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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fieari" data-source="post: 1926473" data-attributes="member: 16221">Some of these ideas are really great... I esspecially like the sea that links to the elemental plane of water.  I think I may even make it a one-way link... go down deep enough, and you not only won't find the bottom, but you can never find the top again either!My world has a few weird areas.The first isn't exactly natural.  Far to the north, it's believed you can find the edge of the world.  You will come to a point, surrounded by ice and snow, where you'll hit a cliff.  Beneath the cliff are clouds, and they stretch to the horizon.  In actuality, there is a steam-based city living under the clouds, keeping their land warm through magic and technology.The next is located in the center of the Kingdom of Hilden... an area where the ground itself channels negative energy.  There is grass growing there, but it will drain life from travelers walking through it.  At first it'll just feel like poison ivy, since the drain is in fact rather slow, but spend enough time there, and you'll die and be raised as undead.  This obviously makes travel... difficult.  The Kingdom is in a ring around these deadly plains, and the Church of Pelor takes great efforts to keep the undead penned in, and other creatures out.The last area of real interest is the Navan Forest, which people believe to be sapient.  It isn't... but it acts as if it were.  Rather instead, it is a place filled with OLD magic-- the kind that is defined by not understanding it.  In fact, the very act of learning about this magic destroys it, which makes it very mysterious indeed.  This old magic has twisted the landscape in strange multidimension ways... there will be paths you can get on but never get off (like a moebius strip) and retracing your steps can take you to entirely different places, and there are locations that you can only reach if you first go to another landmark... impossible to find otherwise or by shortcut.Despite the forest not actually having a mind or even a spirit of its own, its easy to think that it does.  Esspecially since the old magic causes your circumstances to change depending on who you are.  What you get out of the forest is what you put in, in most respects.  Put in innocence and joy, and that's what you'll get out.  Put in fear, or condensension, or pride, and something else entirely will be your experience within the forest.Of course Navan is filled with treasure.  But by the nature of the place, those who seek it CAN'T FIND IT.</blockquote>

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