Thera Pægana
1st August 3081
Scope
The motivation behind building Thera Pægana
I want to build a vibrant, varied world, full of creative wonders, mystery, myth, conspiracy, humour and violence, governed by the goddess Lady Luck and her six sister deities, for my D&D campaign (and perhaps a bestselling novel?)
The goal of the project
I want my players to feel excited and drawn in. I want them to grow attached to the world and its characters. I want to shock them; I want to entertain them; I want them to triumph; I want them to fail. I want them to be furious at the unexpected death of a beloved NPC and exultant in the glorious violence they exact upon the perpetrators. I want them to see the world be brought to the brink of apocalypse only for them to save it with cinematic aplomb.
Thera Pægana's Unique Selling point
Technomancy: a fascinating confluence of cutting-edge scientific research and powerful magic, technomancy means automata, electromagical contraptions, and the unlimited potential for further invention, built by engineers and powered by magic.
Comet: a giant metropolis built on the bottom half of an enormous comet that split near-cleanly in two upon impact with the planet.
Skyrays: airborne manta rays that are commonly reared and used as mounts to traverse the skies.
Zelda races as feral, evil monsters:-
- the Goron are terrifying harbingers of brutal death: apocalyptic, unfeeling rollers through the deepest abysses of the Underdark;
- the Zora are malicious, supremely cunning and cruel. They are anarchic tricksters at best and vicious serial killers at worst;
- the Daiku are the D&D mind flayers of this world, granted sentience by the arch-evil hive mind of the Great Daiku Tree, which has been preparing for hundreds of years to unleash a world-ending mega-miasma of parasitic Daiku spores. These spores penetrate to the brains of any organism to which they attach themselves. They feed on the host brain until, eventually but inevitably, they overgrow and kill the host. The overgrown husk of the former organism is now regarded as a fully-fledged Daiku, free to repeat the horrific procedure. This is how the parasitic scourge of the Daiku disseminates and multiplies itself.