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<blockquote data-quote="JamesDJarvis" data-source="post: 2312259" data-attributes="member: 2515"><p>Settled areas shouldn't have many monsters in them because the goverments ofthe area do spend a god bit of funds keeping the area clear of them (one reason low level adventurers can get a job). However at the frontiers there will be a population of creatures that perys on theinhabitants of the settled lands that have not yet been dealt with and beyond there will be monsters yet to be encountered by civilized folk.</p><p></p><p></p><p>where'd the monsters come from in the first place?</p><p></p><p>Long ago in ancient (dare i say mythic) times a great beast sat at the border of the first kingdom and for generations ate any who dared approach it. One day a lord sent a great hero to face the great beast. During the week long battle droplets of black blood sprayed across the land posioning the earth where they landed. The great hero did slay the beast but to his horror he saw the body writhed and many horrible monsters crawled froth from within the corpse of the beast, the hero could only watch as he was weakened from battle and could not pursue then as the spread out intot the world. The hero limped bakc to his lord to warn him of the monsters and saw that the natural animals of the world that foolosihly sipped of the great beasts blood had themselves turned into monsters no worse then those that crawled from the corpse. The hero told the lord of the results of his battle with the beast and the two traveld out inot the wilderness to deal with the evils losed upon the world and pledged not to return until they were all vanquished.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JamesDJarvis, post: 2312259, member: 2515"] Settled areas shouldn't have many monsters in them because the goverments ofthe area do spend a god bit of funds keeping the area clear of them (one reason low level adventurers can get a job). However at the frontiers there will be a population of creatures that perys on theinhabitants of the settled lands that have not yet been dealt with and beyond there will be monsters yet to be encountered by civilized folk. where'd the monsters come from in the first place? Long ago in ancient (dare i say mythic) times a great beast sat at the border of the first kingdom and for generations ate any who dared approach it. One day a lord sent a great hero to face the great beast. During the week long battle droplets of black blood sprayed across the land posioning the earth where they landed. The great hero did slay the beast but to his horror he saw the body writhed and many horrible monsters crawled froth from within the corpse of the beast, the hero could only watch as he was weakened from battle and could not pursue then as the spread out intot the world. The hero limped bakc to his lord to warn him of the monsters and saw that the natural animals of the world that foolosihly sipped of the great beasts blood had themselves turned into monsters no worse then those that crawled from the corpse. The hero told the lord of the results of his battle with the beast and the two traveld out inot the wilderness to deal with the evils losed upon the world and pledged not to return until they were all vanquished. [/QUOTE]
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