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Message: <blockquote data-quote="masque" data-source="post: 1363322" data-attributes="member: 9792"><Unnamed as yet>Humans, as the first favored children of the gods, have just been abandoned for the sin of dying.  Of those that remain immortal--the Heroes--some wish to regain the attention and favor of the gods, some wish to nurture their mortal descendents, and some wish merely not to have to bury their children.The gods have tried to recreate their perfect, immortal creations/servants.  Their first attempt, goblinkind, was a horrific failure.  Their second, elves, has met with slightly more success.  As the race is only a decade old, it has yet to be discovered that every elf will be stark raving mad before he turns 600.  And as they, too, are cursed to die, elves will be abandoned by their gods.  How will they take it?The goddess of skill-at-war as been stripped of form and power, and banished from the material plane until she finds the soul of the first dead human.  So far, she's not looking.  She likes her new home, having found/formed the Underworld, and is enjoying the company of the most learned and skilled souls.  The souls of those who died young are sometimes sculpted into dwarves.  Dwarves are the lorekeepers of the dead, and as the personal creations of the goddess of the martial arts, aren't slouches in the physical department either they are also the only new race to be immortal, but only so long as they remain in the Underworld.Of her three siblings, two are currently nurturing the elves in the arts of sculpture and pearl diving, and the other hasn't been heard from at all.So, 4 gods, that's all.  Martial skill & death; architecture & beauty; "deep places" (caves, knowledge, insanity) & the ocean; "life impulse" (plants, animals, wind) & thievery.  So... since the Heroes had been living for approximately 900 with endless life and youth... why did their descendents start dying?There are no undead, save a dracolich (and soon a vampire of sorts), and most monsters are unique.  The fun will begin when humanity stumbles upon the secret of life...Races are Heroes (immortal humans), humans, elves, dwarves, and goblins.  Heroes are aware of humans (and some know of goblins), dwarves are aware of everyone but elves (no elf has died yet), and elves have no idea that there are other sentient races (and no one knows about them).Heroes ("the people"): static, reactionary, nostalgic shadowy manipulatorshumans ("broken" or "defiled"): baselineelves ("pointy"): pointy pearl-diving piratesdwarves ("clear eyed"): bookish fighty monksgoblins ("diseased"): slightly slimy, very warty ooze ridersWas Utopia really Utopia?  What would you do to regain it?I wasn't intending it to be that long, but...</blockquote>

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