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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kunimatyu" data-source="post: 4853882" data-attributes="member: 22057">You don't need 12 bullet points to set the stage for a setting - it can be done with even less. Here's my background bit for a 3.5 E6 game I ran based on the "Encyclopedia of Mu"._________________________________________________And on the pedestal these words appear:"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"Nothing beside remains: round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,The lone and level sands stretch far away.            -Ozymandias, Percy Shelley    The world of Mord is dying. Countless eons ago, it was a place of great beauty, a green jewel shining among the stars,  but the slow passage of time has taken its toll. Forests and fields have been swallowed by the ever-expanding red desert, and the great ocean has been reduced to to a few meager brineflats. The works of the Old Ones -- mighty pyramids capable of sailing the void, metal stamped in the likeness of mind, hieroglyphs written in the strange language of Maths -- lie forgotten beneath the red sands, waiting for storms or arcane knowledge to bring them to light.    In dark Lemuria, the Witch-King sits atop his throne, gathering practitioners of dark and loathsome arts while the noble houses squabble over the scraps of power at his feet. His sorcerous followers make pacts with forces from forgotten epochs, and winged shapes wearing the faces of men darken the skies of Lemuria. It is whispered in the streets of his capital that the Witch-King has acquired a demon in the shape of a sword, a creature capable of consuming history itself...    To the east, the fanatical legions of Hy-Brasil are joined daily by new believers, eager to prove their worth to their Damsel Messiah so that they may be one of the 144,000 who join her when she ascends and leaves the wastes of Mord forever.    In the west, citizens of the decadent city-state of Atlantis sit idly in their crystal domes, unconcerned with the growing armies of Lemuria and Hy-Brasil. Under the domes, the few surviving masters of enigmatic tradition of psience use their strange powers to grow powerful crystal weapons, strange alien beasts, and -- according to some -- even human life itself...    In times such as these, heroes are sorely needed -- will you restore Mord, or abandon it to its fate?</blockquote>

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