Ry
Explorer
I want to work on a creative commons fantasy setting, something that anyone could take and run with however they want (even commercially). I'd use this setting as the core campaign setting of the new creative commons RPG I'm designing.
I was wondering which of the following ideas for origin stories has the most appeal, or if some mix of them would be preferable:
Ageless Cyclical World:
The world has always existed, and the deeper you go, the more history you find. Empires rise, fall, and are forgotten.
Lovecraftian Universe with Challenger:
The world emerged from the seething nuclear chaos of mad idiot gods cavorting in the vast darkness beyond. But among them, there came our goddess, who creates, who loves and sustains, and who in the end will destroy, so that all can be reborn.
Unknown age of world, Definitive Beginning of Thought:
The world existed far before there was anything that could name it, but we say that it began with a falling star because it was with the falling star that the first great ones awoke, and spoke.
Ageless Cyclical Planes, Definitive Beginning of World:
There was always the Dream, and within the Dream, there are always ideals and nightmares. They battle, birth gods and monsters, then sigh, and wither, and are gone beyond remembrance. Within the Dream, the seeds of creation grow, wither, and die - their lives are long when tended by the spirits of the Dream, that we call gods. But there came a time that there was something that was not the dream, and we call it the Void. We know not who became the first world-maker - but it came to pass that a seed was brought to the void, and in a burst of light, there birthed the world.
Pantheon Creates Universe:
There was once no distinction between light and darkness; all was both empty and full, all was both good and evil. Like raindrops falling from a cloudless sky to a pond, the gods appeared. The ripples rolled forth from these raindrops, and with their passing light could be told from darkness, and emptiness from fullness, and good from evil. But the gods were vaired, and had different loves among the lights and darks, so when they gathered to make the world they made it with these many opposing things.
I was wondering which of the following ideas for origin stories has the most appeal, or if some mix of them would be preferable:
Ageless Cyclical World:
The world has always existed, and the deeper you go, the more history you find. Empires rise, fall, and are forgotten.
Lovecraftian Universe with Challenger:
The world emerged from the seething nuclear chaos of mad idiot gods cavorting in the vast darkness beyond. But among them, there came our goddess, who creates, who loves and sustains, and who in the end will destroy, so that all can be reborn.
Unknown age of world, Definitive Beginning of Thought:
The world existed far before there was anything that could name it, but we say that it began with a falling star because it was with the falling star that the first great ones awoke, and spoke.
Ageless Cyclical Planes, Definitive Beginning of World:
There was always the Dream, and within the Dream, there are always ideals and nightmares. They battle, birth gods and monsters, then sigh, and wither, and are gone beyond remembrance. Within the Dream, the seeds of creation grow, wither, and die - their lives are long when tended by the spirits of the Dream, that we call gods. But there came a time that there was something that was not the dream, and we call it the Void. We know not who became the first world-maker - but it came to pass that a seed was brought to the void, and in a burst of light, there birthed the world.
Pantheon Creates Universe:
There was once no distinction between light and darkness; all was both empty and full, all was both good and evil. Like raindrops falling from a cloudless sky to a pond, the gods appeared. The ripples rolled forth from these raindrops, and with their passing light could be told from darkness, and emptiness from fullness, and good from evil. But the gods were vaired, and had different loves among the lights and darks, so when they gathered to make the world they made it with these many opposing things.
