PersonMan
2011-06-16, 06:05 AM
Our world still bears the scars of the Second Rebellion. Keris was completely destroyed, and the Southern Kingdom was nearly torn apart by the allies of the Fey, which now build massive cities upon the ruins of ours.
We will go on, however. We must go on.
FeyBurn
Well, here we go, my first campaign setting thread. Normally I burn through new ideas in a constant cycle, meaning that a single setting rarely holds my interest for long. However, after recently rediscovering some old notes about the setting, my interest has been rekindled and hasn't faded for a couple weeks now, so I've decided to make a thread for the setting.
Overview and Basic Info:
Basic Timeline(work in progress)
The current calendar is based around a fairly arbitrary system. There are 10 days in a week, 5 weeks in a month and 11 months in a year. The abbreviations AB and PB mean After Blast and Pre-Blast, referring to the massive explosions that ended the last rebellion and destroyed the nation of Keris.
The First Empress
PB 850: Grand Empress T'Sule-Eriss unites the fey living on the Material Plane under her rule, with a few renegade nobles being hunted over the next few years.
PB 845: The Grand Consolidated Empire of Fey Peoples is officially founded. It's normally referred to simply as "The Empire" or, by mortals, "The Fey State".
PB 840: The Empire begins to expand, facing stiff resistance from the mortals as they move south but making significant progress.
PB 837: The Empress, after a coalition of mortal nations defeats one of the larger fey armies, orders the creation of an artifact that will focus the magical power of the fey, as well as tapping into the natural energy suffusing their land.
PB 834: The Empress' new consort wins several important battles and starts the practice of promising a nation's slaves freedom in exchange for support, giving the fey armies a much-needed boost in numbers.
PB 829: The artifact, dubbed FeyLance by its creator, is completed, and begins absorbing massive amounts of magical energy.
PB 828: The Empress uses the FeyLance to destroy an island fortress that was resisting a siege, leading to the surrender of the Telsian Kingdom, one of the more powerful nations currently at war with the fey.
PB 825: The Empire stops its near-continuous warfare, solidifying its rule of occupied territories and beginning a massive project to melt the ice at the northernmost area of the world and warm their lands, which are threatened by advancing tundra.
PB 820: Using the FeyLance, the fey are able to to gradually warm the north, using magical barriers to keep the supernatural heat from dispersing around the world.
PB 800: After a fourth of a century, the Empire's grand project is complete, giving them access to massive areas of land to expand their forest-cities into.
PB 760: The Empire prepares to return to its war of conquest, having turned their realm into a magic-filled jungle that is nearly impossible for mortals to survive in.
PB 755: The Empire gains large amounts of territory but is forced onto the defensive when a large number of dragons join their enemies, followed by massive armies of lizardfolk.
PB 750: The alliance of dragons, draconic armies and remaining human nations begins to push the Empire back.
PB 748: The Empress uses the FeyLance to destroy a large flight of dragons, but is ambushed by another force and, after a massive battle, slain.
First Emperor
PB 745: Spurred into action by the death of the Empress, rebel factions in the territories conquered by the Fey gain support and become far more active.
PB 740: A successor to the Empress ascends the throne after years of competition between her many heirs. Grand Emperor T'Renn-Ozten uses the FeyLance to destroy the largest rebel strongholds, beginning a devastating purge of fey-conquered lands.
PB 738: The Emperor founds the Morixalt Legion, which ride the magically mutated Morix Wasps. He continues the push to destroy the rebels in occupied territory.
PB 736: The last rebel forces are destroyed, and the Empire is able to gain significant ground, its enemies hastily ending conflicts that had sprung up among themselves to present a united front.
PB 735: Considering the possibility of another retreat, the Emperor commands the creation of a race to man the fortresses being constructed to defend the Empire's inner territory.
PB 733: The dwarves are completed, formed from mutated humans to be hardy and long-lived. Large populations are bred and moved into the fortresses.
PB 730-700: The Empire continues to advance, although their armies begin to slow as they face more united resistance, their enemies beginning to once more form an alliance against them.
PB 699: In a series of battles, the Morixalt Legion wipes out a large force of dragons and advances across the Lifegiver, the massive river that divides the homeland of the dragons from the lands of their human allies.
PB 698: The Emperor allows mortal rulers to govern occupied lands and police themselves, freeing up large numbers of soldiers for the war.
PB 697-677: The fey armies, bolstered by a wave of reinforcements, slowly advance across the territory of the dragons and begin a long campaign of attrition with the dragons.
PB 676: The dragons and fey sign a peace treaty. The coalition arrayed against the Empire collapses, allowing the fey to recuperate, their armies stretched to their limit during the campaign against the dragons.
PB 550: The aging Emperor gives the throne to his daughter, T'Sorian-Arness, after spending over a century refining the magic of the FeyLance, which was beginning to wane after heavy use against the dragons.
Second Empress
PB 549: The Empress begins building up the fey armies again, and institutes a new policy of tribute for the outlying regions of the Empire, as well as making large-scale reforms of the use of magic in the nation.
PB 510: The Empress' reforms make the Empire self-sufficient for almost all of its resource needs, with the rest being supplied by tribute from well-integrated areas.
PB 500: The Empress declares the war(now known among fey as 'the Conflict') to be continued, leading massive offensives into the south.
PB 499-480: The Empire advances to the south, although the massive forests of the East, filled with treants, prove incredibly difficult to conquer.
PB 479: The Empress, using the new powers of the FeyLance, turns much of the forests of the east into a twisted swamp.
PB 478-420: The divided nations of the world are slowly conquered, and soon only a few patches of territory are left outside of the control of the fey.
PB 400-17: After the suppression of resisting mortals, the fey solidify their rule over the world and begin to rebuild the nations their conquered.
PB 17: Sparked by the release of a massive island from the control of the fey to that of a powerful wizard, the residents of Toles, a major city in Oris, declare themselves independent from the Empire and are brutally put down by the fey, reducing the population of the city by a third.
PB 16: Unrest grows in almost all territories of the fey, apart from the ones in the very north, as well as a handful in the south, and a Telak Arren rises as the leader of the main sect of the growing independence movement.
PB 14: After continued conflicts with the fey, the movement turns to open rebellion, attacking the primarily dwarven garrisons of many major cities.
PB 13-5: The rebels gain massive ground, forcing the dwarves to retreat into the centuries-old bunkers built to resist sieges.
PB 4: The Empress declares the dwarves unable to deal with the rebellion and the fey army moves to put down the rebellion, centuries of constant improvement making the war incredibly one-sided.
PB 0: The Empress uses the FeyCrown, a far more powerful version of the FeyLance, to cause the natural magic of the world to erupt, causing massive areas of land to sink into the sea, hurl themselves into the heavens or simply explode.
AB 1: The world's magic begins to return to its normal state, although supernaturally huge storms continue to wrack the formerly rebellious nations of the mortal world.
AB 6: The fey create a new race of servitors, the elves, to guard the border with their human subjects and allow for greater communication between the two.
AB 47: Magic has returned to normal completely, and the mortal nations have adapted to the new world, although resisting the fey is now gone from the minds of everyone who remembers the results of the last rebellion, who do everything they can to ensure that their descendants do not forget. Present day.
Severely shortened version:
PB 850: The Fey are united.
PB 420: The Fey conquer the entire (almost) world.
PB 14: Rebellion starts.
PB 0: The world goes crazy, continents sink, mountains rise and islands explode.
AB 47: Present day.
Useful Terminology
None yet.
I'll be reserving a bunch of posts, so please don't post until after the last one. Then again, there isn't really much to comment on yet, so...
We will go on, however. We must go on.
FeyBurn
Well, here we go, my first campaign setting thread. Normally I burn through new ideas in a constant cycle, meaning that a single setting rarely holds my interest for long. However, after recently rediscovering some old notes about the setting, my interest has been rekindled and hasn't faded for a couple weeks now, so I've decided to make a thread for the setting.
Overview and Basic Info:
Basic Timeline(work in progress)
The current calendar is based around a fairly arbitrary system. There are 10 days in a week, 5 weeks in a month and 11 months in a year. The abbreviations AB and PB mean After Blast and Pre-Blast, referring to the massive explosions that ended the last rebellion and destroyed the nation of Keris.
The First Empress
PB 850: Grand Empress T'Sule-Eriss unites the fey living on the Material Plane under her rule, with a few renegade nobles being hunted over the next few years.
PB 845: The Grand Consolidated Empire of Fey Peoples is officially founded. It's normally referred to simply as "The Empire" or, by mortals, "The Fey State".
PB 840: The Empire begins to expand, facing stiff resistance from the mortals as they move south but making significant progress.
PB 837: The Empress, after a coalition of mortal nations defeats one of the larger fey armies, orders the creation of an artifact that will focus the magical power of the fey, as well as tapping into the natural energy suffusing their land.
PB 834: The Empress' new consort wins several important battles and starts the practice of promising a nation's slaves freedom in exchange for support, giving the fey armies a much-needed boost in numbers.
PB 829: The artifact, dubbed FeyLance by its creator, is completed, and begins absorbing massive amounts of magical energy.
PB 828: The Empress uses the FeyLance to destroy an island fortress that was resisting a siege, leading to the surrender of the Telsian Kingdom, one of the more powerful nations currently at war with the fey.
PB 825: The Empire stops its near-continuous warfare, solidifying its rule of occupied territories and beginning a massive project to melt the ice at the northernmost area of the world and warm their lands, which are threatened by advancing tundra.
PB 820: Using the FeyLance, the fey are able to to gradually warm the north, using magical barriers to keep the supernatural heat from dispersing around the world.
PB 800: After a fourth of a century, the Empire's grand project is complete, giving them access to massive areas of land to expand their forest-cities into.
PB 760: The Empire prepares to return to its war of conquest, having turned their realm into a magic-filled jungle that is nearly impossible for mortals to survive in.
PB 755: The Empire gains large amounts of territory but is forced onto the defensive when a large number of dragons join their enemies, followed by massive armies of lizardfolk.
PB 750: The alliance of dragons, draconic armies and remaining human nations begins to push the Empire back.
PB 748: The Empress uses the FeyLance to destroy a large flight of dragons, but is ambushed by another force and, after a massive battle, slain.
First Emperor
PB 745: Spurred into action by the death of the Empress, rebel factions in the territories conquered by the Fey gain support and become far more active.
PB 740: A successor to the Empress ascends the throne after years of competition between her many heirs. Grand Emperor T'Renn-Ozten uses the FeyLance to destroy the largest rebel strongholds, beginning a devastating purge of fey-conquered lands.
PB 738: The Emperor founds the Morixalt Legion, which ride the magically mutated Morix Wasps. He continues the push to destroy the rebels in occupied territory.
PB 736: The last rebel forces are destroyed, and the Empire is able to gain significant ground, its enemies hastily ending conflicts that had sprung up among themselves to present a united front.
PB 735: Considering the possibility of another retreat, the Emperor commands the creation of a race to man the fortresses being constructed to defend the Empire's inner territory.
PB 733: The dwarves are completed, formed from mutated humans to be hardy and long-lived. Large populations are bred and moved into the fortresses.
PB 730-700: The Empire continues to advance, although their armies begin to slow as they face more united resistance, their enemies beginning to once more form an alliance against them.
PB 699: In a series of battles, the Morixalt Legion wipes out a large force of dragons and advances across the Lifegiver, the massive river that divides the homeland of the dragons from the lands of their human allies.
PB 698: The Emperor allows mortal rulers to govern occupied lands and police themselves, freeing up large numbers of soldiers for the war.
PB 697-677: The fey armies, bolstered by a wave of reinforcements, slowly advance across the territory of the dragons and begin a long campaign of attrition with the dragons.
PB 676: The dragons and fey sign a peace treaty. The coalition arrayed against the Empire collapses, allowing the fey to recuperate, their armies stretched to their limit during the campaign against the dragons.
PB 550: The aging Emperor gives the throne to his daughter, T'Sorian-Arness, after spending over a century refining the magic of the FeyLance, which was beginning to wane after heavy use against the dragons.
Second Empress
PB 549: The Empress begins building up the fey armies again, and institutes a new policy of tribute for the outlying regions of the Empire, as well as making large-scale reforms of the use of magic in the nation.
PB 510: The Empress' reforms make the Empire self-sufficient for almost all of its resource needs, with the rest being supplied by tribute from well-integrated areas.
PB 500: The Empress declares the war(now known among fey as 'the Conflict') to be continued, leading massive offensives into the south.
PB 499-480: The Empire advances to the south, although the massive forests of the East, filled with treants, prove incredibly difficult to conquer.
PB 479: The Empress, using the new powers of the FeyLance, turns much of the forests of the east into a twisted swamp.
PB 478-420: The divided nations of the world are slowly conquered, and soon only a few patches of territory are left outside of the control of the fey.
PB 400-17: After the suppression of resisting mortals, the fey solidify their rule over the world and begin to rebuild the nations their conquered.
PB 17: Sparked by the release of a massive island from the control of the fey to that of a powerful wizard, the residents of Toles, a major city in Oris, declare themselves independent from the Empire and are brutally put down by the fey, reducing the population of the city by a third.
PB 16: Unrest grows in almost all territories of the fey, apart from the ones in the very north, as well as a handful in the south, and a Telak Arren rises as the leader of the main sect of the growing independence movement.
PB 14: After continued conflicts with the fey, the movement turns to open rebellion, attacking the primarily dwarven garrisons of many major cities.
PB 13-5: The rebels gain massive ground, forcing the dwarves to retreat into the centuries-old bunkers built to resist sieges.
PB 4: The Empress declares the dwarves unable to deal with the rebellion and the fey army moves to put down the rebellion, centuries of constant improvement making the war incredibly one-sided.
PB 0: The Empress uses the FeyCrown, a far more powerful version of the FeyLance, to cause the natural magic of the world to erupt, causing massive areas of land to sink into the sea, hurl themselves into the heavens or simply explode.
AB 1: The world's magic begins to return to its normal state, although supernaturally huge storms continue to wrack the formerly rebellious nations of the mortal world.
AB 6: The fey create a new race of servitors, the elves, to guard the border with their human subjects and allow for greater communication between the two.
AB 47: Magic has returned to normal completely, and the mortal nations have adapted to the new world, although resisting the fey is now gone from the minds of everyone who remembers the results of the last rebellion, who do everything they can to ensure that their descendants do not forget. Present day.
Severely shortened version:
PB 850: The Fey are united.
PB 420: The Fey conquer the entire (almost) world.
PB 14: Rebellion starts.
PB 0: The world goes crazy, continents sink, mountains rise and islands explode.
AB 47: Present day.
Useful Terminology
None yet.
I'll be reserving a bunch of posts, so please don't post until after the last one. Then again, there isn't really much to comment on yet, so...