Valoria
High-Fantasy JRPG · Fabula Ultima
Valoria is a high-fantasy JRPG where ordinary people rise to become legends, a world of crystalline magic, beast-folk companions, and bonds strong enough to reshape destiny. Run on Fabula Ultima as a persistent Play-by-Post world, it leans all the way into optimistic, anime-styled heroism, even as an ancient Demon Queen stirs beneath her fading seal.
The World
Before time itself, the Soul Forge burned at the heart of all things, and from its fire rose the Seven Crystal Pillars. Ruby, Emerald, Sapphire, Amber, Diamond, Obsidian, and Opal, whose interplay shaped the world. The radiant Celestials shepherded a golden age of floating cities and crystal spires, until a schism tore the heavens apart in the Shattering. The Celestials vanished, the great cities fell, and mortals were left to rebuild from the wreckage of paradise.
Today the realm is split among Four Kingdoms: imperial Arwen in the north, the wild forests of Wildwood in the west, the green heartland of Arcadia at the crossroads, and the sun-baked deserts of Sunspire in the east. Aether-powered magitech hums alongside old enchantment, crowds roar for the high-flying sport of Aetherball, and an uneasy peace holds the borders. Fifteen years ago the heroes of the last war sealed away the Demon Queen and scattered her Seven Generals, but veterans whisper that a seal is not the same as a death, and seals do not last forever.
What You Play
You are a hero in the truest JRPG sense: a human, an elf, a dwarf, or one of the totem-bonded beast-folk Therians, carrying a spark of the Soul Forge and a Job all your own. Mages bend crystal Motes to their will, warriors and artificers blend steel with magitech, and the rare Runebound bear ancient marks of power that predate even the Celestials, each granting strange gifts tied to its meaning. When emotion runs high enough, anyone can break past their limits.
What makes a hero here isn't a bloodline or a prophecy, it's the people they choose to stand beside. Valoria is a world where the bonds of friendship genuinely reshape destiny, where misfits and outcasts find their feet, and where laughing in the face of danger is a real and renewable kind of strength. Bring a character with something to prove and someone to protect.
How It Plays
Valoria runs on Fabula Ultima, the tabletop JRPG built for exactly this register, player-driven Jobs and combos, dramatic comebacks, and rules that reward bonds, heroism, and big emotional swings over grim attrition. It's optimistic by design: the dice are on the side of the people brave enough to hope, and the spotlight is engineered to find every character at the table.
It plays as a seasonal, live-service Play-by-Post world. You write your turns on Discord on your own schedule, while the realm keeps moving around you, festivals, Aetherball seasons, roaming threats, and storylines that advance whether or not you're logged in. A custom Discord bot stack carries the bookkeeping (dice, inventory, Bonds, and Fabula Points) so you can stay focused on the story. Show up, write, and become a legend.
Choose Your Campaign
Valoria runs as two separate live-service campaigns in the same world. Pick the one that calls to you.
Dragons
Stand against the Demon Queen's war alongside the Runebound heroes and their Genju guardians.
Join Dragons → Start with a $30 Trial →Chronicles
A separate seasonal saga in the same world, a new party writing its own legend.
Join Chronicles → Start with a $30 Trial →Build a hero with the free Fabula Ultima character builder · Ask in Discord