General Overview on the World of Xôðûn.
May 18, 2018 14:36:31 GMT -5
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Post by Hexenritter Verlag on May 18, 2018 14:36:31 GMT -5
General Overview:
The World of Xôðûn is a world filled with wonders great and small, it is like some mad god was let loose and shaped it based upon their whim. Much of Xôðûn is primal wilderness populated by monsters & barbaric inhuman tribes that keep what civilization there is at bay. It is truly an alien world for those who travel the Multiverse & I have traveled to a few. My home-world as I’ve come to refer to it, Skârn is more typical than Xôðûn in my learned estimation. Where as Skârn is a world of diverse and ever changing structure, Xôðûn is static – as is it was carved out of clay and given life in some bazaar sense of order.
I’ve spent most of my life travelling this world and it still fills me with wonder. Portals dot the world letting in peoples from all over the Multiverse; from the Vôs-Phærim (Rootless Elves) from Skârn to Sorcerers from Êrôbôr and Cyborgs of Pelenôs. Primal Deities walk though world – I believe they are helping keep civilization at bay. I’ve learned four elemental portals of immense power link Xôðûn to the elemental plane of fire and the elemental plane of ice. There are rumored to be similar portals to the elemental planes of earth, water & air; but I’ve not seen any evidence of them as of yet.
What civilizations that do exist upon Xôðûn are a mix of outer-worldly cultures from worlds of the Multiverse that have carved a place out of the wilderness and have held onto it. There are also cultures of native peoples who are said to have been created by the deities who formed this wondrous world. Most of these native races do appear somewhat human-like, while a few look like a fusion of animal or even insect appearance.
Technology is also a very different thing from what I’ve learned about in my world as there are weapons called “guns” a mechanism that vomits forth lead or even bolts of electricity to metallic slivers, there are also mechanical creatures referred to as “Robots”, “Androids” or even the bazaar abominations called “Cyborgs” that fuse elements of these artificial constructed beings to “men”. In one city-state you’ll have the wonderful & time saving “printing Press” and various steam powered “machines”; whereas in another you’ll have vile technology powered by bound souls of the dead or elemental spirits.
I have noticed that mating is possible between the more human-like races native to Xôðûn and human-like races from the portals, though they are born true-blooded beings of their native parent. The only races that can produce truly mixed offspring are humans, Elves & Orcs from other worlds. There are quite a few of these beings on Xôðûn, though they are often the product of slave breeding programs of a handful of powerful dark magical city-states, that built up around a portal to another world.
I’ve returned to my ancestral homeland of Dýš several times and have led a number of expeditions to not only Xôðûn & to other known worlds of the Multi-verse, such as Êrôbôr & Pelenôs. That said, I’ve grown to love this strange, wondrous and vastly dangerous world of Xôðûn and I consider it my new home. I hope that this volume on my travels will help the reader understand just a bit about Xôðûn.
Dhorn Valkyr, esteemed fellow of the Grand Academy of Dýš & explorer. 698DCE.
The World of Xôðûn is a world filled with wonders great and small, it is like some mad god was let loose and shaped it based upon their whim. Much of Xôðûn is primal wilderness populated by monsters & barbaric inhuman tribes that keep what civilization there is at bay. It is truly an alien world for those who travel the Multiverse & I have traveled to a few. My home-world as I’ve come to refer to it, Skârn is more typical than Xôðûn in my learned estimation. Where as Skârn is a world of diverse and ever changing structure, Xôðûn is static – as is it was carved out of clay and given life in some bazaar sense of order.
I’ve spent most of my life travelling this world and it still fills me with wonder. Portals dot the world letting in peoples from all over the Multiverse; from the Vôs-Phærim (Rootless Elves) from Skârn to Sorcerers from Êrôbôr and Cyborgs of Pelenôs. Primal Deities walk though world – I believe they are helping keep civilization at bay. I’ve learned four elemental portals of immense power link Xôðûn to the elemental plane of fire and the elemental plane of ice. There are rumored to be similar portals to the elemental planes of earth, water & air; but I’ve not seen any evidence of them as of yet.
What civilizations that do exist upon Xôðûn are a mix of outer-worldly cultures from worlds of the Multiverse that have carved a place out of the wilderness and have held onto it. There are also cultures of native peoples who are said to have been created by the deities who formed this wondrous world. Most of these native races do appear somewhat human-like, while a few look like a fusion of animal or even insect appearance.
Technology is also a very different thing from what I’ve learned about in my world as there are weapons called “guns” a mechanism that vomits forth lead or even bolts of electricity to metallic slivers, there are also mechanical creatures referred to as “Robots”, “Androids” or even the bazaar abominations called “Cyborgs” that fuse elements of these artificial constructed beings to “men”. In one city-state you’ll have the wonderful & time saving “printing Press” and various steam powered “machines”; whereas in another you’ll have vile technology powered by bound souls of the dead or elemental spirits.
I have noticed that mating is possible between the more human-like races native to Xôðûn and human-like races from the portals, though they are born true-blooded beings of their native parent. The only races that can produce truly mixed offspring are humans, Elves & Orcs from other worlds. There are quite a few of these beings on Xôðûn, though they are often the product of slave breeding programs of a handful of powerful dark magical city-states, that built up around a portal to another world.
I’ve returned to my ancestral homeland of Dýš several times and have led a number of expeditions to not only Xôðûn & to other known worlds of the Multi-verse, such as Êrôbôr & Pelenôs. That said, I’ve grown to love this strange, wondrous and vastly dangerous world of Xôðûn and I consider it my new home. I hope that this volume on my travels will help the reader understand just a bit about Xôðûn.
Dhorn Valkyr, esteemed fellow of the Grand Academy of Dýš & explorer. 698DCE.
