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<blockquote data-quote="Ringmaster" data-source="post: 933712" data-attributes="member: 10983">Eons ago, in spite of all the various supplications of their hard-working mortal constituency, the gods had a big fight and tore the world to bits. The world is now a shattered sphere. Anyone foolhardy enough to venture to the edge would see quite a sight before they sailed off into oblivion. Many attempts at crossing the rifts with vessels and magic or spanning them with bridges have been made over the intervening millennia. None have succeded. The PCs, though they don't know it yet, will meet the first beings to succeed. And, boy, they're not gonna like it one bit.Also...On the main &quot;island&quot; are a few small to moderately sized landforms, at the heart of which is a place called The Vale. Inspired by a film I saw on Kilimanjaro, The Vale is a vast valley at the bottom of which are tracts of rainforest and at the top of which are glaciers, with several distinct climatic regions in between. Enterprising mortals found this very dense range of climates intriguing and terraced the whole area to better support a staggering variety of agriculture. The glaciers at the top are melted to irrigate the areas below which in turn produce a multitude of, well, produce. Amongst other things. It is a fragile and unsustainable environment to be sure (a fact which is slowly coming to light and scaring the dickens out of those who know), but impressive and lucrative. Though very small compared to other regions, the Vale is exceedingly wealthy and attracts people from all over the world.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ringmaster, post: 933712, member: 10983"] Eons ago, in spite of all the various supplications of their hard-working mortal constituency, the gods had a big fight and tore the world to bits. The world is now a shattered sphere. Anyone foolhardy enough to venture to the edge would see quite a sight before they sailed off into oblivion. Many attempts at crossing the rifts with vessels and magic or spanning them with bridges have been made over the intervening millennia. None have succeded. The PCs, though they don't know it yet, will meet the first beings to succeed. And, boy, they're not gonna like it one bit. Also... On the main "island" are a few small to moderately sized landforms, at the heart of which is a place called The Vale. Inspired by a film I saw on Kilimanjaro, The Vale is a vast valley at the bottom of which are tracts of rainforest and at the top of which are glaciers, with several distinct climatic regions in between. Enterprising mortals found this very dense range of climates intriguing and terraced the whole area to better support a staggering variety of agriculture. The glaciers at the top are melted to irrigate the areas below which in turn produce a multitude of, well, produce. Amongst other things. It is a fragile and unsustainable environment to be sure (a fact which is slowly coming to light and scaring the dickens out of those who know), but impressive and lucrative. Though very small compared to other regions, the Vale is exceedingly wealthy and attracts people from all over the world. [/QUOTE]

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