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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Master of Monkeys" data-source="post: 201849" data-attributes="member: 4591">A campaign world I am working on, I call it: Nightfall.  Its missing all information about the gods, mythology, geography, information about the people, all that stuff.  Help is greatly appreciated.  Please help!History of NightfallAround the year 2090, Earth discovered wormhole technology and one of the first experiments a space ship.  The ship's warp field screwed up and they ended up crashing on a planet they named Nightfall.  Nightfall was a harsh desert planet with 3 suns and no night.Few of the ship's people survived, those that did continued to reproduce and genetically modify their children to create a race that would survive.  The AI was given more and more tasks to help the people survive until it had as much freedom as a person.Because of the harshness of the world they decided to genetically modify themselves to be stronger/smarter, etc.  Because of their high technology and the fact they no longer had the laws against certain genetic modifing that they had on earth, they became godlike, and ascended to a higher platform of life than humans.  Eventually the AI and humans fought, the human gods forced the AI onto the moon of the planet where they remain, only rarely being able to breach the atmosphere.The gods decided to make servants, they created beingsalmost exactly like humans except in trival ways (some with pointy ears, some much shorter, you get the point).  Each god created different beings.For a time, the human gods lived in peace, until an eclipse with the dark moon of the AI gods caused a night that lasted for 100 years, the Great Darkness.  The AI gods came down with dark servants of their own in the night and the Era of the God War started.The Era of the God WarsThe human gods began to use light as their symbol and drew power from it, the AI gods thrived on the power of the darkness of their moon.The gods began to make their species stronger than each other.  The servant species became very different, the Light began to fight with what they called higher morals, and the Dark fought with almost no morals, their servants were created with an almost love of evil.The gods began to give their servants powerful nano-technology encoded so that no mortal would ever know where it comes from,  it would be a mysterious force.  The humans call it magic.  When the war began, the gods began to improve magic and give it more and more until a group of powerful wizards began to give technology back to the people of nightfall.  The wizards became a threat to the gods themselves, so the gods gave up their struggles and began to fight the wizards with all their power.  The wizards left for space.  They returned with an army of humans with high-level technology.  Thus ended the Era of the God Wars.  The Era of the Science WarsAfter long years of fighting, the wizards destroyed the gods in a final magical onslaught.  In an instant, the gods were destroyed.  It was described as the gods having been alive one moment, then dead the next.  The followers of the gods no longer felt the power of their deity at their side.The wizards never ruled Nightfall, and never wished to.  They left for the stars soon after the gods had died.  They left behind them vast technology but not a knowledge of its use.  They also left behind the power of magic, but it is only a fraction of a wizards power.  The technology of the wizards became legendary artifacts, instead of  being common to people, like they intended.NightfallNightfall is probably going to use background feats like Wheel of Time.  I haven't decided on the actual geography of the world, mainly just the background.   Races are probably all going to be human, or shade of you choose to be evil in the Era of the God Wars.Nightfall's oceans and water are alive.  It was an early experiment of the gods.  The ocean is sentient, it moves as if eroding landscape, although quicker than it would on other worlds.  Many civilizations have been lost to the water, and the artifacts of the wizards were long ago swallowed.  Trees and creatures can subsist on the water, but it is said that to drink to much is dangerous.I need help with how the gods death changed Nightfall.In Nightfall you can play in either the Era of the God Wars or the Era of the Science Wars:Era of the God WarsThe Era of the God Wars is a fight of good versus evil.  Players can play during the Great Darkness where they will constantly fight the servants of the dark side.  Characters during this time could have to pick from the dark side or the light side.Era of the Science WarsThe Era of the Science Wars is a fight of medieval versus sci-fi.  Players would have to play either a warrior of the wizards or a servant of the gods.</blockquote>

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