Editing 13th Age (section)

===The Icons===
A key feature of the game is each hero's relationship with these Icons. Upon creation, each PC gains three relationship points to spend and forge relationships with the Icons for good, ill, or otherwise. During a session, each player rolls a d6 for each relationship point spent on an icon. 5's indicate that the icon will have a big impact on the story, though not without complication, while 6's indicate an icon's impact without any consequence. Tiering up will only allow you to either forge new relationships or strengthen existing ones.

As above, you can always customize the Icons by taking various interpretations to them (i.e a more [[Chaotic Good]] Prince of Shadows or a bitter and spiteful Dwarf King who is of little use in the fight for good) if you don't just make your own Icons. Hell, one issue of ''13th Age Monthly'' ran with the concept of a setting where certain icons merged together to make something bearing aspects of both parts, such as a hybridized Elf Queen/High Druid who uses the elves as representatives of various aspects of nature and the Prince of Shadows being actually the Black of the Three.

*'''The Archmage''': [[Elminster|Your typical quest-giving old wizard who is the master of all things magical]]. Expect lots of magical powers for those who aid him, but only in exchange for weird tasks. He's officially employed by the Emperor alongside Priestess but doesn't really care much about the High Druid and Elf Queen.
*'''The Crusader''': A demon-slayer who's gotten a little too caught up with the dark gods and now wants to conquer...once all the demons are dead or bound to his service. Though officially loyal to the Emperor, he has no friends there and the Priestess and Great Gold Wyrm dislike that he's around, while the Diabolist is scared shitless by his mere existence.
*'''The Diabolist''': A demon-binder and wielder of forbidden magics, dedicated to a more infernal game in dealing with the Abyss. She's literally terrified of the Crusader, with the Great Gold Wyrm and Priestess being more irritants. The Prince of Shadows is possibly more of an...asset than an ally.
*'''The Dwarf King''': Leader of all Dwarves and chief representative of their interests. He's also allied with the Emperor and has a tense truce with the Elf Queen, chiefly because he hates the Dark Elves for what they did to the Dwarven homeland. He also wants the Prince of Shadows dead because he's got plenty of grudges against that thieving bastard.
*'''The Elf Queen''': The leader of all elf-kind and ruler of the one place where all three kinds of elf can call home. She's also responsible for creating all Orcs via the Orc Lord, which she regrets, and imprisoned the Green, earning the ire of the other Three. She's allied with the Emperor and half-sister of the High Druid, though she has issues with the Dwarf King and Archmage.
*'''The Emperor''': Ruler of the Dragon Empire and leader of all things good. He has the Crusader and Great Gold Wyrm on his side for the moment, while he has the Dwarf Queen and Elf Queen in a truce and the Archmage and Priestess as staunch allies. Unfortunately, he's being confronted by the Lich King, who wants to take the Empire for himself, and the Orc Lord, who just wants to destroy things.
*'''The Great Gold Wyrm''': The mightiest of [[Metallic Dragon|metallic dragons]] and protector of the world from the forces of the abyss, much to the Diabolist's anger.  He also is aligned with the Emperor and has his own grudge with the Three. Unfortunately, being protector against the Abyss has become very taxing to the point where it takes all his being to keep the worst rifts shut. Of course, there's plenty of risks in having such a gigantic golden dragon sitting in one spot, and one can only wonder just how long he can hold back the tide...
*'''The High Druid''': Ruler of the forces of nature, head of the Resurgent Wild, and half-sister to the Elf Queen. Though she's usually involved with protecting her woods and empowering the various druids and the like, she does take issue with the Emperor's colonization efforts and the Archmage's attempts to control the wild.
*'''The Lich King''': An undead king who once ruled what would become the Dragon Empire. He was originally known as the Wizard King, but he was an uncontrollable dickbag, so the humans, dwarves, and elves joined forces to kill him...and then he came back from the dead. Nobody likes him, but those who mess with the undead are tied to him and sometimes criminals will serve him just so they can cheat death. The Three particularly hate him for killing the White and resurrecting him as a zombie dragon.
*'''The Orc Lord''': Leader of all orcs, which bothers anyone in the Empire. Apparently, the elves created the orcs, and the original Orc Lord (or, if there hasn't been a lineage of the bastards, the same guy) slew the Wizard King, but they're still a bunch of uncontrollably chaotic barbarian types. The Emperor dislikes the threat the Orc Lord poses but compared to all the other adversaries arrayed against him, a band of greenskins isn't as much of a threat as they could be...
*'''The Priestess''': Champion of the Gods of Light and most powerful holy person who leads from her massive Cathedral. She's the humanitarian priestess archetype, dedicated to good in all its forms to brave the forces of evil. She's allied with the Emperor, though she isn't always on level with the Great Gold Wyrm and has issues with the Crusader's methods of demon-slaying.
*'''The Prince of Shadows''': Archetypal dickass thief, now made a metaphysical legend. Though technically partnered with the Diabolist, he doesn't really have much loyalty to her. He's also trying to hide from the Dwarf King's grudges and the Archmage's attempts to steal some magical artifacts. All said, though, he's not entirely evil, just [[edgy|a loner who takes no sides and has no friends]].
*'''The Three''': Three mega-powerful asshole [[Chromatic Dragon|chromatic dragons]], Red, Black, and Blue, who are archenemies with the Great Gold Wyrm. What of the White and Green, you ask? Well, the White was killed by the Lich King back when he was alive (which he gets his jollies off of via necromancing dragons) and the Elf Queen keeps the Green prisoner. Of the remaining three, the Red is the rampaging murder-engine, the Blue is an arch-sorcerer who is somehow geassed into being a servant to the Empire (or was it all a ruse?), and the Black is a super-shadow-assassin dragon. They lead from the city of Drakkenhall, pit for all forms of dragon-like beings and general rejects.