Mord-Stavian
Precis: Death-obsessed desert
kingdom ruled by warforged despots serving an undead sorcerer-king.
Conspectus: Ruled by a lich-king
called The Necropolitan (high priest of a pantheon of a hundred death
gods including The Dismembered One, The Flayed Maiden, and The
Carrion Marquis); warforged (sentient automatons made of metal and
wood) upper caste who use Anubian (jackalwere) enforcers to keep the
human populace under control; giant scarab beetles used as mounts;
thri-kreen, kruthiks, and fire giants in the wilds; dracoliches;
necromancy, necrophidius, and mummies; tomb guardians and
professional mourners; dervish tribes seeking enlightenment in the
desert; the Guild of the Frayed Noose (kukri-wielding spies and
assassins); the Colossal Sepulcher of Faraad-Ka, which is known to be
guarded by necrotic sphinxes
Taste, Sound, Image: Honey,
Abney Park's “Neobedouin,”
Hubert Robert's Klassiche Ruinen.
Man do I love Hubert Robert's work. Hard not to be inspired to build a melancholic fantasy world out of his paintings, really.
ReplyDeleteYet again I find myself saying "I'd play in that world in a heartbeat."
Yeah, absolutely tremendous artist!
DeleteAnd thanks! I needed a place to put any and all pseudo-Egyptian pulp weirdness and this is it! I really gotta get some G+ games going in this setting sometime.
Yes, your campaign world sounds awesome. You really capture a lot of atmosphere in those small listings.
ReplyDeleteDo you have a map of this setting? Or do you just make up a new country as inspiration strikes?
Thank you very much! I admitted my painful mapping shortcomings here: http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-world-between-looks-like.html
ReplyDeleteBelieve it or not, all the descriptions of places in The World Between have been written for a while now; I just post them when I get around to it. The newest location is Relmeenos, which I didn't add to the setting until Jeremy Duncan's Weird Classical Age stuff made me realize I needed a location for that stuff.