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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 9698917" data-attributes="member: 6802378">I was thinking in the homebuilding of a world that is a mixture of Hyborian age(Conan the barbarian) and postapocaliptse (Mad Max). Yes, you can guess my source of inspiration is that setting. But I need ideas for the coalition of the city-states, ruled by the overlords. These are the main antagonists. I don't want these to behave like villains from a fantasy saturday-morning cartoon but a relatively realistic behavior style "Game of Thrones" or a historical novel. They are tyrants but they try to avoid unnecessary cruelty against obedient and competent subjects. There are reasonable possibilities of achieving a solution through diplomatic agreements, or that they take advantage of the opportunities offered for their redemption. You can trust them as allies against a worse menace if you prove to be enoughly honorable and competent. Really they worry their city-states to be a better place to live, if everybody obeys their orders.They believe to be quasi-deities, and they may be right. The previous leader of the "purifying order" told them they were chosen because they are the reincarnations of fallen gods who lost the titanomachy (a rebellion of the titans against the pantheon) or they were betrayed by other deities who wanted their thrones. I want each city-state to be different with its own style, like the cities from the DC superheroes comics. For example a city-state "transgenic" apes mind-controlled by a plant+construct-(biopunk) graft. The "failure" is these apes aren't enoughly sentient to start a rebellion but they can be possesed by souls who suffered the tiranny and they want revenge. Other city would be focused into "transhumanism". The main worker force is the penitents, plant-like humanoids created artificially whose souls are the reincarnations of criminals and sinners who accept to work as slaves instead suffering a worse punishment in the afterlife. That is the oficial version the memories of their sins don't mean they were the true sinners who commited those crimes. Some times the reward for the loyalest citizens is the reincarnation in a new type of body, the elans. A city would be focused into spiritual ascension, and the best psion lords can be found here. The oficial cult teachs about how to become one with the supreme plane. This should be the "Heaven" but really it is the Dream-Plane. Some "cultivators" accept bounds with "ascended beings". These aren't angels, fiends or monstruosity but feys but they can be as horrible as the creatures from the Far Realm. Let's imagine the dark faes creating monsters style "Resident Evil" mutants.Other city would be a secret civil war between two cults, one ruled by linnords and other by yuan-ti guided by a cobra-dragon. What villains or city-states would you create?</blockquote>

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