I've had this silly idea playing around in my head for a while. From last year up until the end of January, I've been toying with this idea that there are these two deific brothers whose feuds ravage a mountain range.
What that means for the setting, well... The idea's only been roughly formed, but this is what I'm wondering about so far. In the farthest reaches of the southern ocean lies the continent of Tartarus. In the deep crags and high peaks of this untamed land, the gods Hepstus and Amahn fight each other day and night, neither one ever tiring nor becoming seriously harmed. (They're gods. Duh.) These immense gods fight each other tooth and nail, continuously shaping the landscape below them with great lightning strikes, tornadoes and all manner of spectacularly theatric events. Behind the darkened skies this battle has raged for centuries, in effect shunning would-be settlers and the like. (What's really happening is that wild magic storms cause the areas of Tartarus to become warped and chaotic. Landmarks that were there yesterday are now rubble, and something else has broken up through the crust to take its place. It's the main reason why the entire continent's devoid of civilization: nowhere safe to build.)
Anyway, the legends surrounding the lands tell of the shards of the brothers' broken weapons littering the ground and waters below the storm. These shards are said to still contain some of the god's connection to the Wield (the term for the force of magic), and can be used in potent rituals or as focus items, Attuned weapons, armor, junk, etc. Or, since the shards are big enough, to make golems and the like. (Again, the wild magic storms simply heap magic into the ground and water. Blah blah blah.)
Of course, I've got more to think about concerning these "gods" and their effects on the outer areas of Tartarus. And, obviously there's more to that continent than just this little diddy. I haven't even begun to think of what's beyond the mountains and fissures.
Waddaya think?
Sunday, July 1, 2007
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well it's a good start but it's very vage. i need more to really get into it personally. i neeed to know why we'd be there in the first place in a sense. i dont know
- kyle
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