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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vulcan_idic" data-source="post: 2905522" data-attributes="member: 19615">My plan for the campaign is for the heroes to be the five.  I actually don't plan on reusing the world after that, but on creating a new world, which I really enjoy as it gives me a chance to play with new ideas and concepts, and gives a chance for one of the other group members to run the game for a while.  If I did restart it I think I would probably make it an entirely different age so far removed that the other is completely forgotten.  I designed it with epic play in mind as our group really wants to play with that.  The common people don't know about the heroes only that ages have come and gone and that when they do the sense of the nature of the universe changes slightly.  I would start the characters at first and only slowly reveal bits of knowledge about what has come before and what is destined building to an epic story.I wouldn't say that things are predetermined.  Even when one Force is surpressed it is still in the world and affecting it, just not as strongly as the ruling force.  As for individuals both forces affect each individual, some individuals are more strongly tempted by one side or the other, but even they can choose to go the other way if they wish.  This is why there is no alignment - no one here is purely evil or purely good really.  They might choose to have allegiance to the Force of Good or the Force of Evil, or neither or something else all together.  In fact, the name of the world, Cerimyr, is based on the two semesters of Russian I took in college and means roughly Grey World.  The concept there is that very little in the world is black or white but somewhere in the murky shades of grey in between.  Ultimately each individually chooses what they do and who they want to be.The style of the myth does change as it continues reflecting the change in the It from a childlike spirit, maturing and growing, before splitting into adult minded fragment personalities representing aspects of what was in the original.  It is and was both Lawful, Chaotic and Neither as well, but these parts did not split as the Good and Evil did and remain inherent as aspects of all things including the fundamental Forces.</blockquote>

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