Pathfinder Lore- The First World

[@SirVertigo]

Will any of you seek out the First World? Or have you ever made any characters that are fey touched? Let me know any First World stories you may have!

[@zenvariety9383]

Not a Pathfinder player yet, but one of the characters I would like to create would be an elf bard who only cares about becoming a famous musician. Other than that I would love to play an orc giant instinct barbarian and a human geniekin magus who has amnesia but gets flashes of his previous life via dreams and nightmares.

[@enderthedarklord9865]

As a gm of i think now 4 groups I will definitly throw someone into the First world (on accident or on purpose) Especially in my first self written campaign (in which my players will venture around golarion by ship)

[@SirVertigo]

@@enderthedarklord9865 you'll have to let me know how that turns out!

[@enderthedarklord9865]

Sure thing

[@presidenttogekiss635]

I´m currently playing Wotr as a Phantasmal Mage gnome (which are the feyest of gnomes, which are already feyish), and I absolutely love it.

[@Toxoambcames]

God I hope this channel grows much more!!

[@downtostandup]

I see what you did there

[@presidenttogekiss635]

My headcanon is that Aroden was killed, not by Asmodeus, or Tar-Baphon, or any of the usual suspects, but by the Eldest of the First World. Why? Because Aroden was the god of prophecy. The living incarnation of everything the fey hate the most: fate, mortality, and law. So they tricked into a trap and killed him, and doing so destroyed the prophecies that they hated to so much (while also playing a fantastic Plot Twist to all the universe, which is a very fey thing to do).

[@presidenttogekiss635]

I´d like to think that, since the first world is so fluid, the ability to produce working magic is not so much random, as it is depended on the willpower of the individual. Like, if I say, with all my conviction "This FIREBALL WILL BE MAXIMIZED", it might not work on the Material Plane, but it might work on the First World.

[@samuellvilasboas5873]

I'm waiting for more videos. Your videos are awesome!! I love pathfinder lore but I can't find the whole history on internet. This series is the best that I've found

[@SirVertigo]

Thank you very much, you have no idea how big of a compliment that is! I'm still pretty new so I don't have a ton of content out but I'm working on it daily!

[@natanoj16]

Great video with amazing depths. My only feedforward here is to work on sound levels, as it felt like the sound levels changed high and low from time to time As you make more videos this problem will most likely be gone as you make more. I hope you will keep up the good work here ^^

[@SirVertigo]

Yea I'm actually not sure what the issue was there. I recorded all in one sitting, same dm distance from the mic, sound levels showing same dB range but despite tweaking it was still noticeable. Thank you for the input though, I appreciate it all!

[@johnm9910]

Great vid. Just getting into pathfinder and love the lore as much as dnd’s

[@lumpybreakfast]

Awesome video! Love that Travolta bit

[@mattsullivan2458]

I loved how the first world was portrayed in a certain Pathfinder videogame

[@SirVertigo]

I really need to play a certain Pathfinder Videogame. I'm thinking of buying the game to play during a live stream sometime soon.

[@mattsullivan2458]

@@SirVertigo it's a great game, with a cool twist on the original adventure path, but be prepared, because it can take a long time to complete

[@ashleyrodberg7785]

I enjoy the information your feeding us. It has enriched my personal table Thanks keep it up

[@johnliller3032]

I am playing a F half elf Fighter/Rouge in the Rise of the Runelords that was raised in the Palkar Forest of Druma. The GM has allowed the area of forest she grew up in to be under the court of a rogue Nymph queen that is protecting a first world portal that leads to the unstable outer areas of the dimension. The fey that live there are all refugees and when she was young, helped the queen kill a green dragon that had developed a taste for fey flesh and was seeking to pass through the portal. Her human mother is a descendant of the Macridi people that follow the traditions of the Speakers of the Pale that reside on a farm in a belt of the forest edge and still fulfill their purpose as intermediaries for the fey and act as a buffer zone. Her elven father is from Kyonen and is a forlorn that has been tasked by the returning elves with retrieving the artefacts that were 'stolen' during the exodus from the Earthfall. The returning elves blamed them thus requiring the items to be retrieved to reclaim their 'honor'. During one of his adventures, he sought the favor of the Palkar nymph queen to aid his parties quest. Taking rest at a farm in the edge of the forest, he met a human female and fell in love (I take this as a mild charm effect for the mother having grown up in the forest). Having received the favor at the cost of making a promise to the queen and completing his quest, he returned to the farm and married the human female. Fast forward 10 years and my character, 6yo, is drawn to a clamor in the forest and stumbles on a struggle between the nymph queen and her allies battling an old green dragon seeking to enter a back door to the first world to prey on fey for which it had developed a taste. Finding the defenders battered and bloody with so many of her friends lying dead at the dragon's hand and only the queen standing between the dragon and the hidden grove, she threw a rock at the dragon and struck it about the head. With the dragon distracted, the queen thrust her sword into the breast of the beast and killed it. Turns out that the promise made to the queen by her father was to return to the woman on the farm and marry her and continue the lineage of allies for the queen. She was then raised, at the nymph queen's bidding to the father, as an adventurer to aid the queen in the realms beyond her forest. Fast forward 30 years and her mother dies, her father has taken ill due to extreme sadness at losing his love and dies of a broken heart. Before his passing, he gives her a letter from one of his old adventuring mates who now lives in Sandpoint and wishes to gift him a horse to repay a past debt. Before leaving the forest, the queen gifts her with a rune that allows her to appear as she was when she took her first steps outside the forest so that she will never forget that questing spirit within her. This is only to act as a mechanic so that no matter what she wears or wields she will always look the same so that I don't feel like I have the need to update my miniature to depict my character as on the character sheet. I also plan on taking levels of sorcerer with the fey bloodline and eventually prestige class as an Arcane Trixter. I also want to see if the GM will allow me to take the Friend of the Fey trait when I take the Additional Traits feat to take the Multi Class Mastery trait. Friend of the Fey requires you to be from the Linnorm Kingdom but it doesn't give you anything game breaking and it totally fits my character and her background. He'd probably let me do it. I think it would be cool if I could search the forests near our quest destinations to see if there are any fey that could give me info on the place/people. If this character survives long enough she is gonna be a total badass.

[@SirVertigo]

I love detailed backstories like this, it makes me miss playing the game so bad though lol

[@patrickolivares4128]

Heya, thank you so much for this. was very much needing some info on the First World, subbed and thumbs!

[@aloseman]

Lore knight returns!

[@SirVertigo]

As weekly as I can possibly manage!

[@milanboeren5856]

Absolutely loved it, especially the little jokes and animations. They really spice up just looking at art. Keep it up bud!

[@SirVertigo]

Thanks a lot! It's nice to hear that there appreciated lol.

[@linus4d1]

Another great lore video!

[@lumpybreakfast]

I really like the digital avatar you have now! Perfect for being more personable while also maintaining some privacy. I might suggest to try hard-cutting instead of dissolve/fade between poses. I've seen it in other media, and it tends to tricking you into viewing it like animation. Just a thought! Keep up the great work, Vertigo!

[@Rajsa]

Go big man. Love your content so much! Keep up the awesome work!

[@lightblckknight]

awesome over view! This is why we need wild magic tables! XD

[@londonmatthews9565]

Standard fantasy bits *shows barrel of ale*

[@SirVertigo]

Yea, deitys, magic and ale, all the needed components of a fantasy world lol

[@MalandrosNyclo]

This was great. ^_^ Would you ever consider doing a video about the war between Nex and Geb and the formation of the Mana Wastes? Another really interesting one would be the History of the Numeria region. I find your videos very interesting. My group has been on break because of covid but I'm excited to DM again soon.

[@SirVertigo]

I plan to get to every bit of lore I possibly can, from the mini events to the large scale ones, so yea the Geb-Nex war is a topic, and numeria is also one of my favorite regions so it will definetly get a video! Atm, I'm doing the planes one week, races the next, so once I finish the planes I am eithe tackling deities or nations again, it just depends on what the viewers want next!

[@elsewhereprince3969]

“These actions are taken by a trained Pathfinder Society adventure. Please do not enter any random portals without a trained professional.” “Sir Vertigo is not responsible for any low level adventurers who ignore this warning.”

[@SirVertigo]

I should start adding Disclaimers like that to more of my videos lol.

[@CommissarMitch]

So basically The Warp only less evil. Cool

[@GoldSabre]

Yo this is excellent, please make more

[@Minandreas213]

I love the First World. Great job with this video.

[@SirVertigo]

Hey, thanks!

[@Nelle999]

Another great video thanks Man

[@sammonti9440]

Beautiful vids man!

[@michaelhixson6939]

Just started a First World Homebrew, implemented more Dresden aspects to the Faerie. They're mission is to recapture a magic tower, to defeat the gaurdians, theyll have to get their feet muddy trekking through the First World, completing quests and making pacts with strange creatures.

[@motorsportbimmer]

Great vid, man. Keep the workin. Where can I found this diagram @0:22 ?

[@SirVertigo]

I just got told the source just a few days ago luckily, and its: www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder_RPG/comments/8bofk9/map_to_the_planes_revised

[@motorsportbimmer]

@@SirVertigo thank you, Sir.

[@juliotrindade3398]

great video

[@SirVertigo]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@matvalade]

1:35 Whoa where is this artwork from?

[@SirVertigo]

I found it on the Fantasy Landscapes subreddit, here's the link! bit.ly/3tqncJt

[@theomnissiah-9120]

The First World *Sigh* Grabs cold iron

[@aloseman]

Plot hooks updated!

[@jamesharrison142]

Where is the cosmology picture from? I really liked it (around 3 min)

[@SirVertigo]

I actually got that off of Pintrest I think? But, here is an uploaded version I made if you want it! imgur.com/a/jfSR1bH

[@jamesharrison142]

@@SirVertigo Wow, Thanks! ❤️

[@melodyhynes9904]

Also will you be reviewing the storylines of the Adventure paths? As they now have canon endings in 2e

[@SirVertigo]

I do plan to, but there a bit complicated. I'm toying with formats for them and what info to cover but its also a ton of info to sort through so I know the stories back and forth you know?

[@hartman11cc]

You had me until about 3 minutes in. Once you got into the cycle of death my brain exploded and I no longer wanted to learn about this from you. :(

[@SirVertigo]

Oh, thats not the reaction I was hoping for! Was it explained badly or unclearly?

[@heinrichwurstwatten7553]

Stupid question: Why do spells that send beings like Devils back to their home plane not work on fey creatures? Wouldn't it have to send them back to the first World as well?

[@SirVertigo]

Well, dismissal and banishment appear to work on fey? It just sends any extraplanar entity back to its native plane, so fey back to the first world :)

[@melodyhynes9904]

The first world is the positive version of the shadow plane which is the bleaching of the first world correct?

[@SirVertigo]

Well as far as I am aware, the positive and negative plains were in place before the first world was created and the gods dipped into the positive plane to create the lifeforms but they tried to stay away from the shadow plane to avoid death being an issue so there experiments wouldn't stop? But I may be wrong, that's how I took it anyways?

[@wingbit3973]

Is this lore the the same for pathfinder 2e?

[@SirVertigo]

It sure is, all 2e lore is simply 10 years after 1e, so you may have some new rulers or a new kingdom that's popped up but all the planes and stuff are the same!

[@wingbit3973]

@@SirVertigo thanks

[@SirVertigo]

@@wingbit3973 no problem! All of my vids are updated to 2e, because that's what I'm playing now a days, but I do plan on marking 1e and 2e info :)

[@CobaltContrast]

Played a 2 year campaign about all of this and I'm surprised no one ever figure it out. I'm only feeling the need to say something because I noticed I stole a ton of art from this video (this game happened a few years before this video).

[@SirVertigo]

Figure what out in particular?

[@CobaltContrast]

@@SirVertigo I never told them what world they were on.

[@SirVertigo]

@@CobaltContrast ahh! That explains it lol

[@CobaltContrast]

@Sir Vertigo yeah they were all "dead" so to speak and the game had a mechanic where they would reincarnate with all their past memories, ie. the player. Their souls forever tied to the plane that was sundered.

[@SirVertigo]

@@CobaltContrast Love twists like that!