imtheguido
Tuesday 01-08-2008, 12:14 PM
The setting itself has no name, still working on that part. First a bit of basic information on the Realm (Which also has no name yet.) consists of the three major Continents. The largest being Valarenth, which has a generaly temperate climate with mostly lush forests, vast plains, a few decent sized mountain ranges and the occasional desert. Valarenth is fallowed closely by the not much smaller Raleal, which is mostly a tropical continent, with large mountain ranges, massive, thick jungles, deserts and a bit of an arctic cap in the far north. The last continent of Adara is almost like a floating desert. From the waters edge, to the center of the continent, it is one hot blazing inferno of sand, wind and sun.
At the moment, I am working on the extended history of the realm. The time line in the realm is Identicle to that of ours, 365 days in a year, 12 months (same names till I can get more creative), 24 hours to a day, 7 days to a week. Everything. The only difference is that years are marked as -year-BC and -year-AC. To explain, I will jump right into the 'Immediate' history of the realm. The place is the Continent of Valarenth. There are 7 major cities, each ruling over the surrounding area in a kingdom sort of manner, with a basic Monarchie type government. These 7 major cities being: Hooks Tip, Dalistan, Garsteth, Balareth, Rashan, Salaren and Corield. There was a long period of peice called "The Calm Years", which lasted roughly 50 years. Just before this time a massive war crippled the continent, each city waring over controle of the surrounding lands, water ways and seas, the largest war in the history of the World.
Near the end of "The Calm Years" there was a man by the name of Ramustule, whom went from village to village, town to town, and city to city, proclaming that he have had a vision, of the world coming to the end, in a massive cataclysm that would consume the world in evil flames which would rain from the skies, the seas would boil and chaos would run rampant among the lands. People pushed him off as some mental cased man whom was only seeking attention, with only one true listener. A gnome, Gerald Fiddlespot. A well known inventor whom lived in the city of Balareth.
Ramastule and Gerald became good friends, and spent the next four years living together in Gerald's Laboritory. They never seamed to leave unless for food and drink, what they did within, no one knew, until August third four years after they met, a day now known as Worlds End Day.
The people of the land knew something was amiss that morning, when the sun that began to rise, was a deep crimson in color, rather than is usual bright orangish red. Their worries turned into fear as the usual blue skies slowly turned to a light hue of purple and the clouds a deeper purple, almost black. That morning Gerald quickly went to work setting up the device he had spent the past four years building. Once he had finished setting up the strange and yet wonderous crystal like device in the center of the city, he flipped a single toggle switch near the base of the monsterous machine, a small floating blueish green crystal began to glow brightly in the center of the machine. Not too soon after, a massive blue dome of what looked to be like that of a shield spell encompassed the city, just in time to prevent balls of fire from the sky from falling onto the city below.
That day was 400 years ago. The blue dome remains over the city, which has sustained itself with help from the mages, sorcerers and priests, creating all the food and water to keep themselves alive. The city's original wall was fortified in case anything outside figured a way through the barrier, and to keep the occupants from leaving. The only people to leave the city have been those forced into exile for breaking the laws which keep order in these chaotic times. With no contact of outside intelligent life, the council has recently decided that for the first time, they will send out a party to seek other survivors.
The current year is 400 AC (After Cataclysm, BC obviously meaning Before Cataclysm), and you are to be the first to leave the city in search of other intelligent life since the event, weather it be by your will or not.
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That so far is all the players know. While outside of this dome, the world has changed greatly. The Cataclysm as it has been come to called, was brought upon the realm by a powerful Demon Lord (Haven't quite decided the name or type of demon yet.) whom was able to retrieve the Seven orbs of Destruction, created over a Millennium ago by seven Demon Lords in the first attempt to bring their powers to the world at large against the will of the gods. Their attempts where thwarted by several groups of adventurers whom have been come to be known in legend as the "Saviors of the Dawn."
The Orbs where hidden throughout the world in an attempt to prevent their use from ever being discovered again, for these orbs could not be destroyed without almost certainly killing all those around it, as the resulting effects would be that of a Maximized, Enlarged, Widened 10th level fireball with the Energy AddMixture Meta Magic Feat added on for Double the damage with the second half of the damage being of the [Cold] Descriptor. All the meta magics makes it effectively 22nd level. After this spell goes off, it becomes a Living Spell. This has been discovered through the destruction of one of those 7 orbs long ago, with the resulting creature wandering the alcove where it was created since it appeared. This area is now known as the "Fire Lords Dominion". (( I will be posting the stats for the living spell once I finish creating it with some of your help! Please check the Dungeons and Dragons Forum for my post to help!))
With one orb destroyed, the current Demon Lord was able to re-create the 7th, and use it in his domination of the world. Since the Cataclysm, the world has become a very dark and evil place. All non-magical creatures of the world, have gained the chaotic evil alignment in place of their original, as well as the (Fiendish) template.
The world around them itself has changed. The sky remains a dull purpleish color, everything seeming no longer bright and vibrant as it once was. The Immediate area around the city, shows remenents of the day that fire fell from the sky, large craters that vegetation has re-grown over in the years that have passed.
There are of course other survivors, though I have yet to decide where they are, or how they have survived. The gnome will provide them information where they can find more of the crystals that he used to power the device, but that is about all the information other than the best map they have of what the world around them looked like 400 years ago.
That is pretty much all I have for now, please... please give input into it? Even if I don't use all of your suggestions, all of them will be considered! Thanks for the help in advance!
At the moment, I am working on the extended history of the realm. The time line in the realm is Identicle to that of ours, 365 days in a year, 12 months (same names till I can get more creative), 24 hours to a day, 7 days to a week. Everything. The only difference is that years are marked as -year-BC and -year-AC. To explain, I will jump right into the 'Immediate' history of the realm. The place is the Continent of Valarenth. There are 7 major cities, each ruling over the surrounding area in a kingdom sort of manner, with a basic Monarchie type government. These 7 major cities being: Hooks Tip, Dalistan, Garsteth, Balareth, Rashan, Salaren and Corield. There was a long period of peice called "The Calm Years", which lasted roughly 50 years. Just before this time a massive war crippled the continent, each city waring over controle of the surrounding lands, water ways and seas, the largest war in the history of the World.
Near the end of "The Calm Years" there was a man by the name of Ramustule, whom went from village to village, town to town, and city to city, proclaming that he have had a vision, of the world coming to the end, in a massive cataclysm that would consume the world in evil flames which would rain from the skies, the seas would boil and chaos would run rampant among the lands. People pushed him off as some mental cased man whom was only seeking attention, with only one true listener. A gnome, Gerald Fiddlespot. A well known inventor whom lived in the city of Balareth.
Ramastule and Gerald became good friends, and spent the next four years living together in Gerald's Laboritory. They never seamed to leave unless for food and drink, what they did within, no one knew, until August third four years after they met, a day now known as Worlds End Day.
The people of the land knew something was amiss that morning, when the sun that began to rise, was a deep crimson in color, rather than is usual bright orangish red. Their worries turned into fear as the usual blue skies slowly turned to a light hue of purple and the clouds a deeper purple, almost black. That morning Gerald quickly went to work setting up the device he had spent the past four years building. Once he had finished setting up the strange and yet wonderous crystal like device in the center of the city, he flipped a single toggle switch near the base of the monsterous machine, a small floating blueish green crystal began to glow brightly in the center of the machine. Not too soon after, a massive blue dome of what looked to be like that of a shield spell encompassed the city, just in time to prevent balls of fire from the sky from falling onto the city below.
That day was 400 years ago. The blue dome remains over the city, which has sustained itself with help from the mages, sorcerers and priests, creating all the food and water to keep themselves alive. The city's original wall was fortified in case anything outside figured a way through the barrier, and to keep the occupants from leaving. The only people to leave the city have been those forced into exile for breaking the laws which keep order in these chaotic times. With no contact of outside intelligent life, the council has recently decided that for the first time, they will send out a party to seek other survivors.
The current year is 400 AC (After Cataclysm, BC obviously meaning Before Cataclysm), and you are to be the first to leave the city in search of other intelligent life since the event, weather it be by your will or not.
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That so far is all the players know. While outside of this dome, the world has changed greatly. The Cataclysm as it has been come to called, was brought upon the realm by a powerful Demon Lord (Haven't quite decided the name or type of demon yet.) whom was able to retrieve the Seven orbs of Destruction, created over a Millennium ago by seven Demon Lords in the first attempt to bring their powers to the world at large against the will of the gods. Their attempts where thwarted by several groups of adventurers whom have been come to be known in legend as the "Saviors of the Dawn."
The Orbs where hidden throughout the world in an attempt to prevent their use from ever being discovered again, for these orbs could not be destroyed without almost certainly killing all those around it, as the resulting effects would be that of a Maximized, Enlarged, Widened 10th level fireball with the Energy AddMixture Meta Magic Feat added on for Double the damage with the second half of the damage being of the [Cold] Descriptor. All the meta magics makes it effectively 22nd level. After this spell goes off, it becomes a Living Spell. This has been discovered through the destruction of one of those 7 orbs long ago, with the resulting creature wandering the alcove where it was created since it appeared. This area is now known as the "Fire Lords Dominion". (( I will be posting the stats for the living spell once I finish creating it with some of your help! Please check the Dungeons and Dragons Forum for my post to help!))
With one orb destroyed, the current Demon Lord was able to re-create the 7th, and use it in his domination of the world. Since the Cataclysm, the world has become a very dark and evil place. All non-magical creatures of the world, have gained the chaotic evil alignment in place of their original, as well as the (Fiendish) template.
The world around them itself has changed. The sky remains a dull purpleish color, everything seeming no longer bright and vibrant as it once was. The Immediate area around the city, shows remenents of the day that fire fell from the sky, large craters that vegetation has re-grown over in the years that have passed.
There are of course other survivors, though I have yet to decide where they are, or how they have survived. The gnome will provide them information where they can find more of the crystals that he used to power the device, but that is about all the information other than the best map they have of what the world around them looked like 400 years ago.
That is pretty much all I have for now, please... please give input into it? Even if I don't use all of your suggestions, all of them will be considered! Thanks for the help in advance!