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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 6291483" data-attributes="member: 17106">1. I'd say the central theme of the setting is individualism. It's about people believing in themselves, equal divisions of power, independent thought and action, and more.2. A multiverse, with a planet with several continents, an undiscovered infinite universe of stars and planets around it, a set of other associated planes roughly matching the Great Wheel, and a portal at the center that leads to an infinite number of alternate realities (representing other campaign settings). I'm comprehensive like that.3. Dragons and deities are always at war, and their conflicts are superimposed over the normal (often alignment-based) conflicts inherent to D&D.The world is large and has many continents, but in any given era, most of them are unknown to each other.People and things from other campaign settings occasionally drop in to visit.4. The creator entities manifested the world as it exists now and made forms for themselves (the early dragons). For their amusement, they created a lesser race, from which all mortals are descended (the illithids), adding a cycle of life and death to keep things interesting. When they got bored, they assigned certain mortals to watch over the cycle of life and death (the first deities).The dragons planned to end the universe experiment after a while, but grew complacent and eventually the deities overthrew them and trapped them in the Material Plane. The deities spend eternity warring with dragons, trying to remove their creators and establish themselves as supreme overlords, concentrating more and more power among themselves and increasingly dominating all of existence.The world descends into chaos and perpetual war, its inherent entropic qualities ensuring that each generation is worse than the last. Eventually, some lesser mortals help the dragons escape, and a combined army of dragons and mortals burns the heavens in a Ragnarok-like battle, ending the world and returning all souls to their previous state of higher existence.</blockquote>

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