GPCFBRPGN:0 Worldbuilding

Starring: Alex, Jamie, Josh, Laura
Guest Starring: A very sick Aidan
Challenge: Previous meeting going long
Location: GPCFB Large Conference Room
Date Played: 23 October, 2018

Tropes

• Fantasy
  • High Fantasy
  • Traditional(ish)
• Elves are seen as the bad guys publicly
• Flying is the most common form of transportation
• People are disappearing for one calendar year and coming back with no explanation
• Court intrigue is high
• Animals are considered sacred
• No one has seen a dragon in a millennium
• Dwarves are the most respected diplomats
• There has never been a confirmed god-like presence that touched the world this Age
• Lots of urban areas
• Undead are becoming a plague
• Sudden overnight freezes
• History is that the world's inhabitants are survivors of an apocalyptic event

Beginning of Time (Relative History)

Secrets

• The Apocalypse
  • The Prime Material Plane almost converged with the Elemental Plane of Air and required a great machine to separate the two.
  • The previous society was tech heavy and some relics were brought over from the apocalypse.

Rebuilding Society

Common Knowledge and Rumors

• Dwarves were the primary masons and rebuilders.
• Gnomes were used as slave labor.
  • And food...
• This was the prime stage of transitioning your station in life.
  • This is where 6 great noble houses were born, including The Emperor and The Archmage.
• Halflings chose not to help rebuild and made caravan cities and houseboats.

Secrets

• The reason the dwarves are so successful today is that they found old technology and they haven't shared it.

Fall of the Elves

Common Knowledge and Rumors

• Dark elves had a surface war that tainted the image of all elves due to inaction.
  • The dark elves were waging a war on the dragons and winning until the "good elves" stepped in to protect the dragons.

Secrets

• Dwarves stoked the rumor-mongering about the elves (and dark elves specifically) because the dark elves were close to finding some of the lost technology.

Gaea's Blessing

Common Knowledge and Rumors

• Animals around the world gained a soft halo, the rampaging dragons disappeared, and the halos around the animals dissipated shortly afterward.
• This is when the first order of the druids was created.
  • Only females can be true druids.
• The Druidic tradition became popular and giant sanctuaries were created between cities.
  • Clashes happen between the Druidic tribes and humanoids in the cities as each saw the other's land as stolen.

Age of the Totems

Common Knowledge and Rumors

• People begin to align themselves to animals.
  • Some people can be shunned by their totem animals. If they are, they are removed from society.
• The Emperor's family gains the totem of the alpaca.
• Rarely, some animals become sentient and can speak.
• All orcs do not have totems. Their natural bestial nature makes them a totem unto themselves and the animals respect that.

Exploration of the Skies

Common Knowledge and Rumors

• Air transportation becomes prominent by the initiative of the dwarves.
  • "Floaties" become a common wearable item that lets you glide across leylines.
• There is a discovery of floating islands above the land that were hidden for an unknown period of time.
• Daredevil sky-stunts become a popular sport and occupation.

Secrets

• There are gnome colonies on these "skylands."
• The skylands are actually the remains of the dragons that were exiled by the animals.

Rise of the Acolytes

Common Knowledge and Rumors

• Some have decided to stretch magic to its limits to try and force the gods into existance.
• Wizards become distrusted because people feel that the attempt to bring in the gods is causing the undead plague to rise.
• Schools of magic become closed to outsiders and require special permissions to prevent terrorism.

Secrets

• An order of dark druids arise to disrupt the normal Druidic order.

Now

Common Knowledge and Rumors

• The country of Arvis won a long war against the country of Durell, making Arvis the rulers of the Western Coast.
• Large amounts of undead in cities are spontaneously rising from the graves.
  • Rarely, the dead come back intelligent (not evil intelligent, just themselves).
• Troubles with crops are happening due random sudden freezes, causing food shortages.
• Contact between colonies trying to settle on the skylands have been cut off by the notorious sky pirate known as the Thunder Chief.
• The 2nd in the line to the throne of Arvis has mysteriously disappeared.
• Scholars and astronomers have noticed that stars are beginning to disappear from the sky.
• There has been a recent surge of those born with wild magic and those with the talent for wild magic are being born with animistic traits.