Let's Make A Setting /tg/

The standard orcs of the setting are descendants of the mysterious advanced precursor race. They don't know this, so hold the memes.

>>53845548
WE

>>53845548
>>53845569
The fucker said hold the memes, retard.
WUZ

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>>53845464
>Many vampires construct nests out of the bones of countless damned souls, many of which are still alive in some capacity

>>53845548
Orcs are savage raiders

They only care about knowledge though

If you climb high enough, you can eventually reach an altitude where the clouds are physically solid

There may or may not be a kingdom up in there somewhere

>>53845663
And just like that we're going full Dark Souls.

>Magic in this setting is done entirely through pacts with entities from the Beyond. All entities are actually the ghosts of people who have died, and in crossing over, they lost all of their connections with mortality and their memories, transforming into various creatures based on their predominant and foremost personality traits.

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>>53845696
>Their lost for knowledge is so great that many orcs will raid ancient tombs, and citadels for even the tiniest scrap of lost information despite high chance of vampires devouring them whole.
As a result, Orc populations are not very high

>>53845774
Half Orcs are common however, as they cross through foreign lands to recover the past

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>>53845464
Rifts does this. A vampire intelligence, which is sort of somewhere between a Skaven and an eldritch abomination, creates a Master Vampire who then infects more and more people, creating Secondary and Wild Vampires. Once the population hits the tens of thousands, it's enough to anchor the thing in physical reality and it can conquer the world it's come to.

>>53845774
>Humanity is long extinct
>All the races of the world are permutations of humanity

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>>53845762
>>Most of these entities, whilst certainly terrible and most of the time not possessing man's best interests at heart, they are nowhere near as terrible as the average vampire. In fact, some vampires will seek out these entities in order to devour them, and grow into a greater stage of power

>>53845855
>Many of these entities don't really care for this and some of the more sane ones band together to form hordes to fight the darkness. Basically Valhalla but you become a 6th dimensional conceptual construct

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>>53845464
>The sun itself is essentially the CPU of a mostly invisible or otherwise unperceivable being sleeping outside the reach of the planet.
>Its burning light are its sleeping thoughts.

>>53845855
>>53845893
>In the process of trying to combat the vampire menace, mortals and the entities of the Beyond strike bargains. The entities grant the people of the mortal realm their power in return for taking the fight to the vampires.

>All such powers are totally dependent on the entity, the mortal fulfilling the terms of a bargain with the entity in question, and any such bargains are one-off deals - it is entirely possible to scam these entities and get away with it, but one must be well-versed in the mind-twisting dialects of the Beyond to do so, and must be quick-witted and careful in the way they word their terms.

>The basis of God's Creation is a crude and unfinished draft of His True World, dipped in the primordial khaos even He refuses to watch over.
>There is a brighter world above.

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>>53845841
>Most of these races, whilst sharing the same base genetic template as the now long dead humans, they are each unique and different, each practically a species unto themselves

>>53846025
>Each race has its innate own magic connected to an eldritch entity, basically making all mortals warlocks.

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>>53846025
Some factions can find stuff like metal horses and "Boom sticks" from old castles. The stuff requires either copper arrows or black gold to fuel to make them work. Some people have tried to reverse engineer the stuff with varying degrees of success.

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>>53845663
>>53845464

So are the vampires hording blood to get more power? Is a regular vampire a weakling relatively speaking but can fill up on souls, blood, bones, whatever to increase his power?

>>53845795

Vamp squad campaigns are best campaigns.

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>>53846094
Vampires can presumably glut themselves on blood and souls in order to increase their overall power, but some vampires may simply come into existence stronger than their fellows, either because they were called forth with a massive tide of blood and pain, or that whatever is creating the vampires and other undead simply chooses to do so

>>53846023
>The Unfinished World is doomed to an oncoming apocalypse, the specifics of which seem to be ever-changing. It is known that the vampiric horrors that roam the world are but one component. Either they serve the primordial khaos, or are merely spawned from it.
>One thing is certain. We are not what God wanted.

>>53846161
>Veins of spiritual power intersect the world at various points of importance, often summoning entities to their presence
>These veins tie this world to the worlds before and the worlds since

>>53846203
>>53846161
>All of this has happened before, and will happen again, until God's Paradise, His Eden, is created. When God's world is made, when the Last World is finished, we will not be there to witness it.
>This cannot be allowed to pass.
>We have to get out.

This shit is weird

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>Every vampire is different, no two vampires are alike. You could be facing down a mishmash of various genitalia from all walks of life, the next you could be fighting against a mass of demented clockwork and gears trying to grind your flesh into paste. Every vampire is entirely different from one to the other, with their own abilities, and feeding methods. The forms that Vampires take range from the grotesque (a mass of putrid organs and intestinal contents), to the morbid (a titanic mass composed entirely out of faces stretched out into various depictions of torture and pleasure, creatures composed of various genitalia), to the downright surreal (giant floating baby heads, 'living' music, poetry, philosophical concepts, etc). In truth the only things vampires have in common is their consumption of blood, their spread of decay and rot wherever they manifest, their creation of lesser undead in their wake, and the fact that they are all affronts to existence itself.

>>53846251

>The Historians are an eldritch species that travel between worlds, recording every detail of every world to assist in the creation of the perfect world
>They take the form of living species, but always look ancient and wizened, regardless of the form they take

>>53846161
>>53846203
>>53846251
>Research is being done into these veins of spiritual power. This has led to the ability to strike bargains with the eldritch powers of the Beyond.
>Ongoing research is being conducted in a desperate hope to get everyone Out before the end times begin in earnest.

>>53846456
>Everything else is going towards a desperate attempt to hold the line against THESE fucking things until the research bears fruit.

>>53846093
>In truth these artifacts are far older than even the disappearance of humanity or the fall of Orc society. Much "newer" technological marvels are just assumed to be magic

>>53845464
That's the setting of Necroscope, anon.

>>53846456
>>53846518
>veins of spiritual power
>All vampires consume blood

Sapient blood is the original source of all magic (eventually), and holds deep and arcane power. The few human mystics that attempt to gain their own power instead of making pacts end up making a pact with the potential of their own blood, warping them into monstrosities, from whence sprung several of the races of Man, as well as several kinds of vampires.

>>53846025
>>53846071
Among the permutations is the Vrell a species of pale, limp, seven feet tall minimum, hunchbacked creatures.
Long ago they were known to support a variety of lizard eldritch but now they are known for their alligence to the vampires, becoming career servants and tricksters.

>>53846588
> as well as several kinds of vampires.
>All vampires are spawned, or serve, the primordial khaos.
>This world is dipped in the primordial khaos, and God doesn't want it anymore.
>Therefore, the vampires spawned this way are the result of all sapient blood inherently being tainted by the primordial khaos and mystics foolishly tapping into that corruptive power.

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>>53846687
>The Vrell whilst they do go out of their way to provide their vampiric masters with fresh blood, they will occasionally be the ones subjected to their masters ceaseless hungers instead. Not that they mind really

>>53846799
>>53846588
>>53846687
>>53846774
>The Vrell are primarily a servitor race for the vampires because their progenitors among Man 'came close' to turning into vampires themselves and never quite made it. The intent was to try and create monsters to fight monsters; the fools fell far short of the mark, and merely handed the vampires servants on a silver platter.

The vampires don't talk much, but when they do, it's entirely through scream songs. Listening to them without protection causes your ears to bleed, which the vampires will immediatly smell and try to locate.

>>53846161
>Not all of the previous worlds were completely obliterated, fragments of these survived with remaining "living" things on them
>They learned how to manipulate the Khaos in some measure and glued a lot of the remnants together, creating the Qliphoth.
>The Qliphoth is the amalgamation of what remains of the destroyed worlds, sunken in the Khaos but not deep.
>The Qliphoth is strange even for the standards of this world and gnawed away by the Khaos, so its inhibitants always need to add more from the next worlds to it to survive

>>53845696
So they are whywolves?

>>53845464
You ever read Charles Stross' Laundry Files novels, anon? The fifth book, The Rhesus Chart, deals specifically with this idea.

>>53846930
And Howwolves

When and where is usually self evident

>There is eight sacred families that can use dust from the Khaos to repel it, protect it or even control it.
>They are all cursed in some way but unable to become vampires
>Each family curse is unique but they are all vampire-like.

>>53846895
>The Unfinished World is hell on earth.
>The Qliphoth is worse than that.
>They've given up on getting Out, and have largely segued into a perpetual madness.
>People from the Unfinished World occasionally travel there in a desperate attempt to see what they've done to fight their own vampire menace, or what research was done into their own attempts to get Out before they gave up and the Khaos won.

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>>53846989
No I have not, though I have heard of them. May have to look into that later

>>53847019
*protect against it

>>53846508
>The Historians' true purpose in recording the details of the Unfinished World and those that came before it is unknown, but they are often believed to be avatars of God's servants.
>The Next World is being constructed, and the Historians' have no intent of helping the people of the Unfinished World get Out.

>There is an entire country of living suits of armor known as the Artifacts. The Artifacts live in a very luscious land, with countless kingdoms making up the country. A majority of these kingdoms are xenophobic towards non-Artifacts, but a number of them do permit visitors, but never permanently.

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>>53846883
>Listening to the screeching song 'speech' of vampires for too long can drive one to hopeless insanity, as the darkness of Khaos is driven into their minds. They become maddened husks of what were once living, thinking beings, nothing more than puppets for the whims of the dark powers controlling them.

>slimes feed on specific emotions
>in doing so, they draw it away from their prey
>so they try to inflict their prey with more of the emotion for a bigger meal
>being caught in a Happiness Slime is one of the most enjoyable things
>but once it's finished with you, you may be left with crushing despair
>if a Fear Slime gets you, it can be an unparalleled, harrowing experience
>but on completion, you're literally as fearless as can be

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This chart should make refrences easier to understand and force less back scrolling.

What is even the Khaos and the Out?

>>53847153
>An All-Slime is a rare variation of the species that can feed on any emotion. It's victims are left devoid of all feeling.

>The slime themselves have an unknown origin. Their presence in older world's suggests they play some part in the continuous destruction and creation of worlds.

>>53847194
What kind of beings live in the Qliphoth?

>>53847201
>Out is analogous to heaven - people want to get Out because it gets them away from the rampaging vampires and their Vrell servants. In practical terms, Out is anywhere that's not HERE.
>The primordial Khaos is an otherworldly, corruptive force or realm of some kind that generally serves as the primary force of hostile influence on the Unfinished World. It is the source of the vampire menace, and many other creatures.

>>53846025
The Unfinished's wealthy anscestors have formed one of the most close to its original DNA and are referred to as Yunans and they consider themselves pure. Their skin comes in ebony black or saturated red with no in between or shading. Their faces are distorted to the point where they all wear masks and head wear to cover themselves. The masks are unique and support their personally which is earned as a right of passage into adulthood.

>Sometimes, in times of extreme stress or danger, people have reported hearing a voice emanating from the closest source of fire.
>This could be something as small as a candle flame or large as a bonfire.
>The size of the fire seems to determine the type of voice, smaller flames being softer and more masculine, while larger fires seem to be a booming, feminine voice.
>The kinds of things they say range from small warnings about the vampire currently waiting in ambush outside the door, or a larger, deeper message about some sort of internal conflict.
>No one knows how or why this happens, but all know, that when the Flame speaks, you should listen.

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>>53847201
Out is effectively what could be interpreted as heaven in this universe. The people of this world wish to get Out so that they can escape from the vampires and their various servants The Khaos is the primordial sea of corruption, opposite of the Creator, and the source of the vampires and numerous other horrors. It has already devoured countless other worlds, and is in the process of devouring this one as well.

I swear every time I check out one of these threads, the result is just Bloodborne all over again.

>>53847502
Unless you think Bloodborne somehow created eldritch abominarions, I don't think so.

>>53847603
Bloodborne is the mot successful, famous and representative combination of eldritch horror and spectacular gothic horror to date.

I repeat: the result is just Bloodborne all over again. Admit it.

>there is both a red and a green sun.
>each of them travel through the depths of the Khaos each night and come out at dawn

>>53847632
Good bait but you are obviously pretending to be retarded.
Bloodborne barely did nothing new and don't somehow retroactively make this kind of settings a rip off of Bloodborne not matter how succesfull it is.
It would be like saying all those ripped off by Star Wars actually ripped off Stars Wars and must stop doing what they were doig before.

>Some people, in an effort to finally get the vampires off of their track and potentially get Out, perform an incredibly risky and difficult ritual in which they have virtually all of their blood removed from their bodies, being kept alive by only a bare minimum of blood and a series of ancient artifacts
>Of course, since blood and magic are directly related, the result is almost always a quiet, frail husk of a being that is completely undetectable through magical means.
>They are practically ignored by most vampires and their followers, but to all onlookers the price of such safety is not worth it, as it is if their very souls have left them
>However, some say that these husks are not mindless, but in fact very much thinking, and planning their next step to finally get Out.

>>53846895
>>53846023
>Fearsome faceless angels of marble, silver and flame guard the gates to the higher world
>Nothing guards the gates to the Qlipoth, and the inhabitants don't mind at all

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>>53847747
>These husks will usually spend their time meandering about, and performing seemingly menial tasks that seem to serve no purpose to a simple observer, but it is rumored that when thy are out of sight and out of mind, these husks are actively working towards the ultimate goal of getting Out.

>>53846456
>lesser undead
Lesser undead feed on less direct forms of magic than blood, and are formed from the detritus left of the vampire's victims. One vampire might produce faceless shadows that eat illusions and leave victims blind, while another leaves gelatinous masses of fat in their wake that strangle humans for their breath. All such lesser undead are at risk for being reconsumed by the vampire, to reclaim what magic they've devoured and what went into their creation.

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>>53848007
>Sometimes lesser undead will congregate together into a single large form hat is quite capble of wiping out most forces that stand against it. These Grand Forms are a rare occurance, but one should always be weary whenever their are multiple undead in a single location

>>53847129
>There are exactly one thousand five hundred and ninety seven Old World Artifacts, pieces of the world before that linger in this world, the Emperor of the Artifact race is one of them, and the only one with enough of a memory and a mind to tell of the world before. If the secret could ever be taken from it.

>>53848330
The Qliphotic island Gashadokuro is believed to be a quiescent example of this type, an amalgamation of rotting flesh and bone over a hundred miles long. The insane locals attempt to appease the creature with regular festivals and rites.

>>53848434
>One secret that the Emperor of the Artifact race, known as Gild Crown of the Blood Iron Plate, is the production of Artifacts. The vast majority of outsiders who look to the Artifacts don't know that Artifacts are capable of 'reproducing' The actual reproduction of Artifacts is common knowledge in their lands (A simple act of binding two Artifacts essence in a nursery forge, where a base Artifact body is crafted by the 'parents' and an overseer smith) but there is supposedly a deeper secret to this reproduction, one that only Gild Crown is privy too

Y'know, I came into this thread to shitpost, but it's far too interesting.

>>53847204
>there is heavy debate over the morality of "voluntary feeding" of slimes
>this is often separated into three sub-topics
>>positive-emotion slimes, which leave the victim in a sorry state after an intense slime-induced high
>>negative-emotion slimes, which leave victims with a bright outlook, but incautious, and after an emotionally-traumatic experience
>>the practice in general, including risks of breaking containment and long term effects of messing with emotions

>>53847283
Sounds like shy guys
Though I guess those also come in blue.

>There are strange scientists harnessing the power of the Khaos to create wondrous and terrible devices breaking the laws of the Unfinished World.
>Altough they are not corrupted the way the vampires are because of their indirect use of the Khaos, they are still prone to madness or accidentaly unleash manifestations of the Khaos in the world.
>They can even create intelligent beings but those are always tainted by the will of the Khaos, wanting to kill their creator and wreak havoc.

>From time to time, a strange silver structure will partially emerges from the Khaos.
>The Khaos doesn't seem to be able to dissolve it, the entities of the Beyond say they don't know anything about it and the inhabitants of the Qliphoth usually eager to add anything to their world to survive a little longer don't want anything of it.
>The Historians are litteraly blind and deaf to it, at least pretending to unable to see it or even to read or listen to more than basic descriptions of it; they say the words and sight come to them but their minds just can't process most informations about the silver structure.

>>53847227
>The Qliphoth is largely populated by twisted, vaguely humanoid beings of various races, quite a bit like the Unfinished World. Rampant speculation is that the Creator made the worlds that now make up the Qliphoth as 'rough drafts' for His Paradise, much like the Unfinished World, and then once He got whatever He wanted out of it, left them to the primordial Khaos. Their exposure to the Khaos has left them in various states of persistent madness and insanity, but broadly speaking, most of them are humanoid of one type or another.

>>53851686
>Strangely enough there are no known native vampires in the Qliphoth and vampires from the Unfinished World are very uninterrested in the world below; the few there seem to be desperate or to hide from other vampires.
>Because of it, some scholars speculate that the Khaos is reacting more viraciously to the Unfinished World or that the blood and souls of the Qliphothic beings are far less nutritious for the vampires than the ones of the Unfinished World natives.

>>53847656
>>53845948
>>53847343
>God/the Creator is commonly associated with fire and the sun.
>Vampires, for all their horrific cosmic horror and sheer power, cannot bear the light of the sun.
>The phenomenon with the Flame is relatively recent, dating back only to the appearance of the Historians and the initial spike in vampire sightings.
>Some point to this as the Creator still distantly watching over his children.
>Others point to the state of the world, and the widespread khaos as evidence that "We are not what God wanted."

blimp

>>53847632
Bloodborne is beautiful, with a well executed plot that spans nearly every horror genre but it isn't the end all be all. Hell if it killed the genres it was a love letter to Miyazaki would kill himself.

More forays into the wild unknowns of fear and terrific realities will always be welcome.

In essence, go feed your whore queen more bloodsperm you cuck.

>every once and a while chunks of land just float away
>never more then a few tonnes of it but it can cause major upheaval when sections of road or house, with there tenants,simply fly away

>>53854079
>The Primordial Khaos eats away at the Unfinished World as the Next World is being constructed, which is what causes chunks of land to break off and drift away. Fragments occasionally drift to the Qliphoth and are found there later.

>>53852263
>>53847909
>The angels being made partially of flame is used as proof of their connection to God/The Creator and proof of their divine mandate to keep the gates to the Next World sealed off.
>This doesn't exactly sit well with the people stuck on the Unfinished World.

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>>53852263
>The radiant light of the sun boils away the Khaos that composes vampires and their lesser kin, causes them to crumble apart, breaking down the longer they are exposed to it
>This is why many vampires create nests, be they made from the still somewhat living remains of past victims, distorted space-time, or fashioned in some other alien manner

>>53854155
>Because of the eternal cycle of creation and collapse in this cosmology, just because you make it to the Next World that God is creating doesn't mean you've gotten Out. At best, you've bought yourself/your descendants time, and that's assuming the guardians of the Next World permit your intrusion to go unpunished once you're through the gates.

>>53852263
>>53847343
>The biggest reason people believe there is a way Out is because there have been reports and accounts of the Flame telling them this.
>This has invariably come when the prospect of suicide as an escape from the Unfinished World is foremost on the mind of whoever hears the Flame.
>Hope exists, but it is fleeting, and going to the Beyond does not mean you have gotten Out; you simply become an entity of the Beyond and take the fight to the vampires and the Khaos.
>The only option is to get Out.

>>53854235
>The lingering life energy of the vampire nests invariably drives other mortals mad from an aura of the vampires' khaotic energies.
>The vampire nests CAN be destroyed, but such an act would require careful preparation and planning.
>Vampire nests also produce an effect in the surrounding area, the size of which depends on the power of the vampire that made the nest. The sun is blocked out by smoke-black clouds, and vampires may walk in the day unhindered so long as their nest is nearby.

>>53854371
>the ritual to destroy a nest is itself an abominable thing
>it involves the self conflagration of an innocent usually, one whose torturous death the Flame would be appalled at, calling fiery wrath down upon that area
>powerful nests require the sacrifice of a truly righteous individual, one who is believed to walk with the spirit of the Flame and is usually the pillar on which their community stands
>in destroying the nest this persons' spirit is destroyed forever

>>53852167
>>53854079
>>53854155
>The Khaos eating away at the world and dragging away chunks of it to the Qliphoth is why vampires occasionally appear there.

I was trying to compile all of this into a google doc, but there are so many ideas floating around that it's kind of becoming an incoherent mess of information. Some things just don't fit with others, and other things don't make any god damn sense. Regardless, I might take some of these ideas and construct a setting out of it. So thanks, /tg/, for another productive afternoon.

>>53854632
I dunno, seems like most of it fits together. Which parts don't add up so far?

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>>53854632
This is effectively what would happen if you took all the insanity of KSBD, Dark Souls, maybe some TES, add some of The Void, sprinkled some cosmic horror over the whole thing, and then slapped it right into the oven. It's most certainly not going to make sense when it comes back out.

>>53854632
I thought the incoherent aspects were intentional, like there are things that will not be explained even on a meta level in order to leave this sense of madness eating at the edges of it.

>>53854632
What parts don't make sense?

>>53854702
>The Void
What parts?

>>53854715
>>53854704
>>53854702
>>53854695

Some of it seems out of place. Slimes that feed on emotions or every race consisting of warlocks, which, to me, kind of takes away from the bleak hopelessness of it because all of a sudden everyone has these crazy supernatural powers. Maybe I'm ignoring certain aspects of it, but that stuff seems kind of out of place thematically.

>>53854744
Also, the sciencey stuff feels weird or kind of out of place. It kind of started very dark ages in my mind and now it seems like it's verging on science fiction.

>>53854744
Eh, my take on the supernatural powers isn't that EVERYONE has those crazy supernatural powers. You need to strike a pact with a Old One-esque ancestor-spirits to get them, and I don't think that Grandpa Hastur's just gonna hand you his ability to shit fire and fling it at vampires.

Meanwhile, I think the supernatural powers are fundamentally needed to put up a fight at all. It's like some Berserk meets Attack on Titan shit. That's how bad shit is here.

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>>53845464
Yes, it's a pretty nice series.

>>53854796
>Each race has its innate own magic connected to an eldritch entity, basically making all mortals warlocks.
Someone dropped this somewhere up there. This is mainly what I was talking about.

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>>53854733
Mostly everything featuring the Brothers, and the Nightmare. That's where most of the game's more cosmic horror elements lie after all.

>>53854822
Ah, missed that part.

Yeah, that strikes me as a bit off.

>>53854766
I can see it if the science is really magical research done by mystics and put into a pseudo-mechanical/artificing form. The people of the Unfinished World are fighting a war, after all. Anything that levels the playing field or gives its champions a chance is a good investment.

>>53854744
Thing is that even with power they're all fighting tooth and nail. The powers they have are OP in a one on one white room fight against people from our world, but the shit over there that they're contending with are straight up broke.

It's like pitting a group of level 12 fighters against a level 18 wizard. Sure they're miles ahead of what we can do but they aren't touching that wizard.
Yes I know they're warlock don't get pedantic on me, now.

>>53854766
As for this I was picturing something more like Vampire Hunter D initially. There is some high tech shit but it's rare, modern day shit is the equivalent of a +2 sword and the scifi shit is when you know a character is either badass or has connection.

>>53854822
Lets say base worlock, the common pleb, can only like extend their arm 4 feet or so and move it like a tentacle or create a fireball strong enough to light a candle or ignite some straw. Yeah it's supernatural by our standards but by theirs not so much.

Meanwhile the shit they're up against are pretty much Alucard (pre Schrodinger, outside the highest echelons).

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>>53854744
>>53854822
Having the ability to blast things with blasts of magical power probably doesn't mean much when Vampires can take the form of literally anything under the sun. You could be facing a writhing mass of rotting flesh and viscera one moment, the next you could be trying to hold off a giant baby head on spider legs trying to suck your eyes out of their sockets. Most people having magical powers wouldn't really help them here.

>>53854896
You have a fair point. Side note, all three posts you responded to were me.

I haven't seen Vampire Hunter D, but they have guns and things like that? Because that seems a little fucking wild for this. Like, VERY out of place, regardless of whether or not these are giant floating masses of organs that want to suck your blood. Guns just seem painfully shoehorned in by this point for god knows what reason. Maybe that's just because I'm not a fan of firearms in my fantasy.

>>53854941
>>53854936
Guess it really comes down to this.
>Tech level? Broadly speaking - Steampunky, high-tech, full-on dark ages? Where're we going with this?

Also,

>Flat earth or globe?

>>53855026
That's what I want to know - is this steampunk level, high-tech, modern, or dark ages tech? It's up in the air for me, I feel like nothing in that department is conclusive.

>>53845464
>The Demiurge is dead, his paradise is an empty ruin, its gates sealed shut and besieged by countless billions of ghosts

>>53855069
Personally, I vote a heavy 'magic technology' angle with steampunk-level tech-base for ordinary technology. Most research is magical in nature, would be my guess, and any 'magic technology' is probably enchanted steampunk-level stuff. With all the eldritch connotations to the magic system here carrying over to enchantment. MIGHT not be a great plan to pick up the magic flintlock.

>>53854941
Shit son D rides around on a robotic horse and I think someone tried to kill him with a laser at one point, it's been like fifteen years since I read the series.

Basically humans never stopped trying to invent and progress but anytime they went further then bolt action rifles the vampires came down on them and either turned them into their thralls or made an example of them.

Thing is though, these higher beings were immortal. They could spend a thousand+ years expanding on whatever innovations the humans thought up and were pretty much technocrats on top of being immortal psychic vampires.

D only got away with what he did because he was the mary sue dhampir son of Dracula.

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>>53855079
>The vile creature commonly referred to as the Demiurge, was a mockery of existence crafted by the Khaos from the remnants of numerous dead and consumed worlds, instilled with a sliver of khaotic energy to act as it's core. A mass of rot, pus, and viscera that grafted whole worlds onto itself, this unliving engine of death and decay eventually met it's end by the power of the light it sought to devour.
>Now it's broken husk drifts in the Khaos, pieces of it occasionally breaking off and becoming their own separate entities.

>>53855257
>the Flame has been drawing in these shards as fuel, burning brighter and fiercer than before
>sometimes the shards don't burn cleanly thoug
>sometimes the light the Flame casts isn't so benevolent
>a smog has begun building up in the lowest parts of reality, poison to the spirits of the living and the dead
>they craft new bodies for themselves from any material the can and spread the smog where they go
>theirs is a gospel of anti-life

>>53855413
>>53855257
>>53855079
>That moment when you realize God's contracted a fucking disease from the cosmic force of entropy and vileness, while making the Next World.
>There is still a way Out.

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>>53855413
*and the dead linger in the shade it casts

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>The Qliphoth has a far weaker connection to the Beyond than the Unfinished World.
>Yet its inhabitants seem to have their own strange magic of an unknown origin, some Unfinished World scholars claim this form of magic is khaotic while some others think qliphothic magicians draw their power from the Qliphoth itself.
>Neither are exactly right.

>>53855413
>>53855257
>Creatures produced by the Demiurge's smog are called demiurges (lower-case 'd' to differentiate the two)
>They are NOT conventional undead. They are unliving, but capable of communication. They do not hunger like vampires.
>Their gospel of anti-life revolves around the Tainted Flame and their desire to extinguish the Creator's Light to pave the way for the primordial Khaos. They often serve as the elite honor guards of vampires and guard their Nests while the Vrell serve as common lackeys and servants.

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>>53855413
>>53855501
>that moment you realize that God has contracted khaotic super cancer from the ultimate fucking embodiment of corruption and evil whilst attempting to purify fragments of it's essence

Was this a part of the Khaos' plan all along?

>>53855754
>implying the Khaos HAS a plan and is not merely inevitable

>The Next World is experiencing some technical difficulties while God fights his cancer.
>The angels at the gates to the Next World are keeping this quiet.
>The Historians, for some reason, are in the dark altogether.

>>53855696
>their loyalty is not absolute
>demiurges serve vampire only because they are the pinnacle of death and are the quickest way to reach their goal
>weaker vampires have been known to be manipulated by older demiurges, molded into engines of misery and destruction
>there have even been a few instances of demiurges turning on their vampire masters
>no one but the more powerful vampire can say why
> they keep tight leashes on their own demiurge servants

>>53855754
>>53855786
Life... finds a way.

>>53855754
>>53855786
>>53855831
So not only is God a callous dickhead who regularly creates and destroys worlds as rough drafts to create a paradise for his children (fuck the ones who get stuck on the worlds he's done tinkering with for his experimentation to get it right), he's ALSO got evil cancer, and has imposed an order on his servants to keep the front door locked in case anyone wants to hitch a ride on the Next World so they can dodge the bullet when this one goes to COMPLETE shit eventually.

Man, God is an asshole in this setting. I love it.

>>53855924
Nothing wrong with being a perfectionist, anon.

>>53855663
>Unfinished World scholars have verified Qliphoth magic does not come from The Silver Structure.

>>53851043
>The Silver Structure materializes in different places at different times - it is believed to appear at set times, somewhere in the Unfinished World and the Qliphoth, and is speculated to also be able to reach the Next World as well.
>The Historians' blindness to it has led many to believe that getting into the Silver Structure may be a way Out.

>the Rattigan
>a rodent considered cursed by many
>while they behave like any other vermin most of the time the have the curious ability to absorb the memories of any human whose brains they devour
>they adore brains
>while retaining any memories from a person, like where they hid that cookie jar to the location of any traps set for them the gain a personality similar to someone whose brain they have recently eaten
>many superstitions hold that they are actually possessed by the spirit of this person for a short time while scholars assert they are just possessed by their last brain impulses

>attempts have been made to use these vermin for interrogation purposes but have found that after being killed individuals are much less likely to cooperate

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>>53855924
I think the primary reason he abandons worlds to doom is because the Khaos inevitably fucks them over, corrupting them and seeding it's undead spawn to destroy them. He's just desperately trying to create a world that will not fall to corruption and won't have vampires devouring everything in their path. Hell, if you go with the theory that the flame is him or a servant or avatar watching over the world, then that means he still desires for them to break free from the shadow of Khaos, and to get Out. He's like a father that has seen all his children die before their first birthday, and is just desperately hoping for one to survive this time.

>>53856407
>>53847656
>God is but one of many.
>This whole 'create paradise' thing is really hard with the Khaos fucking it all up every time, so this time he's called in backup.
>It wasn't enough to save his children this time.

>'Paradise' doesn't meant what it means in our context here; in this cosmology, Paradise is a hypothetical world where the Khaos can't reach it.

From where the Khaos come from? Is it infinite?

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>>53856639
>The Khaos is the opposite of the Creator, the darkness beyond every space. It is eternal and timeless, and desires only for the light to be snuffed out, and for all reality to become as an unliving hell, where undead roam and the souls of all are consumed for the rest of eternity
>It and it's spawn will stop at nothing to achieve this goal

>>53856639
The Khaos is infinite, inevitable, and unrelenting.

Its origins are unknown, but stars (gods, benevolent and otherwise) can get sick (if not die) from its influence and are possibly able to keep it at bay...if only for a while.

>>53856639
Some believe it to be a God like any other. But where others have spread them selves thin in the Divine Act of Creation it has hoarded its own power, measuring out small doses to corrupt and alter the works of others. In this way it is unassailable by the other Gods they abandon their Great Works and devote themselves to its destruction.

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>>53856794
*other Gods unless the abandon

Bah I really need to stop drinking and go to sleep, I have work in 5 hours.

>it is not uncommon for a child to offend one of the ancestral entities from Beyond
>sometimes it is so severe that the child will be denied power
>these children are often exiled in the hopes that they find their way to make things right
>those that do tend to be especially powerful and wise
>still, there are gangs of those without power out there mad in their dispair they have no hope of finding there way
>known as the Unborn they rove the borderlands as pack of nigh-feral hoodlums
>according to the Historians their numbers are higher than ever and they have become far more violent than they used to be

>>53847235
>Out is anywhere that's not HERE.
>Out is somewhere that's also not the Next World God is creating.
>In order to get Out, you need to somehow find a way to escape the eternal cycle.

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>Within a part of the Unfinished World there is a sea, a sea of blood
>This sea of deep black blood is known by many as the Sea Of All Torments. From this sea vampires and numerous other undead pull themselves out of the blood, and attempt to escape outwards into the world in order to spread chaos and ruin.
>The Sea spreads and grows over time, devouring land as it does so. In order to stop the growth of the Sea, titanic runic wards were constructed in order to prevent it's spread but those same wards are slowly but surely being strained, and the sea is still growing

I dunno how well this fits with the rest of our established cosmology, but I believe that ideas must be shared.

>The inky black khaos surrounds the world on all sides, pressing in towards the Earth while ripping chunks of the planet out to the sky.
>These chunks flash and sparkle as they're consumed. No constellation lasts long as the stars (bits of Earth) vanish in time.
>It is believed that the sun (already established to be either god or his machine) moves around the world to push the khaos back.
>When the next world is ready to begin and he finally leaves this world forever, the sun will vanish and the night sky will descend upon the Earth.

>>53858202
I Like These Ideas.

I will steal them even if Google Doc anon doesn't put them in

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>>53858202
Fits well enough. This is a universe where the world is fucked on a fundamental level, and vampires can take the form of philosophical concepts. I think sanity and reason left the station a very long time ago

This world will not end with a bang, but a whimper. The night sky looms high in the darkness, and my son looks to it in thought. I see the fear in his eyes. Somewhere beyond our walls, they are waiting. The knights patrol the battlements, listening to the whispers of their ancestors as they stand ready.

Tomorrow, he will join their ranks as he turns sixteen.

What do I tell him? He will face a long war against powers that see us as puppets and food in equal measure, and those powers in turn have a master that may not even be aware of us, with how insignificant we are.

The mystics in the citadel say that we are not what God wanted. That we are not the children of his Eden. He wanted something better. He wanted children who were infallible and resistant to the corruption of the primordial Khaos. Instead, he got us.

What do I tell my son, when I know, deep in my heart, that he merely delays the inevitable? That the creator has forsaken us and barred the gates to the Next World in the hopes of stalling this spreading rot, delaying this infection?

The bell tolls. We go to hide for the night, behind the citadel's wards. My son will join the knights and strike his first bargain tomorrow at daybreak. He leaves behind our lumber mill, and makes a pact with the creatures of the Beyond that once were our ancestors.

What do I tell him?

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>>53858693
>Tell him of the warmth of the Flame. Tell him how it's light grants us the power to stand against the darkness. Speak to him of all those that came before, whose stories have already been told. tell him of those who stood against the forces of Khaos. Tell him that no matter what happens, there will always be a way Out. Tell him,tell him that you care for him. Tell him that you love him with all your heart. Tell him...

>>53845760
It may just be a legend, but some say that in this kingdom live aetherial beings known as hymns, that can only interact with the mortal plane in a limited fashion. Most of these beings exist as voices, but other forms, such as a moving drawing, or bent light making a humanoid form are not too uncommon.

>>53847235
The human mutations also have khaos inherently as a part of them- in their blood, so even if they were to escape the external khaos, they would never be able to escape the khaos within themselves.

>>53856314
The silver structure is yhe corpse of God, made of the same silver as his angels, that has sunk into the Khaos

>>53859504
>The mutation of humanity was directly caused by exposure to the khaos.
>The original humans were pure, and would be able to get Out fully.
>As it stands, getting Out would be sufficient to escape the primordial khaos as it stands in the Unfinished World, and would also allow an escape from the eternal cycle.
>The biggest problem is that once you escape the cycle, no one knows what happens. No one has ever made it Out. Or at least, no one's ever made it Out and come back.

>>53846588
There is a powerful being that is not quite a vampire, but is not a man, not anymore. It will eat sapient species, and even entities, but it gains its monsterous power from its consumption of vampires. If you were to converse with it and escape with your life, and some semblance of a shred of sanity, it would tell you that it seeks to become perfect and become part of the final world.

>As the Next World is as the Unfinished World was, and the Qliphoth are as the Unfinished world will be, so too some claim Khaos and the Creator are one and the same. The worlds stretching back and forward to forever are molded, deemed imperfect by an unplacatable mind, and slowly consumed by the incoherent rage of its unsatisfaction. Eden will never come, a lie told by those who believe creation and destruction aren't the same cruel force that damns all being to eternal misery. Some speak of a Light Itself, not a being, not a realm, but the very essence behind all that the Creator toys with in his mad constructions. Is there a way to meet Light Itself without the filter of Creation and Khaos? Does that idea even make sense? Perhaps Unbeing is the only true way Out, but as all Creation is devoured to be Created again, how can one escape the existence the Creator has forced upon his World?
>Also, the Vampires are tools of the Creator that consume the left-over essence of his discarded realms to be re-used in his new creations. They don't drink of the Qliphoth because they are discarded worlds that have already been sucked dry. The blood of the sapient races is merely this vital essence coursing through them, and it has been tainted by Khaos because it is essence of a realm condemned by its Creator's rage, which is truly all that Khaos is. Unbridled divine hatred.

>>53845569
WUZ

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>>53860492
>>Also, the Vampires are tools of the Creator that consume the left-over essence of his discarded realms to be re-used in his new creations.

This kinda conflicts with the lore stating vampires as being the spawn of khaos that work to unmake everything in their progenitors name.It would certainly be odd on the Creator's part to create creatures that are so close to the Khaos in nature, especially when the Khaos is literally eating away at his very being.

>>53860768
What if Khaos is the Creator's eraser?

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>>53860853
Eh, I'd much prefer the Khaos just being a primordial force of corruption and evil who just desires to devour the Light and erase the work of the Creator. It's inevitable, and it will most likely succeed in it's goal in the end. The vampires are it's spawn who exist only to fulfill this goal, and are directly fueled by Khaos itself. But that doesn't necessarily mean we can't have characters in setting think otherwise.

>>53860768
>>53860853
>What if Khaos is the Creator's eraser?
That's exactly what I was trying to get at. The Vampires come from Khaos and are so closely tied to it because Khaos is the Creator destroying his creations that he will never be satisfied with so he can make them all over again.

>>53860906
>>53860942
What if we go a bit ES "Dreaming Godhead" and say that Khaos exists to destroy shit that the Creator isn't paying attention to anymore, to free up memory for the important stuff

>It's inevitable, and it will most likely succeed in it's goal in the end.
This could also still be true, but it's because the Creator will eventually get tired of anything/everything and move on to something different

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>>53860942
Personally I believe the whole making God the villain thing has been overdone in most settings. I mean sure, God here is rather dickish, but it's either that or have his work once again tainted by the rot of Khaos. Making into generic evil creator #1267095433 just doesn't feel right for this setting. A bit dickish, yes. But not full blown Evil.

>>53861111
What if he treats his work like art, and is intensely self-critical. He tries his best not to think of his past creations, simply because he feels he could have done better.
He's not a dick, in the same way you wouldn't call a painter a dick for thinking his first painting is shoddy and that he could improve
This process will probably never end

>>53845464
>>53845663
>Hey let's make this thing that's completely unrelated to vampires and call it a vampire XD
This contrarian fantasy shit needs to die.

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>>53847227

I like the idea of slightly eldritch giant stick bugs lurking and chittering in the shadows just out of sight.

>>53855026

I prefer a flat earth, directly underneath the Next World, with thousands upon thousands of tiers underneath the Unfinished World lost to Khaos.

>>53861369
>evil bloodsucking monsters
>calling them vampires is le contrarian maymay

I get that they're pretty far removed from classical vampires, but the core is there.
I mean there are several species of animals named after vampires, and only some of them drink blood.

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>>53861369
You do realize that they still drink blood right? And that they are completely undead and can't be considered living in any way shape or form? Judging by your post however, you are just some fat neckeard who thinks all vampires need to be based off the same generic base depiction of the aristocrat who sits in some fancy castle, goes to parties with their fellow generic and overdone templates, and just drinks blood.

>>53861457
tbf, if I was running this I would probably throw one or two aristocratic Dracula vampires in as infiltrators or some shit, just to throw the players off
At least one is going to try to take human form to get at blood, right?

>>53861494
Vampires in this setting are all over the place. The possibility of humanoid vampires exists, but what're the odds it'll be straight-up Dracula-types?

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>>53861494
Of course. You would still have to make them pretty deep in the uncanny valley though. Janky movements, slight difficulty speaking, eyes a bit too wide and glossy, that kind of thing.

>>53861628
There's bound to be at least one that's set themselves up as a bigwig.
Hell, there may be double agent vampires. "Yeah we know you're a bloodsucking bastard, but so long as you keep the other bloodsuckers out of your demesne we'll turn a blind eye"

>>53861642
>You would still have to make them pretty deep in the uncanny valley though. Janky movements, slight difficulty speaking, eyes a bit too wide and glossy

You could have just said "aristocrats" or more specifically, Habsburgs

>>53861667
>Occasionally vampires fight amongst themselves and set their minions against each-other.

Yeah, I can see this. Blood's blood, and it makes the vampires less monolithic. For all the cosmic horror aspects at play in this setting so far, we're building a campaign setting (this IS /tg/), and in campaign settings, monolithic evil is often boring.

>>53860492
>>53860768
>>53860853
>>53860906
>>53860942
>>53861110

Honestly, I'm in favor of some stuff just staying a mystery, such as the origin of the primordial khaos and why it goes about doing the shit it does.

Not to say that these aren't cool ideas in their own right, but this might be the wrong place to stick 'em. I'd absolutely pillage the godhead and 'Creator's Eraser' ideas for a different setting, but that's just me.

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>>53861642
Like 30 Days of Night vampires, right?

>>53846340
I know, right?

Someone archive this cool shit. This is going with the bat-people and the setting based on monster illustrations in my /tg/ faves.

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>Most vampires whilst horrible and unfathomable they can still be fought in some form. This is not the case the Titans
>These colossal masses of rot and pestilence are true aberrations. Reality screams as they manifest their corpulent forms within it, existence tearing at the seams as the logic that dictates form and function ceases as they come into be
>These creatures are true engines of terror and destruction, easily able to annihilate most worlds with ease. Their forms are towering and bloated, host to multitudes of other vampires and lesser undead servitors who dwell and nest deep within their depths, acting as their own personal army and defensive force
>Titans spread khaotic corruption wherever they tread, leaving whole portions of the world scarred wastes where the laws of reality are but polite suggestions at the very best, and undead roam in earnest. The ichor they trail behind them spawning vampires and other horrors wherever they tread
>Despite most of their terrible power, and mindbreaking existence, Titans are rarely seen within the more 'sane' portions of reality, where the power of the flame is strong, and the darkness weak. They lurk in the places where reality has been burnt away, where the path has been made for Khaos to flow freely and for the undead to consume with impunity. It takes truly massive amounts of power for a Titan to manifest in the places where the light is strong, and reality must be weakened greatly beforehand in preparation for their coming
>Titans are terrible monstrous horrors, amongst some of the most terrible beings the forces of darkness have at their disposal, and yet even they are but mere welplings before those true terrors, those Ancients of the Dark, the ones who have cast of the limits of Creation and have become something transcendental. Something greater, something simply beyond our concept of understanding.

Lemme get a quick rundown

>>53862896
read the thread

>>53862896
>quick rundown

God has cancer and peaced the fuck out.

Vampires are climbin' in yo' windows and snatchin' yo' people up.

The world's a sinking ship. Find a lifeboat.

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>>53863576
Basically this. World's pretty much doomed, and the undead are eating everything. Now everyone's just trying to get Out before everything truly goes to shit.

>>53862538
>>53858070
>Monsters crawling from the sea appear desperate as if trying to escape from something
>Even the Titans seem to fear the sea
>Freak currents and waves inundate the shores while the air is perfectly still and heavy with the smell of death
>Rumors spread of something that lurks beneath the surface

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Bumping to keep this alive through the lasting night, even if only for a bit.

>>53846588
In fact, even the blood-stuff of non sapients has some mystical energy. Fish, insects, and even plants. In the deserts are huge glowing cacti that are filled with gelatinous fluids used in the preparation of alchemical elixirs.

>>53865396
does this imply herbivorous vampires that eat entire forests?

>>53862538
Do titans fight each other?

>>53848330
Weary is tired. Wary is the word you want.

>>53845464
Like what alex joans believes?

>>53865583
Maybe lack of blood melts the vampire down into all life devouring mindless beast

>>53865847
Vampires are unstable and must consume the life force of sentient beings to stay as such?

How does that relate to the Titans? >>53858070

How many of them are what happens when a vampire decays into a beast but survives long enough to become huge?

>>53866206
From the red chaos, some figment of order is sometimes expelled to living world. Usually these die a dissolve within days, but sometimes they draw in enough power to become sustainable. They live to survive and adabt abd after centuries the vampire is a true monster, with uncanny intelligence born from experience. Sometimes these even venture bag to to the shores of Red sea to capture fresh imps to raise and train, creating a new individual within decafes or even years. This is how a Clan is born.

>>53866352
Every clan is different. Some try to imitate humans, but most are seemingly random assortment of eldritch beasts. Sometimes, as the sea draws close or some other reason, by choice or neccessity a whole clan dissolve into red goo and tries to devour all.

>>53858999
>Tell him goodbye.

>>53860539
KANGZ

>>53861369
And if everything had an unique name, someone like you would say they are special snowflakes.
People like you are just triggered by people making things for some reason.

>>53862458
Links to these? sounds cool.

>>53862458
There is still http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html , it's not automatic so you must tag the thread to archive it and update it until the end otherwise new content will be lost but it's a more reliable archive than the other public ones.

>>53863576
Sounds similar to my setting, except instead of the cancerous god I have the universe stillborn.

There are multiple gods, and all are trying to create their perfect world, but each god has a different idea of what constitutes a "perfect world"

Not that any mortal knows this, these other universes created by other gods are so far Out that most vampires are unaware of their existance

>>53868425
When being from these universes meet they rarely are able to interact in any meaningful way apart from terrifying ind intriguing one another. When they can it usually results in the destruction of both

>>53866550
Time is measure by the tide. When the tide is high, woe to the people as misfortune and monsters will plague them.

When the tide is woe food is scarce as fishing is the main source of food. Scarlet Tuna, or Flowfish, are prized for their huge bodies and fatty meat.

Sharks are a terror akin to the vampires but only due to the frequency of encounters.

>>53845464
I had an idea like this once. They were cosmic horrors from the end of time, outside the universe or something stranger, hadn't nailed it down. They time travel back to the present in order to siphon off the energy, and to that end they were shapeshifting abominations with crazy powers, but there weren't all that many of them.

>>53870655
Wrong thread?

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>>53868425
>The more ancient and transcendent vampires are presumably aware of the works of other gods besides the Creator, but they primarily target him, since with his undoing the Khaos would be able to finally unmake the Great Work from which all other works stem.

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>pictured; a powerful demiurge who has selected highly electro-magnetic materials for it's body to foul the technology of humanity.

>>53871258
>God is trying to hold the cosmic line against the Khaos by creating, then sacrificing, his beloved children.
>The Eternal Cycle is necessary for the preservation of worlds beyond God's.

>God's Khaos-cancer essentially ensures that unless God can purge himself of the vile influence that now makes the demiurges, he will need a replacement to ensure the continuation of the Eternal Cycle.

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>Occasionally vampires will construct minions from mortal creatures, usually by instilling a recently dead body with the power of Khaos. These thralls are nightmarish mockeries of what was once a living being, twisted beyond recognition. Like all undead they are completely different from one to the other, despite taking generally humanoid shapes. Some can resemble masses of writhing worms with the vague shape of a man, others can be masses of branches and toxic mud that corrode al that stands in their path, and yet others still take on a variety of bizarre and alien shapes. Thralls, despite not possessing the raw strength of vampires or many other undead, are still quite capable of rending a man to pieces with ease, and thus it is wise to take care when facing them.

>Pacts with an entity of the Beyond to gain power usually are activated by performing some sort of task on behalf of the entity in question.
>This could be anything from antagonizing a rival you personally hate to killing a pack of wolves in the wilderness.
>Near-universally, the power you gain is commensurate to the task they send you on, but sometimes it's just plain odd, like seizing eagle eggs and then throwing them at a noble's estate.
>The entities of the Beyond rarely acknowledge these oddities if asked.

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>>53847632

>>53872314
>The Beyond is the afterlife of the Unfinished World, and wholly self-contained in regards to that connection.
>The Qliphoth has its own, distorted version, corrupted by exposure to the Khaos.
>The Next World has its own as well.
>Therefore, entities of the Beyond cannot get Out, as they are not only dead, but stuck fighting the vampires and the Khaos.

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>Stories speak of ghostly knights who fought in the ancient wars against the hordes of Khaos. Wearing armor and weapons that seem to glow with a deep inner light that boiled away the Khaos
>Even today rumors abound about these knights still fighting even now, and how that they fight at the very borders of the Sea Of All Torments and actively deny it's spread into the lands of mortals

>>53845464
Bump

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>>53861861
>Honestly, I'm in favor of some stuff just staying a mystery,

Yeah, revealing too may cosmological/metaphysical/philosophical truths tends to be the bane of many a setting for me.

Take away the mystery, and you take away both the horror, the transcendence, and the fun.

Still this is mostly some good shit.

>>53874278
>>53878691
Think it would be interesting if, instead of these valiant spirits doing it out of a sense of duty or selflessness, this is actually a sort of purgatory and they have to serve a certain amount of time to get to the true afterlife.

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>>53877652
>>53878691
I am very surprised that this is still alive. I made a new thread because I saw that this one was at page 10 and thought it would slide off the catalog, but it seems that i was wrong.

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Sometimes, parnoia can be the worst thing that may happen to you. When you believe something is there, for instance, you see a figure in the shadows, it may actually manifest, which of course creates a feedback loop which eventually pulls whatever horror you imagined into reality. It is believed by most scholars this is some form of open ended contract with the beyond, wherein hope and belief are treated the same. The results of these manifestations vary wildly, from shadow people briefly visiting, to the horrible, such as a premonition of a vampire finding the subject, which is then fated long before they could do anything to stop it.
Because of the frequency of these events, it is almost given that you should expect all that you assume, and you should consider yourself lucky if one of these premonitions does not come to pass.

>>53878730
>The true afterlife

Which is still NOT getting Out. It's merely oblivion, which is relatively comfortable compared to what you've dealt up until that point.

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>>53865731
Quite possibly. Wouldn't be surprised if they entered conflict with each other to prove who is more worthy of bringing about the end of all things. Or perhaps they might fight each other over a desire to gain more biomatter in order to increase their own strength.

>>53880556
why not both?

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>>53880943
Would be fitting considering the nature of Khaos. wouldn't be surprised if there are Titans who have consumed all else but themselves and are less creature, and more living pieces of geography.

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Stealth Bump for the night.

>>53845464
No go make your own setting

>>53882455
thats what we are doing fuck lord

>>53878691
Maybe they don't have to be.

These in universe cosmological interpretation may only be speculations by warlocks and the people based on the voice of the Flame. Or better yet, the basis of the many relions and cults of the Unfinished World.

All have some parts that are correct, but none truly comes close to the true nature of God, Khaos, and the other realms.

>>53845464
everything is cosmic horrors because lovecraft is epic xd

>>53883376
Thanks Reddit for reminding us that we don't have the right to like Lovecraft anymore because he was a racist :(

From a sermon
"It is known: the Great Cycle is eternal. The Creator will always make more worlds.
"It is known: The Worlds Since have all perished.
"It is known: The Worlds Hence will all perish."

>The Creator is a colossal perfectionist. Seriously, he keeps going "no, it needs to be better", then starting again.
>Unbeknownst to all bar certain entities from Kaos, this is because he is tainted by Kaos, and has been ever since Kaos came into existence. Or non-existence. Whatever.

>>53883480
That's just fucking bullshit. Authors and their works should always be judged separately.

The immune system of an alien creature

> There is a limited supply of soulstuff and life essence in circulation, and when it is sacrificed to the Beyond, it is irreparably removed from the human gene pool. This has resulted in modern humanity having increasingly diluted souls--born weak and doomed to passionless lives without meaning or purpose.

>>53884345
Loving these different interpretations of how the Creator works.

I'ma toss out some random book titles, anyone wanna provide quotes from them or decide what the books are about? This is a common worldbuilding tactic I use when brainstorming with others. In-setting book quotes tend to really flesh things out, I find.

These could be novels, textbooks, plays, whatever - have some fun anons.

>Lost Kingdoms
>The Last Day
>Bargains
>Tales of the Lost Swordsman
>Abominable Analyses
>Barred Gates
>Observations of the Veins
>The Gnawing Abyss
>The Journal of the Crooked Man
>The Slayder Report

>>53888154
Shit, same anon, forgot humanity was extinct.

> The dilusion of soulstuff was what inevitably brought an end to humankind, who only survive through their mutant successors, who will never again achieve the same heights as purestrain humans

>>53888182
>Barred Gates
A Qliphotic essay on "nine and one" symbolic (?) gates associated to nine important worlds whose essence is rumored to still be living on in the Qliphoth.
The tenth gate is described as the lowest and ultimate source of the higher gates but its nature is unclear.

>>53888182
>The Slayder Report
An expeditionary report of a trip into the Qliphoth undertaken by a man called Slayder and a band of adventurers from the Unfinished World. Casualties among the expedition were high, but the amount of valuable information collected in the Slayder Report was widely circulated upon the survivors' return; it has since become a sort of survival and essentials guide to most of the more accessible parts of the Qliphoth, and some of Slayder's expedition efforts were aimed at securing contact and trade with some of the maddened denizens who live there - the details of which are contained in the Report.

Of particular note are large tracts of the Qliphoth seeming to shift their exact locations between the time of Slayder's expedition and the present, rendering much of the information difficult to apply, but not totally irrelevant.

>>53845464
bump

>>53845464
bump

>>53888182
>Abominable Analyses
A study on the horrific nature of the spawn of the Universal Adversary known as Khaos, the creature known as vampires. It goes in depth about the various forms that Vampires take as well as various abilities they may possess. It also lists several types of Vampire, all compiled together by shared similarities that each possess.

>>53854632
> Those who are not the Historians have attempted to compile the lore of the universe.
> Very few have come out of the attempt with their sanity intact, due to the seemingly ever-changing information, while being contradictorily true.

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Bumping from the other side of the pale.

>>53845548
>The standard orcs of the setting are descendants of the mysterious advanced precursor race.
>They don't know this

But they already are?

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>>53888182
>>The Gnawing Abyss

A study on the nature of the Khaos, compiling theories and ideas in an attempt to make the cosmic threat even vaguely understandably. Data taken from the Qlippoth, and information gathered from those beings who know something off the previous worlds has been compiled into this text, all in an effort to give the people of the land some perspective on the nature of the great threat that we all face.

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>>53884603
Its not even true. The only reason people consider him a racist is because he uses the word nigger in his books.

Which was fucking used all the time.