Write A Paragraph About Your Setting

[alcyone]

Do you have a setting you created whole cloth or from bits and pieces of other ones?

Can you tell us about it in one digestible paragraph?

[serleran]

The Windswept World has existed in many times, for many people, being drawn from the dreams of its inhabitants. Their shaping has borne a realm of illogical chaos, where desert and forest coexist and switch between each other with the same whimsy of the so-called goddess, Ayuda - The Lady of Fate, and the near ancient past and future tomorrow are the same moment. It is a place where everything is reality yet nothing is absolute.

[Arduin]

A world of many seas and small continents where disparate civilizations know about their immediate neighbors but, increasingly less about those distant. The various Gods are real but work only through proxies because of ancient, binding compacts. Standard races exist and emerged in the following order: Dwarves, elves, orcs, gnomes, humans, hobbits. As technology (weaponry, steam power, electricity, et al) is artificially suppressed, the current technology level has existed for uncounted millennia with all that would logically entail. Magic is common but still out of reach & price for the vast majority.

[alcyone]

Xylh, an ancient city, older than the civilization that now populates it, is apparently ruled by Count Oridon, but is in fact controlled by the three mages who have taken up residence in the towers which overshadow the city. The practical, hard-working men of Bygnorum, the cosmopolitan and uncaring people of Xylh, the rebellious Wolf People: wolf-riding halflings of the forest, and the stone workers of Hal-ib-Ghar deal with a new reality as the desert and the Shrieking Hills are the stage for the return of the old elves, dark dealings of the despicable but reasonable Ghuls, and terrifying new signs of the forgotten armies of Chaos. The plundering of the tomb of the apostate mage Nak-thar-Hep by his acolytes triggers events that will change the world of Nuna forever.

[DMSamuel]

The civilized folk have moved up to the Mountainlands (the tops of mountains above the cloudline) because the Lowerlands have been over‐run with all sorts of vile creatures. This mass movement of civilized people is referred to as the Great Migration. in the ensuing centuries the cities and settlements in the Lowerlands have fallen to ruin. Trouble is brewing, however, and it is a time of exploration and expansion for the civilized populace of the Mountainlands. Many are pushing for re‐settlement of the Lowerlands while others maintain that it is too dangerous and unlivable below the cloudline. A plague has spread rapidly among the pillar cities of the Mountainlands, crippling trade routes and isolating the populace. The already scarce resources are being taken by force under the order of a few Pillar Regents with greedy ambition.