karmuno
2007-04-06, 10:30 PM
I was reading through the world building articles on this site (again) and I started to develop this setting. I haven't really started to stat anything yet, and it's mostly in the conceptual stage (I have about five typed pages of inspired creativity). Tell me what you think:
Long ago, there was a galaxy-spanning civilization of mind flayers. Recently, however, they have been weakened severely by a race of undead (I haven't yet decided what these creatures will be, yet). The two races were created by two different pantheons (One, the "upper" created undead to do their bidding, the "lower" created abberations for theirs). The only way for the pantheons to interact is through their creations and spells they grant their followers.
The world which I am developing was created by the mind flayers to serve as a farm world to fuel their intergalactic war. As such its history has been altered a great deal by the aberrations. All of the major countries in the world are ruled by "marvas," a psychic race created to be representatives of the mind flayers. All of the major races were created via experimentation, and several were "discarded" when they proved useless (the dwarves are one example of this, and as a result they fled underground... literally). Basically every single inhabitant of the world is a lab mouse to the mind flayers.
I have a lot more than this, and I have some interesting ideas about magic and religion that I can post later (when I have enough energy to make my post moderately legible). Feedback on this (so far scant) idea would be highly appreciated.
Long ago, there was a galaxy-spanning civilization of mind flayers. Recently, however, they have been weakened severely by a race of undead (I haven't yet decided what these creatures will be, yet). The two races were created by two different pantheons (One, the "upper" created undead to do their bidding, the "lower" created abberations for theirs). The only way for the pantheons to interact is through their creations and spells they grant their followers.
The world which I am developing was created by the mind flayers to serve as a farm world to fuel their intergalactic war. As such its history has been altered a great deal by the aberrations. All of the major countries in the world are ruled by "marvas," a psychic race created to be representatives of the mind flayers. All of the major races were created via experimentation, and several were "discarded" when they proved useless (the dwarves are one example of this, and as a result they fled underground... literally). Basically every single inhabitant of the world is a lab mouse to the mind flayers.
I have a lot more than this, and I have some interesting ideas about magic and religion that I can post later (when I have enough energy to make my post moderately legible). Feedback on this (so far scant) idea would be highly appreciated.