[URBIS] The Eternal Storm

[Jürgen Hubert]

Here's yet another fresh excerpt from Urbis. This time, I wanted to show how really large magical effects can shape the world - and provide interesting locations for adventures...

"The region where the Eternal Storm is now located used to be one of the most remote outposts of the Atalan Empire. To the wizards of the Empire, this made the region the perfect place to conduct some of their most dangerous magical experiments. This lasted until the year 510 NA, when a network of gates to the various elemental planes became unstable. Pure elemental matter broke free into the Material Plane and devastated the land in a diameter of dozens of miles. The instable gates have remained open to this day, sometimes expanding, sometimes contracting, sometimes ejecting matter, and sometimes drawing matter into the elemental planes of air, water, fire, and earth.
Thanks to the dangerous nature of the area, civilized settlements are fairly infrequent and far from the heart of the storm - one never knows when the next storm front might break loose. Nevertheless, there are enough brave people here who are willing to gamble with their lives in the search for rare and valuable elemental substances, as well as outlaws and refugees from nearby regions who have nowhere else to go."

Any thoughts?

 

[ajanders]

Elemental Mergence

It occurs to me there might be some changes in the elements themselves...just a thought.

So there might be solid water. Not ice, mind you. Just solid water. It would look kind of like a jello.
Liquid air...you can swim in it comfortably, but also breathe and not get wet.
Might be a really handy thing for personal elevators in your skyscrapers: long shafts of the stuff with "airlocks" every floor or so.
Airy earth would look solid, but you could walk right through it, breathing all the way. Maybe that's a kind of aerogel, or a good material to make secret doors from.

Just a thought