Horacio said:
More than half an hour and Nightfall hasn't arrived yet...
He must be getting old...
I was SLEEPING. I do that sometimes, especially when I've got all these new and wonderful ideas for the Scarred Lands.
Btw thanks to my good friends, Shouit and Alaric for picking up the slack for me.
Well since there's a LOT that needs to be addressed, I'll go right to it.
Firstly to the creator of this thread, what is the Scarred Lands?
Well quite simply, it's a world READY to be shaped by heroes. Why? Cause quite simply, it needs it. It needs because 150 years around (maybe getting a little more now) the Gods and Titans fought and with their battles came many great changes. Millions fought and died on both sides, the land was wrack and sundered, stars fell out of the sky. Basically it was the end of the old world. A world where the Titans, beings not quite gods had run in cycles changing the face of Scarn for countless eons. Or at least that's their belief.
Regardless, the Titans were and are intergral part of the land of Scarn. For they are spirit of the land and its nature. But what do they care of mortal concerns? So what if maybe Thulkas, the Lord of Fire, wanted to maybe start an earthquake, or maybe Kadum didn't like the size of a certain city? What was that to them, these beings of immense power. But to the Gods, it mattered. Even the cruelest and most bloodthirsty of the gods relied on some worship, so it was then that they fought. And in doing so, changed the face of this world. Now it's a world were magic, while still strong, has been changed. Arcane magic, once the province solely of Mesos, the Sire of Sorcery, and his sorcerer/druids, now was free to play with wizards, bards and other sorcerers not wholly dependent on Mesos' whim. But even so, now the heat generated by such spells is seen as "unholy" or tainted by some. Clerics try to convert the hordes of "titanspawn" those that still cling to their old ways, old thinking of venerating the Defeated. But even they can't always agree on ways to do. How could they when still the plots of their masters, ranging from the cold and heartless Mother of Witchery, Belsameth, and Chardun, the Might General, the Overlord, all seek their own version of "perfection?" So thus the clerics go to war, in the name of their gods, though more of cold war, one where it's more of often of rethoric than actual battle. Even so, all the gods realize that their forebearers, the Titans are not dead. No, for even sundered and bound, they remain a threat. Thus even the most evil and vile of the dark gods' servants will aid that of light, if the threat to their stability is in question. This is the lands of Ghelspad, Termana, Asherak and Fenrilik. This is a land where heroes are needed, where hope is some times scare in the face of a land blasted by the power of Gods and Titans. This is a land where even one time foes can be allies and vice versa. Land of High Gorgons, Slitheren/Ratmen, and other foul things both "divine" and titanspawn. So welcome to the Scarred Lands. You were warned.
Well this was longer than I thought but I'll address Joe concern in my next post.
