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--- setting [2019/11/22 15:47] – [Magical Traditions] andrew
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 ====== Campaign Setting ======
-Let's brainstorm ideas for our campaign setting here.
+This campaign is set in a world we will call “Eldritch Earth” that is a parallel to our own world in the 12th century. Everything in Europe, Asia and Africa is just like our world. However, many of the mythic elements of antiquity are in fact real and the Americas are discovered and colonized much earlier.
+===== Campaign Pitch =====
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-Crazy idea--campaign set in parallel Earth.
+The civilization of Atlantis was real, as was the Pacific Continent of Lemuria.  Both of these continents sunk beneath the waves in prehistory burying these advanced civilizations. Refugees from Atlantis settled in North America, and refugees from Lemuria settled in South America. Angry with the gods for the destruction of their homelands, the Atlanteans and Lemurians turned to dark sorcery, necromancy and demonology and created nightmare civilizations in the Americas. As Europe grew into the high Middle Ages, these civilizations degenerated further and fell into complete collapse.  They left behind ruins crammed with the demonic products of their wizardry, the undead remnants of their peoples, the monstrous products of their experiments and strange artifacts of power and danger.
-About 1000 AD
+Centuries later, settlers fed up with serfdom and perpetual war in Europe create small pockets of civilization in North America. One "cash crop" of the English Kingdom (called the Kingdom of [[Nessex|Nessex]]) is gold and artifacts taken from the remains of the Atlantean civilization, making adventuring a serious business.  Our campaign opens in 1130 AD as our characters are recruited by the Earl of Jorvikshire, settled in the geography that would be York County, PA in our world.
-Europeans settling America 500 years early---but FIlled WIth Monsters!  Ruins of Atlantean civilization!
+===== Map of Nessex and Environs =====
-My First Pitch:  this is what my mind pushed out:  {{ ::first_pitch.docx |}}
+{{:playersmap.jpg?direct&950|}}
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+=====Adventuring in Eldritch Earth=====
+What does one do in Nessex and its surroundings in 1130 AD?
+  * [[Travel|Wilderness Travel]]
+  * [[Robbing People|Robbing People]]
+  * [[Hunting|Hunting]]
+  * [[Atlantean Ruins|Atlantean Ruins]]
+  * [[Exploration|Exploration]]
+  * [[Buying, Selling, Recruiting|Buying, Selling, Recruiting]]
+  * [[Gazetteer|Gazetteer]]
+  * [[Cosmology|Cosmology]]
+===== Political Map of Europe =====
+{{:europepoliticalmap.jpg?400|}}
+====== Design Notes ======
 The campaign begins in 1130 AD in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Middle_Ages|High Middle Ages]].
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-===== Magical Traditions =====
+My First Pitch:  this is what my mind pushed out:  {{ ::first_pitch.docx |}}
-So spells and classes might have one of these traditions associated with it. Hermetism might be the one most associated with wizards while shamanism is clearly a druid for instance.
-  * Hermetism - wizard
-  * Celtic Shamanism - druid
-  * [[https://www.ancient.eu/Mithraic_Mysteries/|Mithraism]] - A cleric, obviously
-  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefirot|Kabbalah]] - The golem comes from this tradition;
-  * Hasidim - Estatics; maybe a cleric?
-  * Sufism - These are the dudes who stick swords through their bodies during rituals
-  * Hellenic Mysticism - Jove and Demeter; Sol Invictus?
-  * [[http://www.pyracantha.com/Z/mysticz4.html|Zoroastrianism]] - Like Hermetism but focused on the "light" of the almighty; is this a sorcerer? Different messiah from Hermetism which is interesting.
-  * Far Eastern Mystic Traditions
-      * India
-      * China
-      * Japan
-      * Egypt
-      * Russia
-  * Fake Mystical Traditions
-      * Atlantean Magic
-      * Lemurian Sorcery
-      * Lovecraftian Mythos