Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29328280-20160729063118

Love the idea of the Nine. Malevolent Gods make for a good starting point where the act of creation is a violent and evil act. They seem a bit demonic (Hael for instance) and a little uncaring unknowable horror (like the great old ones) but perhaps that's just me. I wonder if they still have influence our power even from their prison and obviously there would be apocalypse cults seeking to bring them back for various reasons. 

I think great ideas when creating landscapes would be to add in history from the war against the Nine. Especially for high fantasy regions and devastated areas. I also like the idea of the Dying Earth with its magic slowly leaking away, assuming due to being cut off from the original creator source. It kind of gives magic a taint. A great background theme might be finding an alternative source of magic (long term) and/or capturing and rationing the left over resource. How would magic appear as a resource.

Cheers,

Heath  