Scope
The motivation behind building Nabyu
This world is being built as an experiment in what happens when players have just as much influence over the world as the DM.
This is a collaborative project that holds the ideas and passion of all the players who are playing in our world, and I have the honor of compiling all of those ideas and passions.
The goal of the project
I am hoping to have a campaign where the passion is interwoven in the world itself, so that the players are immediately invested and on board with the world- AND CARE ABOUT IT!
Nabyu's Unique Selling point
It's everyone's!! It's not a private project in the back of my mind that I can get by with only showing the surface of. It's living and breathing, and will surprise me with every one shot we do.
Theme
Genre
Fantasy!
Reader Experience
I want the world to feel HOPEFUL. I do not want the world to feel like it is against the players at every turn. Problems should make sense and be a natural result of history, and rarely because of "evil". Kindness is rewarded and love is abundant, even in the darkest of times.
Reader Tone
TBD- we are writing the setting as we go through history
Recurring Themes
Potential vs. Intentions
Reflections
Heartbreak
Secrets Vs. Discovery
Agency Vs. Manipulation
Jolly Cooperation
Righteous Fury
Character Agency
Agency level depends on level! NOTE: my players do love to buck against authority so be prepared.
Focus
Class Relations
Foreign Affairs
Government Presence
Drama
Debas
- Loves drama
- Wants to twist intentions
- God of Self-Preservation above all else
- Cannot be killed or schemed to be killed by all Creator Gods
Nicola
- Just wants to build his stories
- Reduces people to tropes
- Has the Brothers Grimm to do his dirty work
- Scheming and writing a huge plot that he will twist the agency of everyone to get
Eilyri
- Isolationist Queen
- Does NOT like Moth Woman
- Will protect her elves
- Köpek is designed to be used against her if she ever turns on humanity
LUMERIA
- The merfolk want a global takeover
- They have a rift to the Eldritch in the deep
- Portals to the deep can pop up anywhere
- Their civilization and technology are unknown as the deep
- The only thing holding them back is their own scheming and backstabbing between their own royal factions
Kyr
- There are tons of puzzles and labyrinths and dungeons all throughout the world
- Some might hold powerful artifacts
- The Sphinx hold the knowledge about what they might contain, and have assigned the giants to protect them
- Kyr will lend Clara's eye to special mortals in order to bring them clarity