Krome wrote:
I think that the basic building blocks already exist in Golarion. The Plane of Shadow could easily be renamed Shadowfell. It is already a realm that exists parallel to the Material plane and is warped, twisted and dangerous. The only thing I see that is really
different is the name.
The Feywild is similar to Golarion's First-World. Unfortunately there was nothing I could find in the Campaign Setting to elaborate upon it. It was not even in the diagram of how the Planes connect. I do not know if the developers ahve dropped the idea or not. Regardless, since it has not been developed it is easy for you to drop Feywild into the setting. Perhaps it is linked only via the Astral of Etherial planes.
Well, since it seems to be a continuity gap, then it's a gap easily filled with the Feywild then. I rather prefered it to be a coterminous plane, one easily accesible through gates and secret passages, either naturally formed or by way of arcane portals.
I was thinking the feywild would only be loosely ruled by the normal laws of time and space. There are some places (and times, why not) where time inside a fey glen would run idly while weeks pass on the normal world, and some other places where an adventurer tired of a long journey into the feydales return into the normal world mere moments after he left. Magic would a potent force also, with a lot of spontaneous magical phenomena happening from time to time, mercurial creatures formed out of thin air in response to some arcane law of the hedge mazes, or even the landscape subtly reacting to the mood of sentient beings passing by (could you imagine a forest that grows spookier the more frightened you get?).
The shadowfell, on the other hand, has a different feel to it. Time and space don't feel different, though the geography of the place may change. Hunger and thirst are no worries in such a shadowland, yet the body still yearns for mortal food and water, and an adventurer could collapse from the deprivation upon returning from a long journey into the shadowfell. There, it's hard to tell the difference between shades and the quick, for all they do is toil and suffer under the cruel deathlords' hands. There are fellswamps were formless shades can lure an adventurer into the murky, damp waters and usurp their identities, copying everything but the vital disposition of a living soul. Sickness and poisons of all sorts grow more pervasive and persistent in the shadowfell than in the mortal world, since the entropic energies of the place hinders the healing processes of people and animals.
Now, where could I locate in Golarion's map a necropolis or a fey citadel? I haven't read it yet, but I think maybe some of the elven kingdoms could be actually deep in the feywild. I was thinking also it'd be cool having a necropolis somewhere far up north in the Limnorn Kings' land. What do you think?
Krome wrote:
Asmodeus is already written up, but with some minor changes can easily be defined as an usurper god. If nothing else, there could be the perception that Asmodeus was behind the death of Aroden, and that Asmodeus' powers grew only because of the demise of that god. Perhaps prior to the fall of Aroden, Asmodeus was, at beast a demigod, but he stole the Divine Spark from Aroden and...
That's one amazing idea, Krome, thank you! I'll squeeze my creative juices developing your idea a bit more.
Thank you all for the great input. Keep your good ideas coming please!
Regards,
ZOOROOS
