snooker
2021-05-07, 05:14 AM
So I took some base ideas and fleshed it into a world (mostly barebones for now, I just needed a backdrop for my custom system im making). I'm looking for feedback on how to make my world better and more unique.
My current idea is that there are three playable races (as in sentient humanoid races) each inhabiting their own planet -- the cambion (I don't have a better name, and they aren't related to demons. represents the poles and the golden horde), the elves (my in-world nordic analogues, and also with a bit of fae lore in it), and the humans (I've got several main cultures for them; angles, gaels, saxons, franks, and berbers).
My older idea was that there would be four main races (the fourth being giants), and each being descended from a group of immortals. The cambions' precursors are the fiend (no link to my current demons), the elves precursors are the fae (also they are a lot more regular fantasy elf than my current incarnation), and the humans and giants are built and used as a weaponized race, whereas the original immortals and race of their planet have long since been wiped out.
As for the cosmology, the three planets (plus a fourth one which I currently am unsure about, or even if it should make the cut) make up the basis of "realspace", and the other creatures are "demons" or "spirits" from far beyond, who project their spirits into realspace.
Of course, given that they are only spirits, the only way demons can manipulate this world is by possessing people or animals. Slowly, over time, as the demons personality subsumes the hosts, the shape of the hosts body also warps to represent the demons true form (le eldritch horror time).
These demons work on behalf of their leaders, le funny eldritch horrors, who seek to convert as many people to their cause so they can finally enter the world and reshape it in their image. How? Soul power.
Souls are extremely powerful, and before they died, the living gods harvested people for their belief and souls so they could remain powerful. They were struck down by a mortal taking a page from their book and running off of the souls of everyone who he has ever killed, directly or indirectly, through his wars.
The demonic leaders try to coopt the power of souls the way the old gods did -- getting mortals to pledge themselves to their cause, and then building a portal out of said souls. Luckily enough for everyone, the sheer number of demon lords fighting against each other for souls ensures that, for the last few millennia, no one has come close to summoning their leader.
The old canon was that demons were results of experimentation on elves, humans, and other creatures by the cambion and fiends. Not as flashy, but I suppose its unique.
How is it so far? Anything I should change, add, or modify?
My current idea is that there are three playable races (as in sentient humanoid races) each inhabiting their own planet -- the cambion (I don't have a better name, and they aren't related to demons. represents the poles and the golden horde), the elves (my in-world nordic analogues, and also with a bit of fae lore in it), and the humans (I've got several main cultures for them; angles, gaels, saxons, franks, and berbers).
My older idea was that there would be four main races (the fourth being giants), and each being descended from a group of immortals. The cambions' precursors are the fiend (no link to my current demons), the elves precursors are the fae (also they are a lot more regular fantasy elf than my current incarnation), and the humans and giants are built and used as a weaponized race, whereas the original immortals and race of their planet have long since been wiped out.
As for the cosmology, the three planets (plus a fourth one which I currently am unsure about, or even if it should make the cut) make up the basis of "realspace", and the other creatures are "demons" or "spirits" from far beyond, who project their spirits into realspace.
Of course, given that they are only spirits, the only way demons can manipulate this world is by possessing people or animals. Slowly, over time, as the demons personality subsumes the hosts, the shape of the hosts body also warps to represent the demons true form (le eldritch horror time).
These demons work on behalf of their leaders, le funny eldritch horrors, who seek to convert as many people to their cause so they can finally enter the world and reshape it in their image. How? Soul power.
Souls are extremely powerful, and before they died, the living gods harvested people for their belief and souls so they could remain powerful. They were struck down by a mortal taking a page from their book and running off of the souls of everyone who he has ever killed, directly or indirectly, through his wars.
The demonic leaders try to coopt the power of souls the way the old gods did -- getting mortals to pledge themselves to their cause, and then building a portal out of said souls. Luckily enough for everyone, the sheer number of demon lords fighting against each other for souls ensures that, for the last few millennia, no one has come close to summoning their leader.
The old canon was that demons were results of experimentation on elves, humans, and other creatures by the cambion and fiends. Not as flashy, but I suppose its unique.
How is it so far? Anything I should change, add, or modify?