Anagram D&D

Anagram D&D was the "unofficial" name of the Anaverse's first campaign, of which the ongoing canon is based upon. It was a D&D 4th Edition campaign that began at level 4 and over the course of seven months, concluded at level 26.

See also: Penumbra

Vandorum, Twilight
The first arc of the campaign saw the original party hired by Rael, one of the three original mages. Their mission was to stop an uprising by Rael's elite but traitorous underlings known as "The Furies". The party was reluctant to slay their marks, having grown distrustful of their employer from the very beginning. The land known as "Vandorum" was the central focus of this story arc.

Fake Universe
The second arc of the campaign centered around the party's imprisonment by Rael within a fake universe, contained within a pocket dimension. It was frequently used as the site of training exercises for Rael's troops, as death inside this fake Universe was only temporary, time inside would loop indefinitely leaving outsiders within it their memories of the experience with none of the injury associated with dangerous training exercises.

The party managed to escape by completing their "mission" within the universe, slaying the simulated version of Rael in his youth, prior to the corruption that lead him to become who he was in the present time.

Return to Twilight, the fall of Rael
The third arc of the campaign. The party, having escaped the Fake Universe, would gather many powerful allies and grow in size from a band of five to a small, elite army. Eventually they obtained a powerful artifact known as the "Vegnatol", a spellbook capable of performing any ritual, and in a fraction of the time needed. With this in hand the party became known as the "New World Outlaws" and raided Omna's territory, claiming another powerful artifact known as the "Godshead", a gem containing the remnants of souls of the former gods predating the Twilight. With these, they would turn back time, uncreating the Twilight, in an effort to restore the world to the way it once was and simultaneously removing Rael from power.

The birth of "Penumbra"
When the party turned back time, they did not know that one among them, Asabew, had arrived many centuries priort to them. Asabew had intended to betray the party all along, and use her superior Rael-granted magic to overthrow the hierchy of the past, but was unsuccesful, having unfortunately appeared during an event known as the "Great Flayer War". The horrifically powerful mindflayers, who in history had nearly conquered the world, ravaged Asabew's mind and left her a shell of her former self.

When the party finally appeared in history, the war had long since been over, but history had been changed already. Now, mindflayers continued to plague the world centuries past their fated extinction, and the balance of the world's nations was at risk. Furthermore, the party soon learned that many of Rael's followers had managed to find a way into history. Though Rael himself was no more, his cultists would attempt to resurrect him, and it quickly became apparent that the party's work to stop Rael was not yet done.

Furthermore, the party's meddling indirectly lead to the unearthing of a powerful Raelite weapon known as "The Devourer". Designed as the ultimate means to end the world should Rael not be the one to rule it, The Devourer was released by mistake upon its discovery beneath the surface of the mainland. The Devourer was, in fact, a sentient creature capable of erasing the world itself, along with the memories of anything it had eaten. Perhaps the most powerful of The Devourer's capabilities was the fact that no one could think of it, any attempts to alert others of the destruction it wrought would simply lead to confusion and bewilderment before being dismissed. Only those outside the bounds of reality, as well as the party and others at the epicenter of the shockwave created by its awakening, could focus upon it, leaving the task of defeating it to the New World Outlaws and, ironically enough, the remaining Raelites within the pocket dimensions bordering the world.

The Devourer's prescence would also cause a dramatic shift in history, causing the powerful druid Ondal to go mad, soon resulting in a catastrophic event known as "The Ondal Crisis".

The "Ondal Crisis", and Rael's last stand
The fifth and final "arc" of the campaign.