Silus
2014-10-13, 10:44 AM
Okay so I'm doing some homebrew setting stuff and I have one continent to flesh out. I'm leaning towards a sort of ruin-covered, semi-creepy "why do I always feel like i'm being watched" sort of continent. For those familiar with WoW, imagine a mix of pre-Cata Azshara and Ghostlands, with a not-quite Roanoke Colony feel.
Blah blah fluff and stuff, here's the problem: The idea I had was back during the big'ol war that turned the world into what it is now, the nation that held sway over the continent kiiiiiinda sorta not quite vanished. To quote a Skype conversation on it:
The continent was home to a more...traditional sort of nation that valued magic over technology. Needless to say stuff went down and now damn near the whole continent is dead. Or in some areas, undead. The whole continent is...grey. Color seems muted and there's a perpetual light haze about the land. Ruins crop up all over and are generally overgrown by trees or landslides and such. The once-capital remains amazingly untouched and quite dead during the day, though what little sun reaches through creates a stark contrast of light and shadows that is, in someways, unnatural.
At night however...
Early reports from the few expeditions there tell of great destruction, of tower toppled and cities sunk. But an...unusual lack of bodies.
The idea is that the continent, save for some wild animals and maybe one or two monster species, feels pretty dead. But there's ALWAYS the sensation that you're being observed.
The nobility still haunt the capital, along with their followers. A millennia and death haven't blunted their magical might. In the contrary, some have even gotten stronger.
So yeah, a "safe during the daytime" continent that more or less floods with incorporeal undead as the sun sets, some of which are friendly, some being evil and malevolent, and a good deal not fully aware that they're dead. Should I reign in on the incorporeal undead and work in more "traditional" undead like zombies and animated skeletons, or just play it as it is currently?
Blah blah fluff and stuff, here's the problem: The idea I had was back during the big'ol war that turned the world into what it is now, the nation that held sway over the continent kiiiiiinda sorta not quite vanished. To quote a Skype conversation on it:
The continent was home to a more...traditional sort of nation that valued magic over technology. Needless to say stuff went down and now damn near the whole continent is dead. Or in some areas, undead. The whole continent is...grey. Color seems muted and there's a perpetual light haze about the land. Ruins crop up all over and are generally overgrown by trees or landslides and such. The once-capital remains amazingly untouched and quite dead during the day, though what little sun reaches through creates a stark contrast of light and shadows that is, in someways, unnatural.
At night however...
Early reports from the few expeditions there tell of great destruction, of tower toppled and cities sunk. But an...unusual lack of bodies.
The idea is that the continent, save for some wild animals and maybe one or two monster species, feels pretty dead. But there's ALWAYS the sensation that you're being observed.
The nobility still haunt the capital, along with their followers. A millennia and death haven't blunted their magical might. In the contrary, some have even gotten stronger.
So yeah, a "safe during the daytime" continent that more or less floods with incorporeal undead as the sun sets, some of which are friendly, some being evil and malevolent, and a good deal not fully aware that they're dead. Should I reign in on the incorporeal undead and work in more "traditional" undead like zombies and animated skeletons, or just play it as it is currently?