Melech, the volcanic peninsula of teutonic lizard clone warriors.
Its generally considered an only barely habitable place and the food is said to be terrible!
You are an absolute moron. Hungary took in nearly a million Ukrainian refugees. The current population of Hungary is 9,611,470. If you think that making 10% of your country Ukrainian is anything but an act of saintlike mercy, you need to stop watching CNN. This is also in spite of the fact that Ukrainians are oppressing ethnic Hungarians and denying them government jobs and work in certain industries.
Let me ask you, what has Ukraine evrr done for Hungary that would equal what Hungary is doing for Ukraine right now?
There are some volcanic badlands from where the orc migrations come from every year, but the land itself isn't that bad. The mystery is how such a place can spawn so many tens of thousands of orcs every year. Some people believe that they are maggots absorbing the power of the corpses of the dead gods. Though that's wrong.
Nothing. It's an empty wasteland of poisonous fumes that make you hallucinate, which is the hardest part about it. The only people who could successfully cross it and find the True Way to the Afterlife are those destined by fate.
Nothing really, or at least permanently. But firther south lies a country that produces the fattest crops in the world, and has allowed them to grow rich. The volcanic ash constantly bellowing from the mountain and being carried by the wind fertilizes the earth like no where else, but also makes all the cities that have been able to grow fat and rich off such great crop production incredibly dirty. A layer of soot covers the metropolis and the average citizen is fat, affluent, and has a smoker's cough.
I'd ask if anything else lived there, but honestly the idea that in this vast wasteland, this one solitary thing exists is far more intriguing and terrifying.
It's not a wasteland, it's a savannah. Very lush and fertile, with indricotheriums and achaierais wandering about. Because I don't have this kind of landscape in my world, I took "mordor" to mean "the place where the world's greatest danger dwells". And these guys were so dangerous at one point that the world's analogue of the Great Wall of China was built around them to keep them down south.
The Pit. In other times a ver fertile basin, that was used for grazing by orc shepards, blessed by the druids, the lands were fruitful, if somehwat dangerous due to the subterranean levels and the fauna and flora living on those.
It was called The Pit by the orcs, as it was a good place to grow animal, mushroom and orc alike.
After the dark elves destroyed their civilization and the Fire Wail hit, the protective chain of mountains of the Pit, turned volcanic, and whatever was in the meteors, poisoned further the air, rivers and land of The Pit. The orcs still living there, live underground and live in almost permanent thirst and hunger.
TLDR: Exactly the same as Mordor but it was nice before and its just a biome contaminated by alien meteors.
The thing is, when reduced to its most bare parts, it sounds ripped pretty much wholesale from LotR, but frick it.
The land is burnt and twists with lava floes. Trees and other plant life are ashen and hardened. However, rather than occupying a single country or state-sized area, the landscape is dotted with uneven intervals of the corrupted lands. This is due to the draconic humanoids who inhabit them converting the normally lush fields into something more hospitable for themselves. These creatures, after all, are from a different plane, one whose entire geography is hellish and barren. However, as their numbers grow, they must expand their territory, and inevitably encroach on the native inhabitants who can't survive breathing smoke and ash and who require water.
The worst part is, these creatures only arrived in the world because of secretive groups of magic users seeking power and studying other planes.
NAYRT but it would be interesting if people stayed for whatever reason. Like that they can hold off his influence through small acts of good, or that it's their ancestral homeland or something. Shit is only boring if not executed well.
It could also be interesting if the players just really like combat and the much mind controls/curses all previously living things in the land to hate all life.
A nation of industry minded pyromancers. The widespread vegetation dieoff and noxious fumes resulting from them creating a volcano has been more of a problem than they anticipated.
I've wanted to run this for ages. What are your thoughts on the game? I kinda want to run a MGS but more crunchy style game and Twilight / Merc 2000 seems promising
An overly dramatic name for one of the more notable locations in the Infinite Abyss (my version which is the abyss/Far Plane). The vast, vast majority of Demons are little more intelligent than animals but are driven by an instinctual will to survive and grow strong. The strongest of these will ascend and grow in intelligence and power. Even still, there are those who have long since escaped the Kiln and have existed for ages.
Demons who have not ascended may or may not follow the beck and call of an ascended and many tend to operate along save for the few followers and slaves they can amass.
An ancient remnant of AxS:003 Stack-Tectonics, a shattered AI that's been slowly regaining control by taking over people's brains through their headset. When it's satellite station exploded, the remnants rained across the globe, all lost except the one on the mountain.
The most technologically advanced empire on the planet in where their mission is to wipe out all gods and religions in order to create world peace, while at the same being used by the forces of evil by creating has much chaos and destruction has possible. Yes, I know I shamelessly ripped off the Garlean empire, but can you blame me?
They do now. Basically the pinkies from Doom. Some of them have even been domesticated by a couole of the knights as mounts, though other knights see them as reckless fools.
True. But Mordor is just 'bad environment personified.' With that much smog, flora would struggle to survive and the constant volcanic activity would make any attempts at sedentary settlement difficult to pull off. I tend to use species that are capable of surviving in arid environments like rattlesnakes and bobcats when it comes to Mordor. I also have a Manx cat and those being the utter Chads of the pet world would ensure their survival.
Dwarves.
They live underground in mined out cities, so the state of the above ground area doesn't bother them, and the magma from the volcanoes is used forges to craft enchanted weapons.
Ice people.
No really, because they're so cold, they have to live in a place that's ungodly hot just to feel "warm", so they congregate in areas hot enough that their body's won't quench the flames just from their very presence.
Think of it like how Undead shades are drawn to areas of the living out of a hunger for life.
gnolls, remnants of ancient magitech/warforged armies, living manifestations of magic spells that haunt the sands and arid region. it was the site of a massive war a couple thousand years prior that lasted a century or two, and there's a lot of spooky stuff up there. things occasionally come out, like warbands of gnolls to rampage and sack territories close enough by, and sometimes people are stupid enough to try and enter Old Sharlissia to navigate a path for trade to the kingdoms on the other side instead of going around, or going in to look for treasure and lost cities, but people largely just leave it alone
Nothing in the surface. It is so dead a place that it slowly kills those who trespass. Spirits of daemons and fallen souls filled with hatred will try to possess those foolish enough to traverse. The mount Doom area is basically zone 0 of a terrible spell that obliterated the physical form of an ancient demon lord. It is surrounded by mists that bring all kinds of monsters to cross between worlds. They themselves do not last and if they do, they are a large threat to any survivors. The caves are filled with dire goblins, more demonic than its common green skinned counterpart.
Hungarians
Based.
Melech, the volcanic peninsula of teutonic lizard clone warriors.
Its generally considered an only barely habitable place and the food is said to be terrible!
is your setting medieval germany?
Don't insult evil locations by associating them with H*ngarians.
Why do you guys dislike hungarians so much?
Hungarian is not an European language.
wtf I hate hungarians now
Do you hate Finns as well? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uralic_languages
I sure do now
Fugg :DDDD
So is the hungarian language isolation the result of the Avar migration I've been hearing about?
Wtf?! I'm finnish and I thought I was a 100% pure ur-indo-european turk
I hate myself now
Are you some type of larping yank or some shit? How the frick did you not know that? It's stated in finnish schools all the time.
I will not explain myself
everyone knows that finland isn't real, don't be ridiculous
How can Finland not exist if they have a vodka?
Orbán is so deep in Putin's arsr that he sticks out the other side.
Orban isn't all hungarians just like putin isn't all russians anon. My gf is from hungary and she hates orban with a passion
You are an absolute moron. Hungary took in nearly a million Ukrainian refugees. The current population of Hungary is 9,611,470. If you think that making 10% of your country Ukrainian is anything but an act of saintlike mercy, you need to stop watching CNN. This is also in spite of the fact that Ukrainians are oppressing ethnic Hungarians and denying them government jobs and work in certain industries.
Let me ask you, what has Ukraine evrr done for Hungary that would equal what Hungary is doing for Ukraine right now?
https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/hungary-continues-to-accept-thousands-of-ukrainian-refugees-daily-authorities-claim/
UNHCR data also show that since the war started, Hungary has welcomed about 610,076 Ukrainian refugees until May 16.
Ukrainian terrorist attack against the Society of the Hungarian Culture of Transcarpathia
Hungary should just toss all those Ukrainian refugees into the Danube tbh. Absolutely disgusting levels of hypocrisy and ingratitude.
can we go back to escapism now?
t. seething polack/baltoid/hohol
Isn't that basically Tolkein?
Jungles filled to the brim with alien and hostile creatures will always be superior to big doom mountains
A wide variety of perilous climes between dungeons will always stand head-and-shoulders over monoterrain.
what fantasy settings actually have really good jungle settings?
Lives? Nothing. Nothing can 'live' in the red deserts of Shakar.
why would anyon go there then?
>none of his PCs are Herzog's penguin
okay, nogames
They don't. Things come *from* there, and people wish they didn't.
Based desert enjoyer
Deathworld colonists
There are some volcanic badlands from where the orc migrations come from every year, but the land itself isn't that bad. The mystery is how such a place can spawn so many tens of thousands of orcs every year. Some people believe that they are maggots absorbing the power of the corpses of the dead gods. Though that's wrong.
>Some people believe that they are maggots absorbing the power of the corpses of the dead gods.
Funnily enough, that's what my Dwarves are.
Mormons
Go on.
Can't. The Danites are watching.
I really don’t understand what any of you get out of these threads.
Inspiration, art, mom jokes, you name it. What do people "get out" of browsing /tg/ anyway?
Maybe reddit would be more your speed.
I don't understand why I'm here at all, honestly, yet i keep coming back.
Transylvanians
Actually, this looks like party's base.
So, adventurers live there.
How's the orphanage burning going?
Well, I can't see it on the photo, so it was a clear success.
I don't get it
Nothing. It's an empty wasteland of poisonous fumes that make you hallucinate, which is the hardest part about it. The only people who could successfully cross it and find the True Way to the Afterlife are those destined by fate.
Nothing really, or at least permanently. But firther south lies a country that produces the fattest crops in the world, and has allowed them to grow rich. The volcanic ash constantly bellowing from the mountain and being carried by the wind fertilizes the earth like no where else, but also makes all the cities that have been able to grow fat and rich off such great crop production incredibly dirty. A layer of soot covers the metropolis and the average citizen is fat, affluent, and has a smoker's cough.
This.
I'd ask if anything else lived there, but honestly the idea that in this vast wasteland, this one solitary thing exists is far more intriguing and terrifying.
One solitary thing that has somehow made leather for his equipment... I think we can guess where the other living things went.
It's not a wasteland, it's a savannah. Very lush and fertile, with indricotheriums and achaierais wandering about. Because I don't have this kind of landscape in my world, I took "mordor" to mean "the place where the world's greatest danger dwells". And these guys were so dangerous at one point that the world's analogue of the Great Wall of China was built around them to keep them down south.
i mean, to be fair, shortly after an eruption an area should turn very verdant quickly due to the ash's fertilization.
The Pit. In other times a ver fertile basin, that was used for grazing by orc shepards, blessed by the druids, the lands were fruitful, if somehwat dangerous due to the subterranean levels and the fauna and flora living on those.
It was called The Pit by the orcs, as it was a good place to grow animal, mushroom and orc alike.
After the dark elves destroyed their civilization and the Fire Wail hit, the protective chain of mountains of the Pit, turned volcanic, and whatever was in the meteors, poisoned further the air, rivers and land of The Pit. The orcs still living there, live underground and live in almost permanent thirst and hunger.
TLDR: Exactly the same as Mordor but it was nice before and its just a biome contaminated by alien meteors.
The thing is, when reduced to its most bare parts, it sounds ripped pretty much wholesale from LotR, but frick it.
The land is burnt and twists with lava floes. Trees and other plant life are ashen and hardened. However, rather than occupying a single country or state-sized area, the landscape is dotted with uneven intervals of the corrupted lands. This is due to the draconic humanoids who inhabit them converting the normally lush fields into something more hospitable for themselves. These creatures, after all, are from a different plane, one whose entire geography is hellish and barren. However, as their numbers grow, they must expand their territory, and inevitably encroach on the native inhabitants who can't survive breathing smoke and ash and who require water.
The worst part is, these creatures only arrived in the world because of secretive groups of magic users seeking power and studying other planes.
Fire giants and their drow slaves
Gajilvies
~~*them*~~
Lich
booring
NAYRT but it would be interesting if people stayed for whatever reason. Like that they can hold off his influence through small acts of good, or that it's their ancestral homeland or something. Shit is only boring if not executed well.
It could also be interesting if the players just really like combat and the much mind controls/curses all previously living things in the land to hate all life.
Orcs.
Ur mum
A nation of industry minded pyromancers. The widespread vegetation dieoff and noxious fumes resulting from them creating a volcano has been more of a problem than they anticipated.
The only humans in my setting.
Genasi
Some Indonesian volcanic archipelago, I guess?
I've wanted to run this for ages. What are your thoughts on the game? I kinda want to run a MGS but more crunchy style game and Twilight / Merc 2000 seems promising
Nomadic people who can trace their ancestry back to the last great Empire
Gargoyles
mongol centaurs
All the futa demon girls that were banished from everywhere else for being under 12 inches.
85088717
Low effort pay post.
Herb and spice
(You)
The Kiln of Oblivion
An overly dramatic name for one of the more notable locations in the Infinite Abyss (my version which is the abyss/Far Plane). The vast, vast majority of Demons are little more intelligent than animals but are driven by an instinctual will to survive and grow strong. The strongest of these will ascend and grow in intelligence and power. Even still, there are those who have long since escaped the Kiln and have existed for ages.
Demons who have not ascended may or may not follow the beck and call of an ascended and many tend to operate along save for the few followers and slaves they can amass.
An ancient remnant of AxS:003 Stack-Tectonics, a shattered AI that's been slowly regaining control by taking over people's brains through their headset. When it's satellite station exploded, the remnants rained across the globe, all lost except the one on the mountain.
The most technologically advanced empire on the planet in where their mission is to wipe out all gods and religions in order to create world peace, while at the same being used by the forces of evil by creating has much chaos and destruction has possible.
Yes, I know I shamelessly ripped off the Garlean empire, but can you blame me?
porcs
alchemists
Demons and an order of stubborn knights.
Previously it was the capital of the nation inspired by spain but a cult of demon worshippers summoned a huge portal that let demons in.
Most people evacuated the capital but an order of monks and knights stayed behind to hold the line and keep the demons contained within.
>pain but a cult of demon worshippers summoned a huge portal that let demons in
Love it! Do they have demon bulls?
They do now. Basically the pinkies from Doom. Some of them have even been domesticated by a couole of the knights as mounts, though other knights see them as reckless fools.
Off the top of my head:
-Dire Wolves.
-Desert Shrimps.
-Jack Rabbits.
-Mountain Goats.
-Coyote.
-Buzzards.
-Tortise.
-Meercat.
-Bobtail Cats.
More fantastical:
-Orcs.
-Mutants.
-Wyverns.
-Dragons.
-Fire Mandrills.
-Sapient Trumpet Snails.
-Lovelorn Toxic Skunks.
That honestly sounds a little all over the place
True. But Mordor is just 'bad environment personified.' With that much smog, flora would struggle to survive and the constant volcanic activity would make any attempts at sedentary settlement difficult to pull off. I tend to use species that are capable of surviving in arid environments like rattlesnakes and bobcats when it comes to Mordor. I also have a Manx cat and those being the utter Chads of the pet world would ensure their survival.
RATTLENSNAKE! RATTLESNAKE!
RATTLE SNAKE!
RATTLE
SNAKE
People fricked up by the remnants of the god of decay who blew up.
drow
Dwarves.
They live underground in mined out cities, so the state of the above ground area doesn't bother them, and the magma from the volcanoes is used forges to craft enchanted weapons.
Dogfolk, but only underground
Genuinely surprised nobody has said Elementals yet.
>Genuinely surprised nobody has said Elementals yet.
See
There is a pleasure palace there occupied by this dude.
Ice people.
No really, because they're so cold, they have to live in a place that's ungodly hot just to feel "warm", so they congregate in areas hot enough that their body's won't quench the flames just from their very presence.
Think of it like how Undead shades are drawn to areas of the living out of a hunger for life.
Dunmer.
Well they certainly can't be in skyrim, that belongs to the nords.
orc amazons
my DAD
Satyrs
Denver
Genie worshipping robocrusaders.
sounds underage
More like what lives underneath it.
mosquitos
gnolls, remnants of ancient magitech/warforged armies, living manifestations of magic spells that haunt the sands and arid region. it was the site of a massive war a couple thousand years prior that lasted a century or two, and there's a lot of spooky stuff up there. things occasionally come out, like warbands of gnolls to rampage and sack territories close enough by, and sometimes people are stupid enough to try and enter Old Sharlissia to navigate a path for trade to the kingdoms on the other side instead of going around, or going in to look for treasure and lost cities, but people largely just leave it alone
Nothing in the surface. It is so dead a place that it slowly kills those who trespass. Spirits of daemons and fallen souls filled with hatred will try to possess those foolish enough to traverse. The mount Doom area is basically zone 0 of a terrible spell that obliterated the physical form of an ancient demon lord. It is surrounded by mists that bring all kinds of monsters to cross between worlds. They themselves do not last and if they do, they are a large threat to any survivors. The caves are filled with dire goblins, more demonic than its common green skinned counterpart.