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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VelvetViolet" data-source="post: 7980970" data-attributes="member: 6686357">I like to take inspiration from pre-D&D and non-D&D sources when reimagining monsters. Sometimes I like to mix stuff together from a variety of sources.For example, I decided to reinvent the illithid-githyanki war using other monsters instead. The illithids I replaced with a combination of inspirations from Slavelords of Cydonia, Dreamscarred Press’ psionics, Call of Cthulhu, Frictional Games’ SOMA, etc. These became the Cult of Cthulhu, a generic mix of seafood monsters, brain parasites, fish people cultists, and hybrids thereof. The githyanki I replaced with dark elves, who I syncretized with inspirations including Everquest, Raging Heroes, Glorantha, WarCraft, Warhammer 40k, Monte Cook, Tolkien, etc. The dark elves were originally normal elves, who are a dryad-like race that shares their soul across animal and plant symbiotes. Then a fire war devastated their race, and the mutilated survivors became the dark elves by using a combination of migrating to the shadowfell, hunting/eating demons, developing psionics, chaositech/biotech, generally mutating, pacting a Tiamat/Ungoliant-expy, etc. Their travels brought them into contact with the Cthulhoids, who they naturally started a war with in order to steal Cthulhoid chaositech/biotech and resist enslavement. Oh, and the dark elves ride dragon-spiders into battle.The idea is very embryonic right now, but someday I’d like to write short stories or something.</blockquote>

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