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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 6758134" data-attributes="member: 6790260">In my Dungeon World game, many of the most interesting effects have been along these lines. A bit of backstory: One of the Towers of Magic (enormously important, powerfully magical structures that dramatically affect hundreds of square miles around them with their energies) was...for lack of a better term, "drained." It still had its power, but we eliminated the Avatar for that tower (the Gold Avatar of Enchantment, in the mental/beguiling sense) by more or less talking him/her* to death. At the moment the tower was 'drained' of its affiliation, turning its stones from shiny gold to dull, slightly translucent grey, the Red Avatar of Destruction (styled the Incendiary) attempted to claim the tower for herself from its top...while the White Avatar of Artifice (styled the Archivist) quietly attempted to do the same thing for herself from the sewer tunnels at its base (creating a spell that etched formulae and patterns onto the stones, turning the etched-off dust into more quills to continue the process). A single White Wizard, who had more of a thirst for creative writing than for precise cataloguing of magical or historical events, entered the contested Tower and altered the Archivist's spell, absorbing the remaining latent Gold magic as well as the passion of the intruding Red magic and the 'recording' focus of the intruding White magic. Thus was born the Rose Tower of Song, and its Avatar, the Novelist--an interesting and ambiguous character.Later, in working to defend the budding (no pun intended) tower from an all-out offensive by Red forces, the party accidentally caused the creation of a brand-new river. It was fed by the tears shed by an army weeping together at a sad turn in a story, then nurtured by their joy as the story ended happily. Now, a magical river flows through the Rose Tower's lands, literally laughing over the stones.We've also stumbled upon a hidden, almost trap-like "hedge maze labyrinth," complete with minotaurs popping up out of the ground to patrol the newly-grown maze; a gargantuan, grotesque amalgam of human flesh, mud, and stone caused by the destruction of the Black Tower of Necromancy; and a revolting, profane "drill" made of meat and bone, carving its way up from hell to try to breach the surface and (literally) spearhead a demonic invasion. Precisely how (and usually why) these particular dangers appeared is never explained. They're just present, part of the mysterious ambient magic of this world.*Said Gold Avatar, styled the Allmind, was a gestalt identity of dozens, possibly hundreds or even thousands of personalities absorbed into the great power of a single mind-dominating mage. Elves, in this world, are true hermaphrodites and thus can identify as either male or female (or both or neither) as they see fit; when combined with the absorption of so many different minds of varying gender, the Allmind was a truly genderless being, though giving a slight appearance of favoring male gender, simply due to all of the other, active Avatars being women.</blockquote>

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