JaggedSun
2017-02-17, 04:35 PM
Alright bear with me for a general summary of where my head is at:
Thousands of years ago, a quake shook the earth, opening up a chasm into the black planes of existence in the center of our world. From this chasm rose a terrible flying grave titan that swept over the land. Seven priests of Pelor from across the world came and vanquished the beast, sealing the chasm and casting it back down, building a temple over the seal that has been lost to time and the shifting of the lands. Fast forward 10,000 years later, and the PCs have stumbled across this temple. They meet a wizard who had just arrived there with a colleague of hers, somewhere else in the temple. Their job is to search out the magical facets of the world. The PCs traverse through this temple, eventually running into the other wizard, turned evil. He reopens a pathway to the black planes, summoning the titan once again. Barely escaping with their lives, the PCs flee the place with the original wizard who transports them to a magical tower that is their home base. She goes over the history with them and they eventually learn they need to find the "totems" (spell foci) of these long dead seven priests, because they still hold an incredible power and can be used to reseal the titan inside. All seven priests were converted after suffering a near-death experience. They lived separate, not-so-holy lives before the priesthood. Their totems are physical items related to this previous life they held, so that they would never forget where they came from and why they converted kind of thing.
Phew, ok. So each story arc is going to have the PCs travel to these different worlds to retrieve these totems, all related to the priest's life before they converted. The power of totems have adversely affected the people/things that they encounter. I've got a couple ideas already (Dwarf who used to work in a magical mine, nomad who roamed a desert land, seafaring pirate, etc.) for some of them, but
I just thought I'd throw this out here to see if you guys had any interesting ideas! I'm looking for who was the priest/what happened to make them convert/what is their totem?
Thanks in advance!
Thousands of years ago, a quake shook the earth, opening up a chasm into the black planes of existence in the center of our world. From this chasm rose a terrible flying grave titan that swept over the land. Seven priests of Pelor from across the world came and vanquished the beast, sealing the chasm and casting it back down, building a temple over the seal that has been lost to time and the shifting of the lands. Fast forward 10,000 years later, and the PCs have stumbled across this temple. They meet a wizard who had just arrived there with a colleague of hers, somewhere else in the temple. Their job is to search out the magical facets of the world. The PCs traverse through this temple, eventually running into the other wizard, turned evil. He reopens a pathway to the black planes, summoning the titan once again. Barely escaping with their lives, the PCs flee the place with the original wizard who transports them to a magical tower that is their home base. She goes over the history with them and they eventually learn they need to find the "totems" (spell foci) of these long dead seven priests, because they still hold an incredible power and can be used to reseal the titan inside. All seven priests were converted after suffering a near-death experience. They lived separate, not-so-holy lives before the priesthood. Their totems are physical items related to this previous life they held, so that they would never forget where they came from and why they converted kind of thing.
Phew, ok. So each story arc is going to have the PCs travel to these different worlds to retrieve these totems, all related to the priest's life before they converted. The power of totems have adversely affected the people/things that they encounter. I've got a couple ideas already (Dwarf who used to work in a magical mine, nomad who roamed a desert land, seafaring pirate, etc.) for some of them, but
I just thought I'd throw this out here to see if you guys had any interesting ideas! I'm looking for who was the priest/what happened to make them convert/what is their totem?
Thanks in advance!