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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tales and Chronicles" data-source="post: 7384595" data-attributes="member: 6871653">So, as the title says: I decided today to create my own setting and I'd like ask the community for good ideas. I came to realized that there's a lot of setting inspired from medieval/classic Europe, Japan, Arabic world etc, but I dont have a lot of material on North American Fantasy. I know Albeir-Toril is supposed to have a continent called Anchorome which is north of the ''new world'' Maztica, but there's little information on the subject. So I'd like to create a setting inspired by the first years of European establishment in the northern new world. I want to draw inspiration from the Great Lakes First Nations legends and French, Welsh, Dutch, Celt mythology. I'll probably go for a grimdark heart fantasy with fae-gothic feel, but any idea is welcome.[HR][/HR]As a starting point I created a small lore:- 35 years ago, the Good Princess went to war against an old empire she saw as evil, lost the war AND her country to the counter-attack of said empire. She called a great exodus across the sea and went north to a new continent. The Good Princess tasked her men to drag the 100 ships in shallow waters and build a city by linking all ships together. Thus is born Home, the City of Sails.- The new world is hostile: environment is the greatest threat. Very Point of Light- Magic is respected by most Heritage, but Enchantment is considered evil. - Only one warrior Goddess, many Saints. - No Tolkienesque races. This is the hardest part so far. - Its a watery world: the lakes and rivers are many and are the life-lines of civilization- Gun? - Some Factions: Lantern-Bearers (Protect the small pockets of civilization), The Shore Guard (Home's militia), Pilgrim of the Silver Roads (Clerics and monks who map the unknown rivers and lakes)[HR][/HR]To spark some ideas, I also created a bestiary of the setting with beasts/races that could inhabit it:Deer Woman - Centaur like, mix of Dryad and UnicornWhite Stag Kelpie - Water fiend taking the shape of steedSelkie- Shapeshifting seal people (Possible player race)Mothman - Potentialy take the place of classic VampiresBugbear - Child snatcher goblinoid Loup Garou - demonic werewolfBarghest - Cursed Wolf, devour ghostsLoup Noir - Cruel, intelligent wolves, cunning enough to be BBEGCetan - Giant hawk-shaped air elementalPamola - Giant Peryton with winter-y powersRain Bird - Phoenix-like water elementalThunderbird- Roc-sized elemental lord that hunts dragonHorned Serpent - Trickster spirit, shapeshifting wyrmMishipeshu - Giant water displacer beastCrawfish men - may replaces orcsSequoia Titans - gargantuan treant Chasse-Galerie - Demon-possesed fly-canoe handled by damned deadsThe Sturgeon King - Wise king of the LakeNothern WyvernBig-Footed Ones - Hairy Giants (Player races?)Amarok - Fiendish winter-wolf, likes duelsFlying Whales - Giantic whales living in the moisture in the clouds(a player race will inhabit the mouth of such whales)HippogriffGauvin - Horse possessed by the ghost of a mistreated mount, tries to fool and kill ridersBodmin - Lynx-shaped Will-o-Wisp, watch over farmlandSalmon of Knowledge- Powerful magic-using large salmon,kind-hearted but hunted for their skin used for spellbooks and their meat is rumored to give magical powersAzeban - Racoon people (Possibly player race)Werebeast-  Werebear, Wearboar and WerebadgersWendigo - Primal ghoulsOgopogo - Dragon EelJackalopeRat-King - Hive mind of ratsRooster-Horses - Large riding roosterShaggy trouts - large fish herded like sheepsMarble Bisons - Bisons actually covered by stony hairsMammoth Mammoth-Moth - A giant moth with tusk (god those bugs creep me out)La Velue - Very hairy steam-breathing manticore with a tortoise shellTupilaq - Animated ivory construct made to kill magesBlodeuwedd - Artifical owls made of wood and flowers, use enchantement magicBloody bones - Drowned undead who hunts a nightRainbow Crow - Bring luck to real heroesSo at this point, really any ideas is welcomed. If you have original things that you think may be fun to add, please do.</blockquote>

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