cybernetic
Explorer
We all go to sleep and dream at night (whether or not we remember them or not). What if the essence of the dreams and nightmares we do not remember were syphoned off into a void and formed a whole other world of magic and fantasy....what if all the fairy tales and myths we've heard were not fiction...but the babbling of people who had actually experienced a this whole other world!
Imagine you wake up one morning and go about your regular routine. You eat breakfast you get dressed for work...but that when you notice something..your wife doesn't seem to notice you standing right next to her...and everything seems to have started to take on an subtle purple-ish tint. You yell and wave your arms, but no one hears or sees you...and then after hours of trying to get the attention of another person...you start to feel it. At first its just a slight pinch in your chest....your head....your arm...then comes the gut-wrenching pulling sensation as your whole world is swallowed by a swirling purple/blue void just like something out of the twilight zone.....and then you slam hard against something....and you can definatly tell that your environment has changed....no longer are you in the comfort of your own home...or the safety of your city..... you're laying in a forest. The thing you hit is a boulder the size of your car. Your head throbs with pain as you realize that there are dark clouds in the sky in all directions and its raining. The trees around you are gigantic...and seem ancient as if something out of a movie...and then you notice you're not alone. There's a girl of unearthly beauty standing no more than 10 feet from your present location...she's wearing a dark cloak and weilds a long intricatly carved bow...and its aimed directly at you! Then you realize....you're not in kansas anymore!
Thats how humans come to be in the setting for my next campaign...its a world built from the very essence of mortal dreams and nightmares....where humans are actually rare!
Human characters will actually be less emphasized in this campaign....but for those who do want to play humans, there will be a special human only core class called the Lost Soul. This class will actually give humans the ability to manipulate the world around them in various ways (as it is a world built on their species' own lost dreams).
The world is actually divided into to realms of adventure...the Underworld and the Overworld. Most advnetures will take place in the Underworld..which is actually what is left of the surface of the Grymn (thats what he world will be called). While the Overworld is a entire realm of floating continents, enclaves, and cities....most of which is ruled by the High Elven Seelie and Unseelie Kingdoms...
In ancient times...the elves dabbled heavily in the arcane arts of magic and drew vast amounts of energy from the Realm of Shadow...this ended badly as the Realm of Shadow's very essence was unleashed upon the world of Grymn, destroying much of the lands and leaving it in its rotting decaying post-apocalyptic state it is today....it was a human pulled from the real world, a powerful Lost Soul, that finally forced the Shadow essence back into its own realm...but he was consumed and corrupted by the power of the shadow realm..and he turned against the world he had saved and began to enslave it under his rule...he is known only as the Grymn. The high elves used took what magic they had left and left the decaying land and built a new realm in the skys above the posioned shadow clouds that cloaked the world....this was in the ancient times...few relics of this time exist now....and those who weild the arcane magic arts are shunned, feared, and hated by those not under the sway of the Grymn.
There will be three other realms as well to repesent the world's cosmology...the Realm of Shadow is a combination of the Plane of Shadow and also the lower planes...it is where fiends and arcane magic come from. There are the Spectral Realms, which is a combination of the astral, the ethereal, and limbo...then there are the Divine Realms, which holds the upper planes and the inner planes....
next up will be races of Grymn.
Imagine you wake up one morning and go about your regular routine. You eat breakfast you get dressed for work...but that when you notice something..your wife doesn't seem to notice you standing right next to her...and everything seems to have started to take on an subtle purple-ish tint. You yell and wave your arms, but no one hears or sees you...and then after hours of trying to get the attention of another person...you start to feel it. At first its just a slight pinch in your chest....your head....your arm...then comes the gut-wrenching pulling sensation as your whole world is swallowed by a swirling purple/blue void just like something out of the twilight zone.....and then you slam hard against something....and you can definatly tell that your environment has changed....no longer are you in the comfort of your own home...or the safety of your city..... you're laying in a forest. The thing you hit is a boulder the size of your car. Your head throbs with pain as you realize that there are dark clouds in the sky in all directions and its raining. The trees around you are gigantic...and seem ancient as if something out of a movie...and then you notice you're not alone. There's a girl of unearthly beauty standing no more than 10 feet from your present location...she's wearing a dark cloak and weilds a long intricatly carved bow...and its aimed directly at you! Then you realize....you're not in kansas anymore!
Thats how humans come to be in the setting for my next campaign...its a world built from the very essence of mortal dreams and nightmares....where humans are actually rare!
Human characters will actually be less emphasized in this campaign....but for those who do want to play humans, there will be a special human only core class called the Lost Soul. This class will actually give humans the ability to manipulate the world around them in various ways (as it is a world built on their species' own lost dreams).
The world is actually divided into to realms of adventure...the Underworld and the Overworld. Most advnetures will take place in the Underworld..which is actually what is left of the surface of the Grymn (thats what he world will be called). While the Overworld is a entire realm of floating continents, enclaves, and cities....most of which is ruled by the High Elven Seelie and Unseelie Kingdoms...
In ancient times...the elves dabbled heavily in the arcane arts of magic and drew vast amounts of energy from the Realm of Shadow...this ended badly as the Realm of Shadow's very essence was unleashed upon the world of Grymn, destroying much of the lands and leaving it in its rotting decaying post-apocalyptic state it is today....it was a human pulled from the real world, a powerful Lost Soul, that finally forced the Shadow essence back into its own realm...but he was consumed and corrupted by the power of the shadow realm..and he turned against the world he had saved and began to enslave it under his rule...he is known only as the Grymn. The high elves used took what magic they had left and left the decaying land and built a new realm in the skys above the posioned shadow clouds that cloaked the world....this was in the ancient times...few relics of this time exist now....and those who weild the arcane magic arts are shunned, feared, and hated by those not under the sway of the Grymn.
There will be three other realms as well to repesent the world's cosmology...the Realm of Shadow is a combination of the Plane of Shadow and also the lower planes...it is where fiends and arcane magic come from. There are the Spectral Realms, which is a combination of the astral, the ethereal, and limbo...then there are the Divine Realms, which holds the upper planes and the inner planes....
next up will be races of Grymn.