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Zorak Zoran, the Lord of the Demons of Death, God of Hatred

Zorak Zoran, the Might of Hatred

Zorak Zoran, the Might of Hatred, the Motherless Son, Lord of the Demons of Death The Cult of Zorak Zoran (DARKNESS DEATH DISORDER) Even amo

Zorak Zoran is the most powerful war god of the trolls, and even they acknowledge he is the most terrible. But it is better for a terrible monster to be fighting your enemies than to be fighting you, and so Zorak Zoran's cult has never been eradicated. There is always someone in the kingdoms of the Dark who needs extremely violent people to hate and kill.

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Elmur the Sun Bull

When Chaos came, and Urox was not there for the Hyalorings, Elmal sent his greatest bull.

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QuestWorlds: Who wants a generic game?

Generic RPGs are designed to accomplish a goal that many say they want. The ability to write anything, make any genre fit together, and theo

"Generic RPGs are designed to accomplish a goal that many say they want. The ability to write anything, make any genre fit together, and theoretically never have to learn another system again all sound great. The reality usually ends up being something different, though. The entire reasoning behind generic RPGs even being possible has forever been couched in very narrow assumptions about what an RPG actually is. Once you expand those assumptions a little bit, a generic game starts to look impossible.

QuestWorlds, originally called Hero Wars (and HeroQuest in between those two), is a game that came out of a post-TSR, pre-Forge era of the early 2000s much like the first edition of Fate. Both of these games have the same essential objective: build out a set of mechanics that can take any character on one side, any challenge on the other, and adjudicate that character standing up to that challenge regardless of the specifics. Add in some balancing rules for character creation and advancement, and you’ve got a game that’s ready for anything. Kind of. Both QuestWorlds and Fate make very similar disclaimers about only working with genres with capable and proactive heroes prevailing over larger-than-life challenges. The disempowerment of horror doesn’t really work, nor do the continuous drags of hunger, thirst, or wound management found in survival games. These generic games, and many generic games, quickly reveal themselves to be “roughly the way we think people play RPGs” games." - @levelonewonk

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Gorakiki, the Swarm Queen

Hail to the Insect Mother, the Queen of the Carapace! She is the most resilient of all the beast mothers, her children spread to all corners of the world. Hail to Gorakiki, who bears the aspects of all insects! She is no primitive goddess, either. To trolls, she is the goddess of wealth, of infrastructure. Her worship is not for those who are in need, for it takes a certain level of development to support her nests. The rewards are great, however, for Gorakiki brings the blessings of the beetle and the bee and cricket - dyes, chitin, food, and even military might.

Gorakiki, the Swarm Queen

Gorakiki, the Mother of Insects, the Swarm Queen, the Chitinous One The Cult of Gorakiki (DARKNESS BEAST SPIRIT) Gorakiki is one of the anci

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Orania, Khatun of Heaven

Orania, the Khatun of the Sky

Orania, the Khatun of the Sky, Perfected Sister of Light, the Unsullied The Cult of Orania (LIGHT HARMONY) Orania is the elder sister of Yu-

A friend asked me about Ourania, a very important sky goddess in the sun worship sphere, whom I had completely forgotten about. I entered a fey mood and in three days have produced Orania here, whose cult has been fading from relevance and power in Pent due to backing the wrong horse and fucking up several times in the Second Age, but will rise again when Sheng returns.

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Pentan Cultural Overview: The Stations of Night

Here, we find a myth describing what happened to the world on the First Night, when Yu-Kargzant died and, over ten hours, descended into the Underworld. Evils lurked in that night, and each hour brought something new - something the people had not been ready for.

The Stations of Night

When the sun died, when the First Night came, it took ten hours for him to fall into the depths of the Underworld. The Ten Stations. Every c

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Pent Tribe Creation

Pent Questions

Pent Questionnaire You are the horse lords of Pent, the greatest people that has ever been. You know this, for you live in the greatest land

This is a large part of what's been taking up most of my time recently on the Pent front! The first draft of the Pent tribe creation questionnaire is complete! It's over 25000 words long!

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Mee Vorala, Fungal God

A troll god, technically. But mostly the god of fungus and progenitor of the fungal elves, the Voralans.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fnAZEqMbHL2gb-hP6bMLH2024pK_0ei2N_3DXF-dFC4/edit?usp=drivesdk

Mee Vorala, the Birth of Fungus

Mee Vorala, the Birth of Fungus, the Sporebringer, the Deep Growth The Cult of Mee Vorala (DARKNESS PLANT) Mee Vorala is the progenitor of a