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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ydars" data-source="post: 4585151" data-attributes="member: 62992">Hi TwinBahamat! I am not sure if I can help you, but here is one story that could tie some of the elements you are thinking about into a coherent story that could serve as the basis for an epic adventure. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Long ago, the Gods cast one of their number, I will call him Trakis, out of the heavens and he fell to earth. Trakis swore revenge and determined to re-enter the heavens and destroy the gods. To this end, he began harvesting the souls of mortals to re-gain the powers he had lost, at first murdering individuals and harvesting their essences into an Urn of Souls. As the ages past, he gradually gained in power and influence until he controlled whole Races and he used his power to set them to war and harvested the souls of all those who died into the Urn. After many centuries, the world was a shattered remnant; he had destroyed the Kingdoms of the Dragonborn by pitting them against the Teiflings and later ended Nerath by nefarious means so that all the ancient Kingdoms of old lay in ruins. And then Trakis gathered his powers and began building a tower to pierce the mantle of the sky and let him re-enter heaven. The tower was created by the will of Trakis alone; as he slept at its apex the tower grew like an evil vine from the ground. This has continued for over a century so that the tower is now vast and its summit is lost in the clouds, its baleful shadow a broad stripe of darkness that arcs across the land. The will of Trakis also acted as a beacon to all that was hateful and filled with spite, so that all manner of evil creatures were drawn to his tower and sequestered within; a legion with which he would assault heaven.  His will also incarnated some of the tortured souls he had captured down through the ages and they were given shattered bodies, becoming terrible undead monsters or else he forced them into the metal or stone forms of guardians and golems, all slaves to his will. In the last hundred years, the last few mortal Kingdoms have gathered around the base of the tower as the area seems free of monsters,(those monsters close to the tower are drawn into it and cannot escape). What the world does not realise is that once Trakis' tower is high enough, it will pierce the mantle of the sky and shatter it, raining down destruction upon the world and allowing Trakis and his legions to enter heaven for a final battle. But the gods are not fools and have seen their doom; yet they cannot avert it or they themselves would shatter the mantle of the sky were they to place their hands upon the face of the world. So they have dropped from the skies, 4 artefacts of legend, to be gathered by their servants. They have also released the souls of great heroes of past ages to be their avatars and some wear the clothed forms of mortals again, though they begin with no knowledge of Trakis or of his fell plan. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I hope this helps.</blockquote>

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