WORLD
D is for Donna
M is for Mike
K is for Kevin
T is for Tyler
J is for Jon
Phase One: World Myths
D: Legend: The world was originally vacant and extraterriestials
M: Legend: The world is a pangea
M: Fact: There was a war of races versus gods and the races lost and have lost their status
K: Legend: Water flows off the world and back up into the air and rains
K: Legend: If you fall off the world you may end up on a different plane
M: Legend: The elemental planes were once part of the material plane but the material was too chaotic but they were removed to calm down the material plane.
J: Fact: Dieties take an active interest in their worshipers
K: Fact : There are lines and pools magic in the earth that stem from the center. M: There used to be more powerful magic on the surface but was exhusted durring the war of the gods.
K: Fact: Underdark flooded during the war
Phase Two: The Races
J: Fact: Tallfellows don't exist.
D: Legend: There is a moutains society of outcasts.
M: Fact: Dwarves swallow small rocks to aid in digestion
K: Fact: Auquan Races exists and interact with society
D: Fact: There are societies of intellectual orcs
K: Fact: Most Killeran are predjudice to races that mistreat the earth and hate everything except elves.
M: Legend: Garl Glittergold sent a gnome settlement back in time to build a temple for an event in the future. Fact: In that location there is a dugeon for Garl Glittlergold that no one has reached the bottom of
D: Fact: Elves are hippies except radical splinter groups
M: Myth: Only humans can cross breed with other races
K: Fact: Every race is sufficiently populated cept drow
J: Fact: The drow live in dense jungles and their main base is in a volcano
K: Myth: The drow helped the gods in the war and as a reward live in sunlight
D: Donna: All monks need to go on a quest and bring something back as a passage of adulthood.
J: FACT: Fey live in deep old forests
K: FACT: Fey travel through fey lines which is a much faster than roads.
Phase Three: Local Geography
See map below
Phase Four: The Village
J: Fact: There are no schools of magic in the village
D: Fact: Every young male has to spend a year in active duty.
D: The town is exports pigs trained for truffle finding.
J: Fact: It's a crime to kill a pig.
K: Fact: The town is run by a Duke who answers to a Lord who answers to a King
D: The town is primarily humans with a few other races
Phase Five: Local Threats and Faction
There is a tribe of lizardfolk and a black dragon that lives in a bog.
Churches in largers cities allow worship multiple dieties.
There is a monestary in the cratar of evil monks twisted by the space rock.
Multiple guilds that aren't united.
Forest of Scorn: Legend of a wizard who raised a legion of unded but killed by the legion and the forest is forever haunted.
Cults that are against societies norm.
There is a band of goblins that has been displaying better tactics than goblins normally do.
Fact: There is a secreted sect of fighters that train using the techniques passed down by a demon.
Myth: said demon is still at large in the material plane.
Phase Six: Local Legends
Legends has it that great riches are guarded by a dragon in the bog.
Legend has it that the wizard who raised an army of the undead carried man magical items.
Legend has Jlourns cave is deadly and no one returns
Legend has it formians live under the land and may rise again
There is a wishing well outside of the town.
Derek Mcgrull got a wish at the well and became a powerful wizard and women were attracted to him.
Myth: There is a monster in the southern mountains that is so terrible that any who look upon it perish
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Myth: The something woods is connected to the feywild, and has much wild magic. Many who stay there for long go mad.
FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE A MAP
Don't forget to think about those character ideas.