#bloodwar

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Source “The Blood War” by Unknown (1996) [bloodwar.zzt] - “Title screen” Play This World Online ---- Discover More Information About This World on the Museum of ZZT

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[ourbetterdevils]

The Citadel’s War

Summary: The Wizards of the Citadel in exchange for magic have struck a bargain to help the nine hells fight the blood war.

Ever since we’ve been introduced to the citadel and the nature of their whole we’re at war thing and raised a forest to be a perfect desert combined with my knowledge of Brennan Lee Mulligan and his many other campaigns and passions has me inclined not to take this at face value. They’re just Wizards doing empire is boring.

I don’t really substantively have much to work with here but, the initial description of Eoighorain inclines me to think he’s a non-standard Balgura supported with the express use of Simian.

The fact they are traveling somewhere that is simply dangerous by virtue of being there and that couldn’t be supplemented by considerable wizardry inclines me to think this would have to be somewhere extra planar and not terrestrial.

Balgura, War, Categorically Dangerous the blood war and it’s unending occurrence make a pretty compelling fit.

Now we don’t know what exactly the cosmology of this world is and likely won’t for a while but, I do maybe remember off hand hearing that Planescape and the cosmology of the great wheel was a favorite or Mr.Mulligan’s.

We also do know it was a point of emphasis and explicitly mention in Fantasy High Sophomore year of the blood war and the need for distinction to be made between Devils and Demons. With Demons truly being a force of unrepentant destruction in the alien Deus-Pah’zhul way than anything useful to cosmology. While Devils are portrayed as generally bureaucratic and not necessarily pleasant but, can be bargained or reasoned with.

What we want to extract then is why would the blood war be a thing to challenge our characters narratively. For this we gotta go back to Eruslon’s initial foray into the mortal world. There’s a need for soldiers and while you’re probably saying hey not everything needs to be connected. I am simply saying everything we have been show has to have been chosen to be so. We have been shown knights on a road marching. We have been show citadel wizards marching. This world is stepped in conflict. Maybe just one though and maybe just the same one. Demand more and more of the people who fight that makes them forsake honor and everything else precious like balance or the spirits because none of them help them win the war: the bloodwar.

So to string this out to the max we got the world probably made by gods great wheel cool.

Mortals learn magic initially from nature probably become the first druids and witches they learn and are of the same tempo with the natural world and maybe a little more.

However, someday someone chuffs at this arrangement they take more than they give and the spirits get angry and take back their gift of magic for the most part. Mortals are pissed and are adamant not to be granted a gift but, to wield a power.

They find other ways to magic darker ways but, it’s just words right nothing more than complicated airflow and the gift of magic so great. The Hells makes a deal to give them wizardry for their participation in the bloodwar. This places a considerable burden on the wizards to service this debt essentially a debt that will never be paid off(maybe) because I assume the debt was always to win the blood war for hell.

The whole empire stick is an after thought just a means to pay back this debt and continue to fight and win the actual war that matters. However, maybe something like the citadel is running out of world to colonize and it’s opposition becoming more intense. Has lead to an over taxing of resources. So it’s desperate it’s doing the equivalent of the German Wunderwafe programs moonshot projects with a non-zero Chase of maybe winning the war outright and an extremely high chance of being junk like Caging a massive ocean spirit and fight a continental force of Kudzu are exemplary ideas they betray desperation of securing anything any edge to win the war.

But mortals can’t want the bloodwar to end its well known the only thing that is keeping both hell and the abyss from cleaning up isn’t the forces of good but each other. If either side wins they whole rest of the wheel loses.

The nature of the bloodwar by default though is that they’re too evenly balanced perfectly even one might say. So that neither is ever able to do so.

Unless say one cheated by say getting mortals to win it for them. Or rather to use the ingenuity of humanity to provide the necessary cosmological change to make winning the war possible. Then hell doesn’t even care if mortal kind is free of its debt because they’ll claw them all down anyways.

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[clauwagart]

Some silly sketches of a little crossover between Daniel Fortesque and my OC Tania Applewhite.She loves so much beer that she could change her mood if she can’t get one.

[masterlegendario]

Welcome to the Cage! That's Sigil, City of Doors - realm of the Lady of Pain, gateway to all planes and possibilities. It's the most coveted burg in the multiverse, and this tome is the key to unlocking its secrets. Now DMs and cutters alike can discover: little known facts about Sigil's sites and personalities a guide to major portals maps of famous locales, fiendish and divine evocative illustrations by DiTerlizzi, Dameron, Ruppel, and Berry an all-new, full-color, poster-sized map of the city, pinpointing place heretofore unseen Which pubs cater to the clueless, and which're quick to put a sod in the dead-book? Where do folks gather to catch an "Execution by Wyrm"? For whom do the Bells of Baphomet toll? Exposing both the low life and glittering highlights, In the Cage is an essential guide for any blood who plans on exploring Sigil's streets - especially any blood who plans to leave under his own power. #masterlegendario #planescape #bloodwar #tanari #hell #demons #dnd #dnd5e #vintage #old #oldschool https://www.instagram.com/p/CVWMrAELvug/?utm_medium=tumblr

[worldsofzzt]

Source “The Blood War” by Unknown (1996) [bloodwar.zzt] - “(6) outside the base once again” Play This World Online ---- Discover More Information About This World on the Museum of ZZT