean Hawkeye

A brilliant prodigy alchemist, Jean Hawkeye survived the terrible Prince Naphan to become the engineer that Candela needs to assist them with devices and gadgets for investigators to use in the field. She lives at the Steam Townhouse and is partnered to Thomas MacCallum

The Knight of the Pyre

An ever vigilant and terrifying force, the Knights are sent out by the Pyre to eliminate dangerous harbingers of bleed and never fail to take out their targets, unless they wish to be removed from service and life. The newest knight is Jamie, formerly a Candela Investigator

Divine Herald Siobhan Fournier

An immigrant from Lacroix, Sister Fournier is a tender, kind, and meek servant of the Ascendancy. She was a countess in Lacroix and is their High Priestess, currently masquerading as a Cardinal of the Ascendancy in order to gain the title of Divine Herald. She set loose the Red Rash in South Soffit while shepherding there, to signal to her vampyre kin who would be best to feed on and spread their bloodline.

Thomas MacCallum

Coming from the Highlands of Noma, just on its northern border, comes the stocky soldier with a mean attitude and a soft heart. Once an investigator hellbent on protecting everyone through any means necessary, he now works at the various tea houses doing odd jobs from bussing to security. He lives in the Sidle with his current roommate Fives and has a particularly soft spot for Jean Hawkeye.

Detective Barlow

A detective of the Periphery forced into retirement through exposure to the Flare, Michael Barlow is the lightkeeper for the Nine Irons. He is currently investigating the cult known as the Developers and their hunt for perfection through some less than clean means.

Piers Corden

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Quinten Threadle

An older Lightkeeper that operates in Newfaire, Osubogo. He owns Threadle's Tailoring - his passion project that also doubles as a 4th Pharos access and a headquarters for a few circles within the city. He is a magician and serves as a Lightkeeper after his age and his wounds have caught up with him while working as an investigator for Candela. He is quite knowledgeable of people and a keen eye for sorting out rumor from fact - and is happy to be as helpful to the youngsters now carrying on the Candela legacy. He can be found during the day dressing and creating fashion for those from the very wealthy to those in the poorhouses with his assistants. He is constantly seen with his orange tabby cat, Marsh.

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The Story So Far

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House Rules

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MD	Pirates of Quelmar, Uncharted, OathWielders, Chronepsis Campaign, The Atla Campaign, Untitled Podcast Campaign, SotS Inc, The Underdungeon, Towson Tabletop, Sick of this Shit
Online	The Court of Bloom and Blade, Troubles in Alanya, Infernal Invasion, Aw Heckna!, Trial of Dreams, Qandela Obscura, Painted Sands of Pteris, Within the Wicked Wilds, Cirque de la Fey, Icewind Dale, Assassins of Q-Synara, Quelmarch, Deadly Diaspora, Reckondary Characters, Queljammer, Sparrow's Point, The Beggar's Bodega, Quelmar Goes to Space, Secondary Characters, The Realmtrotter's Guide to Zobeck, The Neighbours, For the Love of Gold
PA	The Court of Bloom and Blade, The Backhalls 2, Within the Wicked Wilds, Alien Colonial Marines, The Iron Sea, Teatime Adventures, Into the Greedy Green, The Backhalls, The Beggar's Bodega, The Brightwater Campaign, The Realmtrotter's Guide to Zobeck, Ancients Alive
International	The Cola Bears Saving the World, Queljammer
Twitch	Blood Wood, Depths of the Druma, Just the Q of Us, Once Upon a Town, CyberpunQ, Untitled Mafia Project, System Agnostic, First Class, The Rocklin Clinic Job, Not Strahd, Another One Bites the Dice, Rule Benders, Metagame, King for a Day, Operation Verdant Pyramid, Playtest Tuesday, ⮞Get Submodule, Tails of Quelmar, It Came From Kiston