Fifth Sun Press

22/07/2023

Jungles of Kuauhtla is LIVE on Kickstarter! Kuauhtla is a new campaign setting for 5e, inspired by Latin American culture and myth, and created by a majority Latin American team! Discover everything you can expect inside below, and on our beautiful Kickstarter page!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kuauhtla/jungles-of-kuauhtla-the-campaign-guide

- A book with over 300 pages
- A detail-oriented world that takes a small but dense perspective of an enormous world, allowing for easy player immersion and investment.
- A myriad of new subclasses, races, features, spells, backgrounds, and much much more, giving every class something new!
- 2 new systems to give martials and casters more depth in and out of combat!
- An entire adventure from levels 3 - 6 where mountain-dwellers descend into the jungles, freely exploring a wide area, having been hired to find an artifact but only having a vague poem as direction. Expect varying horrific beasts, and insights into the mystical world of the jungles below.
- Many incredible rewards like a dice set, dice box, reference card deck, and more!
- Practices that support Latin American creators and Amazon rainforest conservation!

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A Latin American inspired industrial fantasy setting for 5e, where society is surrounded by a deadly and mysterious jungle.

05/07/2023

To anyone looking for updates on our project, we are most active on our Twitter page! You can find news about Kuauhtla almost daily on our account 😊

04/07/2023

The Jungles of Kuauhtla is a Campaign Setting for 5e, inspired by Latin American culture and myth. Explore the Cities Above, a civilization built upon enormous mountains, hiding from a deadly and alien jungle below them. Find out more at our preview page!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kuauhtla/jungles-of-kuauhtla-the-campaign-guide?ref=bhe4gh&token=4c7d1477

04/07/2023

When the Ascenders first stepped foot on the mountains, they found others had already made it their home. There were of course the elves deep within the woods and the wandering quchi, but in the early days it was the Kolashi people's history that intertwined with humanity’s.

The Kolashi are strange creatures made from a lightweight partially see-through substance. Specialized glands produce a highly buoyant gas within them which allows a Kolash to resist gravity, something exceedingly useful when living on mountaintops. They could even achieve flight, for a time, by exhausting this gas from vents all across their bodies.

How the Kolashi came to be is a mystery, even though their oral storytelling traditions have led to the discoveries of a myriad of forgotten facts. Their stories, while almost always based in truth, have twisted and been mystified over millennia - and the oldest stories, such as the ones surrounding their creation, are too far gone.
Something that is known is that the name Kolash means bird-soul in their own language, and it seems early Kolashi culture revered all creatures with wings.

For millennia the Kolashi have lived in relative isolation. While individuals often intermingled with other cultures their societal structure kept most Kolash close to home in their small semi-nomadic villages. Apart from themselves, only the high elves dwelled at the extreme elevations that defined Kolash civilization. Here they had mastered nature, being impeccable hunters and making use of every resource the tundra could offer. So talented were they that most of their time went toward recreation, even in their adulthood playing with the mountain goats and telling stories by the fire could be a daily occurrence.

04/07/2023

Somewhere within the endless jungle of Kuauhtla, there sits a little mountain range. Many thousands of miles above the canopy, here humanity could finally find refuge from the endless death below. The first Ascenders were led by a great king of House Tezuma, setting foot on the range of Youal, later to be known as Dedodio. As the people gained safety, they also gained ambition. Survival was all that mattered in the jungle but when your biggest threat was your fellow humans - things quickly devolved.

It’s been centuries since the days of the Ascent. Now all of the mountains are joined together as the Cities Above under the banner of the wise High Council, a reclusive group of seven members who while in their inception were elected, now chose their own successors. Some among the Council have never even been seen by the public, but their efficiency is hard to argue.

Those of keen sight, who also know to keep quiet, can see the council's schemes play out clear as day. They hold the populace in an iron grasp through manipulation of nearly every facet of life, easily bending the will of the people in their favor from the shadows.

But why? The kingdoms of elves and dwarves are of little consequence on the mountaintops, who else would oppose them? The kolashi or quchi certainly held no political power.

Here is a secret not even the conspiracy theorists have unearthed; the Council knows much more than they would let on. They would do anything to keep their power, and have long communed with forces they outlaw to the people. Omens, visions, and dreams. A new age is coming, and the Cities Above will stand at the ready.

04/07/2023

Feast your eyes on this beast before it feasts on you! The Yacumama makes another apperance as a limited edition add-on for the Jungles of Kuauhtla Kickstarter!

Surprise and terrify your players with an enormous beast - with a spot to place constricted players in its center 🐍

Once the Yacumama was worshipped as a malevolent deity, but in truth it is only one of a billion beasts in the deep twisting jungles - each just as terrifying. If you want a taste of the Yacumama, and dozens of other incredible monsters, check out our Kickstarter below! 🔥

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kuauhtla/jungles-of-kuauhtla-the-campaign-guide?ref=bhe4gh&token=4c7d1477

04/07/2023

Old Delon, city of royals, city of mysteries. Long ago the noble House Tezuma settled here on the mile-long cliffs. The time of the Ascenders has long since passed, and kings and queens no longer rule the Cities Above. Even so, their wealth had made the place a wonder.

On the well-groomed street a federal agent strolls, their eyes more focused on the tourists than the beauty others come to view. It is said, by those the High Council would silence, that the royals of old hid many a powerful artifact in monuments and safehouses across the city. The fools mumble of hidden power and forgotten passages, if only they knew the Council hears both whisper and thought.

Follow the Jungles of Kuauhtla Kickstarter with the link below, and explore all that the Cities Above have to offer 🔥

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kuauhtla/jungles-of-kuauhtla-the-campaign-guide?ref=bhe4gh&token=4c7d1477

04/07/2023

Welcome to the Fifth Sun Press page! Follow us for updates on the Jungles of Kuauhtla Campaign Guide for 5e, due to launch on Kickstarter on the 20th of July!