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<blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 8224922" data-attributes="member: 6802378"><p>Game of Thrones is a good example of how horror, tragedy and palace intrigues can be mixed with some piece of (crude) humor. </p><p></p><p>I was thinking about the relation between the dark powers and the rest of deities. It sounds as a truce, and one don't interfere in the others' domains. But there are at least two gods ready to break that no-agression pact. </p><p></p><p>One is Vecna, god of the secrets. Not only escaped the demiplane, but also he has got a second target, revenge against the dark powers. I guess he has got a secret plan, but I wouldn't be surprised by the Dark Powers themself faked their defeat and trick Vecna, allowing to become the supreme ruler of the demiplane, as a poisonous gift. If Vecna try to use time travel to change the past, avoiding Strand's curse, the Dark Powers could play the same card sending Kas the vampire to the past when Vecna was only an ordinary mortal. (I suspect the own demiplane of the dread is too special and they allowing alter the History without worries about time paradoxes). </p><p></p><p>The second god enough powerful and insane to dare to cause troubles in the demiplane is Tharizdun, the elder elemental eye who wants to destroy all the creation, and ready to be used as chess-piece between supernatural factions. But Tharizdun could cause a lot of troubles with his dark gift, the creation of dread elementals (grave, pyre, mist and blood) as weapon against undead and divine spellcasters. These creatures are perfect for videogames where monsters are as animated statues or constructs to avoid possible Chinese censorship about undead creatures</p><p></p><p>Dark Powers like the "Tantalean punishments" (like Tantalus' one from classic mythology), when they are good things are showed very near, causing a great wish to be got but not allowed to enjoy them. I imagine other worlds from the material plane as potential spin-off, like Gothic Earth from "the Mask of the Red Earth" but fictional (to avoid controversies about colonialism or Africa being invaded by the Europeans, and to avoid others using the same idea because they are public domain characters). These worlds can suffers "visitors" from the demiplane of the dread, refugees most of them, but sometimes some "predators" looking "fresh flesh". The irony is those cities with thousands or even millions of citizens (noir-punk tech level) have got enough ways to defend themself (even if the firearms are forbidden by the distopian dictadorship), or they are controlled by secret supernatural factions who don't like "intruders in the hunt territory". </p><p></p><p>* Have you imagined the afterlife in the demiplane like Estigia from Wraith: the Oblivion and the Hell/Labyrinth from Hellraiser franchise? </p><p></p><p>* Would you dare to bet about a Ravenloft-Innistrad crossover? And a crossover between Ravenloft of other no-D&D franchise? </p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]JEKw4QXmiKQ[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]wH260CgEHNU[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]lT052SqWRr0[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LuisCarlos17f, post: 8224922, member: 6802378"] Game of Thrones is a good example of how horror, tragedy and palace intrigues can be mixed with some piece of (crude) humor. I was thinking about the relation between the dark powers and the rest of deities. It sounds as a truce, and one don't interfere in the others' domains. But there are at least two gods ready to break that no-agression pact. One is Vecna, god of the secrets. Not only escaped the demiplane, but also he has got a second target, revenge against the dark powers. I guess he has got a secret plan, but I wouldn't be surprised by the Dark Powers themself faked their defeat and trick Vecna, allowing to become the supreme ruler of the demiplane, as a poisonous gift. If Vecna try to use time travel to change the past, avoiding Strand's curse, the Dark Powers could play the same card sending Kas the vampire to the past when Vecna was only an ordinary mortal. (I suspect the own demiplane of the dread is too special and they allowing alter the History without worries about time paradoxes). The second god enough powerful and insane to dare to cause troubles in the demiplane is Tharizdun, the elder elemental eye who wants to destroy all the creation, and ready to be used as chess-piece between supernatural factions. But Tharizdun could cause a lot of troubles with his dark gift, the creation of dread elementals (grave, pyre, mist and blood) as weapon against undead and divine spellcasters. These creatures are perfect for videogames where monsters are as animated statues or constructs to avoid possible Chinese censorship about undead creatures Dark Powers like the "Tantalean punishments" (like Tantalus' one from classic mythology), when they are good things are showed very near, causing a great wish to be got but not allowed to enjoy them. I imagine other worlds from the material plane as potential spin-off, like Gothic Earth from "the Mask of the Red Earth" but fictional (to avoid controversies about colonialism or Africa being invaded by the Europeans, and to avoid others using the same idea because they are public domain characters). These worlds can suffers "visitors" from the demiplane of the dread, refugees most of them, but sometimes some "predators" looking "fresh flesh". The irony is those cities with thousands or even millions of citizens (noir-punk tech level) have got enough ways to defend themself (even if the firearms are forbidden by the distopian dictadorship), or they are controlled by secret supernatural factions who don't like "intruders in the hunt territory". * Have you imagined the afterlife in the demiplane like Estigia from Wraith: the Oblivion and the Hell/Labyrinth from Hellraiser franchise? * Would you dare to bet about a Ravenloft-Innistrad crossover? And a crossover between Ravenloft of other no-D&D franchise? [MEDIA=youtube]JEKw4QXmiKQ[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=youtube]wH260CgEHNU[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=youtube]lT052SqWRr0[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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