Tuesday, 23 December 2008

Books, Stories, Lore

Things to be put into books, or just general lore...

3 comments:

David_R said...

Inside the ice they dwell, a city of ice whose denizens share the pallor of the landscape. Beautiful are the people there and their city. Cool crystal abounds, the light splitting itself into diamond shards on their edges. Snow and ice rules the land and an eternal winter lays hold to the island. Only the fastest moving water escapes a rigid doom, yet the people have no thirst. They have no needs, no earthly desire for food or water or sleep. Their rest comes only as they pray to their god Feci the winged wolf and protector of the isle. Yet their prayers, and pleas for the reduction of the icy airs go unanswered, and so they pray with more vigor and zeal and determination.
Something is amiss in this fantastic but barren land. The traces of a once fertile and lush place lay over the land, a constant reminder to the people of their plight. Since the frosts crept across the once fruitful island, a new dynasty of tyrannous rulers subjugates the people with a cold and unmerciful fist. They rule ruthlessly and lavishly, amounting in a transcendental expenditure unmatched by any other living being. For beings devoid of innate need, their want is tremendous. Avaricious greed consumes them, their obsession is such that all forms of manipulation are tolerated, so long as nothing stands in the way for their material wealth. Something lives inside them which makes them crave incessantly, a driving desire like that of thirst. These cruel lords desire not for Feci’s forgiveness, but for the power accrued in his absence. For as long as the true god sleeps, they assume divinity.
Peasants pray for forgiveness for some unknown sin, some blasphemy which has caused their patron to leave them cursed for eternity. Some beg for his forgiveness, while some wish only to be consumed by the one thing that can truly destroy them, a pure fire. Indeed the Isle of Alsiae awaits a hero, a savior which will throw off the chains of their oppression and unravel the mystery which is their punishment.

A beautiful island kept pure by a dutiful god’s protection. A reverent peasantry, completely fervent in their faith and trust. An avaricious aristocracy, who would do anything to claw into power.
All these aspects culminate into a story of blasphemous treachery, intense struggle for power, religious radicals, and a sacred room which allows one to weave through the fabrics of time itself.
The Personae Alsiae have taken power, and stripped the land of its spring. Having wounded the patron god of the city Feki, they have forced him into an indefinite and carefully maintained slumber. While he sleeps, they rule the island with an iron fist, subjugating the peasants into brutal labor. The island has been transformed by their ascension to power, it has lost its vitality and follows Feki into hibernation. Centuries ago, the first snows began, now the people live in constant fear. They have changed. Everything has changed. The ice has become supreme, and the people believe it to be a punishment from Feki for some injustice. Some know the truth. An alliance of the Informed have begun a guerilla war and rebellion against the Personae Alsiae. Exiled people forced to leave the glacier know, but cant tell. They have been cursed. Only the dead know now, but you can talk to the dead cant you?
At the peak of the palace, a beautiful but strong mountain fortress surrounded by the glacier, a strange room exists. A Memory Chamber. A room which lets the user with the appropriate historical texts revisit people from the past, while they may have been alive still or aware of what was going on, or even one of the future power-seizers before they decided to join.
Spies, secret icy tunnels, double agents, resistance, and oppression await you as you unravel the terrible mysteries of the glacier and free it and its patron god.
Or of course if you are the tyrannous type, you can always help the powerful aristocrats and violently oppress any rebellion. Maybe they will reward you, maybe they wont.
The choice is yours, the fate of Alsiae lies in your hands.
Are you just some Joe-Schmoe…or someone who’s going to get up and do something about it?

Leo said...

The last bit about Joe-Shmoe should be left out of the book.

We need books about Feki (a lot of Feki books as they are heavilly religous)

And a Bible (spiritual tome, used in one of my quests)

David_R said...

Gotcha...and that last part was more of a trailer thing that i wrote...not going to be in a book really i dont think. but yeah there definitely need to be a lot of books about him