We have officially moved to the OOC phase! Please come and put in your character sheet! The thread can be found here.
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For the better part of the last millennia, magic has been slowly fading from our world. This land was once full of those who could feel the touch of the Great Power. Magicians and Elementalists worked great feats, flattening mountains, parting oceans, forging weapons, bringing to us unimaginable wealth and power. The Great Power abounded, and touched our lives in almost every way. However, eventually a great war broke out among the kingdoms of men. A powerful and dark magician led an uprising of bandits and mercenaries to overtake one of these kingdoms, and with the help of an army of magically animated stone golems, he was able to do just that. He ruled the kingdom with an iron fist of corruption and violence. Before long his power was consolidated, and he turned his sights outward. War ravaged the lands of men for fifty long years before his forces were finally defeated.
After the great war people began to reject the Great Power, and all those who used it. Kings led inquisitions against the once influential and respected Magicians and Elementalists. Rather than further divide the land, they soon fled to the south and across the sea. With the absence of its users, the Great Power began to recede. As its presence faded, the creatures that drew from it disappeared from the land. Soon men could no longer feel its touch, and it became regarded as legend. Now all that remains of the Great Power in the land of men are a few and scattered trinkets and runes. Even these are seen as scams or props in a children’s story.
But now something has changed. Reports from the south bring word of hulking beasts of stone raiding and pillaging secluded forest villages. All those who have seen the beasts say they are coordinated somehow, though there never seems to be a leader among them. They wear no weapons or armor, and use only their fists and stoney skin. They seem to be searching for something. What that something is remains a mystery.
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Hello! I am new to this forum, though I have a little experience with roleplaying. The background I have come up with so far is just a template for what I hope to be an expansive and deep fantasy world. Though I plan for this roleplay to take the tradition story route, I hope to develop a complex and interesting world to go along with it. That being said, I am going to try and do my best to establish the parameters of this world before we begin so that we all can have our own hand in creating lore and world-building. Before I do that, however, I want to talk more about what route the story is going to take:
Now, onto world-building. I really want to encourage everyone to contribute to the lore of the world. Think how a sci-fi/fantasy author introduces the world to new readers. As the story progress he will tangent off here or there to explain some aspect of the world that the reader has yet to learn about. I encourage dropping in ancient or contemporary stories, myths, histories, songs, poems, artwork, knowledge, ect. It will be progressive, so once someone has included a piece of lore in their story, barring any discrepancies with previously established lore, it will be cannon. This isn’t revolutionary, I know, however I wanted to include this section in the interest check to emphasize how much I want to develop the lore in the story. As this is just an interest check, I will wait to develop the background lore further until there is some interest.
So, is anyone interested? I'm looking for three or four others.
