Lore24 Week 11
This week: minor gods, aqueducts, and renaming stone robots
This week I did not use my Lore24 Quick d20 Table to take off the burden of thinking of a prompt everyday for my Lore24 work on Sablevine. Instead, I mostly relied on old notes from years back.
I keep a Google Keep note ready for thoughts about Sablevine that I put in, with a date, whenever I have one while I'm going about my day. It has helped in this process of starting to sew all the parts together.
Week 11
Day 68
This was meant to be a post about big trees in the "real world", but I got busy and anyway you can Wikipedia just as well as I. It's a fun rabbit hole in How do you define "biggest"?
My goal is to use real world big trees as a basis to make the trees of Sablevine even bigger but coming from a grounding in reality. No trees that reach out of the atmosphere (...yet? That's kind of a fun idea) but they'll still be plenty big.
Day 69
Minor gods of the former Divine Empire are called Termini. They were sanctioned by the empire and had access to the power of the gods. Think a folkore god of a river, forest, or even a well-off manor or estate.
Inspired by this post: A Thousand Gods by Weird Cranium
Day 70
The Divine Empire was powered off of a series of aqueducts which transported a slurry of draconium to the cities and temples called drai. Think crude oil but dancing with shifting fluorescence.
View of the ancient aquaduct and fountains situated near the Chiavica del Bufalo in Rome - Luigi Rossini (1822)
Day 71
The servants of the gods of the folk, called Servati, have been described as beautiful, haunting, beastly, and terrible. These enigmatic messengers would come to deliver dooms to the sinful or blessings to the pious; they would often presage disaster or great change, or would act as a summons to the divine city in the north. There have been no credible sightings of a Servati since the war and the Godsfall.
Day 72
Elves have been known as tamers of animals. Their fearsome cavalry is due to this: on huge horses they can easily fit two Elves per saddle. They fight one with a spear or lance, and one with bow. Each covers the other's blindspot or double up on a target. In more mobile armies or raiding troops, this can be two bowmen. A charge of these is a hail of fire with protection and deadly iron up close. Not to mention being crushed by a 5000 lb. (2300 kg) horse1.
Day 73
In the heyday of the Divine Empire, particularly devout towns required clergy approval for any entering or exiting of the town walls, as they themselves were held as semi-sacred. There may be a town or two left who still cling to these rituals.
Day 74
Dwarven "Golems" are now known as "Menhirs". Shoutout to Crazycan on the NSR Cauldron discord for the suggestion!
Other excellent suggestions included:
- Lithoforms
- Hollows
- Husks
- Robots
- Keepers
- Guardians
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