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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew D. Gable" data-source="post: 720190" data-attributes="member: 4144">Dendain Part OneI never really submitted a good overview of Dendain, my homebrew world, so here goes.  There's only two actual gods in my world - Empirion (good, male) and Ardanael (evil, female).  While the other deities function as gods, they're really just really, really powerful celestials and elementals.  Ardanael betrayed Empirion, allying with the fire elemental (Akkad AKA Ammon) and a lesser god (Valinus), spawning the fiendish races and launching an assault on Empirion's throne.  She lost (natch), but took the Four Worlds (of the elements) with her.  End dividends: Valinus dead, Akkad/Ammon exiled to the Netherwells (Far Realm), Ardanael exiled to Arjidan (hell) along with her children and the Inferni (gods who sided with her).A Fifth World, called Dendain, is created.  It is infused with all four elements.  The lesser elementals of flesh and mind sacrifice themselves to give the goddess Ashtar the power she needs to create the human race, and Harlequin, god of the wilds, creates a race called the sidha'im (progenitor elves).  Shortly after the creation of humanity, Taliesin and Talismater, the twin gods of magic, descend to Dendain and reproduce with humanity, giving birth to the magi'ashin or wizards.  The force of retribution, Dragon, and all of his children (dragons) are placed under the care of the sidha'im.  Sidha'im and humans interbreed to produce elves.Sure enough, the magi'ashin start squabbling when the warlord Khan flees justice.  It soon turns into a full war, and in the long run, all the dragons are released.  The gods, to their horror, discover that they are responsible for the destruction of the world they so lovingly created.  They bring the dragons to heel and isolate themselves from the world.Making another attempt at the throne, Ardanael attempts to seduce the god Belam.  When he refuses her, Ardanael attempts to slay him.  Belam's wife, Miranda, retaliates by slaying Ardanael.  Dragon judges that Miranda be banished from heaven.  She's thrown down to Dendain, where the blinding light she emanates scorches the plains into deserts.  The light also causes the humans to take refuge in the cold north (giants), in the mountains (avariel), in the caves (dwarves), and in the forests (woodwoses).Miranda is allowed to re-ascend into heaven after a thousand years.  Fast forward to the present: magic is practically non-existent, and the few magic-users have sullied reputations.  Psi is somewhat more predominant, especially in the South.  Speaking of the South, a huge sea filled with islands dominates (think the Pacific), occupying the territory where Theen, the homeland of the magi'ashin, once was.---------And that's the brief version. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I'm sure you can see the folkloric things that inspired various aspects: Ardanael is based on a mixture of Lilith and Echidna, the origin of the magi'ashin on the Nephilim legend.  Other aspects are Gnostic and Atlantean in flavor.  So I guess you could say it's generic fantasy, lol.  The world has areas corresponding to real-life cultures.  I'm still working on it nominally, but I admit I'm devoting more time to Shadowrun and Ravenloft.</blockquote>

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