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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 1707751" data-attributes="member: 571">To add to the above, by the time the first English colonists landed on the east coast a number of Indian groups were on the way to recovery. The Powhatan in the Tidelands area, the Creek and Cherokee in the South, and the Iroquois up in the New York to Great Lakes region. Given a delay of a century or so to European colonization of the Americas could've made a big difference.For my part I came up with a story line for a possible Mythus campaign.. In Mythus the Fair Folk decided to leave Ærth because Humans were taking everything over. Millennia later the Gnomes moved back enmasse.That got me to thinking. Why did the Gnomes return?I came to the conclusion that Phæree was too unstable for life in the long run. It was also warping the fey into parodies of themselves. Heightening their natural tendencies and so making them 'ideals'.So you had an unstable environment, a tendency to exaggeration of racial qualities and flaws, and eventual dissolution into the primal chaos that was Phæree before the first arrivals shaped it into a form they could live with. All this meant that staying in Phæree would result in their extinction. They would have to return to Ærth to survive.To make life even harder for everybody involved I put in a destructive force. A nullifying entity dedicated to the destruction of reality as a whole personified as The King in Yellow. (Yes, I have read Robert Chamber's book). A thing so mind shattering that merely knowing its true nature will kill. As it killed the trickster, Loki.BTW, I also thought I'd use the D&D Orc god Grummsh as a hero in the tale. Grummsh would be the one to trap The King in Yellow in Phæree as Phæree collapsed under it's innate chaos and The King in Yellow's malign influence. Odin of the Norse gods would then take on Gruumsh's role as the Orc god and everyone would be informed that it was Odin who died destroying The King in Yellow. (A secret agreement between the two deities. Gruumsh was not about to leave his Orcs without guidance, even if it meant the end of reality. Either his Orcs had a god to guide them, or reality could go hang. And he was the only one who could defeat The King in Yellow. (Very involved backstory.))Use whatever you like.</blockquote>

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