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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Y.O.Morales" data-source="post: 1701931" data-attributes="member: 4783">I once read from a Plot Writing book that most novels are based on three main hooks or premises: Good vs. Evil (almost all of the stuff out there), Man vs. Himself (someone dealing with his own mindset and problems), and Man vs. Nature (like The Perfect Storm or the Day After Tomorrow). So I decided to develop my setting around the latter. Briefly explained, a nation experimented with magic to reach the Spirit World where the (setting) world's 'Gaia' (the planet's conscious self and sole true deity) resides. Apparently, the great experiment 'went wrong' and a planar rip occurred, spilling what I call 'anti-dimensional' energy into the world (I wont give details on this as I literally got an physics book to develop the concept). This accident is causing a disastrous unbalance in magic, as the planet's 'Gaia' must spend her blood (magic) in keeping the energy pouring from the hole at bay. With the gradual reduction of magic, which makes nature works as it works, volcanoes have gone wild, weather phenomenons have appeared, lands are inundating, and even beast and the races are mutating (not a la super-hero-comic-book style). Meanwhile, some nations are fighting for safer lands, others are blaming each other for the accident, and some are actually looking for means to fix the planet or escape it (to another plane or even to one of its moons). However, there are other side plots as well. That's it.</blockquote>

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