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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 4218952" data-attributes="member: 18832">For a while I was working on a setting called Exile, where the PCs came from a large group of humans banished from their homeland (a new empire called the Patria) to a "New World" analogous to North America, where they would eventually come into contact with the first truly intelligent races encountered by humanity: dragonborn and tieflings.Both "Bael Turath" and "Arkhosia" (I wouldn't use these names) would have a vaguely Mesoamerican gloss. The tieflings would be vaguely Aztec, with human sacrifices to their infernal patrons; the dragonborn would be roughly Incan, with high mountain fortresses left in ruins for the PCs to find.Both civilisations collapsed before the arrival of the Exiles. The empire of the dragonborn was utterly annihilated, Carthage to the tieflings' Rome, and the people who survived were driven out of their former lands into a nomadic lifestyle. So now the dragonborn are roaming the lands north of "Bael Turath", which makes them the most likely "first contact" for the Exiles and the PCs.The tieflings, on the other hand, exulted in the victory but had too long ignored the more basic needs of their empire; they entered a period of economic, ecological, and social collapse, hastened when their infernal patrons withdrew their favours as a punishment for this failure.More detail, if anyone's curious:[sblock]Tieflings in Exile are very clearly marked by their curse. Their skin is alabaster-white, far paler than any human skin tone, and has a subtle quartzlike glitter where their skin folds or wrinkles. It does not show the effects of the sun - tieflings remain literally as white as snow their whole lives.Differences in colouration come in where the tiefling's nails, teeth, and horns are concerned. The most common colour is a glossy red so deep it appears a purplish black, but true black, bolder shades of red, and even pure white like the tieflings' skin are to be found. Tiefling eyes are uniformly a pale pink with irises of dark red.The dragonborn clans of Exile are hunter-gatherers now by necessity - they retain the knowledge necessary for agriculture, and occasionally settle in one place or another for several years to farm for as long as they can. Almost inevitably, however, their settlements are destroyed and the clan forced to move on by the vengeful assaults of the tieflings, after a decade at most of cultivation.The scales of the dragonborn range in colour from a deep gold to a harsh bronze. It is fashionable in most clans for younger individuals to polish individual scales until they shine like mirrors, forming patterns across their bodies memorialising their own deeds, or the loss of friends and relatives.[/sblock]I might still do something with this - revisiting it after five months makes it seem cooler than I thought it was when I gave up on it at the end of last year.</blockquote>

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