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[Remuthra]

((The planet IS a moon. I made it orbit a gas giant.))

((Moons can have moons too.))

[Furtuka]

((The planet IS a moon. I made it orbit a gas giant.))

((Moons can have moons too.))

((I am now so tempted to give those moon moons moons as well))

[Dermonster]

((The planet IS a moon. I made it orbit a gas giant.))

((Moons can have moons too.))

((Can you at least lower it to around *Counts* Oh, actually 13 is fine. Carry on.))

Can someone compile like, some sort of cheat sheet to see what all we have?

[WillowLuman]

We haven't made races yet,

Along the walls of the chasm lives a race of feathered reptilian humanoids, who were once more widespread but retreated to the chasm ages ago due to an unknown catastrophe. The dig into the walls and build houses anchored to the cliffside.

At one place it the chasm is a great spider, whose web spans across the walls. It keeps a great wealth of knowledge in its web, written on silken pods hanging from the threads in a language only it knows. It will share secrets with those who ask, but only in exchange for other secrets.

Within the chasm there exist pirates, who travel along the chasm in airships and raid the bridge checkpoints and border settlements. They delve far deeper into the chasm than any others dare to do, and it is said that there is a hidden pirate capitol, a floating city in the lower regions of the chasm containing untold riches from across the ages.

Some accuse the dwellers of the chasm walls of harboring the pirates, and the "Wallers" (as detractors call them) do form a disproportionate fraction of pirate crews. In some areas, there is mutual distrust between the Wallers and the topsiders, but in others they give no quarter to pirates, seeking to trade with the topsiders. In general, the wallers, or Maraxi as they call themselves, are a somewhat insular people, though are known to be flamboyant and adventurous on occasion.

((The planet IS a moon. I made it orbit a gas giant.))

((Moons can have moons too.))

Physics suggests that eventually the tidal forces of the parent planet would pull the moons of moons out of orbit, making them into just regular moons of the main planet. But hey, it's a fantasy setting.

[Armok]

Most forms of life - animals, plants, sapient races - have a bit of elemental heritage of one kind or another mixed in them, and "purebloods" are rare. Those with a very large fraction can reproduce with pure elementals, and certain life elementals are compatible with everything, which is presumably how the whole thing happened.

[Dermonster]

Most forms of life - animals, plants, sapient races - have a bit of elemental heritage of one kind or another mixed in them, and "purebloods" are rare. Those with a very large fraction can reproduce with pure elementals, and certain life elementals are compatible with everything, which is presumably how the whole thing happened.

((Elementals don't reproduce, and especially not like that. They just kinda are. Vetoing this, seeing as how it messes with my 'mortals can't use magic, only elementals, elemental symbiotes, and manavores can' thing.))

[Furtuka]

((Derm, not trying to be snippy, but you should probably write those details more clearly down for us beforehand))

[Dermonster]

((Am I allowed to wall of text? I'm pretty sure I would have gotten a negative reaction had I had all my stuff all in one post. I'm trying but when I have to space things out it gets hard. Also I didn't know people would have people try to have sex with a giant ball of fire.))

[Furtuka]

((Eh GWG got away with making like 5 suggestions per post last thread. Admittedly because he snuck them into his grand unifying organized summaries but I think it's fine so long as it doesn't overly restrict everyone else's creativity.))

[Kadzar]

Many orders of adventurers and warriors exist throughout the world dedicated to preventing Manavore attacks, but in recent times the Knights Alfriendi have begun contacting and organizing the smaller groups in nearby regions to form a greater coalition. Their motto is (roughly translated) "We Stand United Against the Death of Magic"

History indicates that Manavores tend to either emerge from the Ground, or the Sky, without much warning beforehand.

Of course, when they're not fighting Manavores, adventurers are kept plenty busy keeping down the numbers of many other monsters that dwell in the wilds as well as the occasional wild elementals that have decided to attack sapient races for whatever reason. They also raid the abandoned city complexes below the earth and other places full of unclaimed treasure, and generally just perform any sort of dangerous task that needs to be done for which there is substantial reward to be gained.

Throughout the world, many adventuring companies and guilds are scattered about, some in overlapping territory. Most are only regional affairs, but there are a few far reaching organizations, such as the Fire Panther Company, who operate mostly throughout the western hemisphere but have some dealings in the eastern side and are distinguished by their Fire Panther mounts, which hail from the Midnight Jungle in which the Company's headquarters is located.

EDIT:

Most forms of life - animals, plants, sapient races - have a bit of elemental heritage of one kind or another mixed in them, and "purebloods" are rare. Those with a very large fraction can reproduce with pure elementals, and certain life elementals are compatible with everything, which is presumably how the whole thing happened.

((I'd say that maybe we should amend this to many different things besides sentient races can have elemental spirits in them. So my Fire Panthers, for example, have fire elementals in them naturally.

[WillowLuman]

(Perhaps they are the result of a pact between a Panther God and the Primordial of Fire, to bind a Fire elemental to every child of a certain panther lineage upon birth?)

Of all the adventurer coalitions, the Panther Company is the largest by membership, though not every chapter or affiliate group has access to the Panthers themselves. The Knights of Alfriendi operate in the East, and while they operate over a large territory it is comparatively quite small (and restricted to the North of that region). A much looser confederation, commonly called the Hakimatem, exists more southward and further towards the Chasm than the Alfriendi, but in some places their members act more like bandits than protectors. Their inner circle spends much time hunting down such rogue groups.

[Dermonster]

(What panther god? Maybe spirits can just be attracted to certain creatures.)

There exist eight great cities outside of the gorge. Each city is associated with one of the eight great elements. Strong elementals of that type appear more frequently in those areas.

There is a walking manastorm traveling on the opposite side of the planet of the chasm. It weaves from location to location, leaving twisted landscapes filled with odd animals, plants and ruins in it's wake. People who have grown close enough to see it without becoming affected claim to see a humanlike figure shrouded in the center. According to a crazed adventurer, the figure could be the host of some kind of Time Elemental gone mad, trapped by his brothers and kept in immortal solitude by the very spirit seeking to escape. Elementals become elusive when the subject is brought up.

In the capital city of the chasm, there lives a tiny, blind sorceror who is only known to the Ruler and few else. She can walk anywhere and see everything. The Spirit of Space is quiet.

Spoiler: Me forgetting that I'm not actually writing the story. (click to show/hide)

On the east side of the planet, a young man has his life torn apart by marauders. He takes up the sword, and brings the clans to Order.

On the west side of the planet, A young woman destroys her village in a fit of vicious playfulness. She heads to a city, to incite Chaos.

Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Lightning, Metal, Ice, Life.

Time and Space.

Order and Chaos.


In the beginning there was Void.

It awaits the coming days.

[Furtuka]

((I think that was a bit... too precise. Or too vague? The lines about the man and woman feel like they ground the settings potential too much, since there's clearly suppose to be a plot built around them when they're that vague. What I mean is that everything after "She can walk anywhere and see everything." doesn't feel like a potential plot hook or detail that expands the setting and more like the sort of vague foreshadowing in the prologue to a story"))

[Dermonster]

((I was afraid of that. I don't think it's too restrictive. I've left somewhat blank shells aside from gender and location, allowing a potential GM to do whatever he wished within the fact that 'they exist and are probably working towards the *Ordered/Chaotic subsumation of the world*'
To the edit: That's because it totally is? Shit, I'm not supposed to do that, am I? I'll spoiler it.
Hidden Void spirit unknown to even Order and Chaos still totally exists though.))

[WillowLuman]

^^(We can save stuff that specific for stories in the setting, right now we're building the setting itself.)

(Panther God, Panther Patriarch/Matriarch, whatever. Just some Panther thing that makes a deal with the Primordial of Fire.)

Some suspect that the diversity of races and life is partly due to the twisting effect that some things have on the world. There may once have been far fewer kinds of mortal, physical life, but through magical mutation a great diversity of material life was created. Humans are counted among the oldest verifiable races, but some races are suspected to have been twisted from animals, and some animals to have been twisted from sentient races, and some races to have been twisted from others. There is no great certainty as to which is which, though.