Shadowfire

Year 81 of the Tempus Accord

Created by

Tim Day

Scene

The Laws of Shadowfire

The planet orbits with one side always facing the sun, and the other frozen. Magic at the core of the planet - and infusing all things. Manifests as Stone magic and Blood magic. The great rift at the centre of the world where time has stopped, and all things expanding out from it are affected. Belief creates the divine and makes it manifest in the world through magic. It can be harnessed into common belief and powerful gods, or fragmented into cults of personality. Guile, subterfuge, conviction, collaboration, control all play into how this belief can be used to create and mould the divine by the peoples of the world.

Cosmology

The world was seeded by cosmic beings known by their creation as the Elder Gods. The world is purely for the gods to make themselves manifest upon and feed. This is the source of all life and all magic, including the new divinity. The Elder Gods turned themselves into corporeal form in order to feed off their creation. Their gluttony was made physical, and turned into a lazy cruelty. They created servants to help them feed, the Elderkin. They grew tired of their slavery, and harnessed the magic of the gods and used it against them to fight for their freedom. Events referred to by the Elderkin as the Seeding and the Emancipation.

Principal Geography & Features

Endless expanses of ice and snow-buried mountains and frozen oceans on one half - Shadowside Burning deserts, plains of glass, and boiling waters on the other - Sunside. A band of twilight in the middle with tundra, forests of glimmering fungal blooms, steaming jungles, vast open plains and shallow seas. Huge tides, relentless winds. Restless tectonic activity, volcanism and steaming vents on the ocean floors. No seasons, no cycles of night and day. Two moons that chase each other slowly across the sky. A great rift frozen in time , as it expels the magical crystal core of the planet in great rings of fractured stone that circle the planet and light up the cold expanse of Shadowside.

Initial Active Setting

A continent near the equator, approximate size of Europe and Middle East, with nations struggling for footholds between frozen night and scorching day.

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Unless otherwise stated, all content and maps have been created by and are copyright to the world author, Ononomad (Tim Day).