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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5806965" data-attributes="member: 19675">I have a homebrew in which the surface world was essentially pounded back into the stone age due to a meteoric bombardment.  The empires of the surface world- along with their populations- are decimated.  The realms of the Underdark, though, are largely intact.As was planned by the Illithids from the future.  What did not go to plan, however, was that the Illithids craft responsible for the bombardment suffered a malfunction and crashed.  The Elder Brain survived, but just barely, and with significant damage.  Over time, it and a handful of servitors built up a small colony of Illithids who retained their culture...but knew nothing of their origins.The harsh conditions of the surface world has changed the ecology.  Most large creatures are extinct.  To survive, elves had performed a great ritual, and fused their essence with the trees they loved, gaining woody skins and leaves whose photosynthesis supplemented their farming and hunting.  Dwarves, closest to the surface, were hardest hit of the races that called the Underdark home, until their dwindling numbers forced their hands, and they constructed metal bodies to house the minds of the psionically active among them; the Inheritors, they called themselves.Attracted to the rips in dimensions caused by the bombardment, creatures from other planes briefly strode the world for reasons known only to themselves.  Their legacy- besides further destruction- was a large number of offspring.  Nephilim, as they are called, are only partly of this world...The Green Council- a trio of Awakened Aspen who took up the druidic mantle, have in turn sent their agents into the world: animals who have also been blessed with the Ritual of Awakening.This is the world into which the adventurers were born.(also, check my sig)</blockquote>

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