Mor's End - City of..? [Brainstorm]

Should Mor's End require a theme?

  • Yes

    Votes: 14 58.3%
  • No

    Votes: 10 41.7%

Krug

Newshound
It bothers me that Mor's End doesn't have a strong theme. Yes, it's the City of Crafts, but that's more of a non-adventuring focus. It sounds like the city is dedicated to expertise in basket-weaving.

What we need is a better theme; a stronger hook. For example, HollowFaust is the City of Necromancers, Shelzar City of Sin, Stonebridge, City of Illusion.

My own proposal is that Mor's End is the City of Exiles. We have one group already that's exiled; the Winter Storm, a group of barbarian warriors who have been banished from the Northern lands. Other groups might include dwarven forge-engineers, who combine magic and mechanics to develop bizarre and interesting weapons, other bizarre cults allowed to practise in Mor's End and even perhaps a race that has escaped their home or plane to settle there, either known or unknown.

Exile is also a fairly generic term that can refer to voluntary and involuntary forms.

But right now we're just brainstorming. Other ideas anyone?

However, I can understand if the city does NOT require a theme. So that's the purpose of the poll. So chime in, whether you've contributed to the various threads or not. All will be heard.
 

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City of Cheese:P

I've always thought the appelation "City of..." was really Cheesy and by imposing a Theme it actually made the city less useful outside that Theme.

Much more useful is Plot Hooks by the Ton (Mors End City of 1000 Paths!) - Politics, Aquatic Adeventures, Rogue Adventures, Adventurer Adventures

What we do have for Mors End is the Big Plot Hook of the Warrens under the city. That means ready made dungeon and ready made theme.

For instance We know

1. that the upper warrens are used for smuggling purposes
and

2. we have a proposal tht would put Shuboth the Fiendish Black Pudding somewhere far below in the deep warrens.

But what lies between? Who or What created the Warrens in the first place? How far do the Warrens run under Lake and Mountain? What has Lady Kelvin got to do with it all?

(perhaps we need a thread for Plot Hooks: Warrens and start fleshing out some ideas/geomorphology for the place...)
 


Gee I guess I'm the oddball. I thought the theme of the city was "city on the edge of the wilderness." Sort of a wild frontier theme. This is the outpost of civilization in a wild land, seems that what the city is, is a good theme already.
 

So in other words, we don't need *more* of a theme than we already have.

Of course, instead of adding a theme, we could always emphasize one we already have. The clay/sapphires for example. But that would require reducing the role of the Silkers Circle, and I don't think there's much support for that.
 

Conaill said:
So in other words, we don't need *more* of a theme than we already have.

Of course, instead of adding a theme, we could always emphasize one we already have. The clay/sapphires for example. But that would require reducing the role of the Silkers Circle, and I don't think there's much support for that.

Yeah just that neither of those are that interesting or appealing to adventurers. Perhaps we should just leave it as a 'frontier' concept.
 

"Frontier" sounds fine to me. I definitely don't want to deal with those 40,000-100,000 people living in the surrounding countryside that some people are suggesting!
 

Mor's End: City on the Edge of Civilization
Mor's End: City on the Wild Frontier
Mor's End: City of Catoblepas Hunting
Mor's End: City of Sapphires
Mor's End: City of Crafts
Mor's End: Little City on the Borderlands
Mor's End: City of Intrigue
Mor's End: The Little City that Could
Mor's End: City of Coins

Sorry... I've run out of gas... my personal favorite is... Little City on the Borderlands :)

--sam
 

Maybe I'm asking it in the wrong place but on the subject of theme, I wondered if the name of the city was intentional. "Mor" is a word/suffix meaning "fool" (resulting in the creation of the word "moron."

Is Mor's End the City of Fools? If not, what is foolish about it. The holy fool is an underutilized hero archetype that could be strongly represented in our conception of Mor's End. In addition to the Von Eschenbach's Parzifal/Dostoyevsky's The Idiot hero archetype, there's also the Russian Orthodox church's monastic order of the Holy Fools.

Anyway, thoughts on fools, foolishness? Remember, the Fool is the first card of the Major Arcana in the Tarot.
 

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