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Total Members Voted: 5

[Detoxicated]

I like your magic idea, though I'd like to see more than chaos spirits.
Each spirit should have a different backlash, for instance a spirit of order would make the caster very neat and disturbingly monotone, a spirit of fire would occassionally set the caster on fire.

[Cheesecake]

What if magic existed everywhere outside of the hollow world, but seeped through cracks in tiny amounts. Unlike the gods and spirits of the world, 'magic' is entirely alien.

[micelus]

Suggestion for great gods in general: the current great gods are not the first and are simply the most powerful deities in existence. Previous great gods have either died or been reduced to lesser godhood for one reason or another.

Suggestion for two Great Gods


Sublimity-Through-Patience: Is the sun itself. An ancient deity, he retains a demeanour foreign to those of the current epoch, using a description in place of a proper name. STP is beyond a doubt, nearly unstoppable as a god as nearly all creatures have need of the sun and the life it brings. Despite this, STP maintains a hands-off approach to the world, having few lesser aspects in the world. The few he does maintain are inconspicuous and are usually difficult to identify as STP. Gods of justice, life, civilisation and order flock to his banner, though rarely does he aid them. When he does however, victory is almost always assured. If the Titan idea is pursued: STP is the Titan of Order who survived by editing his own soul. If chaos magic idea is pursued: several of those binding spirits are STP probing lifeforms on ihow to act 'godly'. His inactivity is partly due to his knowledge-probing and because he's also making sure none of the other Titans ever find out. The other half is that he genuinely likes his current role in the universe. If trickster god idea is pursued: STP answers all direct prayers with his godly incandescence. All petitioners have some learnt not to praise the sun. Instead, they praise his team of secretaries. Lesser gods and heroes are also regularly summoned by these secretaries to go on a quest with failure resulting in a redemption quest to fight the Titans.

Selene: an outcast amongs the great gods due to her youth, having ascended into greater godhood just before the last ice age and as such is still remembered as a mortal by her peers. Formerly being the ruler of a vast elven empire, her ascension resulted in the utter extinction of all pure elves, leaving only aberrants and other genetic oddities. In modern times, Selene takes the form of a giant spherical satellite that orbits the world, called the Moon. Before her ascendence, the world in fact did not have a moon. As a deity, she presides over the night, wisdom and knowledge. She is at significant odds with the other great gods due to her continued studies on the metaphysics of the world, especially godhood. This has resulted in a glut of weak-but-numerous gods under her command. If trickster god idea is pursued: Selene often raises random anythings to godhood for varying amounts of time. For purely scientific reasons, of course.

[Sosoku234]

Wait. How can there be a moon if it's a hollow world and the sun is in the center? Where would the night come from?

Instead. How about STP controls the front half and Selene controls the back half, making whatever side she's on become the moon side?

[Sosoku234]

Like the second point I brought up, where does the night come from? If the moon is the only thing making night, then the rest of the world would swiftly become a desert.

[Sosoku234]

It might make some sense like I said if Selene and STP were working in tandem to make night and day respectively. Or yours would make it work and have the moon be smaller and orbit the sun in the center.

[micelus]

It might make some sense like I said if Selene and STP were working in tandem to make night and day respectively. Or yours would make it work and have the moon be smaller and orbit the sun in the center.

That works.

Other idea: Orcs are the dominant species in the world, followed by goblins and ogres. The Greater Gods thought it would be a good joke for an era or two but ever since the Silver Orcs founded the Eternal Raj, most have been far too intrigued to bother changing things.

Silver Orcs are so named because of the silvery-white hair and pale skin they possess. Silver Orcs live relatively close to the sun and are thus have needed to take significant precautions to shield themselves from the light. This includes the use of magic.

The Silver Orcs have slowly created a grand empire that is considered one of the most stable and richest places in the world. They are ruled by the Samraat and his immense network of bureaucrats. The hinterlands of the empire are called Princely States and are ruled by semi-hereditary Princes. As of yet untamed, the Princes often hire adventurers to deal with the local threats.

Several varieties of goblin are integrated into the Raj and often work as labourers. Goblin rebellions are common in the raj's hinterlands. Ogre clans have a tenuous relationship with the Raj as semi-independents fighting or serving the Raj depending on the empire's current strengths. The Taghai, Morruk and Adibah clans are utterly loyal to the Samraat due to being granted asylum several centuries ago.

The Eternal Raj is locked into a seemingly-eternal conflict with the Tetsu Shogunate, a similarly vast island empire of Amber Dwarves who possess a grand fleet and grander army. Technologically advanced, the dwarven people conduct seasonly raids on the Raj. Though powerful, they lack the numbers to ever defeat the Raj head-on. They are ruled by the Shogun who has supposedly ascended into godhood and has ruled Tetsu for centuries. In truth, she is possessed by a plethora of malign spirits.

Other-other idea: The Syahl Confederation is a human-majority group of provinces that have declared indpendence from the Raj, arguing that the Samraat's taxes are too high and that every magically-capable human is taken to be trained in the capital, as a loyal servant of the Samraat. While human, the centuries-long orcish rule has resulted in the diffusion of Silver Orc custom into these areas. In fact, there is no man alive in the Confederation who practice the customs of the ancestors. As such, some of the populace believe that independence is a step too far, only wanting changes in policy. This has of course resulted in in-fighting. The Confederation is covertly supported by the Shogun, which has led to the 'discovery' of black powder by 'human' alchemists.

Other-other-other idea: Elves are Fey who got stuck. The remaining elven-descendants are even more stuck.

[Sosoku234]

Might for once have the orcs be the good guys. It'd be interesting to say the least.

[SOLDIER First]

Magically tamed owlbears escaped captivity at some point, slowly passing down their civility through breeding and becoming a non-aggressive dominant animal?

[Sosoku234]

Maybe have them be like packs of stray dogs. They won't attack unless necessary or provoked.

[Detoxicated]

Basically the orcs in his setting are the good guys. A stable kingdom sounds very fair...

[Urist Mc Dwarf]

Apophis,Gaia, Fenrir are titans maybe?

[micelus]

Basically the orcs in his setting are the good guys. A stable kingdom sounds very fair...

"Basically" in the sense that an ever-expanding empire can be called good. I'd put them down as lawful neutral if I had to.

[Sosoku234]

Maybe not Fenrir. Might go for one of the ice giants of Norse mythology. Unless you have your heart set on Fenrir.

[Detoxicated]

Basically the orcs in his setting are the good guys. A stable kingdom sounds very fair...

"Basically" in the sense that an ever-expanding empire can be called good. I'd put them down as lawful neutral if I had to.

Well there always is an expanding "Good" empire in almost every fantasy setting, and they are always fighting the "Evil" empires...