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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Empirate" data-source="post: 5918353" data-attributes="member: 78958">In my current campaign, I'm using a rather simple cosmology of just two worlds. The worlds are connected with each other through several portals (once there were many, now there are only a few left, access to which is tightly restricted by the powers that be).One of the worlds, the one the PCs started in, is a backwards, almost stone age world of extremely harsh climates, filled with dangerous monsters. Only a strip along the terminator of the planet is inhabitable, since the planet doesn't revolve around its axis - it only tumbles slightly to provide for rather long 'days' and 'nights' with long periods of twilight in the inhabitable region. The sunward side is simply too hot to provide for life, and the dark side of the planet is shrouded in perpetual cold. In mythology, the dark side is associated with powerful, hungry forces of death and destruction, and it is in actuality filled with the walking/floating dead (since people that die don't just go away - their souls remain shackled to the world).This whole world is a giant prison, or rather a labor camp. It has been installed by technologically (in game mechanics: magically) advanced race from the second world, the world connected with portals. That world is a beautiful, almost paradisiacal place filled with beautiful, irrevocably evil people. These guys have dire need of a certain mineral to sustain their technology, which can only be found in the first world. So they created portals to that place and also created a slave race to settle that world and mine the mineral. However, they don't overtly keep their slaves as such. In fact, only very few people in world one know or guess that another world exists: people just mine the magical mineral because they can trade it for extremely fancy stuff (mere crumbs from the master race's table, of course).Should the downtrodden inhabitants of the extremely inhospitable world one ever storm the portal towns and sever the connection with world two... well, we'll see what happens, because it looks like it just might in the course of my campaign.</blockquote>

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