The ongoing, interwoven meta-narratives of Bespoke Legends have entered season eight. This meta-metanarrative is told in as many as six simultaneous stories, with a variety of experiments in inter-campaign connections.

Season 8 marks our return to in person gaming, and features our heroes fighting off hordes of the despoiled, the abliving scions of the mysterious and dreaded Vivomancer. Rising in the power vacuum created by the downfall and redemption of Alhamara Gorvinath The Undying at the end of Season 3, the Vivomancer has been consolidating and centralizing the remains of Gorvinath’s fallen Necrarchy. The Vivomancer’s presence was first felt in the land of the living during the summer premiere of Season 6. The despoiled spent the next two years spreading through undetected the Underverse, infecting several afterlives before making their way back into the mortal realms in this year’s two pronged attack not on Dungeon School itself, but on her most valuable resource: the students.

Each campaign will have further details (and more of its dungeons) reposted soon. My recovery from cancer is finally reaching the point where I can start to rebuild.

Season 9
2021-2022 Campaigns

In which the many strands of years past at last begin to weave together. The Vivomancer has taken root in, and is working to revive, the artificial death god project abandoned by former villain Alhamara Gorvinahth. Having secured and repaired the school, and its various portals, it’s become clear that the Vivomancer must be hunted to his source. It’s also clear that stopping a creature of such immense underworld power will be nearly impossible without the help of Gorvinahth herself. Will our heroes be able to find Alhamara and convince her to help stop the creature that’s taken over the empire she abandoned? Will they be able to prevent the Vivomancer’s armies of despoiled soldiers from taking over the artificial death god? We’ll find out this year, on Dungeon School.

Season 8
2021-2022 Campaigns

In which the Vivomancer attacks Dungeon School indirectly, overwhelming outposts and protectorates to draw more students out into the open. With three of the school’s teachers still held captive after the events of the previous season, the rest have been left uniquely vulnerable. Ariadne the Black Hand and Deamon Chord have been overwhelmed and separated from their students. Will our heroes be able to escape the hoards of despoiled and sever the new links to Dungeon School, find and rescue the kidnapped teachers, and put and end to the Vivomancer’s infection? Find out this year on Dungeon School.

Season 7
2020-21 Campaigns

In hopes of improving Dungeon School’s security, her teachers fan out into the spirit body of the vast stardragon/spacecraft, The Lady’s Fate. Host to Dungeon School since the destruction of their former home in the Refugium, The Lady’s Fate spent much of Season 5 being revived and repaired. The last two of her chakra’s left unhealed led this season’s heroes well beyond the stardragon herself as they root out and expel despoiled invaders before closing the spirit doors to such depredations forever. Alas, several of their teachers including Sgt. Snuggles, Alomir, and Garland were taken prisoner, sealed away behind those very same doors.

Season 6
2019-20 Campaigns

The Vivomancer, terror of the Underverse and the scourge of Dungeon School, begins their attack on the vessel from many different angles. Starting with a co-ordinated attack on the planets embedded in the Refugium itself, the despoiled created links into Dungeon School proper by following students sent to stop their incursions. While all of the various attacks (campaigns 44-48, 51) were ultimately thwarted, each damaged allies and resources across the times and spaces the school is anchored to, allowing the real attack to begin (campaigns 49-50). Our heroes were barely able to repel the invaders and begin the process of healing the horrific damage the vessel-dragon suffered at the end of the previous season.

2019 Events

Summer 2019

Season 5
2018-19 Campaigns

With the headmistress missing since the destruction of the school’s primary physical location, three great powers step up to compete for the role. Fromer nemesis Alhamara Gorvinahth, exiled teacher Old Man Jasper, and failed rival Deamon Chord, each lead a group of students on parallel quests (campaigns 41-43) to determine who will decide Dungeon School’s future. Meanwhile, another band of heroes (from campaigns 34-35) boards The Lady’s Fate, stardragon corpse, vast spacecraft, and the remains of the missing headmistress. While they were able to purge or make friends with the various cosmic squatters that had set up shop on board, the ship was blown in half in the process. With all of Dungeon School’s resources tied up in healing and reorganizing, new threats have had time to take root and begin to grow. (Campaigns 36-38)

2018 Events

Summer 2018

Season 4:
2017-18 Campaigns

Gorvinahth the Undying was on the march, expanding rapidly into the seas and spirit worlds, while her foes tried desperately to band together and break into her domain by force. (campaign 23-26, 32-33) They were ultimately successful, managing to discover Alhamara’s twisted past down The Corpse Road, and ultimately convince her that her dreams of Necrarchy would never truly solve the universe’s problems. Her shocking redemption (students’ unexpected choice in campaign 29) would free hundreds of worlds from Necrarchy dominion, creating a power vacuum that would spin into conflict (campaigns 28-31) from the depths of the Underworlds to the outer reaches of the cosmos.

32. Castagos Rat Pack 6:
The Corpse Road

Summer 2017

2017 Events

23. Legendary Bachelor Party : The Balthudjian’s Doom

Season 3
2016-17 Campaigns

Having reached new heights of power in the Castagos, Refugium, and the outer cosmos, Alhamara Gorvinahth the Undying sets out to annihilate Dungeon School. She banished the Headmistress, exorcised the Queen of Monsters, and distracted Old Man Jasper before murdering Captain Martius and Bronicorn (campaigns 18-19). She then scattered or slew students and staff before setting loose Old Man Jasper’s multi-eyed form, though this time his power is too great for the students to stop, the only measure of their success: the number of students they could save as they escaped. The survivors set out into the wider world to find safety or take the fight back to Gorvinahth and her allies. (campaigns 12-17)

15. Legendary Campaign: The Weeping Wood

2016 Events

Season 2
2015-16 Campaigns

Across the Castagos and out into the wider world our heroes chase the hand of Gorvinahth and her armies. (campaign 3-5, 7, 10-11) Volcanic activity troubles the land for the first time in centuries. The Stone of Tears is seen to have emerged again in the ruins of SorAuster. In Illdndur, the Azure Ruin wakes. In the shadows cast by these events, Gorvinahth’s hand reaches through the spirit wilds to waken Etparekzhun, The Fortress That Walks, and free The Third Angel from its prison in The Stone of Tears. She dragged the Stone into the physical world in a wash of lava and thunder.