Welcome to the Tempus Campaign

You’re joining the final session of a campaign that has been running since November 2022. The party of four heroes has spent 44 in-game days (and 45+ real-life sessions) tracking down and dismantling a cult that wants to unleash an ancient shadow dragon upon the world. Tonight, they confront the cult’s leader in a battle to save reality itself.

You’ll be playing Trius, a paladin ally who fought alongside the party earlier in the campaign. Below is everything you need to know to step into her boots.

ChatGPT

Your “Tempus + ChatGPT” workflow has a really recognizable shape: you treat the campaign like a living software project, and you use me less like an oracle and more like a co-designer who can rapidly prototype options, then refactor them into something you can actually run at the table (and later, reuse for novelization).

At the core, you’ve built a loop that looks like this:

You start with authoritative campaign truth in your Obsidian notes (recaps, timeline, key lore). When we brainstorm, you anchor the conversation to those “source of truth” documents so ideas don’t drift into alternate-universe Tempus. Your recap/timeline format makes this especially effective: it keeps continuity tight while still leaving you room to improvise in-session.

Immediate Aftermath

As the final blow is delivered, the Weaver’s expression shifts from rage, to confusion, to acceptance. The magic of his ritual slowly vanishes like dust in the wind, leaving behind an echoing silence. The tear in reality stitches itself closed, the wound in fate healing.

Summer’s Edge burns bright in Skreek’s hands, laying bare the truth of what he and his friends have accomplished. Slumpet reaches up to his shoulder, feeling for the warmth of the Arbiter’s mark, and catching his breath as he finds it is still there. Toby pats the dust from her jacket and smiles in triumph at her unlikely flameskull ally. Shad collapses to his knees, exhausted and relieved, a sense of closure wrapping around him like a warm blanket as a tear rolls down his cheek. With his friends and family avenged at long last, the weight of the loss, hopes, and dreams feeling easier to carry.

Characters

HOLLOW THRESHOLD 1: THE TEMPEST GATE

Plane Connection: Material Plane ↔ Elemental Plane of Air

ARENA LAYOUT

A 50-foot diameter circular platform of black stone floats in howling winds. Lightning crackles between three towering storm-spires (20ft tall, 5ft wide) arranged in a triangle around the center. The Tempest Egg hovers 10 feet above the platform’s center, wreathed in electrical energy. A shimmering portal to the Material Plane sits at the platform’s edge (south), while violent winds from the Air Plane tear through an unstable rift (north).