In Round 2 the majority of the voters wanted 9+ moons, and no moons (but with a ring of debris from the destroyed Old World) so they both were included. In this third Round, I have come up with a new voting decision, and a request for another type of submission (I loved all of the New Gods you sent in).
How many years have passed since the Death and Rebirth of the World?
#1: 0-100
#2: 101-200
#3: 201-300
#4: 301-400
#5: 401-500
#6: 501-600
#7: 601-700
#8: 701-800
#9: 801-900
#10: 901-1000 or more...
Also, for this round I would like submissions of places. It could be village, city, nation, or country...whatever you want. Here is an example:
Giantskull- shorty after the Remaking, the recreated mortals (all naked by the way) struggled to survive. Many of them gathered by the skull of a dead giant. In time, a town grew around the Giantskull, and that is what they decided to call it.
Today it is a thriving city, and it is run effectively by a mayor and town council. All non-evil Races are welcome there, and a stern sheriff keeps the peace. HOWEVER, the evil spirit of the dead giant is still attached to his skull, and he has been reaching out to other people in the town who are hiding their dark desires.
Okay, there you have it. Please vote and please send in some places...and if you want to send in some more New Gods, go ahead and do that too...:D
Definitely like the 200-300 range for the time period. Gives small cities enough time to be formed and a few longstanding traditions to be set, but for the most part the world is an open book just beginning to be written (with a rather large prologue).
My place, is the Worldshatter Wastes. The wastes are quite literally where the old world meets the new and the result is often that both are pulverized into dust. This large tract of barren, dusty land has by some odd occurrence (magic or just high gravitational pull) become where most objects are pulled from the King's Crown to fall to the new world. All sorts of objects fall on a semi-regular basis from the metallic remains of old weapons, to shattered vestiges of mighty fortresses. Strange monsters and many types of undead can be found wandering here as well, most believe they come from falling bits of ancient dungeons and the wild coalescing of magics in the King's Crown itself. The intact bits that fall, make the Wastes a very valuable resource to traders and anyone with an interest in the Old world, but the randomness of its lethality means that few dare to go there. It practically calls the name of worthy adventurers.
Round 3 Voting so far...(from Morgen)
How many years have passed since the Death and Rebirth of the World?
#1: 0-100
#2: 101-200
#3: 201-300 1
#4: 301-400
#5: 401-500
#6: 501-600
#7: 601-700
#8: 701-800
#9: 801-900
#10: 901-1000 or more 1
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I´ll go for around 300. Thatñs ussually when enought generations of short living races have passed to make past events feel far away. And that allows for some long living races to still have around individuals that were reborn with the new world.
The Tower at White Dawn´s Peak
It is said that when the first humans were reborn they strived to work together in order to survive. However there were many whose curiosity drove into the unknown lands of thw world to discover it´s secrets. It was so that a first born human named Argrand wondered alone the infinite wastes of the new world, always going east. Eventually, as the sun rose) he stumbled upon a great mountain covered in pristine snow. And he called it White Dawn.
As he climbed the freshly formed rock his curiosity grew while imagining what wonders awaited him at the other side, what marvels existed beyond that imposibly white peak. However, when he finally reached the so desired top all he saw was a massive chasm of incalculable proportions. And beyond that impossibly wide and deep chasm he saw the world changing in front of him. He withnesses mountains slowly sprouting from the ground and rivers springuing from the earth itself.
Unable to keep going forward he decided to use rocks and ice to build a small dias on top of the mountain in order to see just a bit more into the horizon. And so the construction of the Legendary tower began.
Slowly but surely Argrand kept building his structure taller and taller in order to look further and further away. The God of knowledge and curiosity saw his ork and blessed him with a partner to aliviate his lonelyness and provide him with food, all while hsi work never stopped.
Many generations have passed and the construction work on White Dawn´s Mountain is still going. Still impossibly tall (and getting taller and wider) it stands magnificent as a testament to human curiosity.
Round 3 Voting so far...(from Frerezar)
How many years have passed since the Death and Rebirth of the World?
#1: 0-100
#2: 101-200
#3: 201-300 1
#4: 301-400 1
#5: 401-500
#6: 501-600
#7: 601-700
#8: 701-800
#9: 801-900
#10: 901-1000 or more 1
Keep voting, because we have a three way tie. Thanks for the place submissions too. I love the descriptions and all of them will used in the final campaign. As long as you Pathfinders keep voting I will keep Round 3 open. Thanks again!
I'm gonna go for the low end: 100-200 years. There might even be a couple of venerable humans left from the Rebirth. Stories of the Old Gods still abound; some sects even believe that the New Gods are usurpers and responsible for the cataclysm, and work against them in the vain hope that the Old Gods will return. Worse, because the New Gods are still young and vulnerable, the efforts of these cultists are sometimes truly disruptive... and there are dark beings, the Others, akin to the Creators themselves, willing to masquerade as the Old Gods to gain access to this world through such worshipers.
So, for a location: among the rubble of the old world circling the globe, zealous pilgrims have gathered together a few of the largest boulders to found the city of Defiance. A spiritual rebellion against the new Gods and the new world, the Defiant seek to undo this new creation and rebuild the old. They count among their number many powerful spellcasters: clerics faithful to absent deities (perhaps duped into the service of the Others); wizards, even liches, furious at the loss of so much recorded knowledge; sorcerers, with a notably high frequency of the aberrant bloodline (other outsider types being also very common); even a few mad druids, convinced that this new world is not the true form of nature. Of course the Defiant also count rank-and-file militia and simple commoners among their number: in a harsh and feral world, the hope that "this was all a mistake" is attractive to many.
Defiance sustains itself by raiding the world below. Drop platforms descend in a zone of feather falling as the orbiting city passes above a resource-rich area; a squadron rides the platform down to pillage farms, raid storehouses, abduct children to indoctrinate, or simply hunt local game if the land below is unconquered wilderness. 24 hours later, the portal and anything on it are teleported back to Defiance.
good stuff
That's pretty cool. I may have to steal it. :-)
Round 3 Voting so far...(from Tejón)
How many years have passed since the Death and Rebirth of the World?
#1: 0-100
#2: 101-200 1
#3: 201-300 1
#4: 301-400 1
#5: 401-500
#6: 501-600
#7: 601-700
#8: 701-800
#9: 801-900
#10: 901-1000 or more 1
I further vote, by the way, you resolve this one by taking the average of the results.
So if the final tally is:
#2: 101-200 2
#3: 201-300 1
#4: 301-400 4
#5: 401-500 1
#6: 501-600 5
#7: 601-700 3
#8: 701-800 0
#9: 801-900 0
#10: 901-1000 or more 1
150x2 + 250 + 350x4 + 450 + 550x5 + 650x3 + 950 = 8050, divided by 17 total votes = ~474 years.
I know that this "vote" is meaningless, but it seems like a good way to continue the trend of taking several ideas into account per poll. :)
I vote for 0-100 years. There are a few humans that lived through this catastrophe, not many, but they witnessed the fall of the gods themselves.
Location: The Wellspring
This innocuous blue pool of glowing water is located behind a waterfall in the deepest mountains. Despite its name, it is a naturally occuring pool, not the source of the falls themselves. The pool itself was found by a small group of refugees in the final days of the Old Gods who sought shelter from the warping magics of the war. What they did not know was that one of the Old Gods had already found the pool and died there of her mortal wounds, her divine essence fusing with the waters. What this did to the waters is unknown, but the blue light of the pool is visible at quite a distance if you approach from the river and nearly invisible if you approach from any other direction. The site is known as a place of serenity by those few nomadic travelers that seek out the pool, the air always a bit chilly even in the summer.
I further vote, by the way, you resolve this one by taking the average of the results.
So if the final tally is:
** spoiler omitted **150x2 + 250 + 350x4 + 450 + 550x5 + 650x3 + 950 = 8050, divided by 17 total votes = ~474 years.
I know that this "vote" is meaningless, but it seems like a good way to continue the trend of taking several ideas into account per poll. :)
That is actually a very good idea Tejon...
How many years have passed since the Death and Rebirth of the World? (from Lathiira)
#1: 0-100 1
#2: 101-200 1
#3: 201-300 1
#4: 301-400 1
#5: 401-500
#6: 501-600
#7: 601-700
#8: 701-800
#9: 801-900
#10: 901-1000 or more 1
Okay, voting for this round will end tonight. If no one else votes to break a 5 way tie, then I am going to add up all of the years, and divide by 5. That would give me a result of 301-400. So, by accident, #3 would "win".
Tomorrow I will start the fourth and final round. I will supply one, last 10 item vote, and I will ask for submissions for something new. So far I have asked for Gods, then places, and next I will ask for...?
I think I actually want to bump my vote down a notch, to 0-100. The high end of that range... humans who remember the birth of the world should be old-timers, certainly (and rare, because few survived the change). But they should be around.
Round 3 Voting so far...(from Tejón)
How many years have passed since the Death and Rebirth of the World?
#1: 0-100 2
#2: 101-200
#3: 201-300 1
#4: 301-400 1
#5: 401-500
#6: 501-600
#7: 601-700
#8: 701-800
#9: 801-900
#10: 901-1000 or more 1
All right, Tejon decided to change his vote, so right now #1 has 2 votes and is in the lead.
All right, Tejon decided to change his vote, so right now #1 has 2 votes and is in the lead.
I'll jump on the bandwagon. #1 from me as well.
550 years (I wish your list hadn't had all the round numbers as being the upper range. It would have made more sense for something like 0-50, 50-150, 151-250, etc, so people could go '300' and be in the middle of a band instead of right on the edge).
Location : The Forgotten Citadel
After the destruction and rebirth, a lone Citadel was found on a vast empty plain. The vast plain, covered with deadly saw-grass that grows 12 feet tall is a desolate and dangerous place, only creatures with more than minimum natural armor can survive the deadly sawgrass as it sways and whips in the wind trying to slice any living creature to death so it can add the creature to it's nutrient rich soil.
The Citadel is the only thing visible if one can somehow look out over the deadly sawgrass plains. A huge grey edifice, half of it missing. That half was not blasted, not melted, not piled in rubble, simply gone. A giant stone castle sliced neatly in half, as if some petulant god snapped his fingers and simply unmade half the stronghold.
The Citadel is a place of refuge on the deadly plains, and the people who live there are a hugely mixed lot. In the deadly years after the rebirth of the world, the people who survived had to rely on each other regardless of race or creed or former alignment.
Today, the citizens of Forgotten Citadel are lawful neutral. They are polite to visitors, but ferocious defending their refuge. A large water well located at the center of the Citadel (and thus open to the elements, due to half the citadel being gone) is the best source of water for days. All people in the Citadel go armed at all times, even children.
I see this as a place where you could see a Bugbear/Human hybrid chatting over a piece of pottery with a Half-Dragon Gnome. A place where the old rules against racial intermixing is gone, and where hybrids are the rule, not the exception. The entire community being guardedly polite to outsiders and ready to defend any citizen against any outsider, and to the death.
The sawgrass would be a huge danger, the only safe passages the roads painstakingly cut and maintained through the 12 foot tall razor sharp grass (which deteriorates rapidly once the hardened husk is cut). This stuff being whipped by a strong wind would slice a character to ribbons in a few minutes. There are 'lookouts' scattered around, platforms for people to climb into to make sure they are going in the right direction. The stuff should be highly resistant to fire (inherent 20 pt resistance). Good source material for magic items granting resistance to fire. :)
Oops, I missed round 2, and almost missed this one, too. Would you mind making a post at the end of each round linking to the next? Then I follow the threads individually and not worry about missing a round?
I vote for 500 years.
I'm going to sneak a new god into my location to make up for missing round 2.
Stonefall: Situated directly under the densest area of the Ring of the Old World, Stonefall is a surface city of dwarves. Every 100 years*, on the anniversary of the New World, the dwarven god Gildar pulls a fragment of the Old World down to the new one. They say that Stonefall was built on a giant fragment of the Old World that Gildar pulled down right after the New World was formed.
Each fragment lights up the sky for a week before landing a mile or so outside the city, causing great destruction in the area it lands. The folk of Stonefall are willing to put up with this periodic danger due to the amount of stone and metals that are easily mined from the fragments.
The area around Stonefall is hilly, and plagued with meteorite strikes throughout the year, the landscape marked with craters ranging in size from a few feet across to several hundred. Those who work the land in the region - farmers, shepards, hunters and like - must always remain alert for the telltale whistle of an incoming micro-meteorite, which can kill or maim a man if it strikes him. It is not uncommon to see cautious peasants wearing armor or helmets as they work. (The city of Stonefall itself does not suffer this problem, a combination of Gildar's blessing and thick stone buildings.)
*: if we end up with less than 100 years, this number should be adjusted
Oops, I missed round 2, and almost missed this one, too. Would you mind making a post at the end of each round linking to the next? Then I follow the threads individually and not worry about missing a round?
I vote for 500 years.
I'm going to sneak a new god into my location to make up for missing round 2.
Stonefall: Situated directly under the densest area of the Ring of the Old World, Stonefall is a surface city of dwarves. Every 100 years*, on the anniversary of the New World, the dwarven god Gildar pulls a fragment of the Old World down to the new one. They say that Stonefall was built on a giant fragment of the Old World that Gildar pulled down right after the New World was formed.
Each fragment lights up the sky for a week before landing a mile or so outside the city, causing great destruction in the area it lands. The folk of Stonefall are willing to put up with this periodic danger due to the amount of stone and metals that are easily mined from the fragments.
The area around Stonefall is hilly, and plagued with meteorite strikes throughout the year, the landscape marked with craters ranging in size from a few feet across to several hundred. Those who work the land in the region - farmers, shepards, hunters and like - must always remain alert for the telltale whistle of an incoming micro-meteorite, which can kill or maim a man if it strikes him. It is not uncommon to see cautious peasants wearing armor or helmets as they work. (The city of Stonefall itself does not suffer this problem, a combination of Gildar's blessing and thick stone buildings.)
*: if we end up with less than 100 years, this number should be adjusted
Fanguad, this is great. Can you give me more information on the Dwarven God Gildar? On the New World the New Gods live among the mortals (and the Old Gods are dead). If the 0-100 wins, then I would make at year 100, so this anniversary would have just taken place. I can also see this as a great start to an adventure.
I vote for 500 years
How many years have passed since the Death and Rebirth of the World? (from Eric Warren)
#1: 0-100 ***
#2: 101-200 *
#3: 201-300 **
#4: 301-400
#5: 401-500 **
#6: 501-600 *
#7: 601-700
#8: 701-800
#9: 801-900
#10: 901-1000 or more *
I went back and recounted, using little stars instead of numbers. As of right now, #1 is in the lead, followed by #3 and #5. In the event of a tie, we will take the average of the two numbers. Let's give it until end of today and see if more votes come in.
How many years have passed since the Death and Rebirth of the World? (from Leafar the Lost)
#1: 0-100 ***
#2: 101-200 *
#3: 201-300 **
#4: 301-400
#5: 401-500 ***
#6: 501-600 *
#7: 601-700
#8: 701-800
#9: 801-900
#10: 901-1000 or more *
I decided to actually vote in this round! I get one vote, like everyone else, so I am picking #5. I like the idea of there being some time from the Remaking to have city-states and nations develop, and for some new tradtions/holidays to start.
Now we have a tie between #1 and #5. If no one else votes to break the tie, by tonight, then I will take the average of the two (100 + 500)/2 = 300. It's a good number, I could live with that...
Well, go ahead and move mine from 6 to 5.
#3: 201-300
THE VOTING SO FAR...
How many years have passed since the Death and Rebirth of the World? (from vagrant-poet)
#1: 0-100 ***
#2: 101-200 *
#3: 201-300 ***
#4: 301-400
#5: 401-500 ****
#6: 501-600
#7: 601-700
#8: 701-800
#9: 801-900
#10: 901-1000 or more *
I'd vote in the 201-300 year band. Any being that remembers the 'start' should be supernatural, if you ask me - either a non-human race or a wielder of some power (magic, psionics, whatever) that improves their lifespan. The settling in of cities and such is a plus, too.
(Also a 'year 0' campaign would be fun to read about, though I don't think I'd want to play in it.)
I'll throw my hat in with the 401 - 500 years group. It's a good long time for culture to have degraded to nothing by the survivors, and corrupted and twisted legends to have developed about the past.
i like 300 years, and somebody should come up with a location that is where all the mutants from all the races have gone to, something on the outskirts but still close enough for them to trade with "normal" society.
Rhubard, you can be that person! Write up "...a location that is where all the mutants from all the races have gone to...", and it will be put somewhere into the New World.
#3 works
How many years have passed since the Death and Rebirth of the World? (from Xaaon of Korvosa)
#1: 0-100 ***
#2: 101-200 *
#3: 201-300 ******
#4: 301-400
#5: 401-500 *****
#6: 501-600
#7: 601-700
#8: 701-800
#9: 801-900
#10: 901-1000 or more *
AND THE WINNER IS #3! I didn't expect all of the positive responses to this Round, but it happened. We will set the year as 300 in the New Age,or something like that.
There will be a Round 4, a new 10 item vote, and I will ask the submission requests will be more something physical...
Link to round 4 for fanguad's benefit!