Heroes of Yearth

Heroes of Yearth is the new major campaign from Dragon Friends. It’s Dungeon Mastered by Edan and Tom, and later Hing; set on a new world, “Yearth”; and introduces four six new player characters. It started in March 2024 with season one, also titled “Heroes of Yearth”, and continued with a second season, “Tyranny of Dragons”, from February 2025.

Setting

Yearth is a fantasy world which is “still” - it doesn’t revolve so its seasons are geographically fixed, resulting in lands which are stuck in one of the seasons. Each is dominated by one of the four “great nations”, including Ironguard, Hottenschwet and the city-state of Frostopolis.

Yearth was created by the goddess Celestia, who tried to destroy her own creation when its perfection was ruined by the natural processes of evolution and change. Champions from each of the nations, armed with the “four great weapons”, rose up against Celestia to save the world, imprisoning her in the interior of Yearth.

Synopsis

Season 1: The Heroes of Yearth

Periodically the nations send their greatest champions to compete in the friendly Solstice Games to commemorate the defeat of Celestia. Our heroes are not those champions, but their squires, who accompanied them to the games in Frostopolis. But the celebrations go very wrong when Celestia returns, seemingly killing the champions and scattering the great weapons in hiding places across Yearth. She seeks to fulfil her old plan of destroying the world.

The heroes escape and, receiving a prophecy with hints of the great weapons’ hiding places, travel across Yearth to retrieve them. They are eventually successful and defeat Celestia, though not without great sacrifice.

Season 2: Tyranny of Dragons

After “a bit over a year” of peace and prosperity, the Heroes of Yearth are reunited when they are invited to a soiree for the greatest heroes of the land by the new governor of Frostopolis, Tarbaw Nighthill. They meet two new friends, and these five are the only survivors when a blue dragon destroys the governor’s mansion. The governor also somehow survives, and sends the heroes on a quest to the town of Greenest.

This season is adapted from the official published campaign of the same name.

Player Characters

• Polly Waddle (Alex Lee) - a generally pleasant ducklin rogue wearing a bonnet, from the Kingdom of Spring. Her father Wayne Waddle was the Champion of Spring.
• Sunbelt Gongbonger (Michael Hing; season 1), a jacked and intense blue-skinned minotaur barbarian from the Summer Kingdom. He became squire to the dwarf Summer Champion, Callous Bunionson, who runs the mine where Sunbelt works.
• Charion Valariant (Simon Greiner), a short, very handsome human ranger (and sometimes bard) from Ironguard, a kingdom ruled by humans and elves in the Autumn Lands. He was squire to the elf champion Saffron Ironbark.
• Dinner Munchabout (Demi Lardner), a tall human “pity wizard” from the Winter Kingdom of Frostopolis who looks exactly like John Cusack from the film Cell. He served Lexicon the Magnificent, Lord and Champion of Frostopolis.
• Arphan Bortnam (Edan Lacey; season 2), a purple, buff aasimar paladin with glowing eyes. He’s on an extended quest of revenge against the unknown killer(s) who murdered his family (and his fish). His origins are unknown.
• Ernie Sweetwater (Tom Cardy; season 2), a lute-playing goliath bard with long red hair. He was saved from crazed fans by Arphan and has followed him ever since to chronicle his heroism.

Heroes of Yearth Seasons
Heroes of Yearth (1) · Tyranny of Dragons (2)