The Campaign Builder's Guild

*JAW DROPS*

WOW.

Thank you Nomadic!  I'm greatly honored... that's incredible!  If I can ever repay the favour in some way, let me know!

Quote from: Steerpike*JAW DROPS*

WOW.

Thank you Nomadic!  I'm greatly honored... that's incredible!  If I can ever repay the favour in some way, let me know!

Just keep working on this awesome setting :)

Oh, and switch out that ugly old map on the front page for the new one if you like it.

Done!

I like the sickly tinge to the parchment, btw... good effect.

Goodness, it's been a while since I last read any CE. I'll have to start over.

Looks nice Nomadic! :)

Some paragraphs have evaded your editing after you changed Baranauskas to Macellaria. Namely, there seems to be 4 occurrences of an even older name (or perhaps a misspelling): Baransauskas.
Should be fairly easy to track down the 4 of them for you.  

Thanks, Crow!  Fixed.

Nom, that map makes me happy.  

Now I have to go kill some PCs for the sake of internal equilibrium.

Quote from: LordVreegNom, that map makes me happy.  

Now I have to go kill some PCs for the sake of internal equilibrium.

Wouldn't it be better to sacrifice wine to the wine god then PCs to the blood god?

Quote from: Steerpike[ic=Preview -The Esurience]Also known as the World's Navel, the Sea's Gullet, the Eternal Maelstrom, and the Perpetual Tempest, the Esurience is an unending storm centered round a massive whirlpool in the center of the Fevered Ocean.  A constant play of lightning wreathes the cloud-blacked sky above the Esurience while an unceasing anticyclone many miles wide swirls above the maelstrom itself, which takes the form of a sublimely vast oceanic vortex.  The exact cause of the Esurience is unknown, but many believe that at its bottom is a hole in the ocean floor, perhaps even a portal to some other plane, through which the Fevered Ocean is slowly but inexorably leaking.  If this theory is correct then given a long enough timeline the Ocean will eventually be entirely drained.  This would, amongst other things, result in the death of most of the Earth's algae, which would severely impact the world's oxygen cycle.

The Esurience poses a tremendous navigational hazard for any ships attempting to cross the Fevered Ocean.  Sailing around it would greatly increase the length of a trans-oceanic voyage, and sailing through it is incredibly perilous.  As a result the Esurience has greatly discouraged overseas exploration to the west, barring the inhabitants of the Twilight Cities from any other continents or island chains which might lie beyond.  Legends persist, of course, of paradisiacal lands on the other side of the Fevered Ocean, and every few years a ship sets out from the Serrated Coast in hopes of reaching these fabled shores.  None have ever returned.[/ic] [ooc]The Skyscar, the Suppuration, Abysm, and the Esurience now form the boundaries of the Cadaverous Earth - I rather like the idea of the world being bordered by these titanic pseudo-natural phenomena of relatively mysterious natures, otherwordly portals and psychic bleeds and huge pits that might lead to the Hells or to stranger places, zones where reality begins to ebb and chaos intrudes...[/ooc]

I don't think the Esurience was ever added to the first page's posts.

Yeah, I never got around to doing my big Fevered Ocean write-up (I will someday).  It was going to feature these big ships, kind of like a cross between coffin ships and the ships of the Elves of Middle Earth, full of people who were so disgusted with the Cadaverous Earth that they've decided to sail away into the western oblivion in the unfounded hope that there'll be some cleaner land beyond the Ocean...

Here is Light Dragon's excellent PDF of the setting!  206 pages of my warped scribblings plus illustrations, maps, poetry, reviews, and contributions from other board members (with imaginations clearly as deranged and deviant as my own), committed to Adobe for the first time!

Ah, the new bible ^^
Pretty cool to have it in pdf form. Kudos to LD

You are welcome. It took a while, but it was fun to make.

Cool map; can't seem to find the PDF because I am a lunatic.

Regarding your map, however, why are there two cities cut off from the obvious river?

M.

PDF is two posts above, and linked on the front page.

Moroi is in the place it is because that's where the Elder Trees are, which are vitally important arcane resources (think the spice from Dune).  Their sap fuels witchcraft across the Cadaverous Earth.  Weird, shifting rivers with unpredictable routes distorted by the movements of the Tallow Plains provide it with water.

Macellaria gets its water from deeply sunk underground wells that tap into a massive subterranean lake, though there are other, smaller rivers nearby (notably the Tendril, which boasts a mid-sized shanty-town of its own) and that just aren't on the map that help to irrigate its hinterlands.

The map may make those rivers look close, but they're actually pretty far away - days or weeks.