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ONAN
The Shatterds Sourcebook I
A post-cataclysmic arcane-industrial world. Sixty-seven years after the Long Night. The Empire controls the north. The Shatterds controls itself. Something beneath the ocean floor is waking up.
17Playable Species
5Native Classes
6Live Threads
15Chapters
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ONAN
The Shatterds Sourcebook I
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The world that survived
the Pulse Wars.
Sixty-seven years ago, the wizard houses destroyed the ley line network that held the world together. What followed was the Long Night — three generations of darkness, mass death, and the specific kind of civilization that emerges when survival is the only available project.
What emerged is Onan: arcane-industrial, politically fractured, and sitting on top of a mystery that nobody in power wants examined closely. The Empire controls the north through refined Essa, the Church of Flame, and a god that isn't what anyone thinks it is.
The Shatterds is where the Empire's reach runs out.
- D&D 5e 2024 compatible — Creative Commons licensed
- Node-based campaign design — six concurrent live threads
- Five escalation tracks — four possible finales
- Hidden canon layer — the truth beneath the theology
The Setting
Ragged Hook
Threshold city. Seven levels cut into a cliff face. The Essa economy's frontier. Your starting point and first chapter.
The Threat
The Consortium
Two-year intake fraud. Systematic monopoly acquisition. One manifest check from exposure.
The Mystery
What Moves Below
Leviathan behavioral anomalies. Pre-Ignition ley architecture. Something beneath a specific coordinate is waking up.
The Truth
Solenne
The Church's god is not a god. The power is real. What it is — that's GM-only canon.
T0
Slagburn
Raw. Volatile. Unusable.
T1
Glow
Civilian grade. Daily life.
T2
Flare
Industrial & weapons grade.
T3
Pulse
Hunting grade. Primary yield.
T4
Core
Empire military. Church use.
T5
Godpulse
Godkiln only. Locked canon.
T6
Soulfire
Near-theoretical.
T7
Whitefire
Theoretical max. Locked canon.
T8
Nukan
Archive reference only.
T9
Godfire
The Pulse itself.
17 Playable Options
Species of Onan
Five lineages across six chapters. Every species built with a Species Points progression system, three-tier feature tree, and a specific place in the world's ecology.
Human Line
Dogan
Pack-hunters of the northern tundra. Blood Frenzy mechanics. Loyalty as survival architecture.
Human Line
Kavari
Mountain-born protectors. The species built to stand between allies and harm.
Human Line
Rukkan
Iron Path monastery tradition. The discipline as birthright.
Human Line
Ayari
Ambush predators. Patient. The stillness before impact.
Human Line
Tinnari
Essa-sensitive survivors. The Long Night shaped their biology permanently.
Elian Line
Anaki
High canopy architects. Grace and altitude as operational doctrine.
Elian Line
Nill
The Elian Line's scholars and shadow-runners. Memory as power.
Elian Line
Gree
Empathic resonance. The species that feels the room before entering it.
Orcan Line
Vorran
Forge-born. Gets more dangerous every time it's struck. Iron Doctrine embodied.
Orcan Line
Colossian
Geological force. Large size. Gravity as a weapon. The monument that walks.
Insectoid
Dracilian
Apex predator. Three-pillar tree: Carapace, Hunt, Silence. The hunt as theology.
Insectoid
Sil'kari
Web architect. Small. Silk as thought made physical. Wall Runner baseline.
Saurian
Serak
Designed by the Progenitors. The architects of this world's infrastructure. Vault archive access.
Construct
Mathari
Fractured Hive network intelligence. Hivebound or Unshackled. The Sundering never resolved.
Human Line
Human
The majority of the Empire. Adaptable. Present everywhere. Their god is not what they think it is.
Elian Line
Felloni
Forest-edge hunters. The Aethari border tradition. Predatory precision as philosophy.
Elian Line
Godan
Delta clans of the eastern Shatterds. Mirelands survivors. Essa-saturated ecology natives.
Five Native Classes + Standard Reskins
Classes of Onan
Five classes that couldn't exist in another setting. Plus every standard 5e class reflavoured for Onan's political and theological reality.
The Mage-Warrior
MageBlade
Essa resonance as biology. The Forma system. 15 Essa Draws. Three Orders — one of which the Church calls the Roni.
The Gun Priest
Hexslinger
Magic gunslinger. Hex Rounds. Called Shot. Essa Volley empties the pool in one action. The room was solved before they walked in.
The Engineer
Rigger
The suit is the class. Four Frames. 20 Systems. Suit Damage mechanic. No two Riggers look the same.
The Ghost
Patchrunner
Body as hardware. Ghost as operator. Three Identity Questions with mechanical consequences. Branching capstone at level 20.
Standard Reskins
+ 10 More
Fighter, Rogue, Monk, Paladin, Cleric, Ranger, Druid, Warlock, Wizard, Sorcerer — all reflavoured for Onan. Bard excluded.
Note — The Wizard and Sorcerer exist in Onan as whispered words. No schools. No books. No teachers. A practicing Wizard is proof that the Church of Flame's thirty-year book purification program failed.
Chapter 14 — Node-Based Campaign Design
The Six Threads
Six concurrent situations already in motion before the players arrive. The ones they ignore keep moving.
Thread 01
The Silenced Crew
Someone killed a butcher crew to bury what they found. The question is who — and whether what they found is still out there.
Port Stability
Thread 02
The Consortium Squeeze
The Refinery Consortium is moving toward total processing control. The fraud that's funding it is one manifest check away from exposure.
Guild Pressure
Thread 03
The Worker Engine
The work-to-rule is a real response to real conditions. It's also being quietly fueled by someone who benefits from the disruption.
Port Stability
Thread 04
The Church Eye
Flamewarden Solune has documented three people with natural magic manifestations and reported none of them. The Ember-Inquisitor is three weeks out.
Church Alarm
Thread 05
The Corsair Flag
The Compact flag on the carcass wasn't Blackwake's. Someone planted it to manufacture a confrontation. Blackwake knows. He doesn't know who.
Pirate Mobilization
Thread 06
What Moves Below
The ley echo anomalies are not isolated. Something beneath a specific coordinate is affecting Leviathan behavior at the species level.
Leviathan Activity
Chapter 15 — For the Game Master
Escalation Tracks & GM Tools
Five tracks. Four finales. The world moves whether the players are watching or not.
⬛ Escalation Track Status — Session Sample
Port Stability
Stage 3
Guild Pressure
Stage 2
Church Alarm
Stage 2
Pirate Mobilization
Stage 1
Leviathan Activity
Stage 4
Node-Based Design
Three-clue architecture for every truth. Every node points to at least two others. No dead ends.
Faction Turns
Check at every session end. The world advances without the players' attention. Especially without their attention.
Four Finales
The Refinery Revolt. The Harbor Breach. The Public Manifestation. The Convergence. Which one arrives depends entirely on what the players built toward.
Session Zero Framework
Seven structured questions. Character hooks into the living world before Session One begins.
Appendix A & B — Full Cast
NPCs of Ragged Hook
Every named NPC has a life, a want, and a fault line. Nobody is waiting to give you a quest.
Yara Tideshorn
Dock supervisor — Thread 1 anchor
Port Authority / Independent · CR 1
WantsTo find out what happened to the Pessel Orn crew without getting killed for asking.
FaultHas already been warned off once. She didn't stop. She's just quieter now.
Captain Blackwake
Bonewater Fleet — Thread 5 anchor
Free Corsair Compact · CR 7
WantsLeverage ready when the Consortium's contract acquisitions reach his Fleet's operations.
FaultRecruiting past what he needs. People who pay attention can see he's building for something specific.
Flamewarden Solune
Church of Flame warden — Thread 4 center
Church of Flame · CR 5 · Cleric 8
WantsTo protect three individuals and keep his cipher pages out of the Ember-Inquisitor's hands.
FaultFiled the anomaly report that triggered the Inquisitor's dispatch. Immediately regretted it.
Mira Voss
Ledger Back Room proprietor
Independent · CR 2
WantsSomething specific that changes based on what the current situation requires. Ask correctly.
FaultHelped the IEA inspector access records. Inspector was subsequently assaulted. Reconsidering her visibility.
Joss
Black Tithe collector — information hub
Black Tithe · CR 2
WantsTo keep the port economically viable long enough to collect the debts he's owed.
FaultKnows the port's stability is more fragile than it looks. Has chosen not to report this.
Red Marrox
Independent salvager — Thread 6 anchor
Independent · CR 4
WantsTo show someone what he's documented without being dismissed or used.
FaultHas the convergence coordinate map. Has been folding and unfolding it in port for a week.
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