Pandemonium
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Scope
The motivation behind building Pandemonium
The idea for this world started as a short story I wrote in Highschool, then shelved for years after. Eventually I decided to try and turn that story into a full length novel. After a few chapters I realized I did not know as much about that story, or the world it inhabited, as I thought I did. Years of world builders disease followed, with very little progress in actual story. Several mountains of old notebooks and loose pages filled to bursting with shifting ideas, settings, plots, and characters litters both my mental and physical landscape. And Now it's time to refocus and get all the important bits ordered so I can finally tell that story from so long ago. I've had so much fun crafting this world, very nearly from scratch, it would be a shame to let it all crumble into the ruins of forgotten memory.
The goal of the project
At this point I can imagine a series of novels taking place in this world.
Pandemonium's Unique Selling point
In a dark medieval fantasy world long ago abandoned by the gods, the people have long since had to learn to protect themselves. Calling on the remnants of divine power within themselves to stitch weaves into the fabric of reality, they keep the Baalim at bay, otherwise the corruption will spread. Along the way, a diverse group from all walks of life will come together and master the Covenants with the old gods in order to purge the Baalims taint. But with the Colacho hounding their every step, can they really find a way to succeed? Yes, they can, if they find the Relics of the old gods and call them back to this world.
Theme
Genre
Dark heroic high fantasy.
Reader Experience
The world feels mystical and magical with an underlying dread. People should be afraid to wander but unable to help themselves.
Reader Tone
The daylight hours are nothing to fear, both mystical and mundane to varying degrees. Once night falls you should have already found shelter. Life far from the safety of walled cities and castles can be wondrous and deadly. Sometimes at the same time.
Recurring Themes
Loss, corruption, found family, and sacrifice.
Character Agency
The characters will change the whole world and how its denizens view it by the end of their adventure.
Focus
Drama
The Oath Keepers faction of the Church of the Great Mother has lost control of their headquarters and all the power within to an unknown force. A darkness is rising from the depths.
The people in the towns and villages on the eastern border of the County are disappearing one after another, and the armies are mobilizing for something big.
The Magus of the Ban Fellowship is having visions of doom, and only the chosen one can save them all.
Flujsa raids are extending from solitary paths to main trade routes. Under the cover of darkness even the most traveled paths are no longer safe.
The Druid Circle has sent out Outbound Druids to find their lost clan chief, the Jarl. There's an usurper trying to gather the clans for yet another assault of the Arres lands.
Mauri bandsmen are rebelling all across the kingdom and rioting in the streets. Causing even those who aren't actively resisting their oppression to be treated as such, separated further from society with every passing day.