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Message: <blockquote data-quote="med stud" data-source="post: 4140122" data-attributes="member: 1211">My PoL- location, point by point:1) A small farming community existed in a verdant area close to a river. Flanked by barbaric horsemen to the West and hobgoblins to the East, the community was extorted and raided against too much to make it evolve.2) A powerful wizard and her many apprentices found out that there existed a great nexus of arcane energies at the location where the farmers were.3) The wizards didn't like farming but still needed food. They struck a deal with the farmers, the wizards getting food and help with building accomodations while the farmers got protection in turn.4) The community evolved around the wizards and farmers. The wizards struck back at the horsemen, hobgoblins and other creatures that tried to raid the new town. The town grew and became a city, the arcane nexus attracting more wizards, which in turn attracted merchants.5) The town became a city ruled by a council of wizards cooperating with the descendants of the original farmers who are now the secular lords of the city. Hiring mercenaries, the city now aims to clear safe routs to kingdoms to the North and the Empire to the West of the horsemen. This expansion is not being looked at kindly by ancient powers of the plains, unknown about until this day...6) At the same time, a wizard has found means of directly connecting to the Nexus, making it possible for him to immensly increase his power. To do this, however, he needs the blood of thousands to spill on the ground of the city. The wizard has secretly made contacts with a hobgoblin warlord. The wizard will betray the city if the hobgoblins chose to attack.---I think the above can be put on any map in any setting. The last two points above offers material for at least one campaign for PCs to go from heroic to epic.</blockquote>

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