Nearly one thousand years ago the world of Crypso was struck with a devastating disaster of global proportions. A massive continent known as Pangea was home to numerous races and many benign and power hungry kingdoms. The peoples of the world forged peace through the quill and the sword. Wars were numerous, and it seemed that the races of the world were their own greatest enemies, until the Great Cataclysm came.

On the day of reckoning, the seas churned and boiled, sinking the coastlines in fuming waters. Great rents opened up in the cryp, swallowing entire cities and spewing out fiery magma. The sky rained down fire, rendering civilizations into dust. It was as if all the world was coming to an end.

In the aftermath, much of Pangea was now broken and sunken under the sea. The great land is now split into two continents with the last survivors of the world. To the east is Greater Estros, and Pangea Minor to the West. Upon the ashes of Pangea, great kingdoms rose once again, piecing together what remained of their broken people. For the past millenia, these kingdoms have been concerned with consolidating their own power within their corners of the world, living a largely isolated existance. Now, their power strong and civilizations rebuilt, the Kingdoms of Crypso venture out into the wider land, to claim their place as the greatest kingdom of all the world.

It is the spring of year 999 After The Great Cataclysm and the once isolated kingdoms stand poised to forge a new place on the global stage. This is their story...



Welcome to the reboot of Crypso, a former game I ran here that RL prevented from getting off the ground. Crypso is an empty world waiting to be fleshed out by a small group of writers. My intent here is to gauge interest among the community for a low fantasy game where the lore, races and cultures are created by the players. The overall premise is a medieval low fantasy world where 3-5 kingdoms manoeuvre for dominance. The political structure, races, and culture of these kingdoms are determined by the respective player.

Featuring
~ Weekly updates
~ Light stat system that ensures no two players are exactly the same.
~ Player free to establish lore, races, cultures, and terrain within their borders
~ Ruler trait that caters to your play style, whether it be through war, plots, diplomacy or economy
~ A World crafted by the input of the players.

Sign ups
If you are interested, here's a look at the nation sheet that will hopefully give you an idea of what kind of nation you would like to build..

Nation Sheet



I shall explain more as I gather interest. Feel free to ask questions.

Very interested! Will fill out an NS shortly.

I've been wanting an advanced medieval NRP for a while now. Tentatively interested.

I was interested in your other interest check and am interested in this as well, if you think this would be more successful.

I appreciate the interest! Just to give you guys a little more information on the world of Crypso, you should know that it is much like Earth. It is temperate, with the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. The two continents lay on the northern hemisphere with the northern reaches perhaps experiencing colder weather, and more hot and arid in the south. This is just generally speaking though, the actual terrain within the landmass is up to the players.

Once I'm ready to begin the map building process, I'll enlist descriptions from you guys so I may begin filling in the map with your geography and civilization. Likely have each player provide three sub-regions, each with a major and minor settlement. So think about how you want to carve up your kingdom and what the terrain will look like. Will you rule a mountain kingdom of sprawling underground cities? Will a serene landscape of rolling hills and river valleys be your domain? Or perhaps a hostile volcanic Ashland will by yours to dominate. The choice is yours, simply describe what you want, and I'll make it happen with a finalized beautified map.

As you may have guessed, weather in Crypso is volatile. One of your greatest enemies in the game shall be mother nature who will unleash upon the kingdoms with different degrees of ferocity, and hopefully give a sense of helplessness upon this rock. There will be many NPC factions as well who represent the splintered remains of the old kingdoms from before the cataclysm. These NPCs will be mercenaries, nomads, bandits, and exiles. They can be friends or foe, and manipulated by the player base to target a rival.

Sounds interesting. Eager to begin.

Interested.

Sounds good. Do you want help with the mapmaking? I'm a fairly experienced fantasy cartographer. I'd be happy to make a more detailed world map based on the one you provided.

Sounds good. Do you want help with the mapmaking? I'm a fairly experienced fantasy cartographer. I'd be happy to make a more detailed world map based on the one you provided.

I appreciate the offer, but I have a pretty good map-making program I like to work with.

I believe we have enough interest to go ahead with the process of selecting players and map-making. I don't intend this to be a first come first serve as far as players, but rather I shall choose those whose Nation Sheets will be a better fit for this world, and who seem to have more heart invested in their nation and characters. I'll leave sign ups open for a couple of days before I choose. This will give me time to finalize the map as well.

Please use the following application:

The OOC has been posted here. Feel free to apply there. The game will likely be up and running by the weekend if not sooner.