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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 8519829" data-attributes="member: 52734">For my homebrew, Amberos, the gods live in domains within the outer planes.  For example, Belli, Lord of Nature, lives in a place called Stonehold in the Beastlands.I've surprised myself that I've actually done a bit of work about these realms.  I thought I hadn't.  For example, for Stonehold:[spoiler]Stonehold is a mountainous structure created from a tent of rocks that sits in a valley of green. Two rivers run through the valley - The River of Death (Styx) and the River of Life (Lethe). The two rivers intermix at a single point in the center of the valley, creating a moat around Stonehold. A garden fills most of the basin of the valley, where wild creatures and the ancient druids who have passed on - and their families - dwell. The garden is said to be home to progenitors of every plant upon Amberos; according to legend were the progenitor plant to be maimed or kill, all plants of it kind would likewise die on Amberos. Likewise, the first and greatest of each animal dwells within the valley, and its permanent death would mean the end to the species it fostered. Consequently, the druids who dwell here guard the plants and animals vigorously, protecting them against harm. Because of special ceremonies known to them, all that live here can live off the bounty plant and animal provide, without permanently destroying the progenitors. However, outsiders who were careless not to perform the proper rites after killing or consuming the bounty of the progenitors risk the very real hazard of destroying the progenitor forever The interior of Stonehold is spartan, almost cave-like. The walls are covered with stick-figure murals created by unknown hands showing ancient hunts, the gathering of crops, and other deeds and ceremonies. Deep within Stonehold lies a bier of stone, atop which someone has stacked great, flat slabs of granite to create a throne. The throne is covered with the pelts of a hundred animals and the feathers of a thousand birds - all said to have been contributed one each by the animals of the world. Behind the throne grows a great oak tree - The Tree Of Law; the first green thing to have grown on Amberos and transplanted here after Dhorian cut a branch from the tree in an attempt to bend the entire universe to his will.[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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