DrakebloodIV
2008-09-22, 02:49 AM
Somewhere in the astral sea there floats an island....
My setting is called Rediscovery, it is about the colinization of an island of both great wealth and great darkness, with some similarities to the colonization of the Americas. The original inhabitants were a race of people known as the Nagini. Their physical features were unimportant and are now unknown. They left the island three thousand years ago, when their greatest prophets predicted the end this island. They chose to destroy whomever would do this to them and so they created the Plowshares, a race of warforged made to keep the land fertile and reap whomever would take this land from them, and at the head of them was put the Overseer, who would keep their story alive.
Not three hundred years later the Gnomes arrived, a druidic and peace loving race. Most made peace with the overseer and he taught them the ways of druidry.
Next came the dwarves, foolish and ambitious they claimed all the iron cliffs to the south, but their greed was their downfall. For when they met the Overseer he gave some the art of necromancy and it severed their race in two.
After this came the halflings. they were fools of a different kind, stealing and living off the fat. For this the overseer cursed them to the blighted lands the dwarves had corrupted.
Then came the humans, they confused the Overseer. He saw in them both hate and love, kindness and cruelty. For this he chose to keep them at arms length, banishing them to the seas. But the humans flourished in their aquatic homelands and quickly decided to return the favor. they banished the Overseer to the earth and gave the dwarves the key to his tomb.
Lastly the elves came. Nor were they any elves, they were elves so vile, so dark, that other lands had banished them to the open waters for tens of thousands of years. But they came to this land and saw that the water was good and the land fertile, and they decided to take it for themselves. In their hate and rage they lashed out against the gnomes. The gnomes were powerful magi but their bodies were weak. They saw the beasts known as Ogrugi and felt that their bodies were strong and their minds ready, so the gnomes wove a spell. This spell blessed each Ogrugi with a great mind and a powerful body. So the Ogrugi became the leigonares of the Gnome army. The elves lost much of the front they once held and were nearly banished back to the islands they made landfall on.
The elvish Spellweavers had woven a spell of their own. With it they made the Ogrugi question their Gnomish masters. With many of them it caused madness, but with a scant few it brought true humanity. Those Ogrugi could not bear the Gnomes or the Elves war any longer so they decided to leave those lands and go to the plains of Negriti. Where they set up camps that eventually grew to towns, which grew to cities, which formed the great city-state of Toterre. The Proud Ogrugi went through a cultural revolution. They traded their old blind fear, foolishness and violence for Pride, Xenophobea and Union. They forged the iron wall of Kel and settled under the rule of Kir the Unhunted as the Orcs. Thus the nations of the island of Omon were made.
Inform me of any naming issues or cool ideas you have-Ill be posting geography and culture info at a later date
My setting is called Rediscovery, it is about the colinization of an island of both great wealth and great darkness, with some similarities to the colonization of the Americas. The original inhabitants were a race of people known as the Nagini. Their physical features were unimportant and are now unknown. They left the island three thousand years ago, when their greatest prophets predicted the end this island. They chose to destroy whomever would do this to them and so they created the Plowshares, a race of warforged made to keep the land fertile and reap whomever would take this land from them, and at the head of them was put the Overseer, who would keep their story alive.
Not three hundred years later the Gnomes arrived, a druidic and peace loving race. Most made peace with the overseer and he taught them the ways of druidry.
Next came the dwarves, foolish and ambitious they claimed all the iron cliffs to the south, but their greed was their downfall. For when they met the Overseer he gave some the art of necromancy and it severed their race in two.
After this came the halflings. they were fools of a different kind, stealing and living off the fat. For this the overseer cursed them to the blighted lands the dwarves had corrupted.
Then came the humans, they confused the Overseer. He saw in them both hate and love, kindness and cruelty. For this he chose to keep them at arms length, banishing them to the seas. But the humans flourished in their aquatic homelands and quickly decided to return the favor. they banished the Overseer to the earth and gave the dwarves the key to his tomb.
Lastly the elves came. Nor were they any elves, they were elves so vile, so dark, that other lands had banished them to the open waters for tens of thousands of years. But they came to this land and saw that the water was good and the land fertile, and they decided to take it for themselves. In their hate and rage they lashed out against the gnomes. The gnomes were powerful magi but their bodies were weak. They saw the beasts known as Ogrugi and felt that their bodies were strong and their minds ready, so the gnomes wove a spell. This spell blessed each Ogrugi with a great mind and a powerful body. So the Ogrugi became the leigonares of the Gnome army. The elves lost much of the front they once held and were nearly banished back to the islands they made landfall on.
The elvish Spellweavers had woven a spell of their own. With it they made the Ogrugi question their Gnomish masters. With many of them it caused madness, but with a scant few it brought true humanity. Those Ogrugi could not bear the Gnomes or the Elves war any longer so they decided to leave those lands and go to the plains of Negriti. Where they set up camps that eventually grew to towns, which grew to cities, which formed the great city-state of Toterre. The Proud Ogrugi went through a cultural revolution. They traded their old blind fear, foolishness and violence for Pride, Xenophobea and Union. They forged the iron wall of Kel and settled under the rule of Kir the Unhunted as the Orcs. Thus the nations of the island of Omon were made.
Inform me of any naming issues or cool ideas you have-Ill be posting geography and culture info at a later date