OT: The ambiance and setting (part 3)

[JimMorrison]

Originally Posted by Omnirizon

Imitation is the greatest form of flattery. The very existence of this project should be praise and honor to KO's accomplishments.

And direct contact is the sincerest form of confirmation. Pretty sure KO's email here isn't hard to find, and he reads his PMs anyways, I believe.


As far as Ulm goes, a fractured feudal atmosphere where most (or all!) of the lords are vampires, implies a good stage for the creation of the Illuminati, where in fact much of the real political intrigue is hidden, and the only reason Ulm has not been re-unified, is because of the code of honor that binds those lords, keeping them from killing eachother in their quest for power.


There could actually be a merging of Bandar Log and Agartha, to an extent, if Bandar were to be overrun by their neighbors. Considering the importance of the mythos of Shambala or Shangri La in that region of the world, then it would make sense if once conquered, the Bandar peoples took refuge in those cities.


Marignon of course would conquer and devastate Mictlan, and Marignon's apparent power at this time would be enormous (along with Man). Perhaps a new nation would have to rise from all of this, representing an amalgam of the French/British/Spanish colonies in the Americas. They would be highly resourceful, cunning, and wealthy because of their ruthlessness and hunger for power. Their magic would mostly consist of strange voodoo picked up in the islands, and they would eagerly pick up the best of the technological advances of their European "benefactors".


Perhaps the rise of "Rationalism" was what actually closed the Void, and ended the Dreamtime. People just became so skeptical, that the rise of this new "dominion" of modern thought, gave all believers innate Dream Resist (100).


An interesting twist could be that this really IS just the dominion of another pretender. This pretender is actively sucking the magic from the world, to empower itself as it purges the arcane mysteries from the minds of mortals, so that it can rule unopposed. Maybe what our world needs now, is to rediscover magic, before it is too late and we are fully subjugated by the new Pantokrator.