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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 1700617" data-attributes="member: 6929"><a href="http://dungeondamage.keenspace.com" target="_blank">Dungeon Damage</a>: High adventure in medieval Europe... but not your Europe. While history is the same, prehistory isn't quite the same, and various ethnic groups have been outright replaced with demihumans. Magic and technology are synonomous, which means magic sucks right now. But the future will be very, very different because of it.The Twilight: Several million years ago, the Ancients took their solar system and sun apart and built a giant sphere from its remains. They shifted their sun-like servant-gods and their civilisation to the inside of this sphere, which was nearly as large as Mercury's orbit. Later, their civilisation collapsed. Others flourished in its wake - primitive cultures of a thousand genetic or magically-created races, some of which developed great power.The Twilight Sphere has been united several times since then, by civilisations so advanced you can barely imagine them; they have fallen in time, spawning new races and civilisations which rose anew. This is a world of unimaginable size and age. Every inch of its soil bears artifacts of the past. Every race you meet, no matter how ancient, once gazed upon ruins of a fallen world that still makes them feel young. A continent is a tiny speck upon a tiny speck to the scope of this world.A one-word hook? Vast.So I built a sample region called Riftsea. The hook for this region? One upon a time, a happy race of magical insects ruled the land. Four thousand years ago, the Apex Draconis obliterated them with nukes and the power of their leaders, mighty cybernetic dragons. Later, the cyberdragons all died, and things started going downhill for their followers.That statement influences everything, although the resultant setting is somewhere between the medieval Mediterranean and modern Japan, plus a cross between xenomorphs and angels and some floating continents. The historical demon wars are based on the reincarnation model of the Twilight; basically, there were two big extinction events, and two regions of afterlife developed just to suit them. Then they started coming back.A hook summary that doesn't really do it justice? Life in the shadow of the extinct Apex Draconis.</blockquote>

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