UltimaBahamut93
Scribe
I'm building a world for one of my stories and wanted some opinions and suggestions on it. I'm still working out many details and they are likely to change, but this is what I have so far: The gods lived in a realm of pure magical energy but the energy was chaotic and without order. They used something called the "Elder Words/Sacred Lexicon" to create/write the laws of reality for the physical world they created. Think of it like how a video game operates and functions with coding language, being invisible but controlling everything. I'm still working out the details of this, but the basic idea is that through a terrible event of blasphemy, majority of the gods are dead and the ones that are alive had to withdraw from the world. The world is now cut off from the divine influence and the sacred seal of the world containing the runes of order is broken.
Imagine the world with infinite and unseen dimensions of energy overlayed on it. Now picture these dimensions shattering but has not fallen completely apart yet. Through the shifting of energies, these shards also shift and when they do, they cause the natural order of the real world to warp and bend. In the physical world, literal cracks in reality can appear, causing Rifts to open to other realms and realities. Realms can overlap each other and cause things to exist in both realms at the same time, or get swallowed up and sent to another reality. Lands can be locked in permanent darkness or only the color blue can exist in a 50 mile radius because of a distortion. Gates to the demonic realms can bleed into the world causing fiends to invade. Time can slow down or speed up in different areas. A blistering desert can have an area that never stops snowing.
What do you think of this idea? Do you have any suggestions for interesting effects to distort the world with? While I am not trying to do grim dark, I do want a bleak world, or at least a world that is naturally very dangerous. Mortal races use various magics to help "prop up" reality in great cities so these areas are more stable but the further away from them you go, the most intense the distortions of reality can be.
(This story is about a order of knights that become paladins, forgotten warriors of legend who fought for the divine law, in a world that has butchered their own gods, in an attempt to restore order and banish the evil bleeding into the world)
Imagine the world with infinite and unseen dimensions of energy overlayed on it. Now picture these dimensions shattering but has not fallen completely apart yet. Through the shifting of energies, these shards also shift and when they do, they cause the natural order of the real world to warp and bend. In the physical world, literal cracks in reality can appear, causing Rifts to open to other realms and realities. Realms can overlap each other and cause things to exist in both realms at the same time, or get swallowed up and sent to another reality. Lands can be locked in permanent darkness or only the color blue can exist in a 50 mile radius because of a distortion. Gates to the demonic realms can bleed into the world causing fiends to invade. Time can slow down or speed up in different areas. A blistering desert can have an area that never stops snowing.
What do you think of this idea? Do you have any suggestions for interesting effects to distort the world with? While I am not trying to do grim dark, I do want a bleak world, or at least a world that is naturally very dangerous. Mortal races use various magics to help "prop up" reality in great cities so these areas are more stable but the further away from them you go, the most intense the distortions of reality can be.
(This story is about a order of knights that become paladins, forgotten warriors of legend who fought for the divine law, in a world that has butchered their own gods, in an attempt to restore order and banish the evil bleeding into the world)