Death’s Reign, The World Left Behind, is a 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons Campaign Setting created by me, Alexander Driskill. This audio story is the introduction section written for the current conceptual draft.

The Audio Story starts with an excerpt from a wanderer’s journal, explaining, in very few words, the history and state of the world. The echo effect is meant to emphasize some aetherial feeling of the words.

The story then moves to a gruff man speaking around the fire, telling whoever would listen about how the world “ended”. No music was used in order to emphasize the moment, before using a pause between this part and the next part to emphasize a transition.

As the music swells the story continues, introducing other sound elements, such as birds while talking about the jungle, marching while explaining The Mourning Light’s takeover of Dorado, and a simple magical effect when bringing up the use of magick.

When talking about the “Denizens of Neraida” a chanting sound is used when describing the elves as a way to help visualize the native-ness of their situation. A howl is used when talking about the beasts, and a sound effect of swords clinking against each other is used to simulate the sound of spider-like, metal legs clinking against stone or metal surfaces.