Karwelas
Dwarf Taffer
Known World
Act I - Dead Gods hear no prayers.
Act I - Dead Gods hear no prayers.
Don't pray anymore, people of Zinoth, of Known World, of Known Kingdoms. Don't pray as they don't respond anymore. Dig graves for your dead hopes, for your dead dreams. Cry and scream, show your pain and torment. Remember who have done what happend, those that call themselfs saviors! Cruse them, kill their people, spit at their food, poison their drinks and never forget what they have done to us!
And forgot about our glorius masters...
Becouse...
Dead Gods hear no pray.
Agantius from South Kingdoms - leader of Circulcirum Sect.
Indexes:
1. Characters sheets + wealth informations + reputation.
2. Magic in Known World
Informations about Soulesses and Triangle of Existence
About prologue, death, rules and other things
Choices, obsessions systems and some other interesting facts
House of Servants - Chain of Command
Magic Circles and Magic Schools and about The Game
Larnmarn - guide
Prologue:
Chapter 0
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 3 part II
Interlude 1
Chapter 4
Chapter 5 part I
Part II
Part III
End of Prologue
Act 1 - Fires in Larnmarn:
Interlude 2
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4 - Part I and II
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
IMPORTANT THING! - Things below are only introduction to setting and CYOA. In spoilers in post/s below you will soon find basic informations about world, history, characters and other interesting things. My English isn't perfect, but I will try to make this CYOA anyway.
Setting: Ah, this question. It will be my own setting, based mostly on my ideas. Dark Ages with magic and some more advanced technology. I would say it have some similarities with Myth (everyone hail to Fangshi), but it actually looks more like Thief 2 with some real live based. (Colonialism - some lands far away from mainland, where most of plots will take place... but it will be up to you, where you will go. There are more of it, but it is around 1 AM in my potatoland and I didn't sleep last 36 hours so... please, give me a break) Still, there is a bit more magic then in Thief.
World, history of it and things: The CYOA itself will take place probably only on world called 'Zinoth'. (Only Known World was created by 'Gods) The 'Known World' itself is area (around 1000 miles) surrounded by mountains with only a few ways out. From east and west mountains and some coast are adjacent to big ocean. South is way to great deserts, but way to it is hard. Great marshes block way and the magic field that was result of the pact after great war with desert folk. It kill everything and everyone without sigil allow you to cross it. Way to North is probably best way to get out the 'Known World' but it is very dangerous journey. Great Plains are full of dangrous animals and monsters and it take around month to get into anything that you could call civilization.
The 'Known World' itself is a work of group of 'Creators' or just Gods - powerful beings that appear around 3000 years before game take place. Before that time, there was only great sea. After Creators end their work, they called humans and elfs, the only two intelligent races living in the known part of the world (continent) and with their powers they make themself their gods, probably by killing the old ones.
In next thousand years both of the species developed and finally possesd power to cast spells. Some scholars say that they discovered old texts and priests say that it was gift from Gods. However, that time was bad for everything in know world. War between two factions of Creators happend. (Most of well know game lore says there was around 20 of them at that point. They just appear from the Void - space between worlds) Here is part of the book that was created soon before the game takes place:
Gordos, the most powerful of the 'Gods' or 'Creator' - how their servants called them - always was a greedy bastard. Slowly his mind become shattered by his hunger of power. He call every other Creator and declared himself the master and lord of them. Some of them acceped him as their ruler - some feared him, some thinks that one of them should be higher then others to keep peace. But another part of them explode with indignation and anger. The war begun. And it was only beginning.
Their war was long and cruel... when it near the end only a few Creators was still alive. Gordos and his side won, but for what price? They change and become more... dark in every meaning of this word. They set up one rule that everyone of them must obey: They can't appear in the mortal world anymore. Punishment was death.
But their servants observe them during their war. They die with their Creators name on their mouths. But time change everything, even mortals. They start to think and saw how Gods treat them as tools. Most powerful wizard among the humans - Mezeron (It is kind of nod to people that play Fangshi CYOA around there. Hello guys!) call their brothers to help him free themselfs from slavery. The great war teach them how they can kill those who make them live. Void itself.
Mazeron and his Ten almost succeed. They get enough power to create tear in the fabric of reality and push the Creators to it without protection and kill them in a result. But these bastards were ready. One of the Mazeron Ten, elf called Ber'din speak with Creator Meluia, Mother of the Elfs about their plan and was almost instantly taken in front of rest of Gods. After a session of tortures that mortals can't even imagine his mind succumbed to their powers and Creators was able to reverse the spell of Ten. Their attempt end when their shattered souls fly into the Void, without chance of surviving. Everyone who accept plan of Ten was wiped out from the face of Known World. But the Gods underestimated their own creations. A seed already was planted...
One hundred year later, some new Powers appear. Dwarf panteon with their own people. Nobody knows why and from where, but Creators was suprised. After a meeting with Panteon they agreed that new players on the board were too powerful to fight with them. They agreed to never interfere in their own business and the world of mortals itself. Nobody, however, say that about the dwarfs themselfs...
A long time pass. Wars happend, kingdoms and empires rised and fall. Becouse of rule, Creators don't appear in mortal world anymore, but they agree to create Avatars - choosen people who will have a small part of soul and power of God that choose them. It was their only way to change fate of the world. People pray and die. Creators forget about old times of disobedience. And that was reason why they fell.
Around 150 years before start of the game, someone named Xyon appeared in the temple one of remaining Gods - Teriona, Goddess of poisons and plague - and beg her for something. After that, she humiliate him and refused. After that, he disappeared from the eyes of the chroniclers for around ten years. After that, he started gathering people that was harmed by fate and Gods themselfs. Thanks to his resources and unbelievable charisma he get thousands of allies and followers in the next 30 years (Among them was some kings of the kingdoms that was in the 'Known World'. More about them on the map I will post soon.) The most powerful allies of Xyon make a pact between each other and start calling themselfs 'New Circle' or just Circle (In memory of Mazeron old Circle of Ten) and start to search way to really destroy the Gods. Under mysterious circumstances they make a spell that was able to banish Gods where they come. To Void.
Churches of Creators was already warned by their masters (as they promise themselfs and Dwarf Gods that they can't interfere personally, with their own power into mortal realm) and start to move their forces at Circle armies. (It was later called 'Sacred' March - irony was strong site of the rebels )Circle forces won battle after battle until they come near Spire - the highest mountain in Known World - and only place that was connected to pocket-plane where Creators remained.
In the middle of battle that was supposed to destroy force of 'Sacred' March, something happend. Circle (in Circle, most of people was actually mages or someone powerful enough to be part of something like that) performed ritual that destroyed the portal to pocket-plane, however Gods manage to set up protective spell around it. The effects of collision of these two spells was catastrophic. Breach into Void itself appear and thousand of people died. Area in 10 miles around Spire become wasteland without live, as Void suck every live force, even from the ground itself. Circle, using the 'Gate' or 'Portal' spells manage to escape with little amount of people, but many died. Those people that souls, minds and bodies (Triangle of Existence - important theory of magic in setting. But about that another time) was powerful enough become Soulless, kind of undead without souls. As Breach appeared, many things on Zinoth changed, along with some rules of magic.
Now, 250 years after that world still suffer from it. Gods don't respond anymore. Those from Circle that make it alive rules the Known World that or other way. They however are also guardians of balance. Some of Soulless manage to get back into sanity and become powerful force. Xyon disappeared in Breach.
And here you are. Locked in the small cell for almost a year, without word or reason, with six other people in cells next to you. You don't count days anymore. You don't need foor or water for some reason.
Only one thought remains in your mind. 'How I will escape?'
However, this isn't right question anymore.
Not how. When...
Reasons behind this CYOA - I want to give Codex something from me. I play with great people around here (Fangshi and other players from Myth) and read other great works (treave, you are great man! Keep going with Spiral!). I want something that can make other people have so much fun I have with these works.
And maybe a bit becouse I finally want to become DM.
Here we go, 'dexbros.
Karwelas
World, history of it and things: The CYOA itself will take place probably only on world called 'Zinoth'. (Only Known World was created by 'Gods) The 'Known World' itself is area (around 1000 miles) surrounded by mountains with only a few ways out. From east and west mountains and some coast are adjacent to big ocean. South is way to great deserts, but way to it is hard. Great marshes block way and the magic field that was result of the pact after great war with desert folk. It kill everything and everyone without sigil allow you to cross it. Way to North is probably best way to get out the 'Known World' but it is very dangerous journey. Great Plains are full of dangrous animals and monsters and it take around month to get into anything that you could call civilization.
The 'Known World' itself is a work of group of 'Creators' or just Gods - powerful beings that appear around 3000 years before game take place. Before that time, there was only great sea. After Creators end their work, they called humans and elfs, the only two intelligent races living in the known part of the world (continent) and with their powers they make themself their gods, probably by killing the old ones.
In next thousand years both of the species developed and finally possesd power to cast spells. Some scholars say that they discovered old texts and priests say that it was gift from Gods. However, that time was bad for everything in know world. War between two factions of Creators happend. (Most of well know game lore says there was around 20 of them at that point. They just appear from the Void - space between worlds) Here is part of the book that was created soon before the game takes place:
Gordos, the most powerful of the 'Gods' or 'Creator' - how their servants called them - always was a greedy bastard. Slowly his mind become shattered by his hunger of power. He call every other Creator and declared himself the master and lord of them. Some of them acceped him as their ruler - some feared him, some thinks that one of them should be higher then others to keep peace. But another part of them explode with indignation and anger. The war begun. And it was only beginning.
Their war was long and cruel... when it near the end only a few Creators was still alive. Gordos and his side won, but for what price? They change and become more... dark in every meaning of this word. They set up one rule that everyone of them must obey: They can't appear in the mortal world anymore. Punishment was death.
But their servants observe them during their war. They die with their Creators name on their mouths. But time change everything, even mortals. They start to think and saw how Gods treat them as tools. Most powerful wizard among the humans - Mezeron (It is kind of nod to people that play Fangshi CYOA around there. Hello guys!) call their brothers to help him free themselfs from slavery. The great war teach them how they can kill those who make them live. Void itself.
Mazeron and his Ten almost succeed. They get enough power to create tear in the fabric of reality and push the Creators to it without protection and kill them in a result. But these bastards were ready. One of the Mazeron Ten, elf called Ber'din speak with Creator Meluia, Mother of the Elfs about their plan and was almost instantly taken in front of rest of Gods. After a session of tortures that mortals can't even imagine his mind succumbed to their powers and Creators was able to reverse the spell of Ten. Their attempt end when their shattered souls fly into the Void, without chance of surviving. Everyone who accept plan of Ten was wiped out from the face of Known World. But the Gods underestimated their own creations. A seed already was planted...
One hundred year later, some new Powers appear. Dwarf panteon with their own people. Nobody knows why and from where, but Creators was suprised. After a meeting with Panteon they agreed that new players on the board were too powerful to fight with them. They agreed to never interfere in their own business and the world of mortals itself. Nobody, however, say that about the dwarfs themselfs...
A long time pass. Wars happend, kingdoms and empires rised and fall. Becouse of rule, Creators don't appear in mortal world anymore, but they agree to create Avatars - choosen people who will have a small part of soul and power of God that choose them. It was their only way to change fate of the world. People pray and die. Creators forget about old times of disobedience. And that was reason why they fell.
Around 150 years before start of the game, someone named Xyon appeared in the temple one of remaining Gods - Teriona, Goddess of poisons and plague - and beg her for something. After that, she humiliate him and refused. After that, he disappeared from the eyes of the chroniclers for around ten years. After that, he started gathering people that was harmed by fate and Gods themselfs. Thanks to his resources and unbelievable charisma he get thousands of allies and followers in the next 30 years (Among them was some kings of the kingdoms that was in the 'Known World'. More about them on the map I will post soon.) The most powerful allies of Xyon make a pact between each other and start calling themselfs 'New Circle' or just Circle (In memory of Mazeron old Circle of Ten) and start to search way to really destroy the Gods. Under mysterious circumstances they make a spell that was able to banish Gods where they come. To Void.
Churches of Creators was already warned by their masters (as they promise themselfs and Dwarf Gods that they can't interfere personally, with their own power into mortal realm) and start to move their forces at Circle armies. (It was later called 'Sacred' March - irony was strong site of the rebels )Circle forces won battle after battle until they come near Spire - the highest mountain in Known World - and only place that was connected to pocket-plane where Creators remained.
In the middle of battle that was supposed to destroy force of 'Sacred' March, something happend. Circle (in Circle, most of people was actually mages or someone powerful enough to be part of something like that) performed ritual that destroyed the portal to pocket-plane, however Gods manage to set up protective spell around it. The effects of collision of these two spells was catastrophic. Breach into Void itself appear and thousand of people died. Area in 10 miles around Spire become wasteland without live, as Void suck every live force, even from the ground itself. Circle, using the 'Gate' or 'Portal' spells manage to escape with little amount of people, but many died. Those people that souls, minds and bodies (Triangle of Existence - important theory of magic in setting. But about that another time) was powerful enough become Soulless, kind of undead without souls. As Breach appeared, many things on Zinoth changed, along with some rules of magic.
Now, 250 years after that world still suffer from it. Gods don't respond anymore. Those from Circle that make it alive rules the Known World that or other way. They however are also guardians of balance. Some of Soulless manage to get back into sanity and become powerful force. Xyon disappeared in Breach.
And here you are. Locked in the small cell for almost a year, without word or reason, with six other people in cells next to you. You don't count days anymore. You don't need foor or water for some reason.
Only one thought remains in your mind. 'How I will escape?'
However, this isn't right question anymore.
Not how. When...
Reasons behind this CYOA - I want to give Codex something from me. I play with great people around here (Fangshi and other players from Myth) and read other great works (treave, you are great man! Keep going with Spiral!). I want something that can make other people have so much fun I have with these works.
And maybe a bit becouse I finally want to become DM.
Here we go, 'dexbros.
Karwelas
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