Design Document

Plans & Goals

The situation is shit, but that is the fertilizer of our future.

— President Lennart Meri of Estonia, 1997

Pekkola is a world that I made in order to attempt worldbuilding on a far smaller scale than I've done before. Lethea is a setting that covers a large continent and Golden Awakening covers the galaxy. For Pekkola I wanted there to be a handful of distinct major factions which the reader or player could root for and support.

The Setting

Pekkola is a magicless early middle ages low-fantasy setting mostly inspired by northern European cultures and myths with a few more distanct cultures sprinkled into the pot to spice things up a bit. There are six major cultures from which the reader could pick a side from. Within a culture there may be multiple other tribes and kingdoms. In the centre of the map, hidden between the mountains in a brutal frozen desert, lie the remnants of a fallen empire that once nearly united the whole region under their banner.

The Six Cultures

Genre

Low Fantasy

Mood

Cold, Uncertain, Hopeful, Adventurous

Scale

Single region in one time period