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- | * Unordered List Item | + | ====== New Bacup ====== |
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* Town Name: New Bacup | * Town Name: New Bacup | ||
* Location: Monster Country | * Location: Monster Country | ||
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* Heritage: Primarily Welsh with a smattering of other heritages. | * Heritage: Primarily Welsh with a smattering of other heritages. | ||
- | New Bacup is located at the bottom of a large canyon nicknamed The Devil' | + | New Bacup is located at the bottom of a large canyon nicknamed The Devil' |
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+ | As the town grew it drew more of the local wildlife, monsters, and fiends to the area. The attacks grew more frequent and deadlier. , however the citizens of New Bacup not having either the means to provide for their family nor the ability to travel | ||
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+ | Most of what transpired between 1111 and 1130 is shrouded in mystery, however there have been numerous rumors and stories. The most popular story being this. Running out of food, and cut off from the rest of the world the citizens decided | ||
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+ | Now that they were safe from the marauding monsters, there was still a food shortage. The people started to struggle against starvation. One day, [[Griffin Bethell|Griffin]] traveled deep into the temple mad with hunger. Old Man Bethell was gone for days. Most people were sure he he perished in that vast darkness. A fortnight later he finally returned carrying a load of fresh fruits | ||
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+ | Eventually, the trapped and desperate citizens of New Bacup stopped caring and started to eat. Griffin did not tell the whole story though. He knew that the temple demanded a sacrifice in order to produce the bounty they received. He wasn't sure how often, but he knew as long as people to continued to die within the temple walls everything would be okay. Eventually when the people regained their strength. As the young and infirm stopped dying Griffin revealed that the temple demanded a human sacrifice in order for it to continue to provide. | ||
+ | At this point scared of losing their only means of food and knowing the Church abandoned them the citizens of New Bacup began to sacrifice people. Now at full strength, the town decided to return to the surface and fight back the horrors that had trapped them in the mine. However, when they returned to the surface there was nothing there. The monsters that had forced them into the mines for over an entire year were gone. Now, the charismatic leader of the town, Griffin proclaimed it was the will of the temple that their town should be spared. They started to call the temple as a whole The All-Giver. Cut-off and angry, his life extended by dark rituals within the bowels of the canyon mine, Griffin decided to start a church - [[allgiver|The Church of the All-Giver]]. To this day, the citizens and any unfortunate soul that happens upon The Devils Anus worship The All-Giver. | ||
- | The Canyon has been nicknamed The Devil' | + | ===== Notes ===== |
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- | King Harold Godwinson, the defeated King of England, arrived with a refugee fleet in the New World in late 1066 AD. He was aiming for the Icelandic settlement in Vinland, but was blown off course, entering King Harold' | + | //King Harold Godwinson, the defeated King of England, arrived with a refugee fleet in the New World in late 1066 AD. He was aiming for the Icelandic settlement in Vinland, but was blown off course, entering King Harold' |
So, the present day in our campaign is 1130, about eighty years after that. Let's say that the Catholic Church gave up on this town about twenty years ago around 1111. Did it have a proper name before it was renamed "The Devil' | So, the present day in our campaign is 1130, about eighty years after that. Let's say that the Catholic Church gave up on this town about twenty years ago around 1111. Did it have a proper name before it was renamed "The Devil' | ||
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- | Let's say that corruptor demons have taken hold of a lot of these people, and so they' | + | Let's say that corruptor demons have taken hold of a lot of these people, and so they' |
new_bacup.txt · Last modified: 2021/04/23 15:17 by andrew