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I had a different world concept come to mind that I have been playing with a bit for the last week, it is very similar to the Nightlands, including expies of the Silmarils and a major event in the past that changed to world greatly, but it does differ from the Nightlands, at least in the cosmetic details.
The central image of the plot centres around a remote mountain fortress that has at it's centre a chamber that holds three major features, a chasm from which a column of glowing, sparkling mist rises, a pool of red liquid that at first looks like blood but on closer inspection is not, and a smooth mirror-like wall of black stone. Each of these features represent one of three goddesses that people who are willing to make the long and difficult trek into the mountains can make an appeal unto.
How this came about? Digging into similar themes as in the Nightlands backstory, there is a history of a fight where a weaker group (probably humans) tried to take magic from a stronger group (probably magical creatures, definitely including High Elves) and three unusual daughters of the High Elves set about to prevent it, but by doing so they removed most of the world's ambient magic, shunted it into a sub-dimensional domain, created the "Otherworld" while doing so, and accidentally turned themselves into demigoddesses in the process.
Idle thoughts on the details of this series of events has had me designate the idea of every race having two sides - the more mundane (less magical) population and the more arcane sub-races. The ones who tried to take magic I have ear-marked as the "First Men", there are the High Elves and the Common Elves, the Stone Lords and Petty Dwarves, and other races divide in similar ways as well. A few races don't have this sort of divide, with their whole population being either high magic or low magic.
After the formation of the Otherworld, the higher magic beings gradually found ways to retreat and there, leaving all the lower-powered types in the mundane world.
The mundane world is not totally without magic, but it is far lower than it used to be, with the approximate reduction being something like 70 or 80 percent of the magic it had prior.
The Otherworld is kind-of a network of loosely connected micro-dimsional realms, knitted together in a patchwork that doesn't always seem to go together seamlessly. A region of rainforest can be right next to sub-arctic tundra, which is right next to blazing desert, which is right next to a boggy swamp. If the founders of a few adjacent territories worked together when they first claimed their lands, they could have made their lands match up better, but that did not always happen.
The Three Ladies have the most seamless bonds between their lands since they kind-of created them as one continuous land that encompasses the wishes of all three. The White Lady has heavily wooded foothills of summery forests made up of colourful trees, beautiful hidden vales and crystal rivers. These forested foothills sit on the flanks of snowcapped mountains where, in the upper hills the palatial castle of the Red Lady is located, with the surrounding upper vales populated by mountain-dwelling folk of several races, including humans who sought to stay close to magic. The Silver Sister of the Black Mirror lives in the Dwarven cities of the High King of the Stone Lords who live under the mountains. These three lands were matched up so they seemed to go together logically, as the Three Ladies always worked together well as sisters.
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Barring the general establishing plot of how this set-up came about, this world does not have much of a plot to it - far less than the Nightlands does. If anything, I have only given some thought as to how the White and Red Ladies bonded with their husbands, with slightly less granted to the Silver Lady and her two bonded partners (anyone who knows my Silmarils knows what that means, but I really expect the only person who would really understand to be Valandhir). These considerations do tend to be pr0n.
Added Thoughts 25/8/2018: Platinum Lady of the White Mist (Elossí), Gold Lady of the Red Fountain (Losá), Steel Lady of the Black Mirror (Eleni).
People who immigrate to the Otherworld come under the nominal rule of the Lady they appealed to - if they came to the mountain, the shrine they chose to approach - the White Mist, the Red Fountain or the Black Mirror. If they appealed in a different place, they would have had to call on one of the Three specifically.
Landscapes outside their personal realms have no real theme in relation to which Lady was appealed to by the founder. It usually is more dictated on the appellant's mindset and which Lady they have more alignment with.
The central image of the plot centres around a remote mountain fortress that has at it's centre a chamber that holds three major features, a chasm from which a column of glowing, sparkling mist rises, a pool of red liquid that at first looks like blood but on closer inspection is not, and a smooth mirror-like wall of black stone. Each of these features represent one of three goddesses that people who are willing to make the long and difficult trek into the mountains can make an appeal unto.
How this came about? Digging into similar themes as in the Nightlands backstory, there is a history of a fight where a weaker group (probably humans) tried to take magic from a stronger group (probably magical creatures, definitely including High Elves) and three unusual daughters of the High Elves set about to prevent it, but by doing so they removed most of the world's ambient magic, shunted it into a sub-dimensional domain, created the "Otherworld" while doing so, and accidentally turned themselves into demigoddesses in the process.
Idle thoughts on the details of this series of events has had me designate the idea of every race having two sides - the more mundane (less magical) population and the more arcane sub-races. The ones who tried to take magic I have ear-marked as the "First Men", there are the High Elves and the Common Elves, the Stone Lords and Petty Dwarves, and other races divide in similar ways as well. A few races don't have this sort of divide, with their whole population being either high magic or low magic.
After the formation of the Otherworld, the higher magic beings gradually found ways to retreat and there, leaving all the lower-powered types in the mundane world.
The mundane world is not totally without magic, but it is far lower than it used to be, with the approximate reduction being something like 70 or 80 percent of the magic it had prior.
The Otherworld is kind-of a network of loosely connected micro-dimsional realms, knitted together in a patchwork that doesn't always seem to go together seamlessly. A region of rainforest can be right next to sub-arctic tundra, which is right next to blazing desert, which is right next to a boggy swamp. If the founders of a few adjacent territories worked together when they first claimed their lands, they could have made their lands match up better, but that did not always happen.
The Three Ladies have the most seamless bonds between their lands since they kind-of created them as one continuous land that encompasses the wishes of all three. The White Lady has heavily wooded foothills of summery forests made up of colourful trees, beautiful hidden vales and crystal rivers. These forested foothills sit on the flanks of snowcapped mountains where, in the upper hills the palatial castle of the Red Lady is located, with the surrounding upper vales populated by mountain-dwelling folk of several races, including humans who sought to stay close to magic. The Silver Sister of the Black Mirror lives in the Dwarven cities of the High King of the Stone Lords who live under the mountains. These three lands were matched up so they seemed to go together logically, as the Three Ladies always worked together well as sisters.
...
Barring the general establishing plot of how this set-up came about, this world does not have much of a plot to it - far less than the Nightlands does. If anything, I have only given some thought as to how the White and Red Ladies bonded with their husbands, with slightly less granted to the Silver Lady and her two bonded partners (anyone who knows my Silmarils knows what that means, but I really expect the only person who would really understand to be Valandhir). These considerations do tend to be pr0n.
Added Thoughts 25/8/2018: Platinum Lady of the White Mist (Elossí), Gold Lady of the Red Fountain (Losá), Steel Lady of the Black Mirror (Eleni).
People who immigrate to the Otherworld come under the nominal rule of the Lady they appealed to - if they came to the mountain, the shrine they chose to approach - the White Mist, the Red Fountain or the Black Mirror. If they appealed in a different place, they would have had to call on one of the Three specifically.
Landscapes outside their personal realms have no real theme in relation to which Lady was appealed to by the founder. It usually is more dictated on the appellant's mindset and which Lady they have more alignment with.