The world's a fantasy themed amusement park for a galactic tier civilization. When the empire died many places became lost and forgotten about. The elves and dwarves and such are the descendants of guests and employees that became stranded.
The mountain was probably either background scenery or the entrance to a really good rollercoaster.
>angry dark mountain guy
If that's a meme or an archetype, I'm not aware of it.
Anyways, when the demons invaded the planet 500 years ago, the planet reacted in several ways. Angry dark mountain guy personifies the anger the Earth-Mother felt at the time. She gave birth to the mountain so said anger wouldn't cloud her judgement. It remains at the southern frontier of the lands tainted by the demons, and either plans how to frick them up, or fricks them up if they get too close. Not a bad guy, but he is obsessed.
If the demons invade again, or become a greater threat, she will eat the mountain and reclaim her anger, fricking them up herself.
Cultists tried to make a living idol of their dark god at a gigantic scale. They ran out of resources or just gave up after making the head. Now said dark god is trapped on a mountain who at best can spawn monsters and mostly just sort of ruins the mood of any nearby settlements.
He's not angry, he's just carved that way. He's actually a rather friendly chap when you get close enough to talk to him, if a bit clingy and overly cheerful because so few people do.
Never explicitly explain to your party that it's just a perfectly natural geological formation which coincidentally happens to resemble a big angry face; instead: generate copious details surrounding all sorts of mysteries, myths & cults connected to this completely normal mountain.
I dealt with a similar bad guy in an old Ravenloft campaign I played in the '90s. His backstory was that he was essentially a gnome tyrant from an early modern setting that was obsessed about the concept of "progress" and about outproducing his far more advanced geopolitical rivals. He eventually mass murdered so many people in the name of "progress", he became a Darklord, and his curse was that he become one with the Red Mountain, the biggest mountain of the setting he came from and also the seat of his government, essentially turning into a living dungeon. The Dark Powers tormented him by forcing his domain to remain at an early medieval technological level, so the Red Mountain was scared shitless about more advanced rival nations eventually coming out of the Mists and rip him and his backwards realm a new butthole, and couldn't really do nothing about it beyond producing several variants of mindless rock soldiers to bully his subjects with, hoping that, somehow, some Leonardo dude showed up to kickstart technological advance. He eventually got BTFO by our group nuking the "brain" part of Red Mountain with an holy artifact and his domain disappeared in the Mists.
A spiritual fragment of either an evil god, or a really angry one, that fell off into the mortal world and fused with the mountain. Best part is that the side effect of that is that the mountain serves as a physical avatar of that god as well as a powerful locus of magic that creates a web of ley-lines that comes from it. Which is why wizards, sorcerers, overlords and more WANT to build their citadels on top of them (or at least near them and build something cheaper so not to pay for extra logistics and shit).
I dont have my own setting, this is what nogames neckbeards have. I simply make up a new map for each campaing I go with.
But if I wanted an angry mountain man, he would probably be a primordial being, as old as the world itself. When sentient beings appeared on the world, he too gained sentience.
He isn't evil, but he doesnt have any sense of morality. He is the only one of this kind, smarter than anyone. He has some influence on geothermal/volcanic activity in his inside and he is producing toxins to mind control creatures around. He is working on some ways to move his personality into mortals, possessing them like a demon would, because he wants to see what the world is like
In my setting the folklore is that mountains are formed by sleeping giants that got covered up. The wind is their snoring and the clouds are their dreams. Rural villages often pay homage to local mountains and play music hoping the giants will sleep peacefully
Divorce hit him hard.
Dwarven architects are weird like that
He used to be the happy dark mountain guy, but then he took an arrow to the knee.
People keep walking all over him.
The world's a fantasy themed amusement park for a galactic tier civilization. When the empire died many places became lost and forgotten about. The elves and dwarves and such are the descendants of guests and employees that became stranded.
The mountain was probably either background scenery or the entrance to a really good rollercoaster.
>fantasy is actually muh sci fi
BOOOOOORING
Post apocalyptic. Like Henry's quest but with elves.
>angry dark mountain guy
If that's a meme or an archetype, I'm not aware of it.
Anyways, when the demons invaded the planet 500 years ago, the planet reacted in several ways. Angry dark mountain guy personifies the anger the Earth-Mother felt at the time. She gave birth to the mountain so said anger wouldn't cloud her judgement. It remains at the southern frontier of the lands tainted by the demons, and either plans how to frick them up, or fricks them up if they get too close. Not a bad guy, but he is obsessed.
If the demons invade again, or become a greater threat, she will eat the mountain and reclaim her anger, fricking them up herself.
He hates dwarves. Dwarves are like tapeworms.
An evil spellcaster named Blackstone's final resting place
Kek best lore explanation.
>short, simple, effective
A giant that was buried up to his neck thousands of years ago by his mates as a joke and is still seething about it
Congratulations!
He's the MAAAN on the SIIILLLVERRR MOUNTAIN!
Cultists tried to make a living idol of their dark god at a gigantic scale. They ran out of resources or just gave up after making the head. Now said dark god is trapped on a mountain who at best can spawn monsters and mostly just sort of ruins the mood of any nearby settlements.
He's not angry, he's just carved that way. He's actually a rather friendly chap when you get close enough to talk to him, if a bit clingy and overly cheerful because so few people do.
Never explicitly explain to your party that it's just a perfectly natural geological formation which coincidentally happens to resemble a big angry face; instead: generate copious details surrounding all sorts of mysteries, myths & cults connected to this completely normal mountain.
It's Zardoz
>Some shitskin found out free site that generates AI crap so now all the boards are spammed with it
Is this explanation enough for you, Rajesh?
I dealt with a similar bad guy in an old Ravenloft campaign I played in the '90s. His backstory was that he was essentially a gnome tyrant from an early modern setting that was obsessed about the concept of "progress" and about outproducing his far more advanced geopolitical rivals. He eventually mass murdered so many people in the name of "progress", he became a Darklord, and his curse was that he become one with the Red Mountain, the biggest mountain of the setting he came from and also the seat of his government, essentially turning into a living dungeon. The Dark Powers tormented him by forcing his domain to remain at an early medieval technological level, so the Red Mountain was scared shitless about more advanced rival nations eventually coming out of the Mists and rip him and his backwards realm a new butthole, and couldn't really do nothing about it beyond producing several variants of mindless rock soldiers to bully his subjects with, hoping that, somehow, some Leonardo dude showed up to kickstart technological advance. He eventually got BTFO by our group nuking the "brain" part of Red Mountain with an holy artifact and his domain disappeared in the Mists.
Darn that's a cool campaign.
A spiritual fragment of either an evil god, or a really angry one, that fell off into the mortal world and fused with the mountain. Best part is that the side effect of that is that the mountain serves as a physical avatar of that god as well as a powerful locus of magic that creates a web of ley-lines that comes from it. Which is why wizards, sorcerers, overlords and more WANT to build their citadels on top of them (or at least near them and build something cheaper so not to pay for extra logistics and shit).
I dont have my own setting, this is what nogames neckbeards have. I simply make up a new map for each campaing I go with.
But if I wanted an angry mountain man, he would probably be a primordial being, as old as the world itself. When sentient beings appeared on the world, he too gained sentience.
He isn't evil, but he doesnt have any sense of morality. He is the only one of this kind, smarter than anyone. He has some influence on geothermal/volcanic activity in his inside and he is producing toxins to mind control creatures around. He is working on some ways to move his personality into mortals, possessing them like a demon would, because he wants to see what the world is like
By not using ai art
The age of men is over
The king had enough golems and artisans to build a baller ass castle
He's horny but he has no benis
Not everything needs to have an explanation. Sometimes angey mountain men just are.
Everyone asks "why does the angry mountain man exist," but no one asks "why is the mountain man angry, is he okay?"
In my setting the folklore is that mountains are formed by sleeping giants that got covered up. The wind is their snoring and the clouds are their dreams. Rural villages often pay homage to local mountains and play music hoping the giants will sleep peacefully