hobbygamers ~ View topic

What does this world have that the others don't?

Let me tell you one: The Sinagthari require blood sacrifice to provide light over material creation. That means that, as a whole, we don't get days and nights the way we would assume it to be. Sometimes the sun burns for weeks, months even, before burning out into night. Other times, entire years (in the conventional sense) pass in darkness.

I say that's very unique. Let's play around the idea to try naming the world.

And while we're at it, this also solves another problem (while creating new ones). Without an orderly Sun to guide it, time is defined in another way...

Or the concept of time is entirely foreign. How long has it been since the Godfall War? Why argue over it being 500, a thousand, or ten millenia ago? Simply put, no one knows how long it's been, because no one is keeping track.

Hmm? Wink

But, the sacrificial ritual needs a god for it to take effect right? So if there is no god of light, then there is no light anywhere. It will be literally a world of darkness, a place where things that go bump in the night reign supreme. Only the place where the godstone of (tentative name: Sinag) is kept has something that would equate to adequate light, which is used as a valuable commodity for trading.

Having no light at all at times is interesting, and needs some thinking out. I'll get back to this later tonight.

The alternative is wild sunstorms that can only be suppressed by blood sacrifice to the Heart of Fire.

The sun is there. It's just not giving off light most of the time. The sacrifices to the Daystar do fuel the sun somewhat, but it doesn't go on for long.

This would mean, essentially, that we'll have a cold, post-apocalyptic world in all but the remote places where a godstone somehow sustains life.

It still begs the question of how mortals survived for 500 years, though. Unless we now go for godstones being discovered early on. If so, the problem becomes figuring out why they haven't figured out what these things are in all this time.