Averis Vol
2013-01-25, 01:15 AM
Hey everyone. I'm going to be starting a game soon (Pathfinder in a homebrew world) where, for the sake of time, the world was basically hit with a Neutron bomb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_bomb) that destroyed nearly all mortal life, leaving only the nine utopias left standing. A few hundred years later though, mortality started coming back, but had to compete heavily with nature for some plots of land; a fight which they are unfortunately losing, forcing them into a very nomadic life style with each community led by an earth speaker (Druid of some sort) that would guide them to the next safe patch of land.
Entire background spoiled for those interested.
A little over a thousand years ago the world was at the epitome of its technological advancement. The world was controlled by powerful men, wielding weapons of near world breaking capacity. With such advanced technology people stopped using conventional means of daily life; they would use grand teleportation circles to move from town to town, golems to hunt and harvest crops, and you could not even walk down the street without seeing a Servant of the Nine standing patrol with their powerful adamantine golems. Yes, it was a grand time, but it was also one of worry; the head mage who had designed the entire magical circuit spent days at a time in his labs, performing various experiments deep within his inter-dimensional plane. When he re emerged he was nearly mad with his ranting. The other people of power saw a great chance to destroy a potential enemy, and they plotted for weeks before they eventually brought the servants of the nine to their side to finally do away with the madman. before he was imprisoned deep within the earth, hundreds of feet beneath his home in Notropol, the largest civilization in all of history, notes were pried from his hands, the last bit of his legacy.
These notes told of the foreseen future, and that if people kept abusing magic as they were eventually it would cause a discharge that would lay waste to the world as they knew it. But, alas, the other men of power ignored these texts, and called them the rantings of a fool, and now with arguably the most powerful man in the world imprisoned alive somewhere closer to the earths core out of the way, they expanded the use of magic, replacing even their golem work horses with bound demons and angels alike to such a catastrophic degree that the rambling mages fears became a reality, and with one great bang the world erupted in vicious blue and purple waves of magic; destroying nearly all life on the face of the planet.
now, after seven hundred years people are starting to re emerge in force, attempting to rebuild cities and gain entrance to the metropolis' known only as the "relics of the old world". Unfortunately this has proved a bit troublesome, the forces of nature have controlled the world for so long that mortal expansion is being hard pressed, and when paired with the demons and angels that survived the explosion, is making anymore then small groups of nomadic mortals impossible. You are part of a small clan known collectively as the quom, an ancient word meaning "Destined". you are led by the forest father Jien, a minor druid who leads your clans to the next safe settlement areas and provides guidance to the youth. he also has been known to recant tales of the olden days, though he seems old not many people believe he really lived through these events, but children cannot help but be drawn in by stories of the ancient treasures still scattered through the land; relics of days of old and items beyond human recognition, just waiting to be claimed by those brave enough to find them.
So, my question is, as the title of this thread states, what could I use as a suitable form of compensation for my groups work? for the first mission they're going to enter an ancient library they find while out hunting one day, from there they are going to have to traverse the entire place and all the creatures that have taken up residency there and eventually they will find a book locked in a strong box that will allude to a potential secret entrance into one of the nine metropolis and this is going to be HUGE for their clan. So with metal being only what you can find as pure ore and metallurgy being close to non existent....What could be considered loot worthy?
any help you guys/girls/chibi abominations can give me would be greatly appreciated.
Entire background spoiled for those interested.
A little over a thousand years ago the world was at the epitome of its technological advancement. The world was controlled by powerful men, wielding weapons of near world breaking capacity. With such advanced technology people stopped using conventional means of daily life; they would use grand teleportation circles to move from town to town, golems to hunt and harvest crops, and you could not even walk down the street without seeing a Servant of the Nine standing patrol with their powerful adamantine golems. Yes, it was a grand time, but it was also one of worry; the head mage who had designed the entire magical circuit spent days at a time in his labs, performing various experiments deep within his inter-dimensional plane. When he re emerged he was nearly mad with his ranting. The other people of power saw a great chance to destroy a potential enemy, and they plotted for weeks before they eventually brought the servants of the nine to their side to finally do away with the madman. before he was imprisoned deep within the earth, hundreds of feet beneath his home in Notropol, the largest civilization in all of history, notes were pried from his hands, the last bit of his legacy.
These notes told of the foreseen future, and that if people kept abusing magic as they were eventually it would cause a discharge that would lay waste to the world as they knew it. But, alas, the other men of power ignored these texts, and called them the rantings of a fool, and now with arguably the most powerful man in the world imprisoned alive somewhere closer to the earths core out of the way, they expanded the use of magic, replacing even their golem work horses with bound demons and angels alike to such a catastrophic degree that the rambling mages fears became a reality, and with one great bang the world erupted in vicious blue and purple waves of magic; destroying nearly all life on the face of the planet.
now, after seven hundred years people are starting to re emerge in force, attempting to rebuild cities and gain entrance to the metropolis' known only as the "relics of the old world". Unfortunately this has proved a bit troublesome, the forces of nature have controlled the world for so long that mortal expansion is being hard pressed, and when paired with the demons and angels that survived the explosion, is making anymore then small groups of nomadic mortals impossible. You are part of a small clan known collectively as the quom, an ancient word meaning "Destined". you are led by the forest father Jien, a minor druid who leads your clans to the next safe settlement areas and provides guidance to the youth. he also has been known to recant tales of the olden days, though he seems old not many people believe he really lived through these events, but children cannot help but be drawn in by stories of the ancient treasures still scattered through the land; relics of days of old and items beyond human recognition, just waiting to be claimed by those brave enough to find them.
So, my question is, as the title of this thread states, what could I use as a suitable form of compensation for my groups work? for the first mission they're going to enter an ancient library they find while out hunting one day, from there they are going to have to traverse the entire place and all the creatures that have taken up residency there and eventually they will find a book locked in a strong box that will allude to a potential secret entrance into one of the nine metropolis and this is going to be HUGE for their clan. So with metal being only what you can find as pure ore and metallurgy being close to non existent....What could be considered loot worthy?
any help you guys/girls/chibi abominations can give me would be greatly appreciated.