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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 528579" data-attributes="member: 8704">Some suggestions.As far as Plants go as long as there is some light the plants will try to adapt, instead of perpetual darkness have it rotate from dark to dusk (where a dim light of some sort is visable). I'd also put in seasons so that the time of dusk varies. For limiting good to a certain area, I'd apply a mighty artifact that captured the last of the positive energy from the sun and holds the negative energy at bay in an area. You would have a boundary where all the rules would change, adventurers who go past the boundary would have to carry positive energy with them some way as it would be extremely weak there. The undead lords are always trying to penitrate the wall and destroy the artifact, but the closer tye get the weaker they become. I'd have the border change with the seasons and I'd also have stone markings with dates on them showing where the border used to end, it should always be shrinking, not so you would notice day to day but it always looses a foot or so a year. A main priority for the good guys would be trying to find a way to either restore the balance or repower the artifact. The vegetation outside this area would be soaked with negative energy and would be alot like the Blight from The Wheel of Time, putred and dangerous. I'd make sure there was a difference between evil and undead. Both good and evil are in a fight on the same side, I mean who really wants to be a zombie, thus evil characters would be alowed as PC's, but not evil clerics or necromancers or characters that use negative energy. The war between good and evil is on hold until the world is put right again, the main difference in good and evil would be in the methods they use. As for the Black Dragon, she could use magic to keep her body alive so as to hide that she is a draco lich, the body is just a puppet, she doesn't need to eat or breath to live the body carries on due to magic, she is not dependant on any body function and must cast powerful spells to keep the body from dying and decaying. This would kkep all but her most trusted in the dark and would keep her in fear that her true nature would be found out and she would be destroyed by her own allies. (you could even throw in something vile, such as she has to use fresh blood from other sources, like human sacrifices, to keep from becomming fully undead.)I'd make sure there was plenty of mythology about what happened but I wouldn't let on a true definitive reason (that would be a great plot point for the characters to discover towards the end of a campaign.)Example mythology: There was only one god, the great mother god, the all encompasing void, she created the world so she would not be alone in the void and set it in motion, she did not directly interfere in the world  and aided both sides equally. (Call her true Neutral). She created two children for herself, the child of her light side and the child of her dark side. She forbid them from interfering in her world, it was for her alone. Both children ignored her as they were enthralled by the world there mother had created, to get around her ban they created lesser gods to be avatars of their will. The great mother god allowed them there manipulations as it gave her entertainment and they did not directly interfere. Then the dark child hatched a plot to poison her mother with her own darkness, the Great mother was crippled and her world was horribly deformed, the child of light sacrificed her body to save the light and the great artifact of light was formed out of her body. The great mother god pulled all the lesser gods to her tightly and used their strength to save her creation, but the dark child fled into the void by giving up her body and infusing her spirit with the god of the undead. The light child has no power to affect the world anymore as she is only a spirit and the mother god uses all the lesser gods to try to restore the balance. She is cripled with darkness just as her world is and wishes to return to a true neutral form. The dark child is free of any constraint but now only has power to influence the undead. (this is really, really rough but maybe it will spark some better ideas.)</blockquote>

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