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Welcome to the world of Odyum. This site is my
humble attempt at building a campaign for the dungeons & dragons
role-playing game. I have struggled with building my own setting for
several years but have always fell short of my own expectations, and I am
hoping that this site will help me bring all of my loose ideas into one
more cohesive image for the world of Odyum. So
what is Odyum exactly? It was once a densely populated globe
dominated by humans that fell to a great darkness that demolished nearly
all life. The world was forced back into a stage of infancy, where
the wonders of the old age were lost, and a new age of savagery has begun.
In the distant past a great evil was unleashed upon the world, it's very
presence drove men mad, and tore apart the fabric of space. This
evil reigned for only a short time, but it was enough to completely
destroy all civilization on Odyum. Since it's defeat the races of
men have been crawling back from the darkness, stripped of their greatest
achievement they are rebuilding a primitive world where might makes right
and evil has earned a powerful foothold. The
idea behind the world is a savage place where social mores have failed and
faded. The majority of characters will be unaligned, with a large
group favouring evil, and a fraction leaning to good. Most people are
simply interested in survival and will do whatever it takes to live
another day.
Ruins, thousands of years old, are scattered all across
Odyum, the last remains of the once glorious empires that vanished so long
ago. So far reaching were these empires that there is nearly no land
untouched by their remains, and so numerous are these ruins that it would
take hundreds of years even to find them all, let alone explore their
contents. Most of the world is broken into
city states, with a powerful or
wealthy monarch ruling over the
land. The technology level is
very low in most parts of the world,
reminiscent of barbarians and
ancient civilizations. |
