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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chutup" data-source="post: 5938932" data-attributes="member: 6690844">I can't go past this <a href="http://www.rolang.com/archives/320" target="_blank">Megadungeon Origins Table</a> from Rolang. I think the Shattered Citadel of the Verlimes has the potential to be something more than just a small ruined castle, so let's add something beneath it - perhaps the real reason why the elves attacked it in the first place?I rolled: a fetus that is now a nursery for elementals.The Body of the ChildAdditional information about hex 18.07In primordial times, before the war of the gods tore the earth asunder, there was a pure love between the earth and the moon. The seed of the lunar deity fell to the earth as stars, fertilizing the warm earth, the lakes, the winds and the fires. From this union the first elementals were born - crude creatures, with bodies of base matter and a star inside each one to give them the spark of life.Then came a time when the moon loved too much. A huge fragment of his body broke off and fell into the earth, forming the crater whose outline can still be traced around the old Verlime citadel. Never again after that would the moon and the earth hold congress as they had done, but the earth bore her lover's last child faithfully. It would be enormous, a mountain with a star for a heart. But alas - the age of men was already fast approaching. The humans and their new gods beat back the elementals, cut down the trees of the great northern forest, and carved up the earth to build their City of Many Windows. Fearing the might of humanity, the earth-child chose to remain slumbering in the womb. Within its body, passages formed, and the essences of earth and moon mingled to create lesser elementals. These grandchildren of the moon make their way through a secret tunnel that connects them to the Sunless Sea, and from there they spread out across the Shrouded Lands. They have no intelligence as humans can understand it, yet they seem to have purposes beyond mortal reckoning. Perhaps the elves, who have mastered the art of summoning such creatures, know more, but they will not tell.As for the Body of the Child, it remained safe for thousands, perhaps millions of years (the records, such as exist, are unclear). The Verlimes built a citadel on top of it, but that was of no consequence, for citadels come and go while the earth endures. It was only when the Verlimes began to dig deep into the earth that the elves saw they needed to act; and on the very night that the excavators broke through into the veins of the Child, the elves rode out from the Kingswood and cleaved the citadel in two.Hooks:- Who is this lunar god? Is he still around?- Why did a part of the moon break off? Is this really a story of deities in love, or a garbled record of an astronomical cataclysm?- Could the Earth-Child ever be awoken and brought to the surface?- What's inside this long tunnel that leads from the Child to the Sunless Sea?- Where else have elementals spread to, and what are their mysterious goals?- What's the relationship between the elves and the elementals? Are elves a more refined form of the same nature spirit? Where does the Green Lady fit into all this?- The Verlimes provoked the elves to attack them by chopping down the Kingswood and delving into the earth. This is starting to sound like Isengard. What were the Verlimes trying to accomplish?</blockquote>

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