The Astrodia Campaign

Dia

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Dia is a figure from Morgana’s childhood — the person who told her stories when she was small, near the forest that would become the White Forest. She is mentioned exactly once, in a single line of Morgana’s journal, and that line carries what may be the campaign’s most consequential piece of folklore.

Nothing else about her is established: not her relationship to Morgana (mother, grandmother, elder of the coven), not whether she is alive, not whether she is remembered by anyone else.

The Story She Told

“There’s an old story that Dia used to tell when I was small, about someone who fell before anyone else ever fell — someone the forest itself is supposed to remember even if no one else does. I never believed it was more than a story to keep children from wandering too far past the tree line. I’m no longer certain of that.”

Morgana dismissed it as a children’s cautionary tale for her entire life. After a decade of watching the trees whiten through her scrying font, she stopped dismissing it — and shortly afterward walked into the forest and died there.

Why the Story Matters

“Someone who fell before anyone else ever fell” points at a first fallen — which sits uncomfortably close to established Astrodia canon:

  • The Agents page records a class of angels below the Agents, some of whom rebelled and were cast down — the Dark Lords. A “first” among them would predate the rest.
  • The White Forest holds the largest concentration of divine magic in Astrodia.
  • Asha’s recurring dreams feature a winged woman in black and red with talons for hands and wings of talons — The Seeker of the Sinful Spoils.

The party has connected these dots at the table, but nothing in Morgana’s papers names the figure or confirms any link. Treat the connection as theory until something establishes it.

Notably, the phrasing is not “the forest remembers” as metaphor — Morgana’s own conclusion about the forest was that “something in that forest is reaching.”

First Appeared

Session 9 (July 29, 2026) — a single mention in Morgana’s journal. (Never encountered; nothing else known.)

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