Lore, The Dragon's Tome Options

[Zalphon]

Gods

The Council of Gods

The Council of the Gods. They govern the realms.

Bane - God of War and Destruction; Chaotic Evil. Commonly called, "The Warlord of the Gods" or "The General of the Abyss." His skin is black as midnight and his eyes as red as blood. He wears a suit of black platemail with runes of war and chaos skittered onto it.

Lord Kalian - God of Magick; True Neutral. Commonly called, "The Mage-King" or "The Lord of the Arcane." His skin is blue, the natural color of magick. He wears dark blue robes and keeps the hood up. The deity is rarely seen in his natural form.

Mistress Samantha Star - God of Love; Lawful Good. Commonly called, "The Scarlet Princess" or "The Sweet Lady." A very pale-skinned god, much like a high elf. Her hair is silvery and she wears a red robe.

Sir Talarin - God of Bards and Stories; Chaotic Good. The God of Bards is extremely strange. No one knows his true form, because he changes quite a lot.

The Wanderer - God of Roads; True Neutral. He looks like a normal human wearing commoner's clothes. His hair is red and he has a goatee.

Arch Duke Drakos - God of Dragons; Lawful Good. Commonly called, "The Scaled One." Scales cover this god's entire body. He has rope-like scales that are similar to hair. He wears a suit of silvery god-plate platemail.

Lord Fenix - God of Manipulation; Lawful Evil. He is rarely seen in his true form. When he is, it's a black robe, and a body similar to Drakos'.

Lord Thomas Flamewhisper - God of Fire; True Neutral. Commonly called, "The Flame-King" or "The Fiery Dominator." The Flame-King is pure, living fire. Bound only by the red robes tailored with elemental flame.

Lord Samuel Stonethrower - God of Earth; True Neutral. Commonly called, "The Earth-Lord." The Earth-Lord's skin is gray as the stone he commands. His armor is only a suit of chainmail made of steel.

Lord Victor Aeroheart - God of Air; True Neutral. Commonly called, "The Airy Watcher." Lord Aeros wears mummy-wrappings to contain his body. He is pure air and wears a robe to cover the wrappings.

Lady Evangeline Frostblood - God of Water; True Neutral. Commonly called, "The Ice-Queen." The Icy Queen has blue skin and wears black platemail. Her armor has icicles hanging off of it.

Sir Mythaniel - God of Retribution and Valor; Lawful Neutral. Commonly called, "The Avenger." The Avenger wears a suit of shining platemail and uses a longsword and kite-shield. No one has ever seen him not in his armor.

Guillerman Kas - God of Destruction; Chaotic Evil. Guillerman has red skin and demonic horns sprouting from his skull. He wears a pair of black pants, black boots, and a cuirass made from the bone of his fallen enemies.

Thule Kas - God of Fear; Chaotic Evil. The God of Fear has no true form. He appears to be whatever inspires the most fear in those who surround him.

Mordo Kas - God of War; Chaotic Evil. Mordo is the most sadistic of the Kas brothers. He is always in the form of an orc with black skin and a suit of chainmail.

Lord Vayris - God of the Undead, Shadows, and Betrayal; Lawful Evil. Lord Vayris' flesh is rotting, his hair is white. His armor is black robes with the hood up. He wields a staff created by the flesh and spirit of Angels and Demi-Gods.

Tribunal

The Creators of Mathoc.

God-King Elementius - God of the Elements; True Neutral (Older-Sibling of Twilight). He looks like a normal human. However, he wears robe of all four elements.

God-King Chronos - God of Time; True Neutral (Consort of Twilight). The God of Time looks like a darkal. He has gray skin and white hair. His robe is made of the very essence of time and is white.

God-Queen Twilight - Goddess of Night ad Day; True Neutral. (Consort of Chronos). The Queen of Night and Day looks like a High Elf in the Day and a Dark Elf in the Night. In the day, her hair is silver and her skin is pale. In the night, her skin is gray and her hair is black.

Demon Lords

Overlord Banespirit

High Council Leader Vayris

Councilor Blacksoul

Councilor Shadowspirit

Councilor Bloodsoul

Councilor Ebonspirit

Councilor Voidbringer

Races

Darkal (Dark Elves. The dark-skinned, light-haired elves of the Shadowdark. Originally Hyekal, but after King Alu'Kar Everlight declared the Noble family, House Slyth outlaws, they had to hide for hundreds of years. Over time they evolved to match their surroundings.)
Hyekal (High Elves. The original breed of elves, that consider themselves to be above the rest. When the gods first experimented with races, elves were one of the first.)
Shakal (Shadow Elves, hybrids of Darkal and Hyekal. A rare and almost hated breed. They tend to either live with one of their parents. If they live with their Darkal parents, they tend to be seen as equals. If they live with their Hyekal parents, they're seen as servants or abominations.)
Halkal (Half-Elves. A mixture of elves and humans, they tend to look like humans, but with pointed ears and finer features.)
Monkal (Moon Elves. The Moon Elves are the second rarest of all elves. Rarely found anywhere in civilization, they're natural-born spell-casters. Rumor is they were born of a high-elven wizard who extracted the power of one of the three moons and was transformed.)
Wodkal (Wood Elves. The forest-dwelling elves are quite common in Dragonwood and Ranger and Druidic Organizations. They grew to their homes after their ancestors moved to the magickal forest of Dragonwood. The primal magick mutated them into the oak-skinned denizens they are now.)
Seakal (Sea Elves. After a mad-sorcerer tried to become a water-dweller the Lady Evangeline gave him his wish. The Seakal have gills and look like an amphibious humanoid.)
Drakal (Dragon Elves. They're the offspring of a dragon and an elf. They're by far the rarest. They look like an elf with claws and wings. They inherit the best of both races, the dragon's cunning intellect and amazing strength and the elf's charm and beauty.)

Orc (a war-like race that tends to live in tribes or empires. Some however have moved into civilized cultures as stonesmiths.)
Gnoll (dogmen, usually of neutral alignment if druids or evil if not)
Human
Spellblood Human (humans evolved via the use of magick)
Dragon (the most ancient race. They've defended the realms since the beginning of time.)

This post has been edited by Zalphon: May 10 2010, 12:51 AM

[Verlox]

Another bit of advice.

If things are assumed to be Earth-like, and have Earth names, then you don't need to have paragraphs describing them. This is especially true for governments. If you have say...a monarchy for example, most of us know what a monarchy is (hereditary autocracy basically), and how it runs. If your leader is called a king, and supported by his Chancellor, Great Chamberlain, Lord Privy Seal, we likely already have the information on what these guys do. A few sentences to describe them, then if there are any twists, a few more sentences.

Now, if you use a slightly more odd form of government in your stories, like I do for my Cilgratis stuff, you do need descriptions. A normal person does not know what Tywysog Mawr y llwythau even means, and if some person could puzzle that out, when applied they could do something different than the name suggests. THAT'S when you want to have paragraphs of description.

Another thing are laws of your world. I'm pretty sure most worlds follow the Societal Laws (Murder = Bad, Stealing = Bad, Perjury = Bad, if they live in a religious society Blasphemy = Bad, Courts = Good), so these don't really need to be elaborated upon. But, say, one of your societies has a dietary law, a law forbidding certain types of sexual intercourse (not as uncommon as you would think), laws pertaining to the noble or priest caste ect ect, it's usually cool to give descriptions and reasons behind those.

In Cyn y Diwygiadau Rhondda, it is very much against the law to look a Derwydd in the eyes unless you are another Derwydd or a Deiliad because it's considered disrespect. The punishment for transgressing that law is usually temporary slavery to the Derwydd or death.

See what I did there? Describing a law doesn't have to be a long, involved process. A good template for laws is.....Some thing you can't do -> Why -> Punishment. Also, if you are inclined, you can give a precedent as to why this law exists in the first place.