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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack99" data-source="post: 5708311" data-attributes="member: 53135">I thought about the demi-plane idea, and kinda liked it. I am not sure if I will use it, but this was the idea it inspired:The Tarrasque is not just a huge abomination, but a mythical god-killer and a ravager of worlds. Asleep since the dawn of times, the gods long feared that it would awake. When it awoke, and started to destroy the multiverse, one plane at the time, the gods became desperate to kill it. Problem was, they could and dared not face it themselves.In order to avoid confrontation they pooled all their power and they ripped a big part of the (one?) mortal world out of the multiverse and placed it in a secret demi-plane. They also imprisoned the Tarrasque and using local circumstances (the sorcerer-kings who ruled that part of the mortal world), they fueled the prison by the despair in the world. Back when Athas was part of a “real” world, the world was strong enough to handle the sorcerer-kings’ defiling magic, it could withstand the strain and punishment without dieing. Once in the demi-plane, that was no longer the case, and slowly Athas has become what it is today, slowly dieing, slowly augmenting the despair the gods needed to keep the Tarrasque’s prison forever. Quite happy with what they had done, despite the consequences for a lot of mortals, the gods forgot all about Athas and the demi-plane, thinking they had rid themselves of the Big T for ever..But magic works in mysterious ways. In Sigil, far away from the gods, and driven by inexplicable dreams, Gorgyr, a young fledging mage drew a map of an unknown world. The map clearly became infused with magic, and soon he found that by focusing his mind on certain locations on said map, he could see the world, that he thought he had created in his mind. He could even see the imaginary people inhabiting it. For years, Gorgyr studied this miniature world of his. Of course, it was something of a shock for him to realize that they had a long history and thought they were part of a real world. It took some more years, but eventually Gorgyr found out where the original Athas came from, and thus realized that this was not merely something from his imagination.To say that Gorgyr was obsessed about the miniature world, would be an understatement. He wanted desperately to liberate it, but he had no idea how, nor the magical skills to even begin to contemplate how to.He did manage one thing though. He learned how to communicate in a rudimentary way with some people in the map-world. He told and showed them to build elemental temples that together would fuel a gateway out of the map-world and into Gorgyr’s workroom.Years passed, and the temples were not completed, and Gorgyr was getting old. But he was determined to liberate the map-world or at least the people of the map-world, and he was not about to let death stop him. Luckily he had finally (barely) achieved enough power to transcend to lichdom, so he had found a way to pursue his quest. With the temples completed, Gorgyr (now a lich) started to impart knowledge of the real world into those he could contact. He also told them of the temples, and how it was a way out. Unfortunately, quite a few went mad, while others were killed. In fact, a statistically unexpected high number of those he told the truth died violent and sudden death. But Gorgyr could not figure out how the templars knew. No one ever came through the elemental temple-portals, and eventually, Gorgyr gave up hope, shoved the map in a corner of his tower in Sigil, and went on to study other things...Now, years have passed, and Gorgyr is about to have some unexpected visitors.. Of course, since Gorgyr knows nothing about the Tarrasque, there is a good chance that paragon tier could turn into finding a way to liberate Athas from the demi-plane, and epic tier into finding a way to stop, slow down or kill the Tarrasque.</blockquote>

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