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<blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 4362180" data-attributes="member: 1879">I'm not entirely clear what you're asking. Are you looking for something that tries to destroy the world every thousand years, a reason it's only once every thousand years,or a motivation?From last to first:The goal to destroy the world is madness, you need something to drive them mad. Love lost, betrayal and the like are the classic reasons as you've mentioned. Tragic unfairness. For example suppose the archmage's daughter, through no fault of her own becomes the vessel by which some great evil is trying to enter the world. To save everyone she is literally sacrificed for the good of all, but the archmage decides that any world that could do this to his innocent daughter doesn't deserve saving and pronounces his curse.Alternately it can simply be a perspective thing. Perhaps the world as the PCs know it is a prison laid over some greater truth, and the attempt to destroy the world is simply an effort to return things to their higher state. But the PCs labor in ignorance to stop Neo from waking the world.Why it's only once every 1000 years usually boils down to astronomy. Like in Nightfall every so often the sky goes black or the world passes through the madness inducing tail of the comet, or the Mage trapped in the synchronoclastic infidibulum comes back into phase with the world.As for what's trying to destroy the world it could be a sorrow stricken Wizard seeking vengance against a world that dares to feel joy while he grieves, the impersonal forces of nature, a demon lord who seeks to destroy the worshippers who give power to his foes the Gods, or an ancient God trying to free his love from our reality which forms her prison. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil&nbsp; &nbsp; :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andor, post: 4362180, member: 1879"] I'm not entirely clear what you're asking. Are you looking for something that tries to destroy the world every thousand years, a reason it's only once every thousand years,or a motivation? From last to first: The goal to destroy the world is madness, you need something to drive them mad. Love lost, betrayal and the like are the classic reasons as you've mentioned. Tragic unfairness. For example suppose the archmage's daughter, through no fault of her own becomes the vessel by which some great evil is trying to enter the world. To save everyone she is literally sacrificed for the good of all, but the archmage decides that any world that could do this to his innocent daughter doesn't deserve saving and pronounces his curse. Alternately it can simply be a perspective thing. Perhaps the world as the PCs know it is a prison laid over some greater truth, and the attempt to destroy the world is simply an effort to return things to their higher state. But the PCs labor in ignorance to stop Neo from waking the world. Why it's only once every 1000 years usually boils down to astronomy. Like in [i]Nightfall[/i] every so often the sky goes black or the world passes through the madness inducing tail of the comet, or the Mage trapped in the synchronoclastic infidibulum comes back into phase with the world. As for what's trying to destroy the world it could be a sorrow stricken Wizard seeking vengance against a world that dares to feel joy while he grieves, the impersonal forces of nature, a demon lord who seeks to destroy the worshippers who give power to his foes the Gods, or an ancient God trying to free his love from our reality which forms her prison. :devil: [/QUOTE]

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