Tales From The Pythian present: Realm of Aethoria | OSE Actual Play–Episode 1 "Beneath Weeping Hill"

🕯️ Tales From The Pythian presents: THE REALM OF AETHORIA — An Old School Essentials Actual Play 📺 Episode 1: Beneath Weeping Hill 🎲 New Series • Every Other Wednesday • 7:30 PM EST | Live Stream begins 12/17 Welcome to Aethoria — a land of fading empires, haunted frontiers, forbidden vaults, and mysteries older than the gods. Frostveil’s first blizzard drove our band of would-be heroes into the frontier town of Hearthhollow, where a faded map and too many ales pushed them toward a ruin whispered of only in warnings: The Shattered Fist Monastery, sealed after a plague that did not let its dead stay dead. This episode begins as the company pushes deeper into the buried halls. Bandits cling to the upper level. Below lies something far older — a Crimson Miasma that bends corpses into mockeries of life and memory. The deeper they go, the more the monastery reveals: spectral monks, sealed reliquaries, ancient puzzles, hidden stairways, and horrors stirring behind collapsed stone. If the legends are true, a vault lies beneath it all — untouched, or corrupted beyond imagining. This is Old-School dungeon crawling the way it was meant to be: Dangerous, deliberate, atmospheric… and filled with just enough player chaos to keep the GM sweating. ⚔️ THE COMPANY OF HEARTHHOLLOW Featuring the full cast rotating between primary and secondary PCs: Silverquick Dirk — Human Fighter (Frontliner, table-flipper, trap-springer) Luviel — Elf (Sharp-eyed, calm in the dark, suspicious of everything) Hugh Finn — Human Acrobat (Climber, tumbler, professional problem-finder) Rakkis John — Human Fighter (Steel, scars, more bravery than wisdom) Eiraen — Half-Elf Ranger/Druid (Weather-listener, nature’s conscience) Rraul000 Arden — Human Cleric (Voice of order, shield against the miasma) Lominas — Elf Magic-User (Scholar of forbidden texts and bad omens) Angus McCleaud Unnamed Half-Orc Barbarian (Strength incarnate. Subtlety not included.) LordSydney Human Paladin (Justice, virtue, and a worrying lack of fear) 💀 Last Time in Aethoria… Bandits crushed. Spectral monks witnessed. Undead burned and blessed. A hidden stair revealed a deeper level where the Crimson Miasma breathes like a living thing. The party stands on the threshold of the monastery’s buried heart — statues watching, doors unopened, and a presence stirring beneath the stones. Tonight we descend. Nothing good waits below. But treasure might. And that’s enough. 🕓 New Episodes Every Other Wednesday at 7:30 PM EST 🎥 Subscribe & ring the bell so you don’t miss the descent. 💬 Join the comments — OSR war stories welcome. If you enjoy the series and want to support the channel, tips are never expected but always appreciated: 👉 https://streamelements.com/talesfromt... Game Assets by JameRPG Art, Battlemaps created in Dungeon Alchemist & Music & Sound by Monument Studios, scenario by The Tabletop Engineer