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<blockquote data-quote="Torque" data-source="post: 1354733" data-attributes="member: 1568"><p>Shattered Skies:&nbsp; A cabal of the greatest mages, threatened by the rise of technology, banded together to form a being of pure entropy, The Devourer.&nbsp; Although intended only to seek out and destroy technology and those who used it, it broke free of their control and it seemed as if the whole world would be drawn into its maw.&nbsp; The greatest archmange repented, devising a ritual by which he sacrificed his soul to lift a chunk of land out of the reach of the Devourer, suspending it over the devastation, and other mages followed suit.&nbsp; 500 years later, civilization has mostly recovered from the aftereffects of the sundering, and trade among islands is flourishing, spurred by the manufacture of airships and zeppelins.&nbsp; The gods haven't been heard from since the sundering, and the main religions are ancestor worship, elementalism, and pantheism.&nbsp; The remnants of human civilization on the surface have abandoned all manufactured goods, eking out a simple nomadic existence with no tools more complex than a bone spear, as anything more would attract the attention of the Devourer, but this simplicity has led them to discover the power within their own minds.&nbsp; Some of the major themes are the conflict between magic and steam technology, aerial swashbuckling, and life in the constant shadow of the Devourer.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Torque, post: 1354733, member: 1568"] Shattered Skies: A cabal of the greatest mages, threatened by the rise of technology, banded together to form a being of pure entropy, The Devourer. Although intended only to seek out and destroy technology and those who used it, it broke free of their control and it seemed as if the whole world would be drawn into its maw. The greatest archmange repented, devising a ritual by which he sacrificed his soul to lift a chunk of land out of the reach of the Devourer, suspending it over the devastation, and other mages followed suit. 500 years later, civilization has mostly recovered from the aftereffects of the sundering, and trade among islands is flourishing, spurred by the manufacture of airships and zeppelins. The gods haven't been heard from since the sundering, and the main religions are ancestor worship, elementalism, and pantheism. The remnants of human civilization on the surface have abandoned all manufactured goods, eking out a simple nomadic existence with no tools more complex than a bone spear, as anything more would attract the attention of the Devourer, but this simplicity has led them to discover the power within their own minds. Some of the major themes are the conflict between magic and steam technology, aerial swashbuckling, and life in the constant shadow of the Devourer. [/QUOTE]

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