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Apollo is the son of Leto and Zeus. His twin sister is Artemis. He is the god of the sun, light, healing, music, archery, poetry, and adolescent men. He is involved in many classical myths and is a good friend of Hermes. His sacred animal is the swan. His sacred city in Cimmeria is Sheerzen with Restnor’s Point and Tetalya as secondaries.

During the First Alliance War Apollo’s follower, Amalgami, turned away from Apollo to worship Eris and the Dahak monster. This fall from grace destroyed the First Alliance and earned Amalgami the epithet, the Betrayer. Apollo promised himself that he would make up for his devotee’s actions. He got his chance when the Dahak poisoned Zeus. Apollo wandered Cimmeria looking for a cure in a mortal form known as Dactirian.

Apollo’s human form named Dactirian

Dactirian fought dragovinians wherever he could without arousing suspicion to his true nature. Dactirian found the Druid’s Prophecy that could revive Zeus, but he didn’t have the means to retrieve the animal pieces as the dragovinians had gotten to them first. Seeing a different path to his goal, Dactirian joined the Xorian Rebellion. Through continued effort he became one of the Rebellion’s leaders, second only to Princess Tarigananata. He revealed his identity to the Princess and Alkmene Halkias. He told them his plan to use a group of former dragovinians to outsmart the dragovinians’ magical protections around the animal pieces of the Druid’s Prophecy.

Dactirian lured four powerful dragovinian Enforcers to Bigby’s Forest. Caught in his trap he revealed his divine majesty to them. Apollo turned the dragovinians back into their mortal forms and stripped them of their memories. Returning to Dactirian, he ordered them to reclaim the different pieces of the Druid’s Prophecy. Due to their past dragovinian status, the former dragovinians would not set off the arcane wards and alarms around the animals that knew the other pieces of the Druid’s Prophecy. The former dragovinians carried out their orders and Dactirian freed them from his service.

Apollo abandoned his mortal disguise soon after receiving the Druid’s Prophecy pieces. He had led the Rebellion to reclaim Gazeara and management of the war was fully turned over to Princess Tarigananata. The Second Alliance was given the Prophecy pieces to recover the reagents needed for the ritual. Apollo was at Olympus when Zeus was revived. With his father back on the throne and the Second Alliance War concluded, Apollo has returned to his duties as the sun god.

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Welcome to the GoCorral website! I’m Isaac Shaker and this is a place for me to write about D&D and occasionally other topics. I host a podcast called Setting the Stage that interviews different DMs about their campaigns. I’m currently focused on completing the Cimmeria campaign setting and turning it into a book.

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84 – Horseback Riding D&D Camp (Michael and SaddleSnaps) – Setting the Stage, Campaigns for D&D and Other RPGs

Michael tells us about a D&D horseback riding experience at SaddleSnaps! The Chicago-based stable hosted a weekend camping, horseback riding, and D&D event. About 50 players came from across the country for this new experience. During the event, the players were split up into three groups. Each of the groups engaged in the "Exploration" and "Social Interaction" pillars of RPGs as a LARP. They used horses to go out on rides around the area to find clues to a developing mystery. After returning to their base camp they'd set up around tables for the D&D "Combat" pillar. Michael was the main DM of the adventure along with lots of support DMs and NPC actors helping him out.SaddleSnaps is planning to do more rides like this in the future, both single day rides as well as full weekend campouts like this first one. There are evening rides every Thursday for the rest of July 2026 with more to come in future months. You can check out everything about SaddleSnaps on their website.Michael has his own website for his RPG resources called Paragon Provisions that you can check out as well.Michael also runs his own Discord server that you connect with him on if you'd like to keep up with all the cool D&D stuff he's doing.Check out the Setting the Stage website!Want to be on the show? Fill out this survey.Join our Discord!Support Setting the Stage on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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