Description

HUSH! You with your magics! Lest you wake that which slumbers... Come, come this way, where the taint is less strong, that I may tell you of that which you must know. What you must heed if you are to have but a chance of survival...

Danger abounds here and it is often unseen. Your best defense is to remain unnoticed. Keep your fires covered and small. Hone your senses and walk softly. Sleep in daylight and sleep lightly. Avoid ruins!

What happened here you ask? Magic happened, great and terrible magics unleashed in a cataclysm of fury! And the powers they loosed upon the world are not gone, they are merely dormant, and the gods themselves will not help us if they wake. So heed my words and keep your magics silent!

Once this land was rich and fertile and great cities gleamed. But the people allowed their pride to turn to arrogance, they thought themselves gods. They built magics of immense power. And now you see the consequence of power, the evidence is everywhere. Their once great cities are now blasted wastelands! Dark forces cover them with their malignance and creatures of pure evil lurk in their shadows. Great and terrible creatures that do not belong in this world now haunt the land.

And we, those few that survived, we live in the scraps that malevolence ignores.

This Paradigm represents a deconstructionist / post-apocalyptic High Fantasy Realm. A place for material revolving around what exists after a magical cataclysm of some sort.

Example Source Material

Source materials include Naussicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind (anime), Thundaarr The Barbarian (television), Wizards (the Ralph Bakshi animated movie), The Dying Earth (Jack Vance), the Blackmoor D&D Setting, and Druuna (the Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri erotic comic).