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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 855570" data-attributes="member: 571">For a different sort of fantasy world I present Dragon Earth. This being a preview, the real thing won't get posted on the web until WotC's Urban Arcana is released.It is a modern day fantasy world. The year is 2003. The world is recovering from a great war. Only recently has Earth's population started to grow again. It's estimated that it will not attain 3 billion again for centuries.France is a pariah state, shunned for her war of extermination against the non-humans early in the 20th century.Central Europe is in a near continuous state of low level war, one that began when the Austran Empire collapsed in the 1930s.The Russian Republic is on the verge of civil war, with numerous states seeking independence. Many of which are being 'advised' by the white dragons of Siberia. Six wyrms and great wyrms who seek revenge for Russia's war of extermination against them.Germany is on the slow road to recovery, but faces threats from the Balkans, Poland, and a renascent France.The U. S. is in fairly good shape. But even she has places the living do not go. There are tales going around that the restless dead from her war against the Empire of China are mustering, and preparing for a war of vengeance. A tale contradicted by the restless crew of the Chinese battleship, The Golden Lotus. The five of them are certain it's an attempt by somebody or something to divert American attention from the real problem (the rest of the ship's crew have gone on to the afterlife, it's just that those five have a few things they need to take care of before they can proceed.)Imperial China is slowly recovering the land she lost in The Lich King's War. But it is hard work, and her population continues to shrink. (From 350 million at the start of The Lich King's War to her current population of about 97 million.)Finally, there is The Waste Land. Containing within its bounderies Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, plus about half of Thailand, the Malaysian Pennisula down to the city of Singapore, and the southern third of Imperial China.Nothing lives in The Waste Land, and remains sane.It is what The Lich King wished to turn the world into. A land of the unliving and the undead. A kingdom of necromancy with him as its god.He has been destroyed, his power broken. But the struggle against his works continues.Then you have the off world settlements (one of the bennies of magic). The Moon, Mars, both nearby asteroid belts and the moons of Neptune and Uranus have colonies. But not the moons of Jupiter or Saturn, for those world have electro magnetic fields too strong for mortal magic to deal with.Then there is Pluto. Home to the Collegium Arcana. The College of Magic. Where dweomers are being worked on that will allow travel into the galaxy itself, and the settlement of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. But, things are happening on Pluto, things from realms beyond and lands darker than the worst The Lich King could ever dream of.And in the halls of the Collegium Arcana furtive words are heard. Words that speak of The Goat of the Thousand Slain. And the name, "Hastur". (Poor slobs don't get a break, do they?<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />)</blockquote>

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