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High in the mountains at the edge of the world is an ancient arena. It is said that if you travel there and defeat its guardian in battle you will be granted immortality... albeit at a terrible cost.

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"The best defense is making your defense appear more formidable than they actually are."

--Head Architect

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Deep in the Ash Wastes there lies a strange fortress. Any who investigate it disappear, never to be heard from again. The legends of the Ash Wastes Tribes claim that its dungeons and vaults are full of the Forces of Creation ready to be taken up by any who can successfully navigate its halls. Old geezers and wise men across the Edge of the Wastes like to tell stories of vast hordes of inhuman warriors pouring from its gates and rampaging across the cities of the Edge. Most folk simply ignore these claims as the ramblings of madmen. As for myself? Well... it might not be a bad idea to go along with the Count's plan to heighten the walls.

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Nirn is the realm of the dreamworld, an endless plane of jagged rock and shifting terrain where the thoughts and dreams of the living world coalesce into reality. Only shamans skilled in the magics of the Old World know how to travel to the fabled plane.

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So ancient that the annals of the god of history mention it in an early volume, The City of Obelisks is one of the most remote, forbidding locations a party of adventurers can go to. According to the incalculably old tablets of Yilang-Do, the City of Obelisks was built 4 planetary ages (roughly 35,000,000 years) before the arrival of modern magic using humans, and fossils extracted from the area suggest that it was already a ruin when our demihuman ape-man ancestors were just learning to use bones and stones as weapons. Scrying is confused by distance and unknown forces which appear to conglomerate in the area, however, high levels of psionic and magical force have been detected, and if you are below level 50, the adventurers guidebook warns you explicitly to stay away from this area.

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The defeated god A'gna'sh has recently slipped his chains and woken from his slumber. Once he can find a way to enter the material plane it will be punished for its transgressions against him, and his millennia long imprisonment.

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The kingdom of Valkyr rests upon the ruins of the old elven empire. As such, they have exploited the now defunct realm's vast resources and esoteric technologies to become one of the most dominant realms in the southern continent, despite the relatively small size of Valkyr and its population of subjects.

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seeing as most people are posting scenery I thought i'd shake it up a bit

Hailing from a forgotten age, these ancient machines of war are immensely formidable, their armor shrugging off both magic and blade alike, more frightening than their armor are the massive cannon they carry, centuries more advanced than even the greatest of guns, they break castle walls open as if they were made from twigs. Only a few are known to exist, but when they do appear, the side they fight for is almost guaranteed victory

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Far beyond where any mortal has tread and returned, even the Orders of Khi have no say in events. At the farthest reaches of the world, the deepest chasms in the earth and the highest reaches of the sky, even the almighty Lord God Khi has no say in events. With no rules to govern life or death, no rhyme or reason, any action in these realms can have any effect imaginable or no effect at all.

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Set adrift among the endless sand and sweeping winds of the Scorched lands, the roving city of Seeldymir is carried about upon the back of ancient stone golems. Created in pacts with the wild Djinn the give the people means of finding water and resources, while the stone chauffeurs provide a permanent body for the djinn, who desperately sought to escape there tormentors on their home plain of sand and sunrays.

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Yeah, it's a good idea to start posting something other than just scenery.

The Hal-vad (Chosen Ones in their tongue) are a mysterious race that lives in remote areas. They are skilled warriors and are renowned for their careless cruelty. They follow a strange religion that revolves around a symbiotic relationship with their helms. Each helm is a living, parasitic creature that gives the Hal-vad unknown power or powers. Some scholars speculate that the Hal-vad are simply humans, and that the helms actually gain control of the host's mind.

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The verdant province of Ateitia comprises one of the three territories that border the Ash Wastes. Together, these provinces form the geographic location known as the Edge of the Wastes.

The people of Ateitia live relatively simple lives, living in closely-knit tribal units that live off of hunting the local fauna and subsistence farming. Though their society is often ridiculed as primitive and barbaric by subjects from other provinces, few doubt the warrior prowess of Ateitians at war.

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"The elves of old have left us many wonders that have made our kingdom strong, but should you hear a beautiful whistle rise from the halls, mark the floor with our seal in blood and leave."

-- Gerald Valkyr

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"Do you hear the voice of A'gna'sh?"

---Shah of Ash

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"The glorious city existed without rival, so the wrathful dead stitched one to topple its towers."

-Tablets of Yilang-Do

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The people of Seeldymir relied greatly on the stone golems to move their city. It did not take them long to learn to harden the stone and deploy the constructs for war.

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>>24720577

"We 3, the guardians of old work to return our master to this plane. For once the glory arrives the mortals and their brittle creations shall be put to death through claw and fire."

-Aka of Fire

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The city-state of Berytus borders Ateitia to the south, the Ash Wastes to the west, and the Sea of Tears to the east. The Berytans are known for their naval and mercantile power. They have influence in courts all around the Sea of Tears, and their diplomats are regarded as masters of the craft. Their society operates on a stiff sense of honor, and duels and blood feuds are common.

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The warriors of Ateitia are shocking to see. They are few in number but without equal in combat. The strongest warriors cast aside the trappings of armor, putting their faith in their ancestors for protection. To the surprise of enemies, this tactic works surprisingly well, leading to many believing some other magic is at work or perhaps the ancestors of the Ateitia do reach in from beyond to protect their children.

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Forming a barrier between the scorched land and the green mana rich lands beyond, the Mountains of dust get their name because winds forced through small cracks and crevices in their otherwise nearly impassable length race out into the scorched land with so much force that a continuous dust storm dominates the entire area. Its thought that in the 2nd planetary age, roughly 75,000,000,000 years ago, a moon fell from the sky, killing all the mana in the scorched land, which has no life, not even the false parody of life that animates the undead. Nothing, and we must put stress upon this, "NO-THING", grows or lives in the scorched land. It is an utterly barren, completely dead region, where the ground is cooked harder than fullplate and aside from the constant shriek of the Great storm, you won't here anything. Anywhere. Due to its remote location and lack of any resources or known valuable mineral deposits, the scorched land is one of the few places, in the world, that hasn't yet been mapped.

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It was Lady Andrath of the Order of the Rat that led the Pyrathan Empire's first expedition into the kingdom of Seeldymir. Lady Andrath and her entourage were greeted with cordial respect by the Seeldymirian council, who were all to eager to demonstrate their skill and technique in the arts of transmutation and enchantment. Most awe-inspiring of all to behold were the Seeldymirian war golems, each as tall as ten men and imbued with the strength of fifty. King Erioch, once learning of the Seeldymirian's immense wealth and magical prowess, raised a vast army with the sole objective of subjugating their lands and people.

The conflict that followed, known as the Twenty Year's War, would grow into the bloodiest period of the century and become the basis for much of the violence that exists in the continent of Ortaisield today.

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"Leave, beautiful creatures."

--Princeps of Tears

Twelve years ago Mithras the Demon Prince rose from his subterranean kingdom with his hosts of demons and undead. The infernal armies crashed against the bastions of the Valkyr. Only their superior technology and the bravery of their warriors allowed them to survive the onslaught. Mithras turned his surviving legions into the weaker kingdoms nearby, and now precariously holds one sixth of the land in the southern continent, most of it rendered worthless by more than a decade of war.

The King of Valkyr has put a bounty of one thousand electrum coins on the head of Mithras.

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The Standing Candle Island is a steadily expanding island that harbors some of the most terrifying creatures in existence. If this island were to make contact with the mainland through its periods of sporadic growth the flood of abominations that reside upon this minute piece of land would surely destroy any life they come across. Only the spawn of the Deep Sky Anglerfish keep this threat at bay as they, and they alone, are known to eat the porous rock that comprise this spire-like island.

Holy shit this is amazing. Sadly I can't post any picture from my mobile, even though I'd really want to have some input. This kickstarted my long dormant worldbuilding muscles.

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I have to say, this is looking to be a pretty snazzy custom setting in my opinion. Might have to steal it for myself...

polite sage for being a non-contributing idiot

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Beyond the sweltering halls of lava and the nearly impassible bedrock maze, lies the city of Deep Darkness. In the deepest part of the ground, the city of deep darkness was sealed up by the dwarves before they went extinct, and few ways to or from it remain open to the traveler. The city is in constant chaos, swarmed by bitterly feuding demons who can never kill each other thanks to the Iron God's curse, and the hapless souls of the dead who died between the end of the 3rd planetary age and the start of the 4th, when the Iron God and the Gray Goddess had their war. Priceless gems and valuable minerals are found here in abundance, but the demons often demand souls or life essences in trade for them. It is said among some that Soultrap crystals and vials of vampire's blood make up the demon's primary monetary units. But few know for sure, and demons aren't to be trusted, as they have often died horribly so many times that they have no sanity to speak of. As a result, they will say or do anything they please with no inhibition whatsoever, and the more powerful ones tend to be even more psychotic. The adventurers guide warns the hapless traveler who ends up there to GET OUT.

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"His Brothers took action, trapping him beneath the sea, in a prison of suffering."

-The Fall of Mern, The Titan of Wrath

These devices, and other artifacts like them, are prime examples of Charid alchemielectrics. This artifact is essentially an automated spellcaster, capable of absorbing natural magic to power a built-in magical grid. This particular device is designed as a clairaudience projector, allowing communication across large distances without the use of heliographs, and in some cases similar units can communicate with the recently deceased.

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And of course I forgot pic.

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No one knows much about the moon impact and the resulting dust that created Mountains of Dust, but evil things lurk in its caves and scuttle across its peaks.

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Fingus corvald's sketch, "A demon lord". From 'travels to remote places', chapter 13, 'My journey to deep darkness'.

Note the small creatures at the monsters 'feet'. Though Fingus no longer lives, scribbled notes indicate that even these small creatures were 'significantly larger than a man'. Imagine for a moment how large.... whatever it was, he saw, was?

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In distant lands, it is said that there is an order of monks who train their bodies rigorously, allowing their breathing to manifest into a mysterious energy with almost sunlight-like qualities. Every so often, they will pass these teachings on to a disciple, aiding their quest to rid the world of evil in the most fabulously effective way possible.

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" I seen em with me own eyes I did! I was on me way home from the tavern, drunk as a skunk, when I saw em way up on the hill. 3 of em. Dressed like they was from the clergy or sumthin'. One 'ad a torch, one 'ad a shovel the other just stood there. I was supposin' to ask what they were doing up in the cemetery at this time o' the night. I made just one step towards them when the one just standing there turned his head towards me.

Then I saw IT. a giant ghostly figure that appeared above em. It wore the same cloak as the others but that one... THAT ONE AIN'T HUMAN! Jagged blood drenched teeth and a nose hole like a bloody skeleton! I swear on me Mum's grave I could smell the blood from his damn mouth!

Naturally, I'd decided to bugger off, lock me damn door, and mumble what little prayers I could remember all the night. Next morning, the whole village is abuzz with murmurs of graverobbers.

Even a git like me can figure out who done what, but nobody will listen to the village drunk. I know what I saw and I can drink enough grog to float the King's galleon and walk straight, they ain't from the damn church I can tell you that much. I ain't fixing to figure exactly where they come from neither. I'm heading straight home before sundown I tell you what. You still curious about the going-ons Stranger? Well, just pop your head into the cemetery after dark. maybe those spooky sods will be kind enough to lop it off for you!"

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"The Valkyr-mortals have such beautiful tapestries. Oh how I wish I could capture their color."

--Mithras the Demon Prince

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Depicted here is an artist's impression of a Pyrathan knight of the Sarth province during the Sacking of Colonia. This event marked the end of the War of Reunification.Their armor was recolored from the traditional silver chrome to a maroon red to symbolize the reunification of the Pyrathan Empire after it was broken into several squabbling fiefdoms by the Twenty Year's War.

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Another of Fingus Corvald's sketches, 'The Iron God'. Fingus's notes tell us that the Iron God hasn't stirred in any way for so long that great heaps of dust and spiderweb have formed all over him, but goes on to say that the god wears 10 magic rings, 3 magic amulets, a full suit of armor, an imperishable cloak, and a crown made entirely of iron. The Iron god is so large that on cloudy days, the god's head and shoulders are obscured by clouds, and that on stormy knights passing travelers sometimes mistake his legs for castle towers. Fingus tells us that during his sketching of the god, the god moved one of his fingers once by chance, the brief, small movement unleashing a blast of lightning so powerful that, in fingus's words, "a hill became a hole welling with lava."

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"Welcome to the Standing Candle, brave ones! I see you come for wealth. I see you come for power. I see you come for love."

-Uros, The Titan of Sight

>>24721223
knights = nights.

Fucking fingers. Fucking lateness of the hour.

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In the Great Bowl just south of Kendre, a star fell to earth. Sages say it gouged out the entire Bowl in one massive impact, throwing tons and tons of earth into the air. Now something strange lives there, a great sphere of metal, burrowing out the rock below to feed its growth. Those who enter it come out... changed, and often not exactly human.

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>>24721252
According to some, the great sphere is said to have grown from a single seed, barely larger than a man.

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An artist's depiction of King Valkyr leading the charge against the Demon Prince Mithras and his undead host.

>>24721267
*King of Valkyr

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"Conquerors? Tyrants? Darling, we Pyrathans have only retaken what was once ours. Better under the Banner of Pyrath than the stomach of Mithras."

--Queen of Red

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A monster from the abyss of darkness, a region of the sea constantly covered by storms and from which its thought, night seeps up from something below, changing day to night over the course of each day, fully overtaking day at various times in the realms, some shorter, some longer, before it eventually flows in reverse all the way back down the deep underwater hole it came out of, and day resumes again. Only the gods know for sure what the beast pictured is. It was drawn on a message in a bottle.

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In the Deep Planes beyond the six hells dwell the Zdenko, skeletal ghasts with inhuman intelligence and thin, warped hands. The Zdenko have incredibly knowledge at surgery, able even to reach inside of a soul and reshape its inner self. The plane as a whole is as lifeless and moonlike as the Mountains of Dust, and utterly flat; all life- every animal, every plant-analogue, even the mountains- is built of humans and other animals that have been shaped and warped into an ecosystem that the Zdenko desire.

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Fuck, OP, this is a cool idea.

"Captain Mercury has been acting... strangely, as of late. Ever since that blasted mission into that bloody 'haunted' citadel, the man's been on edge. He jumps at every little noise and spends more time looking over his shoulder than he does on whoever's right in front of him. The higher-ups say it's just fatigue, but I don't think they've heard him talking to no one in the wee hours of the night. Some of the others think he's just gone crazy, but me... I think there's more at play here than just 'crazy'."

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An Orc of hellborn keep.

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"We got Princeps, a Titan, and a Goddamn Candle in our waters harassing our ships near and abroad, so yes the Queen of Pirates can also be the Vice Arch Admiral. If you have a problem to can take it with you off the plank."

--Ragasa, Queen of Pirates and Vice Arch Admiral of Berytus

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The Charid are a fortunate people. They have had little need to invest in armed defense for the Hal-vad have deemed their alchemielectrics to be sacred acts and vigilantly protect their borders. Some warriors may even choose a particularly brilliant mind to guard until their death. These bodyguards do have a price which they will collect, the body of their ward upon death.

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"Colonia? Flames. I remember the flames."

--The Fading Red, Champion of Pyrath

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>>24719644
Try as he might, Hans could not blink away the blood that seeped from his eyes. The labyrinth was finally within his grasp, ultimate knowledge so within reach...

But the booming voice only chuckled at the the human's lack of true understanding, soon he would die of his mind's own inability to come with the truth of Shazharrad's domain.

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"SHISHIO SETSU KEN!"

-Ping Ho, Infant Ninja

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Though few formal reports and documents exist on him, the galaxy has come to accept the entity commonly referred to as the Space Clown. Different species across the galaxy have their own story; some say that he is the last of a race of an incredibly advanced people who live at the center of our galaxy, others claim that he is the last God who drifts through space tormented and alone. While the stories vary, some things about the Space Clown are the same no matter who you talk to; when he comes to your planet he floats just above orbit and starts doing a slap-stick comedy routine and people just start laughing at him. Doesn't matter if you can see him or not or if you're blind or deaf, doesn't matter if you're 100 miles under your planet or the most secluded parts of it, people can't resist the urge to look up at the sky and laugh.

You didn't hear it from me, but I think it's safe to assume that's what he lives off of, the laughter I mean. How it keeps him alive or if he's planning to do something with it I don't know, I just think it's friggin' creepy.

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The Orcs of Hellborn Keep covet Imprisoned Wisp Lamps for their bright flames and the fact that they believe that only through suffering, whether it is had by an orc or some other creature, will lead them to ultimate victory.

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The "mire of serpents and darkness", Svortskoggore.

A breeding place of dragons as well as sea-monsters, Svortskoggore is a series of islands, shoals, and forest. There is a lake known as the lake of icy tears, where ghosts from all over the world are said to congregate once every 500 years, a spring which, when the Elf hero Kuldis Tar was slain there, expressed its grief, they say, by pouring an endless flow of blood afterward, finally, the forests (all of them) in the Svortskoggor region have trees which either breath putrid mist from themselves at dusk and dawn, or drip pestilent blood from their branch-tips at all times day or night. Frightening, strong undead are common there, and in some areas black smoke emits from scattered holes in the ground, making it dim twilight most of the time.

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Last year's winter was particularly bad, and lasted well in to spring.

This year's winter will be bad as well.

Famine is coming.

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"I am the champion of Valkyr and hero to the people. We do not know when Mithras will strike next, so I will delve into the elven ruins until the day I die."

--Captain Mercury

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"Time and time again, the Three have punished mankind for its hubris. The elven machines are anathema, and all that taint themselves with them shall know the fury of the Sleeping Ones."

-- High Priest Ella, Children of A'gna'sh

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"Svortskoggore is no place for one so small. What are your desires, child?"

-Ras, the Titan of Glory

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"The ruins of Sharrath may not look as foreboding as some of the of the other elven ruins, but make no mistake about it; it's no less dangerous. I've heard stories about visitors being stalked by red... things, phantasms, they say. Red, spindly, and very, very fast. They dart from place to place, always one step ahead or one step behind... That's what I've heard. Scholars have been postulating over why the gates to Sharrath fell for years now, and it only took me a few days posted outside to KNOW. The gates didn't fall, they were knocked down. Those elves didn't want anyone getting in, and they certainly didn't want anything getting out."
- Colonel Terminus, shortly before disappearing inside Sharrath

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Fucking archiving this.

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A ghost of a type commonly found in the dungeons of Hellborn keep. This particularly gruesome, violent ghost enters the body through natural holes such as the nose, ears, and mouth, to constrict the heart and painfully burst and flay organs, resulting in near-immediate death. Orcs of hellborn keep have a means of keeping these violent, hostile ghosts from attacking them, but outsiders are uncertain what it might be.

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OP Here checking in one last time tonight im impressed and would like to thank you all and hope you had fun and hope you guys keep going

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"Welcome to Hellborn Keep! As you can see, we are far from savages."

-Krugursk Throat-Ripper, Hellion of Hellborn Keep

>>24721657
A Seeldymir lieutenant directs a Line-breaker War-golem to the front in the battle of Nyth.

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>>24721675
OP, this has been hella fun. I'm tempted to make another myself later when I feel like worldbuilding. We should archive this shit.

"It's a gate! I swear, it's a gate! You gotta see it to believe it! Under a full moon, the air, it... it just warps, distorts like rippling water and you can see another sky behind it!
W-what? No, I don't want to step through it! This elf nonsense... I want none of it!"

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A scrying image of the City of Tombs, the last civilized place you'll visit before you cross into the scorched land. The Watchful and Vigilant Order of the Great Storm keeps watch over the scorched land from a single tower here, waiting for something.... the ancient order, founded three planetary ages before now, no longer knows what they are watching for, but the writings of sages and wizards that have been unearthed in the city of tombs hint that not all is as it seems, and in some distant era the final battle will happen somewhere in or near the scorched lands.

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Kendre, also known as the Bastion of Glory. It finds itself between Hellborn Keep, Svortskoggore, and the eager Pyrathans.

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The Labyrinth-Temples of the Cult of A'gna'sh litter the secluded places of the world, where the walls between the planes are weakest.

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>>24721725
Gates are fairly common in the the areas that were once inhabited by the long-dead Twilit Elves. Although the principle by which they are created is unknown, they frequently link to other planes, and some are even believed to link to some of the planets.

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The area the iron god stares off into.

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"And the Laughing God turned the Seers into stone, to wake upon the end of days."
-- folk tale of Menea Isles

>>24721809
>ambush

I blame the fact that I'm sleepy and it's late at night.

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"Though we are on the brink of desperate times, a few may be chosen to die but none shall starve!"

Priest of Ooatide, dark god of harvests

>>24721809
There was much feasting in Kendre afterwords, a little too much in fact.

>>24721823

oh you~

This has been a fucking awesome thread /tg/. Thanks for making my night. Before I sign off, I'd like to inform you folks that this thread has been archived under "/tg/ gets shit done."

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Tol Adrolok, a religious site used by nomadic giants, the sites true purpose and powers remains unknown, as the nomadic type of giant that built it went extinct at the end of the last planetary age, 1,000 years ago. Samples of stone from this place date as far back as the 4th planetary age, approximately 700,000,000 years ago. Giants revere the area and will harm anyone they catch intruding in it.

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The mysterious Order of the Great Storm keeps itself in isolation and little is known about their ways or their people. Strangest is how they seem to communicate with each other without words nor magic.

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A lake dwelling vampire of the type commonly found in Svortskoggore. They sleep in icy bogs during the day and hunt at night, moving from bog to bog, sleeping in a different one each night, but never leaving their chosen territory unless forced out by a stronger vampire. The book of St. Phyri tells us that by grinding garlic into a fine powder and mixing it into the ashes and coals of a campfire, a traveler can keep these creatures away.

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Please pardon my weaboo

"There it is, carved deep into stone and rising above icy cliffs and mountain lay the castle of the the dragon lord Asamoya. The lord himself has not been seen in centuries, but whether present or away, his servants still observe his will that the city-sized palace remain open to visitors and provide sanctuary from the cold. Today, the castle is watched religiously by the descendants of Asamoya's original servants, as well as various monks who pay visit to maintain the castle as something of a tourist trap. But make no mistake, the servants and monks would not guard the palace were there nothing worth guarding, rumors say Asamoya founded his mighty home on the body of an ancient nemesis who could still be reawakened."

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A metal commemorating the victory of Kuldis Tar over the dragon Draedan. Few of these survive in modern times, and despite their simple, nonmagical nature, their rarity makes them priceless.

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"When the end of elvenkind was imminent, some chose to betray their own people and worship the Destroyer."
-- Valkyr scholar

Well, OP, it seems you have a fuckawesome world for your next setting. Polite sage for no contribution.

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A bend in Zuril's river near the gorge of Mistfall vale.

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"Have you heard the legends about the Tirth Rodan? It's just some old wive's tale... some big monstrosity hiding underneath one of those elven ruins, made by the elves themselves as some sort of deterrent should anyone go poking around while they're gone. Supposed to be this massive cross between beast and machine, almost as big as a mountain. It does one thing and one thing only; clear the world for the elves return. Pretty crazy, huh? Don't look so scared! It's just a story."

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"The Barzhu Bazaar (also commonly known as the Bizarre Bazaar or Twilit Marketplace) is a place of commerce located between worlds and easily accessed at many points. There you can find absolutely nothing you want but everything you need for the strangest prices there, as well as meet some interesting people. You like my two headed cat there? I got her from Bazaar and she cost my a pretty penny, three ugly pennies, and the shirt the an arm and a leg that had belonged to sparring dummy. I purchased her from a sapient abacus."

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A fire drake basking in the heat of the halls of lava. Thought to be the source of the Magma Beast, a naturally encountered kind of Golem, the halls of lava are best known for 2 things; firstly that they are not far from the demon city of Deep Darkness, and secondly that they are nesting grounds for one of the few types of dragons that doesn't breed at Svortskoggore, the fire drake.

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"only a few believe knowledge is strength, therefore the majority shall never know true power"

Kendre War Scholar

Scrying view of a street corner of Chamso-Tho, famed for 2 things; being the site where mortals figured out how to use magic without destroying themselves in the process, and for being mysteriously abandoned by its inhabitants. Some have suggested that the people here mastered magic to the point that they simply left for another universe. But sages point out that even the greatest archmages in the world can hardly perform such a feat on their best day, so how then could a whole population do such a thing? Shining spheres, each the size of a wagon, have been seen hovering and flitting about in the night sky above this city. No one knows for certain what they are, but the adventurer's guild advises travelers who see them to remain at distance and keep a low profile.

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>>24722087

The tablets of Yilang-Do, thought to be at least 6 planetary ages old, which would make them around 230,000,000,000,000 years old. Some tablets are written in languages that no longer survive ANYwhere else and are not possible to read without magical help.

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>>24722126
fuck I did it again.

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"The gate is open
With endless heights, tall and steep

Here moons at twilight
Above the misty deeps

Graced with eternal nights
Ice blown by wind
Forests dark to see
Dread naked trees"
- Abbath Doom Occulta, Highlord of Blashyrkh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQN1LjsbF78

>>24722130
It's late, anon. We have created something beautiful, here. Thanks to anyone who helped contribute who still might be here. I'm gonna give this a try at some point in the future.

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There exists an ancient order known simply as Terminus. They have no ambiguation of race or gender, their only identifier being their robes wrought of black metal scales that seem to shift at their will. They are primarily assassins, although they seem to master any skill they pursue. Their goals are unclear and usually appear to contradict, although they most consistently appear whenever something of extreme importance occurs, always having a hand in shifts of age and era. Their leader is adept at most everything, but specializes as an assassin-telepath who wields a katana. The location of their base, if it exists at all, is impossible to determine, although most believe them to reside in the Sea of Wyrms. No one is eager to check, for obvious reasons.

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>>24720942
Goddammit don't post pictures like that when I've expanded all the images and am scrolling down in the silence of my basement in the middle of the night. Fuck.

Saved.

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Many would call you mad to believe N'Goroth had a thriving Warlord empire in the North once, but that was true six centuries ago. For about two millenia it lasted when N'Goro N'Goro The Whitehanded united the tribes in March of a hundred Winters. Six centuries ago Times of Strife begean for N'Goroth and Empire got split first and then was destroyed in half a century lasting civil war.

N'Goroth are nowadays split in more then hundred warring tribes and factions, often serve as brute mercenaries and assassins and are exploited for hard work by neighbouring kingdoms. Fears of a Second Empire remain thou and it is said that political powers of the world constantly try to sabotage any unification attempts.

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>>24719644

"Every now an again, even a Pyrathian Knight should laugh at his own expense."

-Julion the Patriarch of Wit

An assembly of various troupes of performers, poets, and buffoons each one is lead by a ring master who styles him or herself in the nature of nobility even as none of them hold no such claims. As varied in their nature as they are their reputation all ring leaders are in accord to honor the name of Julion, a strange individual who's true nature is unknown even to the oldest troupes. Some speculate that Julion is some sort of spirit who presides and protects his loyal performers while other's claim that Julion is but a title for a troupe to obtain for it's ring leader.

As expressive as their performances are they are quit insular in regards to their nature and conflicting accounts abound, no doubt to protect their inmost secrets.

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>>24725220
An outcasted member of Julion's group. Specifics are unclear, but the rumor is that the outcasting had to do with a huge fire which killed several (dozen) families.

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>>24720888
An electrum coin, valued at several gold coins a piece.

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The maze that surrounds the peak of enlightenment. People who survive the difficult, treacherous maze have reported that the walls move of their own accord each night, and passage-ways open and close of their own accord once per day. The tablets of Yilang-do are housed at the top of the peak, guarded and tended to by 3 immortal epic level 80 monk/cleric dual-classed individuals.

>>24727022
This maze gets 1 inch bigger a week, and has been in existence for at least 2000 years. The last few tablets speak of a time when the maze covers most of the surface of the world in the far off future. What they say isn't pretty.

keep alive bump

Should we do a summary of all that's been put down so far? It's kinda hard to keep up with the material so spread out as it is.

>>24729547
Probably should, yes. If any of the anons from previously are here, perhaps they could post a few sentences of lore about each of their pictures?

>>24729601

Probably should split it by sections because the lore jumps all over the place, I suggest starting with the world and territories and then move on to factions/cities

>>24729700
Could split it by peoples, places, things? One part of the list for people, one for places, and one for things?

>>24729700

Known territories:
1. The Ashe Wastes
2. The Dream world of Nim
3. The City of Obelisks
4. The Kingdom of Valkyr
5. The Roving city of Seeldymr
6. The Edge of the Wastes, Ateitia
7. The City State of Berytus
8. The Sea of Tears
9. The Mountains of Dust
10. Pyrathan Empire
11. Mithras
12. The Standing Candle Islands
13. The Halls of Lava and the City of Deep Darkness
14. The Great Bowl
15. Kendre
16. The Abyss of Darkness
17. The Deep Planes and Zdenko
18. Hellborn Keep
19.. Svortskoggore
20. The Ruins of Sharrath
21. The City of Tombs.
22. The Labyrinth Temples of A'gna'sh
23. Holden Pass
24. Menea Isles.
25. Tol Adrolok
26. The Ice Palace of Asamoya
27. Zuril's River in Mistfall vale.
28. The Ruins of Tirth Rodan
29. The Barzhu Bazaar
30. Chamso-Tho
31. N'Goroth
32. The Peak of enlightenment
33. Yilang-do

>>24730089

If I missed any let me know please, I was trying to read and catch names at the same time.

>>24730108
Yilang-do is a set of golden tablets, not a location, but I don't think you missed anything.

>>24722170
>Katana
And you blew it.

When I realized I was wrong AGAIN I deleted my post, you said "the sea of tears". But yeah you didn't mention the Blood Welling spring. I also almost face palmed with a hand that was holding a huge slice of cheese cake when I realized how bad I goofed. (luckily I didn't facepalm).

>>24730340

I also forgot the Scorched Lands as well. I assume the next step is to get a concensus on what continents everything is located on or near and if the Continents themselves have names.

Also, if the Scorched Lands and the Ashe Waste are geographically the same place or different deserts.

>>24730331
Fine, no katana. It was based of of something in another setting, but I see your point. Any light sword would technically work

>>24730108
Sea of Wyrms

>>24730427
The scorched land isn't a desert, so both it and the ashe wastes can exist without being an overabundance of desert. The scorched land is more like a nuclear blast site. Everything is scorched and vitrified. Its the result of a moon falling from orbit and exploding at impact.

>source: I posted the scorched land post.

Its next to the Mountains of dust, wherever they are put.

>>24730554

Alright, if I'm reading into this correctly now.

>The Scorched lands are seperated by the Moutains of Dust.
>Presumably Ateitia and Berytus are adjacent to it with the Ashe Waste's to the West and the Sea of Tears to the East leaving verdant plains between the desert and the ocean

Unless it's stated otherwise should we assume that Ortaisield (another one I forgot) is the name of the Southern Continent or a different one? It's stated in>>24720830 that they had to sail to get to it so that would, to me, suggest that they are on different continents.

>>24730859
I'm not sure where that is, I didn't post that post.

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The Myran Republic is one of the dominant forces in the continent of Mainland.

Comprised of seven semi-independent provinces, the Myran Republic is ruled by an elected council of seven members, with each member chosen by the respective citizens of the province. Despite the overthrow of the old monarchy some decades ago, the the citizens of the realm are frequently referred to as "subjects" rather than citizens due to tradition.

The different provinces are detailed as follows-
- Sallust (Capital)
- Ateitia
- Akano
- Denpol
- Korianthus
- Scheold
- Umray

>>24731888
Are any of the other locations fully inside Myran?

>>24731888
I'd assume Berytus as well, but that's a city state. Perhaps it can mimic the city states of WFB's Empire, and be a capital of a province.

Should we treat this as a location or a personage? Or both? >>24721223 The god is definitely size class G or C, but probably hasn't moved or done anything (at all) in an extremely long time.

>>24732318
I'd vote for location.

>>24732326
Put him on one of the borders of the Ashe Wastes then. I created the Iron God, so I'll go ahead and specify that if he mustered the willpower to do something, he could simply get up and do it, even if it was just wiggle around and get more comfortable. Theres nothing forcing him into non-action. However, he has been alive for literally millions of years, so he spends most of his time laid back against his seat just barely awake.

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"How could a place of such beauty also be a place of such ruin?"

-- Sir Larn, Knight of Seeldymir, upon visiting the elven ruins of the Kingdom of Valkyr.

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Lady Suzerain was the commander of the Kendre army during the Battle of Sardis. Leading a force of 10,000 troops, Suzerain held the line at Zuril Keep against the largest N'Goroth warband ever seen since the Dawn of the Second Age.

Lead by Angrath the Black, the N'Goroth were relentless in their assault, and outnumbering their enemy more than tenfold.

The battle raged for many days and nights, and dead from both sides began to cover the ground before the attack was finally broken when Griffon cavalry assaulted the N'Goroth flank and slew Angrath in the process, causing the rest of the N'Goroth to rout and flee back to their homeland.

>>24719725
You become the guardian?

>>24732992
No, far far worse. Your class changes to 'real estate accountant'.

>>24733152
Presumably the laws of physics are similar enough that the explicitly-stated 'cold' class areas and 'very cold' class areas are far to the north or south, with the deserts being more towards the middle? This is irrespective of which specific landmass they are on.

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"Something's strange about this rock..."

-- Last words of Phillip Onteff, upon his visit to Svortskoggore.

>>24733348
I would assume so. Nothing that specific has been laid down so far.

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Many sailors tell a tale of the Wandering Island, a landmass that supposedly moves across the oceans of the world and is never found in the same place twice.

There is no apparent reason behind its appearances, it has provided shelter to starving crews and blocked the path of trade fleets. The only thing that the stories agree on is that something of great importance or personal value will be lost upon the island, never to be seen again, but something strange and unique will be found, as if given by the island in exchange.

Many ships on important missions or carrying valued items avoid uncharted islands for just this reason, while many would-be treasure hunters eagerly go ashore. Those foolish enough to go with empty pockets in hopes of cheating the island find that it's reach is not limited to the physical, and such men return broken and hollow, with an emptiness in their mind and soul...

How old is this world? Some of the places in this thread make references to gigantic spans of time.

>>24734309
Fuck if I know.

>>24734334
Well the first thing to do is decide when the universe was created. I suspect the general history of the universe goes something like this.

>primordials create universe
>Several cosmic ages, each lasting millions of years, pass
>Primordials grow old and tired, giving birth to newer more human gods
>Newer gods create the planet the game takes place on, amongst others
>Several planetary ages pass, each lasting thousands of years
>Intelligent life appears
>Several planetary ages pass, each lasting thousands of years
>Civilization appears
>A few more planetary ages pass
>Its now the present

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"It's old but it still works alright.Grandaddy used to tell me how in the old days he'd never get cold or sick because of the water. I don' believe it ever did any good, but it spits water and to me that's enough" - Bo Teadley, Valkyr peasent

Keep-alive bump. I've been contribootin for a while now and plan to continue to do so, but went away for a bit.

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>>24721809

(Correcting this one to reflect the "new" fluff)

Warriors of Kendre repulse the Myran army during the Ambush at Holden Pass.

This decisive victory would tip the Invasion of Minimar in Kendre's favor and forever change the political landscape of both nations.

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The College of Immenstrum, located in the kingdom-city of Seeldymir, is one of the most prestigious centers for magical training in the world. It has produced some of the most famous (and infamous) mages in history, and the mere mention of Immenstrum carries with it a great weight.

Mages who endure the rigorous studies and trials imposed by the College of Immenstrum usually find themselves figures of awe or fear among their peers.

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Irian is the fourth planet from the sun of Malkreath.

The world contains five major landmasses, each of which is inhabited by at least one or more sentient races.

The continent of Mainland (sometimes refered to as "The Southern Continent"), true to its name, is the largest of the landmasses, and is home to the Myran Republic, the Kingdom of Valkyr, the Aldmathi Dominion, and many other nations. The climate is as varied as its inhabitants, and blistering deserts, sweltering jungles, and freezing mountains are some of the many locations native to Mainland. Once, vast swathes of the continent was under the dominion of the elves; now, only the ruins of their once magnificent civilization are present.

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>>24725220

Every troupe under the banner of Wit acts very much in accord to it's own whims with some choosing to do performances or services based on where they ply their trade..

The Sirens of Beytur work the taverns singing songs and, for a certain price, offer companionship to the lonely sailors who ply the Sea of Tears and work to haul the goods imported into her harbours. Known for their deep blue robes and shaven heads, their beauty can often be otherworldly given the strange, ritualistic tattoos that they give to initiates into their troupe. At once, austere and ascetic they can be equally vocal and jolly which disarms the concerns of those put off by their sense of fashion.

While some seek them for pleasure other's seek them for matters far more esoteric as they are knowledgable of the things that lay in the depths of the sea of tears and when gathered together can be seen performing rites on the beaches at dusk.

I thought the thread died

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"I've sweated enough to fill a lake, taken two snakebites to the leg, and emptied my canteen, but I'll be damned if that isn't the most impressive thing I've seen in the Scorched Lands."

-- Note found in the hands of a dessicated corpse.

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>>24735313
>I thought the thread died

YOU THOUGHT WRONG.

>>24735534
The scorched lands has no life. At all. Nothing. No plants, no animals, not even undead. Just empty landscape totally devoid of all life. Be that as it may however, it IS a cool picture. So I give you +1 internet anyhow.

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"What wonders that were once beholden to Chamso-Tho, we will never know."

--Archmage Leandros

>>24736088
Fuckin awesome bro. Chamso-Tho was one of the places created by me.

>>24735534 here.

>>24735947

Hm. You're correct.

Perhaps due to the lack of water, the dude has been hallucinating the fuck out and simply BELIEVES he has been bitten by snakes.

>>24736140
Thats entirely feasible. I wasn't trying to troll you or anything, I was just saying the area has no life. Delusions of snakes biting is certainly workable.

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"This desert holds nothing of value, so why am I drawn to it?"

-- The Unfinished Works of Harivel Gast, Great Explorer; Chapter 25.

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>>24735313

The Whisper of Hours, a scholarly group of playwrights who ply their trade in the Pyrathian city of Sarth. Known to dress in black and red robes they also don whatever costume suits the roles they play for epics written by and performed by their peers, typically focused on whatever historical facts they unearth in Libraries and on their solitary travels.

On top of blending their unique sense of humor and world view into their performances they are also known as sooth-sayers who's deep appreciation for history has allowed them a limited ability to predict a person's future to a degree. Such sessions are always done in private and performed as a play with silence of the nature of the play being the only other payment needed to be told one's fortune.

>>24736219
Tell me about some of their plays.

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The province of Denpol lies at the far south of the Myran Republic.

Represented by Tetrarch Hadrak Fel, Denpol's peaceful lands have produced many esteemed members of the arts over the years, and the Denpol bards are legendary for their humor and wit across the land. It is the second-most populous province, only outmatched by Sallust.

>>24736599

Most of their plays tend to be historical reproductions. They travel all parts of the world to collect whatever information they can on a particular subject of interest and, when satisfied, pen their plays and present it to their brothers and sisters for review.

Some of their plays includes the epic of a messenger during the Battle of Sardis who, supposedly, managed to cling to life just long enough to deliver a seal message to Lady Suzerain even as he was pursued by N'Goroth outriders. The play details his life up to that moment.

The Whispers in particular take interest in moments swept by the grand nature of historical events.

>>24736739
Do they know anything about any of the extinct societies or is it mostly the history of the current cycle?

>>24736782

As much as any other scholar would. A big part of their group's identity comes from the fact that they go and seek out this sort of knowledge for the sake of their art. No doubt a wizened member has a journal or two stashed away detailing his or her romp through ancient cyclopean ruins here or there. They are terribly defensive with their knowledge fearing others would steal and claim it for themselves. What little they tell they tell through their plays.

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The Island of Corga is known to be home to small race of sentient dogs. These dogs though lacking vocal cords and therefore unable to communicate via language, are proficient sailors and it is a common superstition that they are good luck to have on board a ship.

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"Surely THAT must be safe rest on?"

-- Phillip Onteff, The Second

>>24733351
>>24736992

I request a full length novel detailing the entire family history of the Onteff family.

>>24736992
<I don't think so, phill.> - Bingo, a corgi-hound with a collar of telepathy, traveling companon of Phillip Onteff the second.

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The Last one for the night from me based off of whoever made >>24726592

Those who laugh at night, a lengthy title for a group of assassin buffons who's only audience are the victims they are sent to kill. Furtive and always out of sight, TwLaN are by no means simple butcher's who kill for gold and are particular about the contracts they take as their kills are often spectacles in and of themselves.

One noted performance was the death of a Seeldyrmirian council Rashul who was found stabbed to death in his chambers with his daughter atop his corpse dirtied in his blood. It was later found that over the years her mind was slowly being poisoned by an unknown assilant thought to have disguised himself as a servant and supposedly for the death of a nobleman's daughter Valkyir.

When such events occur the populace tends to be weary of the Court of Wit but other troupes will swear them off as simple killers with no association to themselves of their founder Julion.

Julion himself has never been heard or recorded to have said anything in regard to them and apparently makes no effort to refute them.

>>24737082
I made the pennywise post you responded to. And I say good on you, chap. I'm glad to have been inspirational. If I make a post that inspires a person to write 1 creative sentence, I consider my effort a success.

>>24737118

I'm glad for it, as it adds a layer of complexity to the Court of Wit as they are not wholly good or evil. There is a great deal of Lovecraft in their nature so I'll have to read over the other posts to make more of them. I really hope someone is archiving this.

>>24737170
This thread was voted to be archived way, way back. So far back that I don't know if the new stuff is archived or not.

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1) This is the best thread on /tg/ I've seen in a while. It's shit like this that keeps me coming back so stop it already.
2) Can someone get around to writing a comprehensive summary for this setting? I would but I've got finals to study for.
3) Polite sage for no content

>>24737170
i'm serious about that archive tho. it should be.

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>>24737055
This was all I could recover from the archives.

Well, I am doing a world dump of sorts - come tell me how crappy my lore is.

>>24736620

>>24737289

can we get it voted for archieve again?

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It is well known by travellers and explorers that one should never seek refuge in ancient temples or shrines. When a man prays or meditates in order to shed his sins in the name of his diety, or purge his soul of evil, that taint does not simply vanish. Over decades, sometimes centuries, the evils cast off by these repentant men and women seep into the stone, the glass, the timber, even the air itself, eventually coalescing into vile spectres which bear a grudge against anybody who holds a good heart, or a pure soul.

There are rumours that the same applies to the worshipping grounds of those dieties of bloodlust and evil, the lost purity of their followers forming into spectres which possess nothing but goodness. If this is true, it means that one of the safest places one could rest, if one finds themselves lost in the wilderness, is an ancient shrine used for blood sacrifice or dark worship, contrary to what any sane adventurer would assume.

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>>24737371

>>24737595

>oh boy, that's going to end well

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"Wotsat? You want ta enter The Hives? You? Hahahahahahaha (laughter continued for well over a minute)"

-Gerner, Pickpocket

>>24737669
Interesting side detail; Svortskoggore (which I created earlier in the thread), has a species of giant catfish that can be caught there, so if you're properly armed and ready to deal with dragons and undead, you -could- actually go fishing there and turn a profit. Assuming you didn't get ripped apart by undead or roast-poisoned by dragons.

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Pictured here is the artist Bellmont Krag's depiction of a Seeldymir knight during the Levicus Expedition.

>>24735313

I guess I couldn't stay away, and felt inspired again and wanted to add a bit to the Siren's entry.

The sailor's of Berytus are superstitious and with good reason as the Sea of Tears is said to be haunt of spirits who favors are oft curried by the presence of a Siren.

Sometimes for no other reason than to feel the wind and wave at her cheek a Siren will beg passage on a ship. While some who refuse them suffer no ills others have been reported to have met with strange accidents; experienced navigators suddenly loosing their way, the ship's stores fouled by rodents and, most dreaded of all.a chance encounter with a freak storm known as the Demon's Sigh, a tropical depression said to sometimes to reveal the form of an anguished woman in the clouds.

Even still with a Siren present accidents happen so foreigners are uncovinced of their ability to ward danger and most just assume the Sirens are the cause but a Berytus man of the sea would be loath to take that chance.

>>24737522
How do I vote?

>>24737869

beats me, gunna have to look into it.

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"Go to bed child, or else the the Witch Mother will come and eat you up!"

-Common folklore belief

>>24737864
Does the demon's sigh have anything to do with the Abyss of Darkness? Its a hole in the bottom of the sea that night comes out of when the sun goes down, and night goes back into when the sun comes up. Its also a lovecraftian monster habitat.

>>24737924

I'm not the one who came up with the Abyss of Darkness but thanks for making that connection.

Perhaps the unknown woman had cast herself into the Abyss? and her sadness manifests as a storm that forms randomly and strikes only in that region.

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"Pathetic. I expected more from a Seeldymirian Mage."

-- Thanatos, Pyrathan Battle-Mage.

>>24737982
That sounds good. I made the abyss of darkness, I was just asking.

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"Fool child. Have you learned so little that even now you still cling to the petty superstitions of your thrice accursed religion? The Abyss has much to teach those who have the will to learn."

We need to make this into a formalized, systematized world in which quests can be run. There is no doubt in my mind that such a quest would be fun.

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>>24719644
>Spend two years writing my own campaign setting on and off
>Some dude on /tg/ writes a better one in a night on a whim

Well, ok then

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"I don't know. He hasn't said a single comprehensible word since he was found by the old sewer entrance by the guard. We had to sedate him to keep him from screaming"

-Arthur Brazac, Vorian physician

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"Welcome to the Portable Hole in the Wall."

-- The Mysterious Woman in the Portable Hole.

It's where all the items lost in a portable hole/bag of holding go.

She gives away one item to each person who visits. They may not always want it, but they will always need it. Even if they don't know it yet.

Take that as you will.

>>24735184
Whats the colleges relation to Chamso-Tho?
Details of Chamso-Tho can be found at >>24722087

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"You came to the wrong neighbourhood, fleshbag"

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The great desert cities of the Marden Republic hold more than simply sand and gemstones. If you know who to approach, you may find yourself watching some of the republic's most skilled hand-to-hand combatants fight amongst themselves anonymously.

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>>24738113
Yep

>>24738113
But anon, what you've made is yours and yours alone.
I think that's special.

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>>24721685

A little known aspect of the culture of the Orcs of Hellborn Keep is the deeply conservative nature of their women. Typically their women are swathed in thick veils drapped over their heads and suspended from the horns of Bull Mirrodows carved with intricate patterns and woven into their hair. Many such headdresses are passed down from mother to daughter in this fashion and used as a symbol of strength as the horns are quite heavy.

Here pictured is a print from the Myrdan artist Salinda who convinced a Orc warrior woman to loose her battle veils.

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Nobody knows what machinations required parts of that size, or what the creations themselves were used for. Regardless, Espen couldn't help but wander through the construct yard of Bolgenhelm to clear his mind before facing the wretch that killed his sister.

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The city states of Voria have been at war so long nobody remembers what they were fighting over.

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"Don't get to comfortable in your world of walls and barriers. Time is but a road to me, and walls simply an illusion of strength." - Tagron Zathos, inventor of the teleport spell, later a lich

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>>24738234
The GRYPHON corps., and international, interspecies merc/adventurer's company who ride gryphons.

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>>24738113
wow i honestly don't know what to say OP here after almost 20 hours and almost 200 posts. I haven't really dove into all the new stuff since around noon today But holy crap Thanks guys!
Ive done very little to help this project along. After the first 50 post and i saw some lovecraftian themes, some constructs, and all the exploration potential (between the wastes and the ancient unknown structures) I decided to let it ride it was in good, Great hands.

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The mountains that border the northern edge of Berytus are filled with trolls, orcs, shadow elves, frost liches, and worse.

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>>24735221
Directly north of Mainland is the continent of Balthazar. It is notable for both its vast deserts and unstable volcanic terrain, envrionments to which the Marden Republic and Manchurian Empire call home, respectively. Despite neighboring the turbulent continent of Ortaisield, the peoples of Balthazar are largely safe from their depredations due to the hostile nature of the climate and wildlife.

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>>24738450
"They froze to death so quickly that their organs burst. It must have been specters, we're near holden pass, aren't we?" - Javis Flemf, party doctor, Company of the gray mountain

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>>24738271

"A strong Orc could hurl boulders with ease. A truely powerful Orc could command legions to do this joyfully in his name."

-Dam'Juroth, Hellborn Warlord

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Captain Qiu leads a contingent of Machurian cavalry on a routine patrol through the Anurbis Dune.

>>24738617
I don't like the way that one came out, please ignore it.

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The Imperial Dragons are honor-bound to the service of the Manchurian nobility, serving as terrifying beasts of war or watchful guardians of the sacred temples, which are often built in the scant oases scattered about Balthazar.

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>>24738388
>>24719644
Lastly, when this thread reaches its limit DO NOT start a new one. I have a feeling its gonna take me a good week to read everything piece it together(anyone wanna help with that) for those that made the list of all the known locations
>>24731888
>>24730089
Thank You
for anyone wanting to do something like this i'd say limit the scope make it so X amount of posts decide the themes, then the bbegs, ,then provinces, cities, and so on and so forth. While i'm sure this has been a blast the sheer amount of data is slightly cumbersome.

Thanks Again, Stay Classy

/tg/ gets shit done, indeed!

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"Even in the very ancient time when Chamso-Tho was inhabited, dragons were known. However the people there appear to have had some understanding with Dragons, as throughout the cities history, there were no deaths attributed to dragons, and no dragon attacks of any kind. Sages debate the meaning of this fact." - Encyclopedia of Relics, Myths, and Magic, Lord Sir Davis Chesch

Pictured: A close up from the famous 'wall of dancing dragons', located in the south-eastern quadrant of Chamso-Tho

>>24738704
>Lastly, when this thread reaches its limit DO NOT start a new one.

I was thinking we could start a new thread not to create just brand-new shit, but rather to solidify concepts and tie the setting together into something cohesive.

>>24738741
We need to get this voted on and archived. That way we can have this thread open in another window while we work on the next thread.

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"...the ironwood berry is also involved in the spring time traditions of many of the villages of northern Voria. One of the more interesting annual traditions that I found on my travels was the New Moon Night Pick of the village of Kerth. On the night of the 3rd new moon of the year all the villages women of certain age would venture out into the surrounding woods to pick the ironwood berries by starlight. This tradition is said to bring good luck to the years harvest and ward off sickness. If the current prosperity of Kerth is any indicator perhaps there is some truth to this superstition."

-Edger Vanos, Renowned Botanist

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Whenever death reaps many lives at once, they are found. Crawling over the floor and over walls on spindly limbs in an unnaturally smooth motion. It is not known what they are, how they work, how they eat or what their purpose is, where they go or where they come from.

What is known, is that if anyone touches one or follows one for too long, they vanish together in a flash of shadow, and the death toll must be revised.

>>24719644

remember to upvote

>>24738858

how so for the ignorant among us.

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Alright this looks like some fun shit..

"The Silent Jester is a recurring sighting the Pyrathian city of Sarth. Once a court fool of an unspecified king, the man who would be the Silent Jester was obsessed with discovering the 'perfect joke'. The increasingly bizarre and lethal stunts caused by the Jester began to worry several nobles at court and a plot was hatched.

The night before his final performance, the one where he would finally unveil his 'perfect joke', the Jester was brutally murdered by the nobles, butchered with a dagger and thrown into the sewers to rot.

But that was not the end of it. Several years later many of those who had been part of the plot were found butchered in elaborate and ironic ways. The gluttonous Lord Francis was gutted with hot mince pies shoved into where his entrails used to inhabit. The greedy Lord Wilhelm had a pot of hot, melted gold poured on his head. The lecherous old Lord Stephan had choked to death on his own severed cock.

And witnesses reported at every crime scene a Jester, wielding a bloody knife with eyes glowing with otherworldly energy, smelling of sewers and rot. The Silent Jester, as the killer became known as, continued its grizzly murders until every noble who had plotted the demise of the Jester was dead.

Sightings of the Silent Jester continue to this day, many years after the final noble, the sadistic Lord Gregor, was found tortured to death. What it wants, if anything, is a mystery, but its appearance still inspires dread in those who see it.

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"I'm pretty sure that's dead."

-- Gerald Onteff, while exploring northern Berytus

>>24738888
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html

Go here, ctrl+f, search for the thread number, then there's a little 'vote' button next to it.

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To date, the sudden disappearance of the villagers of Korma, Derk, Yule, and Raider's Crossing have never been explained.

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A rare spring bloom on the Manchurian shoreline.

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"Might makes right."

-- Warlord Culn of Voria

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"Skinrot - An illness carried by some forms of undead and by some unclean animals, skinrot is treated by lancing the boils of the patient (speckled face) with a clean razor, then allowing the fluids to excrete, washing them down with a flask of saltwater. When that is done, the patient must bathe in water mixed with a tincture of Sacro plant, Fireberry, and holyroot 2 times a day, once at dawn and once at dusk. If the illness has not abated in one weeks time, the patient must return to the doctor and seek further consultation. For a list of animals which carry this illness, see page 157 table 4.C, 'Unclean animals'. For a list of monsters which inflict this condition, consult the Manual Monstrous, section 4, 'Unclean monsters'. Skinrot passes by flesh to flesh contact, and in accordance with the laws of most kingdoms, sufferers of skinrot will be lawfully expelled from the cities of the land if their illness does not abate by the end of the second week."

St. Jurchen's manual of medicine, section 2, page 51.

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No one really knows where the Quelleds come from bur as long as they keep bringing their powerful magic items and a hunger for trade no one really cares.

>>24739131
Another hand has written in the comentary section of the page, "Skinrot progresses quickly and is fatal, rotting the body to pieces. Be concerned if you catch it, and seek treatment right away."

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"No God, no man, no beat, no power will stop me. I will rule these seas.

To those that oppose me, fear and blood shall be the only thing found in my wake.

To those who pledge their allegiance, prosperity and power.

Either way, they will all know my name."

-- Cecily Reisert, Queen of the Green Sea, and the Misty Ocean. Wanted Criminal, known brigand, thief, pirate.

>>24739082
Arthur strived proved different, nigger

>>24739181
"No God, no man, no beast*, no power will stop me. I will rule these seas."

Still waiting for that edit button, mootles.

Also, traitor should be included on her list of crimes.

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>>24721354
Before he was stricken with (debatable madness), they say Captain Mercury was one of the most charismatic and inspirational captains in Valkyr. His heavenly voice could inspire legions and is credited with raising flagging morale to turning the tide of battle itself.

>>24720577
>>24720699
"You believe this plane holds dark things within it? Nay child of man, it is but dim compared to what A'gna'sh shall bring."

--Bo'von of Life

Fuggin image limit.

>>24739370
Well... we fuckin' did it, that's for sure.
Good work, men, good work.

Now everyone, go directly off and vote for archival.

>>24739400
I was vote 9, I think it's pretty set in stone now. Doesn't it only need 10?

>>24739370
Since we're not at bump limit, we should try and tie all this shit together.

Maybe try and get someone to draw a map.

>>24739418
I'm vote 10. Shit like this is why I still come here.

>fuckin' image limit

http://i1.minus.com/jbdHPkjDNSFUDK.jpg

As onerous as life often becomes in The Hives, many of its residents argue that winter is the greater of the two evils.

The ramshackle and poorly-insulated homes are no defense from the harsh blizzards that often tear through the region in winter, and food becomes even scarcer than before as soil freezes over and the native wildlife retreats into hiding. Many of Scheold's subjects protest against the urban eyesore that covers much of the province, but Tetrach Lyran and his supporters greatly resist any attempts at change.

>>24739450
> imgur
THE RIDE NEVER ENDS

>>24739424
That'd be good. I'm absolutely autismal when it comes to making maps.

>>24739400
archive.foolz.us/tg/thread/24719644
In case you want direct access/suptg ever goes down

>>24739457
I just noticed that was minus. Minus, imgur, same thing, the point remains that WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE

>>24739459
>sup/tg/
>down
LL is too autism to let sup/tg/ go down.

"Crows don't call in a storm"

-Valkyr proverb

So I'm thinking the first thing we should do is place the planet, any moons, and decide what sort of star the planet orbits. Once thats done we can place continents in chosen areas and then delegate locations to each continent.

>>24739626
>So I'm thinking the first thing we should do is place the planet

I believe it was stated upthread it was the 4th planet from the sun. As for the number of moons and sort of star, I'm no astronomer so I just stick with Earth standards when creating this stuff.

>>24739626
>place the planet

There seems to be a lot of cold areas, so far away enough from a sun, or a smaller, colder sun, to facilitate the climates, but close enough to have a liquid sea.

How about two moons with highly magnetic content, and move the roving islands because of their highly magnetic rock/soil content.

Just a thought.

>>24739688
Perhaps the sun is small and blue? As for the roving islands, that sounds simple enough to me.

>>24739673
I remembered that a moment after I posted that.

>>24739688
>There seems to be a lot of cold areas, so far away enough from a sun, or a smaller, colder sun, to facilitate the climates, but close enough to have a liquid sea.

I've seen quite a few references to hot deserts as well though. Most of the cold areas discussed were described as being in the mountains, so I think that should mesh fine.

Notable Places (Updated):

1. The Ashe Wastes
2. The Dream world of Nirn
3. The City of Obelisks
4. The Kingdom of Valkyr
5. The Roving city of Seeldymr
6. The Edge of the Wastes, Ateitia
7. The City State of Berytus
8. The Sea of Tears
9. The Mountains of Dust
10. Pyrathan Empire
11. Mithras
12. The Standing Candle Islands
13. The Halls of Lava and the City of Deep Darkness
14. The Great Bowl
15. Kendre
16. The Abyss of Darkness
17. The Deep Planes and Zdenko
18. Hellborn Keep
19.. Svortskoggore
20. The Ruins of Sharrath
21. The City of Tombs.
22. The Labyrinth Temples of A'gna'sh
23. Holden Pass
24. Menea Isles.
25. Tol Adrolok
26. The Ice Palace of Asamoya
27. Zuril's River in Mistfall vale.
28. The Ruins of Tirth Rodan
29. The Barzhu Bazaar
30. Chamso-Tho
31. N'Goroth
32. The Peak of enlightenment
33. Yilang-do
34. Voria
35. Upland Moors
36. Manchuria
37. The Green Sea
38. The Misty Ocean
39. The Hives

>>24739688
Alternately, the islands rove because Fucking Magic, Man. I think this setting is pretty clearly magical.

>>24740234
Not everything has to be 'Magic, I en't gotter explain shite.'

Besides, people could just ASSUME it's magic, with a much less magical explanation that nobody bothers with.

So theres been various comments in the thread about the elves being extinct. Why did they go extinct?

>>24740271

That or it's the body of some gigantic deep sea abomination that's to big to notice a landmass on it's back. I mean, there's a god that's to lazy to get up out of his chair and even moving his finger caused a hill to turn to slag

>>24740271
Better explanations for the Wandering Island:

>It's actually a massive chunk of pumice; the whole island floats and is carried along by currents.

>It's actually just dirt and trees over the hard shell of a fuckhuge sea creature, which swims around

>It's a really, really old Elven city-ship that's so crumbled and covered with dirt, debris, biomass, and lichen that it is no longer obviously artificial. The engines still work, though.

>Island Golem

>Nomadic wizards decided to take their whole island with them while they traveled.

>>24740389
I can't remember what the name of it was, but in the monstrous manual in the "Z" section there was a monster that resembled a freely traveling island. It was a giant turtle.

>>24740389

I kinda like the ship idea better. Imagine, a city ship that goes along it's pre-destined course even though all the elves have long since died off. It's basicly been running on autopilot for some 100,000 years.

>>24740389
>It's actually the last of an ancient magical chain of floating islands raised by a wizard millenia ago. The spell has grown so weak that the island can no longer stay above water, but it still floats.

"My friend I thank you for your sword arm and your patience when as we ventured into Hellborn Keep but I promise once I finish writing the Life of Clan Khilija I will find the best actor for your part!"

Thomas Adill, initiate Whisper paying homage to the grave of one Jaxson Mithal

>>24740328
Pick one:
>The amount of mana in the world dropped so precipitously low that the magic-based technologies and phantasmagoric cities of the elves practically ceased to exist, let alone function. The elves frantically attempted to move to a solely-mechanical civilization, but they died out in the collapse as the loss of mana robbed them of their natural gifts and powers. The world has still not recovered.

>The huge meteor impact that created the Great Bowl and implanted the seed of the Machine Sphere killed them off.

>They turned philosophical, were doing experiments to determine the nature of godhood and the afterlife. Last we heard, they were trying to make contact with these other realms... then, one day, they simply all lined up, one by one, and committed vast, simultaneous suicide, a whole species killing itself. We think they must have discovered something. We don't know what- and any translator that discovers kills themself immediately.

>Lovecraftian shit. The stars were, for a time, right... and now they are out of alignment, and the gates that dot the old elven lands remain fixed to comprehensible reality. One day, they shall shift, and terrors beyond comprehension will flood the world once more.

>Warforged apocalypse

>Zombie apocalypse

>Disco apocalypse

>Somebody pissed off the Iron God.

>>24740602
>Elven experiments in bio-artificing and the forbidden third school of Blood Alchemy resulted in an outbreak of utterly horrifying plague. The elves actually still survive today- most of the horrifying monsters that inhabit the shadows and the dark corners are the descendants of those who "survived" the gene-plague.

>>24740602
>The amount of mana in the world dropped so precipitously low that the magic-based technologies and phantasmagoric cities of the elves practically ceased to exist, let alone function. The elves frantically attempted to move to a solely-mechanical civilization, but they died out in the collapse as the loss of mana robbed them of their natural gifts and powers. The world has still not recovered.

or

>They turned philosophical, were doing experiments to determine the nature of godhood and the afterlife. Last we heard, they were trying to make contact with these other realms... then, one day, they simply all lined up, one by one, and committed vast, simultaneous suicide, a whole species killing itself. We think they must have discovered something. We don't know what- and any translator that discovers kills themself immediately.

Either that or their creations turned on them for being horrible, immoral bastards and killed each other off in some kind of mutual destruction war.

>>24740632
Basically, think Man after Man, but for elves.

People of Note:

Deities-

1. A'gna'sh
2. Sah of Ash
3. Aka of Fire


Titans-

1. Ras, Titan of Glory
2. The Titan of Wrath
3. Uros, Titan of Sight


Kingdom of Valkyr-

1. Gerald Valkyr
2. Captain Mercury


Seeldymir-

1. Sir Larn


Pyrathan Empire-

1. Queen of Red
2. King Erioch
3. The Fading Red
4. Thanatos
5. Silent Jester
6. Lady Andrath


Mynar Republic-

1. Ragasa, Queen of Pirates, Vice Arch-admiral of Berytus
2. Tetrarch Hadrak Fel
3. Tetrarch Lyran
4. Onteff Family
5. Gerner


Children of A'gna'sh-

1. High Priest Ella


Hellborn Keep-

1. Krugursk Throat-Ripper
2. Dam'Juroth


City-states of Voria-

1. Warlord Culn
2. Arthur Brazac


Blashyrkh-

1. Abbath Doom Occulta


Kingdom of Mithras?-

1. Mithras


Kendre-

1. Lady Suzerain


Manchuria-

1. Captain Qiu


Unknown/ No Affiliation-

1.Cecily Reisert
2. Bellmont Krag
3. The Mysterious Woman in the Portable Hole
4. Targon Zathos
5. Javis Flemf
6. Lord Sir Davis Chesch
7. Edger Vanos
8. Colonel Terminus
9. Julion, Patriarch of Wit
10. Kuldis Tar
11. Ping Ho
12. Archmage Leandros
13. Harviel Gast
14. Princeps of Tears
15. Head Architect

>>24740602
>Magic is the art of bending reality to one's will- but spacetime can only be folded so much before it rips. The elves's mastery of magic and technology became so great that reality simply rejected them, swallowing them up and folding over them like an oyster covering an irritating nub of grit with nacre to form a pearl. The network of planes and pocket worlds that makes up the cosmology of reality today did not always exist- these are the remnants of that vast quiet upheaval, of reality itself rebelling- and the demons that inhabit them are the warped descendants of the chaotic, dying years of the Elvish Fall.

>>24740642

>Either that or their creations turned on them for being horrible, immoral bastards and killed each other off in some kind of mutual destruction war.

Oooh! I pick that one!

>>24740697
>The most direct survivors of Elvish civilization are the Zdenko. The elves were not nice people, and they did not look like mere tall humans with pointy ears.

>>24740602
>>24740632
>>24740642
>>24740697

ALL OF THESE ARE GOOD

>>24740713

What do they look like then?

>>24740676
Kuldis Tar - Historical, died several centuries before the elvish fall. Few likenesses of him remain. He killed the Dragon Draedan. Records are unclear but draedan was either a flying or sea dragon. The elvish word for 'sky' is similar to the word for 'sea', so records sometimes say Draedan lived in the sea or that he flew in the sky.

Lord Sir Davis Chesch - Historical, wrote a series of books of history, geography, and anthropology. He formalized the science of Anthropology.

Targon Zathos - A lich, previously a professor at the magic academy

Javis Flemf - A mercenary healer who could appear in the present

St Jurchen - Wrote a famous textbook about medicines that is still widely used. Lived during the elvish fall, but was human.

Fingus Corvald - Historical, wrote the 25 volume 'travels to distant places'

Also: Iron God - One of the earliest gods in existence. He no longer has any formalized religion and few of his temples survive, the few that do being archaic ruins.

>>24740676
Cecily Reisert is a traitor to the Kingdom of Valkyr, having stolen an important flying warship from the King's fleet.

Also, if you're referring to 'Ragasa, Queen of Pirates' as 'Princeps of Tears' she's affiliated to Berytus.

So we have two votes for these:

>The amount of mana in the world dropped so precipitously low that the magic-based technologies and phantasmagoric cities of the elves practically ceased to exist, let alone function. The elves frantically attempted to move to a solely-mechanical civilization, but they died out in the collapse as the loss of mana robbed them of their natural gifts and powers. The world has still not recovered.
>They turned philosophical, were doing experiments to determine the nature of godhood and the afterlife. Last we heard, they were trying to make contact with these other realms... then, one day, they simply all lined up, one by one, and committed vast, simultaneous suicide, a whole species killing itself. We think they must have discovered something. We don't know what- and any translator that discovers kills themself immediately.

>Either that or their creations turned on them for being horrible, immoral bastards and killed each other off in some kind of mutual destruction war.

Each, we need a tiebreaker.

>>24740866
What if we use all 3?

>elves tech starts failing
>they invest more time and energy into magic
>shit starts getting REALLY bad
>they flee to another dimension, becoming the Zdenko.