Craft a bright new world, in Ayun Sovos!

Ayun Sovos

Created by

Polina "Line" Arteev
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Scope

The motivation behind building Ayun Sovos

Ayun Sovos is my ultimate mental health project, built to foster my joy of worldbuilding and creating through bright themes and loose guidelines, in a departure from my first world's darker and more complicated systems and themes.

The goal of the project

I would love to take the adventurous themes of Ayun Sovos and translate them into a solo RPG or even small games in the future!

Ayun Sovos's Unique Selling point

The core concept for Ayun Sovos is a land of creaturefolk building a bright new world together, focusing on the partnerships between artisans and the adventurers who bravely seek and gather the materials they require, giving the world a strong focus on items and their uses.

Theme

Genre

Ayun Sovos is a high fantasy sword & sorcery setting, with some allowance for sci-fi elements to pop in and shine here and there.

Reader Experience

This setting is a bright one, where darkness and chaos are rare and identifiable evils that heroes are always ready to rise up to the task of defeating.

Reader Tone

The world is a pleasant and vibrant place to live in, and I would classify Ayun Sovos as being a noblebright setting, where things are generally safe and happy, and evils are major dramas to be tackled by heroes of the world.

Recurring Themes

  1. Crafting objects of all kinds for your adventure
  2. Collecting reagents for other artisans to aid you
  3. Adventuring and discovering new materials and crafts

Character Agency

Adventurers in Ayun Sovos have the power to do anything that they put their crafty minds to, defeating evils great and small with the help of their best artisans.

Focus

Way of the Crafter — Ayun Sovos is all about the crafters and artisans of the world, and the things they create. Crafting recipes are treasures in this world, and can open up endless possibilities for brand new adventures. Knowledge is power!
Building Relationships — You'll encounter many denizens of the world in your adventures, and they'll make for some excellent friends! The connections adventurers make with denizens of the world will afford them more opportunities for adventure, and access to more powerful gear.
Resourceful Adventuring — Even the greatest adventurers can't plan for every scenario in the book. Adventurers must learn survival and crafting skills to fill in the gaps in their adventuring packs, so that they can continue on, even when they've run out of town supplies.

Drama

Mysterious Degradation of Resources — "Huh, the things I'm gathering lately just haven't been as high quality as they used to be. What's up with that?"
Kingdom of Factories — "The neighboring kingdom just doesn't seem to value the art of hand-crafted work the way we do."
Aggressive Wildlife — "These missions should be a lot easier, but lately the wildlife has been so aggressive that our gear breaks way sooner than we're used to!"
Rival Adventurers — "I can't believe they tricked us! They got here first and blocked off the shortcut home... this sucks!"
Black Market Drama — "All of these poachers are making it so much harder for us adventurers to go out and gather what we need by hand! But there's still no way I'm spending THAT much to go buy stuff off the market."
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Strixxline — Polina Arteev
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You may know me as Line, Strixxline, Polina, Polly, but you more likely know me as the worldbuilder behind Malkora — and now Ayun Sovos! I'm an illustrator and designer on top of being a worldbuilder, so I encourage you to follow me on social media to get more updates and see my work beyond WorldAnvil!
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