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<blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 4052393" data-attributes="member: 7177"><a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AHouseDivided" target="_blank">A House Divided</a> - <a href="http://eruvian.com/locale.asp?localeID=820" target="_blank">Danaan's Hope</a>The description of this trope reminded me strongly of disaster movies - when the crisis breaks out, everyone starts arguing about what to do until Our Heroes (i.e. the PCs) inspire them to act jointly. So I thought of a location that would be conductive to &quot;natural disasters&quot;, and the <a href="http://eruvian.com/locale.asp?localeID=224" target="_blank">Eternal Storm</a> region seemed like the obvious choice. The rest practically wrote itself.<a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AncientConspiracy" target="_blank">Ancient Conspiracy</a> - <a href="http://eruvian.com/organization.asp?organizationID=94" target="_blank">Flamekeepers</a>Urbis already has no shortage of conspiracies, yet I didn't want a new conspiracy to become as all-powerful as the Illuminati and their ilk are claimed to be in such stories. Thus, my thoughts wandered to alien conspiracies that desire the space humans claim as their own, and remembered the Martians of Well's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Worlds" target="_blank">War of the Worlds</a>. I inverted the scenario - in this case, the aliens dwell in the depths of the world, instead of beyond it - and looked for logical places where they might surface. The joint dwarven/gnomish realm of <a href="http://eruvian.com/locale.asp?localeID=279" target="_blank">Gol Algor</a> was the logical choice, since it already had lots of volcanoes, and the Flamekeepers, who worship these beings, were created as the &quot;demihuman&quot; face for these entities.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jürgen Hubert, post: 4052393, member: 7177"] [b][URL=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AHouseDivided]A House Divided[/URL][/b] - [URL=http://eruvian.com/locale.asp?localeID=820]Danaan's Hope[/URL] The description of this trope reminded me strongly of disaster movies - when the crisis breaks out, everyone starts arguing about what to do until Our Heroes (i.e. the PCs) inspire them to act jointly. So I thought of a location that would be conductive to "natural disasters", and the [URL=http://eruvian.com/locale.asp?localeID=224]Eternal Storm[/URL] region seemed like the obvious choice. The rest practically wrote itself. [b][URL=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AncientConspiracy]Ancient Conspiracy[/URL][/b] - [URL=http://eruvian.com/organization.asp?organizationID=94]Flamekeepers[/URL] Urbis already has no shortage of conspiracies, yet I didn't want a new conspiracy to become as all-powerful as the Illuminati and their ilk are claimed to be in such stories. Thus, my thoughts wandered to [i]alien[/i] conspiracies that desire the space humans claim as their own, and remembered the Martians of Well's [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Worlds]War of the Worlds[/URL]. I inverted the scenario - in this case, the aliens dwell in the depths of the world, instead of beyond it - and looked for logical places where they might surface. The joint dwarven/gnomish realm of [URL=http://eruvian.com/locale.asp?localeID=279]Gol Algor[/URL] was the logical choice, since it already had lots of volcanoes, and the Flamekeepers, who worship these beings, were created as the "demihuman" face for these entities. [/QUOTE]

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