Help! Rethinking My World Premise

[Xeviat]

- Long ago there was a race called the Dragon Lords who came from "somewhere else" (no one knows exactly where) who ruled the world for thousands of years, then disappeared. They were ulta-powerful mages. Elves and dragons are somehow tied to them.
- I love the concept of ley lines and standing stones and monoliths and would like to work them in somehow.
- Priests helped the common folk in supressing mages.

Cool, Dragon-lords and ancient peoples are cool. Not sure how to work Ley lines in and what-not, but I like them, you should use them. Definitely the priests should have helped suppress the magi.

I didn't really have any issues with what you were working on earlier. I liked it.

[Tangential]

As for ley lines, myself and some colleagues have done a lot of work on forming the concept into usable d20 mechanics. If you are ever at a point where you are considering how they work, drop me a line and I'll send you some links.

As for Dragon Lords...
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"A Proposal to My High Liege:

We came from a dying Coil. Broken in geography and spirituality by our own misuse of magic. We fled to this new realm, this 'Oramis' as the native call it. It is a fertile world, with magic that is ripe and abundant. As we suspected, other worlds also have ley lines, and Oramis' is a prime example. As of yet they are uncorrupted, undepleted. But you and I both know the ways of our people, indeed of all people. The time will come when this is not so, though it may be millenia hence. Let us be remembered for having foreseen this disaster, nay, for having prevented it. I urge you, sire, to allow us to teach the ythirin, the ones that are called Elves. Let us lend them knowledge to prevent another world from ever shattering.

~<illegible>, 2nd Year."
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Clearly, the cycle repeated itself. Clearly, the Dragon Lords failed. Hell, they weren't even still around to stop it...but perhaps...?

[Captain Dwur]

I like the contradicting stories in the new concept.  Both the mages and the priests claim to have saved the world, which could lead to some interesting conflicts.  As a player, I would prefer not to know who was actually right about that.  

Some Shards could side with the mages and some with the priests depending on whose story they believed.  It would make traveling a little more dangerous if you didn't know the political leanings of the Shard you're about to land on.  

As a GM, I'm curious about the actual events that saved the world from the Shattering.  Which story is true?  Or are parts of each story true?

[LordVreeg]

2 THINGS/

[blockquote=mageofStrigiformes]They and their followers, the Mages, had vanished, deserting the peoples in their time of need.[/blockquote]
Okay, this is interesting.  The mages were gone.  This leads to a number of intersting subjects.  
Was their magic the same as todays mages?
Was 'Dragon Magic' relearned, or replaced with something different?

[blockquote=mageofstrigiformes]True Priests began to cry, 'The end is coming! The Tapestry unravels! Turn away from the false ones and return to the True Faith! Bring their blessings back upon us before it is too late!' But few heeded their warnings.[/blockquote]
So what kind orf religion was there in the beginning, before the Dragon Lords?  and how did it change during the Dragon Lords?  Aand after?  what has happenned now?
Who do the mages worship?  And is their worship in conflict with the other churches?

[WizardofOwls]

Actually, both sides are correct. The reason the wizards vanished was because they were helping the Dragon Lords to create and distribute the shard-keys. The gods created the sky-sphere. So it was a 2-part cure, and both sides contributed. Unfortunately, neither side informed their followers of this fact.