Erebus (Civ4 FFH)
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The World of Erebus
World
Erebus is a flat World. One of the many worlds created by the angels when The One shared his power with them. Few is known of the other worlds, some were destroyed by the Rain of Fire when Bhaal fell and the Age of Ice that followed. Some were probably absorbed by Hell and others might have been destroyed by the conflicts between the Angels during the Age of Dragons. Erebus must be special though, as two Archangels settled there and founded a civilization on this world.
There is one Sun and one Moon. There are 21 greater constellations, each one is linked to one of the aspects, and thus one of the Angels. They are :
- Night Sun (Lugus)- Crosses the sky opposite the moon and at 2AM on a full moon is blocked by the moon for 10 minutes.
- Hunters Bow (Amathaon)- Always pointing toward the north.
- Bronze Owl (Sirona)
- Eye of the Heavens (Nantosuelta)- When before the Open Tome all good Mage spells are cast as if 2 levels higher, all evil Mage spells are at 2 levels lower (1/month).
- Arms of God (Sucellus)- When above the Scales of Balance all good Priest spells are cast as if 2 levels higher, all evil Priest spells are at 2 levels lower, neutral Priest spells are at 1 level lower (1/month).
- Shield of Valor (Junil)
- Scales of Balance (Dagda)- When the Arms of God and the Blazing Sword are directly left and right, all neutral Priest spells are cast as if 1 level higher, all good and evil are cast as if 1 level lower (2/month).
- Grey Shroud (Arawn)
- Great Tree (Cernunnos)
- Open Tome (Oghma)
- Sleeping Dragon (Kilmorph)- Dark Constellation
- Silver Tears (Danalin)- Dark Constellation, follows the moon, laments for the evils of the world
- Hero's Pegasus (Tali)- Dark Constellation
- Raging Phoenix (Bhall)- Dark Constellation
- Great Serpant (Agares)- Dissapears at 2AM when the moon is full causing the entire sky to darken for 10 minutes
- Thieves Signal (Mammon)- Fades 2 minutes before the great Serpant dissapears
- Obsidion Scepter (Aeron)
- Jeweled Mask (Esus)
- Blazing Sword (Camulos)- When above the Scales of Balance all evil Priest spells are cast as if 2 levels higher, all good are at 2 levels lower, neutral are at 1 level lower (1/month)
- Midnight Candle (Ceridwen)- When before the Open Tome all evil Mage spells are cast as if 2 levels higher, and good are at 2 levels lower (1 month)
- Hungry Wolf (Mulcarn)- Missing Constellation
There are also two lesser constellations :
- Broken Man (The Warrior, The Passage-elven, The Soulforge-dwarven)- The symbol of Perserverance, the story varies but always involves the man continueing to try when most others would have given up to acclomplish something great. The Barbarians see it as a warrior who fights and kills his enemy even after he has suffered a fatal wound. The elves see it as the elf who after being poisoned by an orc arrow manages to run, crawl, and drag himself back to the elven village where he warns his people of the attack and then dies, and a pure white tree sprouts from where he dies, from which the elves quickly make arrows that fire through the orcs shields and armor, saving the village (man those elves are long winded). The dwarves see it as the smith who works at the forge until his heart gives out, leaving his last piece of work, a mighty warhammer, as a relic of the dwarven kingdom.
- Three Brothers (Two Brothers, The Kings-elven)- The symbol of Courage. Made of three stars, one white, one blue and one black (those that don't see the black star call in Two Brothers). A tale of Heroism and Valor, of three brothers daring to challenge the gods themselves and with their courage alone, succeed.
A year lasts for 336 days, 48 weeks, 12 month, 4 seasons. Each week is 7 days, each month 28.
Magic
When the One created the world, He divided the forces used in it's creation into 21 distinct "Spheres". Later He created the Angels and and gave the dominance over one of those aspects, with the exception of Arawn who held dominion over Life and Death because those were highly linked to each other.
For a long time it was only the province of the gods to manipulate creation but at the beginning of the Age of Magic Ceridwen, a fallen Angel teached men how to manipulate the forces of creation, she teached them the power of the Angels, and the men named it Magic. Because man is tapping directly into these forces Sorcery tends to have much more wild and uncontrollable effects while divine casters, who draw their power through their deity, have more controlled effects (the difference of getting your money from the teller at a bank or breaking into the vault yourself). No, the diagram is laid out to display the oppositions. So on the opposite side of metamagic each sphere has the one that opposes it. So Sun is opposed by Shadow, Ice by Nature and Body by Spirit (so Metamagic is the only unopposed sphere).
In general (a lot of laitude here) the layout also corresponds to secondary spell spheres of the priests. So the Sun priests would have primary access to the Sun sphere and secondary access to the Law, Fire, Metamagic and Life spheres. Thats just in general though, a starting point.
... to be continued ...
The Religions
- The Octopus Overlords Long forgotten lore about the mysterious religion from the depth
The Characters
...to be added...
