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Shadows of the
Compañeros

Canula Prime after San Telmo · Summit, Source, and Sky

Canula Prime stands between prosperous trade routes, old colonial claims, and a deeper history that no government fully understands. The recent San Telmo Incident exposed evidence of a buried listening chamber beneath a plantation estate. Officials call the crisis contained. Foreign delegations have arrived to decide what the island, its people, and its discoveries are worth.

Shadows of the Compañeros is a full eight-act campaign for the DeSauros mission and the friends, rivals, and witnesses drawn into their orbit. It moves from harbour and summit floor to plantation, cave mouth, and the open sky above the island, and it ends on questions of custody rather than a single duel.

A Source-shaped presence stirring inside the buried chamber — Something breathes beneath the estate

Epigraph

“The visible mission is only the door. The real adventure begins when someone asks who built the door, who paid for the key, and what wakes behind it.”

GM's briefing, second night at Boca Serena

GM-Ready Campaign Edition GM Distribution Handouts Spoiler-Free Player Packet

Shadows of the Compañeros

Run the Campaign

Shadows of the Compañeros is a complete eight-act Canula Prime campaign for approximately twelve to eighteen sessions. Prepare the starting state and active pressures first, then run the eight acts through the campaign spine rather than a fixed sequence of scenes.

Prepare the campaign View the eight acts

The shape of play

What the campaign is about

Political negotiation where proof, access, witnesses, and public credibility matter more than a single social roll.
Investigation across courts, docks, archives, estates, ships, and hidden routes.
Covert action and difficult alliances with people whose methods may be compromised, useful, or both.
Aerial warfare where command, signal, rescue, and extraction matter as much as destroying an enemy ship.
A journey inland toward a Source whose behaviour is physical, responsive, and poorly understood.
Choices about custody, publication, secrecy, and responsibility that continue after the final confrontation.

At the table

Campaign roles

Every player picks a role. Every role brings a lever the summit respects, and a question the campaign will eventually ask them.

Role	What you bring	A question to answer
Envoy or legal aide	Procedure, rhetoric, rank, and public access.	Which law do you still believe deserves obedience?
Naval officer or marine	Command, discipline, violence, shipboard authority.	Whose order would you refuse in public?
Investigator or intelligence operative	Surveillance, documents, covert contacts, and inference.	Which earlier assignment still follows you?
Engineer, physician, or scholar	Technical knowledge, care, and specialist credibility.	What discovery would you refuse to weaponize?
Local guide, dockworker, or survivor	Routes, communities, memory, and practical legitimacy.	Who on Canula Prime expects you to protect them?
Free captain, smuggler, or privateer	Mobility, deniable access, and flexible loyalty.	What debt can still alter your course?

Campaign prep

Prepare the Campaign

Set the starting state, understand the forces already in motion, establish clocks and leverage, and review the campaign spine before beginning Act I.

First time running the campaign?

Read these seven chapters before Act I. They establish the campaign state and the procedures that keep events moving without requiring a fixed sequence of scenes.

Ready to play

Begin Act I

Once the starting state, factions, clocks, and campaign spine are established, begin the eight campaign acts. Each act is a pressure field with an objective, truths that must surface, and consequences. The players choose the route through it.

Begin Act I: Ashes of San Telmo See all eight acts ↓

Campaign structure

The Eight Acts

Each act is a distinct pressure field within one campaign. Together they move from the political aftermath of San Telmo through negotiation, covert action, aerial conflict, the inland Source, and the final struggle over custody, proof, and consequence.

Campaign at a glance

Campaign Pressure Map

See which clocks and factions are in motion across all eight Acts. Track your campaign locally, or use the map as a reference without saving anything to an account.

Current act

Campaign progress is stored only in this browser. Export your state to keep a backup or move it to another device.

Jump to an act

Act I · Current act

Ashes of San Telmo

Open Act I

Campaign clocks

Open Act VIII

Campaign clocks

Unresolved faction clocks: show a meaningful pending off-screen consequence supported by a surviving faction’s position and credible action. Progress a clock only when its established trigger warrants it; completion is not required. Preserve earned victories.

Likely faction moves

Reference prompts, not required scenes.

13 clocks are defined by the campaign guide. A clock listed under an act is relevant there; it does not advance on its own.

Campaign toolkit

Reference During Play

Use these chapters during preparation and at the table. They support the campaign but are not additional acts.

People, Places & Evidence

Rules & Conversion

At-the-Table Reference

All 28 chapters · Chapter index

Cartography

Campaign maps

One plate, four maps. Tap to zoom into Boca Serena, the Summit District, the plantation and Source region, and the action over Canula Prime.

Boca Serena · The Summit District · Plantation & Source Region · Action Over Canula Prime, tap to zoom

Signature scenes

Images from the field

San Telmo plantation estate — The estate at San Telmo, the door the summit is really about.

Table safety

The campaign may include colonial violence, forced labour, trafficking, coercion, imprisonment, wartime atrocities, transformation, and Source-related body horror. Establish lines, veils, and a pause or rewind tool before play.

For the GM

Running Shadows of the Compañeros

Is this campaign safe to share with players?

Only the Spoiler-Free Player Packet is meant for players. The GM-Ready Campaign Edition and the Distribution Handouts contain the full arc, faction truths, and act outcomes, and should stay with the Game Master.

What system is Shadows of the Compañeros written for?

The campaign is written system-neutral, in the same voice as the GM Guide. Use the Appendix conversion ladder to translate DCs, saves, and consequences into D&D 5e, Pathfinder First Edition, Pathfinder 2e Remastered, or Forged in the Dark at the table.

Where does the campaign sit in the setting timeline?

It takes place on Canula Prime shortly after the San Telmo Incident, during the international summit that decides the future of the island and its discoveries.