The Inner Sea basin
One area of the seas, similar in style to the Med forms a semi enclosed basin. Recent earthquake and volcanic (Divine?) activity caused a change in the ocean currents supplying the basin with water, in effect causing the sea level to (very) slowly begin to lower as the water evaporates away. The channels into this basin now have more swiftly flowing currents (eventually to be waterfalls) but one of the Lokarnos City ships if effectively now trapped and unable to leave a (slowly) dwindling inner sea. If nothing can be done, this will eventually be left stranded within a barren salt lake. Although slight, the changes in salinicity are already beginning to drive creatures of the depths into more shallow waters, and who know, what ancient ruins will slowly become nearer and nearer the surface. Imagine if the Med started to evaporate in our world.
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Thursday, 19 June 2008
Sunday, 1 June 2008
The Sundering
The SunderingThe Empire of the Warlord Reptos once spanned the length and bredth of six whole continents. Millions of people of many different races and nations paid homage and tribute to the Emperor. In the years after his disappearance that Empire began to break apart as once subject people asserted their independance.
One of those people were the Lokarnos. The Lokarnos are a seafaring people who dwell in vast floating city ships. They transported the great slave armies of the Emperor to new lands and patrolled the coasts of his tributaries. In the days after the Warlords fall they invoked the Sundering, a powerful magical ritual which denied sea travel to all except their floating cities. Any ship leaving sight of land was beset by terrible weather, sea monsters and worse until it sank.
Two years ago the bells in the abandoned temples of Mael, the long forgotten Elder God of the seas began to ring calling men back to the sea. The Sundering was broken and nations, both old and new, have begun to explore the world beyond their own borders. Who broke the ancient spell, why and how are questions yet to be answered.
The Spire
The Cult of the Eternal
In the centre of the City there stands a spire of pure white glass, the Temple of the Cult of the Eternal surrounded by a garden of pale gold roses. For those who had become tired of life or who had suffered too much pain the garden brought final peaceful rest in sweet unending dreams. The Cult held the secret of Eternal Life and used their arts to extend the life of the Centurion King and so secure his dynasty and the entrapment of the demon.
The Sorcerors came to take the secret and so attain eternal life. They shattered the Cult, seized the Spire and twisted the garden into a place of nightmares. Now the Sorcerors draw their Guardian Demons out of the minds of tormented dreamers. The surviving remnants of the Cult fled into the desert and took refuge with the Kireshi desert nomads waiting for the day when prophecy will be fulfilled and the next Centurion King will return.
On that day they will enter the City with the Kireshi Desert Witches and sweep the sorcerors and their filth away. What none know are the bargains the Cult had to make with the Witches to secure their survival and aid...
In the centre of the City there stands a spire of pure white glass, the Temple of the Cult of the Eternal surrounded by a garden of pale gold roses. For those who had become tired of life or who had suffered too much pain the garden brought final peaceful rest in sweet unending dreams. The Cult held the secret of Eternal Life and used their arts to extend the life of the Centurion King and so secure his dynasty and the entrapment of the demon.
The Sorcerors came to take the secret and so attain eternal life. They shattered the Cult, seized the Spire and twisted the garden into a place of nightmares. Now the Sorcerors draw their Guardian Demons out of the minds of tormented dreamers. The surviving remnants of the Cult fled into the desert and took refuge with the Kireshi desert nomads waiting for the day when prophecy will be fulfilled and the next Centurion King will return.
On that day they will enter the City with the Kireshi Desert Witches and sweep the sorcerors and their filth away. What none know are the bargains the Cult had to make with the Witches to secure their survival and aid...
The Night of Madness
The Night of Madness
Once per year, during a high festival to the Gods, the energies of the Lord of Nightmares are particularly strong and the city is plunged into a night of chaos. Lusts run rampant throughout the streets, spirits appear and both seduce and terrify the inhabitants. Many people leave the city before this night, terrified at the ordeal, whilst others come especially for the chance to be nearer to the Divine. Unwittingly their raw emotions are feeding the demon beneath their feet and the tampering of the Cabal begins to loosen his bonds.
Once per year, during a high festival to the Gods, the energies of the Lord of Nightmares are particularly strong and the city is plunged into a night of chaos. Lusts run rampant throughout the streets, spirits appear and both seduce and terrify the inhabitants. Many people leave the city before this night, terrified at the ordeal, whilst others come especially for the chance to be nearer to the Divine. Unwittingly their raw emotions are feeding the demon beneath their feet and the tampering of the Cabal begins to loosen his bonds.
Recent History
Three hundred years ago an event occurred unprecedented since the fall of the Empire of Reptos. A ship crossed the Unpassable Ocean, broached the Sundering and made harbour in the ancient City of Kings. It bore the Cabal and that night was dark and terrible. Demons stalked the City streets and fire and lightning danced across the roofs.
The Centurion King was slain and the Cult of the Eternal cast out of their Temple. Some say they managed to flee into the desert, others claim that none survived or that if they escaped the City then demons devoured them. No-one knows the truth but what is known is that since that time the City has lain under the iron hard hand of the Cabal.
The Cabal took control of the Spire and built their towers at the cardinal points of the City. In order to draw upon greater demonic power the Cabal fuels the Night of Madness not understanding that in their plotting they have gradually been further and further corrupted. Some are barely human now, magic and demonic energies creating humanoid monsters whose moral values have been twisted beyond recognition. Evil creatures have been drawn to the city like a moth to flame.
The Centurion King was slain and the Cult of the Eternal cast out of their Temple. Some say they managed to flee into the desert, others claim that none survived or that if they escaped the City then demons devoured them. No-one knows the truth but what is known is that since that time the City has lain under the iron hard hand of the Cabal.
The Cabal took control of the Spire and built their towers at the cardinal points of the City. In order to draw upon greater demonic power the Cabal fuels the Night of Madness not understanding that in their plotting they have gradually been further and further corrupted. Some are barely human now, magic and demonic energies creating humanoid monsters whose moral values have been twisted beyond recognition. Evil creatures have been drawn to the city like a moth to flame.
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