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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 3635841" data-attributes="member: 4936">Just some brainstorming...take it or leave it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />- Most everyone agrees that they don't like the entire twins/wizard war idea behind the Shattering.-- Yeah...that's a pretty extreme level of power. You could make them gods, as mentioned above. Or, OR, perhaps the world blew up for other reasons, possibly not even related to magic at all. This ties into the "maybe wizards SAVED the world" idea also mentioned above. The wizards saw the world was doomed, and acted. People saw wizards doing funny things...and then the world blew up. Their natural conclusion? Wizards blew up the world. Oops.- Some want to know how common people were able to bring down mages powerful enough to shatter a world.-- Well, presumably there were some UNcommon people too. Mage hunters...high level rangers and warriors, consumed with the loss of their loved ones and nations and swearing revenge. Etc etc. The heroes sung about on this world are probably based on these people. This is especially true if you go with the "people only THINK mages blew the world up" idea.- Some want to know details behind the shard keys...how did they become intelligent?-- Perhaps the wizards had to imbue each shard with his own essence, transferring himself into it so it would endure forever, drawing power from his immortal soul. This would also explain why the wizards were so weakened. All their most powerful mages became the artifacts that preserved what was left of the world.- Some want to know how priests and deities tie into all of this.-- Excellent questions! If wizards saw it coming, why not priests? Where were the gods? Several ideas. It's possible that the world before the shattering was so hung up on arcane magic that it became faithless and atheistic (a magic version of modern technologism). Gods might not have even really existed there then...or if they did, they were weak and toothless from the lack of worship. The destruction not only caused arcanism to be lost, it also created a resurgence of religious belief and god-isms...as crises often do.Kind of makes you wonder why the world blew up again, doesn't it? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Well, I don't have answers. I do know the folowing details which I want to work into my premise somehow.- Long ago there was a race called the Dragon Lords who came from "somewhere else" (no one knows exactly where) who ruled the world for thousands of years, then disappeared. They were ulta-powerful mages. Elves and dragons are somehow tied to them.-- They may have brought the magical secrets that made the world turn its back on the gods. - I love the concept of ley lines and standing stones and monoliths and would like to work them in somehow.-- Perhaps ley lines are the bands of energy that -held the world together-. The destruction was caused by using great rituals, at standing stone formations natch, to disrupt these mighty rivers of power...causing the earth to lose cohesion and start to break apart. Then they just needed some climactic burst of power at the center of the world to make the weakened crust shatter completely.- Priests helped the common folk in supressing mages.-- No doubt. See above for the root of a nice conspiracy theory about priests.Remember, when investigating any event's causes, one big thing to do is "follow the money." Broadly put, that means to look for who benefited the most from the event. It's not conclusive...sometimes people just get lucky from unexpected serendipity. But it's usually a good place to start looking.</blockquote>

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