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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vulcan_idic" data-source="post: 2905373" data-attributes="member: 19615">I'd love to hear folk's thoughts on my new, and first, homebrew world/campaign setting:Cerimyr Books UsedPHB PHB II CAdv CArc CDiv CWar XPH CPsi Magic of IncarnumBased on Allegiances rather than Alignments, a bit more similar, and perhaps even related, to the Mantles of the Divine Mind and Ardent (CPsi) All things have spirits, all spirits exist, none are dead, none are “unborn”, they simplyare. Users of Incarnum simply have the ability to borrow spirits to cause effects related to the spirits borrowed – i.e. spirits of Shadow (places where the sun’s light is blocked, not the plane) help the borrower to hide. Spell Compendium Most, if not all, other WOTC books DeitiesAkasha – God/Goddess of the Aether/ Void/Soul/Spirit/Mind and Things Intangible, the Embodiment of the Universal Paradox – He/She/It is Everything and Nothing simultaneously, both Male and Female, and Neither as well, all perspectives find a home in Akasha, and all are turned away. Vayu – Goddess of the Wind Bhumi – God of the Earth Tejas – God of the Fire Jala – Goddess of the Water Good – Abstract, Distant, Disembodied Universal Force represented by hosts of Angels battling for dominance over All That Is. Evil - Abstract, Distant, Disembodied Universal Force represented by hosts of Devils and Demons battling for dominance over All That Is. Deities are neither Good nor Evil in and of themselves, but all have their personalities decided by which universal force currently has dominance. Each Deity has *All* portfolios save those of the other Elements – i.e. only Tejas may grant access to the Fire Domain, but all deities may grant any other domain such as Healing, Destruction, and so forth. Each cleric may have a different way of speaking about such domains reflecting the aspect of her deity reflected in the domain – i.e. “May the flames of Tejas warm your soul and keep the flame of your life burning strong” for a Healer of Tejas, while a Destroyer of Jala might say, “Feel the Waters of Jala erode you away, destroying your essence” AlignmentNo Alignment Used. Rather a system of Allegiances similar to that in d20 Modern PlotlineCreation: Before Cerimyr, before all there was nothing. Then there was Something. What there was was either nameless or its name has long since been forgotten. This was quite child like and curious and found it could create things. It began to giggle with this discovery and happily played by itself for quite sometime simply creating things, all manner of things all around it. As it created more, it matured and began to think of many things. It played with these thoughts and yet more knew things came into being. Then, when All That Is was almost entirely created, It asked itself the Question. When it answered itself it was amazed to discover it had given two answers. This displeased it and it began to debate with itself over which could be the correct answer. But it reached no conclusion. The debate began to become heated, and more and more passionate until the two sides got up and left it and began to war with each other over which had the correct answer to the Question. It was left all alone and lesser than it had been; a bit scared of what it had seen when it left itself. It continued to create out of habit and the familiar activity comforted it, but the fear, sadness, and anxiety inspired by the other parts of itself colored the new creation. It was itself affected so much that it found it could no longer continue to work with itself as a single entity, and so had an amicable parting of the ways with itself and went its own five ways, becoming the Deities. The Battle of Good and Evil: The forces constantly battle each other vying for dominance over All That Is, though major conflict erupts at the beginning of each Age, when the beginning of the last is long since forgotten. When Evil wins the Age, people are generally cruel and merciless to each other caring nothing about anyone but themselves and enjoying anything and everything that doesn’t do harm, at least visible short-term harm, to themselves. When Good wins the Age, people are generally kind and merciful to each other caring nothing about everyone but themselves and enjoying only that which does no harm, not matter how long-term, to anyone. Even when the ruler of the Age is decided the suppressed Force is still present fighting back in what small ways it can skirmishing here and there and preparing in secret for the next Age shift. The ruling force also prepares itself for the next age shift, but must do so openly before the other Force. Typically the forces alternate control of Ages, but this is not an absolute rule – it is decided by who wins the Confrontation. The Confrontation begins when a group of five heroes arise to challenge the representatives of the ruling Force to include the Deities themselves on behalf of the suppressed Force. If they fail they are utterly destroyed and the ruling Force rules for another Age. If they succeed the divine spark, the fragment of the mind original It, which is each of the Deities, passes to the new host and are reborn with minds and hearts more influenced by the ruler of the new Age and the old hosts are utterly destroyed. </blockquote>

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