Oak7ree

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@ClocktowerEchos I'd go with physical travel as the primary method, teleportation by magic as the arcane option. Teleport portals or gateways to another place would be dangerous, as an unstable portal could disintegrate the user in a bad case.

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@Kenaron Well, it's better then to store some Estus and light a few bonfires.

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@ClocktowerEchos Very Dark Souls-y. I've played the third one until the Grand Archives, and still have half a dozen bosses to conquer. But I like your writing.

@Kenaron I believe it is roughly the same proportion as in the real world.

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@Oak7ree man, I've missed stuff. I like the idea of the dragons not actually influencing change, but making people belive it so that the people themselves enact the change short after the sighting of dragons.

The monster/machine frankenstain could even be an instrument as to oppose said "faith" in dragons, making a godly figure to stand up to them, at least ideologically.

For the world we shluld divide it into stuff, like how much land/water there is? How much continets there are? How did different societies develop and came to understant the world at large compared to one another? We could even have them look up to diferent kinds of dragons, and with the typical division of faithful and scientific sprinkled throughout the continent/s

Also, @ClocktowerEchos, @JaceBeleren neat ideas.

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I'd go with 70 % water, 30% lands and a few continents, but let's finish at least one first, shall we?

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An entry on the Frankenstein's monster. Remember, I've written this quite quickly while on a bus, so take it with a grain of salt. But, comments!

Morvran the Undying

Excerpt of an essay Highlander beliefs, from the book The Folklore of Kaledan

"Once upon a bandit from the Highlands, Morvran of Donnell was a handsome young man of infamy. Often a cruel and arrogant man, he has become an undead incapable of dying properly.

Ot is unclear when this happened, but according to a common tale, Morvran was cursed by the gods to walk upon the Earth until the end of the times, but truth is more... mundane.

Once upon a time, Morvran was on the road with his gang of thieves and murderers. They came across a small band of travellers, lightly armed and scholarly looking. The travellers had broken their carriage's wheel, and were busy repairing it. Morvran's gang attacked the scholars, killing a few, but in the end, the "travellers" unleashed magic upon them criminals, and most of them were shocked by the magic, never having seen its use before.

Most of them died soon, and Morvran was badly injured. The leader of the sorcerers, an elder man with a long white beard, decided to spare the bandit for an experiment: Morvran was about to die, and the elder mage hoped to revive him using an ancient artifact known as the Eye of the Dead God. A fist-sized jewel of crimson color, it held great power inside it, and the elder mage used the Eye to revive the man.

The Eye shattered suddenly, and Morvran came back to life, his wounds healed. He was astounded by the experience, and the mages tried to kill him, but to no avail. Morvran, in the end, killed the mages, but the white-bearded one escaped by levitating away.

Morvran vowed revenge for his men, and started a manhunt, finally killing the elder mage fivecyears later. During the centuries Morvran has walked on this earth, he has slain many crearures from lions to dragons, tried to find something that would kill him, but hasn't found a way. In the way, he is used as a boogeyman in common horror tales, and is a character of the folklore."

--- Elaine Fuchs, folklorist, 1463

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@JaceBeleren, @ClocktowerEchos So, we've got rough ideas on the dragons and possible Mister Frankenstein's Monster. All we need is the world they inhabit.

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@ClocktowerEchos I have always wondered how From Software comes up with their boss desings. "Oh, let's make a big monster dripping with goo and whatnot, voíla. Done, next!"

Jokes aside, how the person became a living god/monster?

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@Clocktowerechos I'd say centuries, but for the mortals, they seem immortal. There would be only a few of them (few dozens at best in the world), but they are centuries old and mostly reclusive, as in staying out of people's sight sometimes years or decades at times. Of course, some might seek more contact or influence with the humans and others.

And concerning the living god, as you mentioned a monster, Frankenstein's monster came to my mind. A man or woman who came back to life thanks to some "unholy" magic or experiment.

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@ClocktowerEchos Never deal with a dragon. Perhaps. So, there could be dragons that have their own motives and plans, and probably have influenced the world over the course of centuries. But how long a dragon would live naturally? A few decades, a century?

And mashing science and engineering with magic... in a JRPG named Lost Odyssey, magic energy fueled an industrial revolution, like fossil fuels did in the real world. Perhaps a race engineered a powerful automaton/machine that took its fuel from magic.

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@JaceBeleren Yes, I've played Dark Souls 1 and 3, and I like your idea. How about dragon worship? As the dragons are heralds of change and affect the world in their way, perhaps some people have formed cults around dragons, seeing them as powerful figures.

How sentient the dragons would be? Of course, there could be also other "lesser" dragons, like wyverns, that might be more animalistic than their dragon breathren.

I've had an idea on magic: it could wane and grow in centuries long cycles. Sometimes, there's more magic in the world, sometimes less.