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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 5073606" data-attributes="member: 41321">I'm leaning towards the idea that the races had different lifespans at one point, but all of the individuals left in the known areas of the world (including the PCs) have been limited to human-like lifespans.Perhaps I should explain a little more about the campaign world I'm envisioning.  The world has ended.  The certain cause or reason behind this event has been lost, but the scholars saw it coming.  They gathered as many as they could into a few cities, spread across the continent, and they protected these cities with magic now lost, surrounding them in protective domes.  When the world ended, all that was left was the domed cities, connected with portals.  What was left of the rest of the world was not known, aside from the fact that it was unlivable.Now, for reasons unknown, cities have been disappearing one by one from the portal network.  The city the PCs happen to live in now cannot contact any other cities, and the trade they relied on for long-term survival is gone.  Within a few years they will no longer be able to support their population.  The city governor calls upon the PCs to leave the dome and strike out into the broken world to find out what happened to the other cities.I'm imagining that the PCs' "city" is actually a city and the surrounding countryside that is probably used more for cattle than farming.  Another city happened to get more lush countryside in its dome, and it has been trading vegetables, wheat, and feed for meat and leather.  Yet another city might have domed a large mine with it, and it has been providing metal, and so on with different cities specializing in different exports.  Alone these cities can't survive forever, they need to trade to get what they need.Each city may have started off as a one-race city, but in the days before The End the sanctuary cities opened their doors to any who could make it, so now, in the domes, the cities are full of different races.I'd like it so that everyone alive today in the cities was born within the domes, but perhaps they have tales from before The End handed down from their great grandparents about how they had to take up only those possessions they could carry and run to the sanctuaries.  In the rush a lot of history and culture of the individual races was lost, but some of it might still exist in the world outside the domes, waiting for the PCs to find it.</blockquote>

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