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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snapdragyn" data-source="post: 3435699" data-attributes="member: 12432">This is all from a now-defunct campaign, but on the offchance that it starts back up again....*spoiler*[spoiler][Known history]Eons ago, the world was shattered by the wars of the greater gods. The scattered pieces now drift through the sky, and the gods are mostly quiet save the regular battles between the Summer King and Winter King (i.e. turning of the seasons). [Real history]The gods weren't warring with each other, but against the elemental lords (with water and air combined into 'storm, & ice & dream added). The seasonal battles are 'round ups' of those elementals that still leak through from the planar portals, which could only be partially closed since the world needs the basic elements in order to exist.[Known history]A few hundred years ago, the god of shadows & thieves killed the goddess of beauty, betrothed of his own twin brother (all lesser gods). That brother, the god of light, defied the Summer King to enter the realm of the dead and bring back his love. She returned a bit... off; he went mad with grief; and the god of shadows became a hated outcast of gods and mortals alike. Undead have become a plague across the land in the years since as the door into death opened by the god of light has never closed.[Real history]The god of shadows had a gift of vision, and all of his actions were to fulfill prophecy and open the eyes of the beauty goddess (& hopefully his own brother, though that hasn't happened yet) to the corruption of the Winter King, who has been gathering captured elementals to him rather than sending them back through the ice portal as he should. The Summer King is too blinded by his own arrogance to see the danger, and the god of shadows needed allies for the battle he foresaw; now that she has passed through the gates of life, the beauty goddess is stronger than before.[Real real history]The Summer King knows what the Winter King is doing, but sees it as a chance to be rid of 'balance' & rule the world in his own right -- with the Winter King blamed as the instigator.The Winter King isn't gathering his army to conquer, but to defend against the mad god of dreams, who is weakening the portal to the realm of dreams (Eberron-esque Quorri plane).The god of dreams sent the vision to the god of shadows, who secretly realized this but followed along with the vision anyway because he saw a way to twist the vision to the advantage of himself & the forces of good. Unfortunately, his plans centered on his brother, who threw everything out of whack by going crazy and swearing bloodoath against him.[Story]The PCs run into a strange benefactor from time to time. They eventually realize he bears a striking resemblance to the (grief-crazed) god of light, & come to believe that it is the fractured sane part of his psyche seeking their help to regain his sanity. In actuality, it is the god of shadows (though he pursues the same goal, the return of his twin's sanity). This draws the PCs into the machinations of, & brewing war between, the other gods in a plot arc that was planned to eventually include one of the remaining shards of the world crashing into the ocean of another in a disaster of incredible scale (one shard sunk beneath the waves with the nation of gnomes who lived on it; tsunamis destroying every coastal city that existed on the other -- unless the PCs managed to prevent it all).[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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