Rindemair
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Scope
The motivation behind building Rindemair
A custom D&D setting based on the logical extension of the significance of magic, and with a balanced blend of grey morality. Also 1800s technology romans.
The goal of the project
Players should feel involved in intrigues and realism at the lower powers and epic transplanar fantasy at the higher ones, with layers of significance tying things.
Rindemair's Unique Selling point
The world exists as one of many, with collections of planes forming a sphere. The primary plane of the setting is intersected by most others in the sphere, causing long distance travel to be cross planar.
Additionally, there is a roman empire aesthetic with strong roots in logical empire building, as well as magical city states and intrigue.
Additionally, there is a roman empire aesthetic with strong roots in logical empire building, as well as magical city states and intrigue.
Theme
Genre
Fantasy with a general technology level of 1750s europe. Some city states exist with much higher levels of technology, magical information era societies.
Reader Experience
Lofty and political within the empir, surreal and frightening within the fae, stifling and depressing within the deadlands, mystical and empty within the golden wastes.
Reader Tone
A dark foundation with many, many layers of brighter things covering over it.
Recurring Themes
All things eventually decline, but they can be improved meaningfully for those alive now, and even those soon to come.
The planes are an ever present adventure, unknowable boundaries existing in the infinite.
Magic is a tool, like any other, and can and has been improved as such.
The planes are an ever present adventure, unknowable boundaries existing in the infinite.
Magic is a tool, like any other, and can and has been improved as such.
Focus
Drama
The empire is surrounded by enemies, enmity by the immortal rulers of conquered lands.
The planes are slowly converging, the material of the world becomes less stable every century.
There are cosmic powers at play. Kaxlis Ur, the scale rent sky, lays trapped beneath the dragonspine, having come here long ago to rebirth the world and correct it's cancerous effect on the greater cosmos of spheres.
There are devourers of reality at the edges of the cosmos. Fae escaped a lost world aeons ago, and now some of those creatures are spreading their influence from the far realms.
The gods reviled the original creator for being a creature of the raw chaos. Fearing it would return to its original state and undo its creation, they butchered it and took its power for themselves, ascending to godhood. Now a fragment seeks to regain that which was taken in an ancient scheme.