Where do monsters come from in your setting?

Where do monsters come from in your setting?

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They form spontaneously in the dark places of the world.

So... your setting is minecraft?

They come from their mum n pop. Monsters are best when they have a since of realism to their fantasy aspect. Like Harpies born from eggs in canyons raised until old enough to at least pick up a small child. Or Naga/llamas are just born like any animal would be and proceed to grow and become cunts/ride dicks/monsters

>Your thing has something similar to X?
>LAWL so it's just like X riiiiight?

Please stop.

As a whole all creatures come from a bipolar divine being, that eventually went full bat-shit insane.
The others are devirated from various events or conditions.
lol

Those who desire eternal life can become undead but to continue existing they must eat people.

There is also a lot of shit left after a War. When an army of demons invaded the world and finding that they can't just crush gods and armies they started experimenting with creating different monsters.

A lot of fantasy creatures even powerful are not considered monsters per se. They are just animals even if powerful. Most of them came into existence because after creating the world gods decided to have a little party and there was too much alcohol. Like really too much. When they come to their senses things like dragons, krakens and at least a couple of hundreds of other species were already created.

Single mothers.

Whoa, too real.

The All Mother's dead body

They don't 'come' from anywhere, other than crap like the owlbear. They have niches, they've evolved with the help of magic. Or they're intruders from other planes, or a wizard did it long ago in a fit of 'why the fuck not'.

Your mother.

They are created by the blood drops of the Usurper God mixed with the forbidden element of thunder. They are sent to earth as punishment for transgressions against the Heavens.

Magical radiation caused by tears in reality.

The father, god of corruption sometimes put his finger into the game his childrem are playing in the mortal realm, it always end with some very weird stuff manifesting in places. A mark of his corruption is purple, thick rain falling from the sky. Its advised to not get wet on it, as you will make your presence be know to the "evil essence" and it might or might not use you as a pawn, wich normally results in mutations to make you fit for wathever task he wants you to do.

Mortals have only enough knowledge of what the purple rain is, as the higher gods arent even know to them.

Humans fornicating with beasts. Fuck a goat, get a beastman. Fuck a horse, get a centaur. Fuck a cow get a minotaur. Fuck a tree, get a fay.

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Domestically, they breed true with themselves, and with each other, so good old fashioned way still works.

Otherwise elementals, fey, demons, angels, etc are all flavors of "beings on our realm from a higher power plane, manifesting form through their specific tone and will".

Very high up is the eternal blackness of entropic chaos, which spawns the elder evils of our world.

In the other direction is the high density crunch of the collapse of matter under the purity of light and energy, where the omniconsciousness of pure will comes in. So inevitables, and angels.

Underground.

So, in setting there are only humans, but there are non-human intelligences. All magic is done through metaphysical parasites that exemplify negative emotion and are actually equivalent to an original sin scenario for humanity (humans do not sin without these things around). They wait for depraved and weak men to go too far and in a moment of weakness take over.

Mythical creatures are people who interact with what comes after. Most of the time these beings do not exist on the same sort of existence as humans, but either up or down the Range, out of phase essentially. Without having your own parasite attached to you seeing them is impossible.

Goblins would be considered a common breed, and exist as a creature born out of fear. They shrink, making a smaller humanoid covered in wrinkled and folded skin. Their faces look ape like and they are completely hairless. Their limbs grow thin and overly long. This smaller body allows them to squeeze through holes and worm their way into dark and hidden places.

All creatures used to be human. I have a ton, some of which are expy for mythological creatures.

My favorite is the centaur. It's basically a set of legs without a torso, instead the spine has turned into something like a stinger sticking out. It finds someone by themselves and drills into the base of their spine. They then pump them full of adrenaline and endorphins every time something happens. So they jump at shadows and freak out at everything.

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hell!!!!!!!!

The better question is where do they not come from

They grow off trees that grow up through the flat earth from the plane of unimaginable horrors it floats over

So pretty standard really

From the stars.

So what happens if you fuck one of the mobsters? Does it eventually wrap back around to being human?

>mobsters
They become more likely to commit crime maybe

By evolving into them. The reason you have to send an armed guard down with the sewer maintenance guys is due to the fact the rats are big enough to probably kill and eat a lion.

The reason you need an armed escort to fix the power lines outside of town is because the thing that broke them is feeding off the electicity

>I don't find a joke funny, so it's bad wrong
Shut it autismus maximus.

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A massive vaguely reptilian amalgamation of ever shifting claws, teeth, eyes, spines, and other monstrous parts shrouded in a shadowy form. Goes by various names and appelations and roughly maps with various primordial chaos beasts in Indo-European myth.

It birthed all kinds of monsters who in turn birthed more monsters who in turn birth others.

But some "monsters" are just beasts as much as any other animal.

>LAWL It's just a joke brah calm down I'm not a fucking retard so FAAAAAAHNY!

You're embarrassing everyone now.

mad science, twisted black magic, ancient curses and the like have all contributed to the beasts that inhabit the badlands between the established settlements by and large they just want to be left alone, and actively avoid inhabited areashumans are the real monsters who broke the world

Usually from a parallel reality. How they get there ranges from people summoning them, to some god being throwing them in for shits and giggles.

Some monsters are just normal creatures that people call monsters.

All sorts of places, but primarily the human psyche

Ouch user. You didnt need,to do that to me.

Well considering my setting is shown from the view of a tax collector who goes around trying to collect tithe from the races that make of the Grand Kings kingdom a monster is usually a misunderstood person of some race the human tax collector hasn't met yet.

Either it's basically a kind of big, scary animal, or it's a belligerent spiritual entity, or it's the result of said spirits (or sorcerers who summon them) doing weird stuff to animals or people.

They often tend to be regular animals or humans that are cursed or blessed by different deities.

throughout the world the ancients(think lovecraftian Old-Ones) placed "corruptors" under hills, buried in forests, embedded in mountains, dropped in lakes and rivers and oceans, sunk in swamps, and encapsulated in glaciers. these corruptors emit energies that change creatures over time, frequently if not in every case the changed creatures are hostile. changes include increases in size, growth of abnormal components such as chitin-plates, bone-spurs, extra limbs, etc. changes in behavior, an increase in procreation drive and other less distinct changes.

the energies emitted by corruptors produce tell-tale changes in the environments around them including raised growth-rates of vegetation, a pleasant feeling of emotional warmth, and a noticeable decrease in ground and atmospheric temperature.

these stones are also natural conduits for the worlds magic and very difficult to damage or move. they in fact were placed as a sort of "global arcane network" the monster creation was deemed "an acceptable environmental side-effect" that produced harmless curiosities.

Most of them just managed to intentionally or not slip through the cracks during planar alignments which happen every thousand years or so. A lot of the creatures die off but some manage to survive or at least breed with native life to create hybrids before dying off.

my dick

You should probably see a doctor about that.

The Wolf

Soil and rock spawns them, quite literally. Monsters can be pretty much anything, and can spawn anywhere.

Some are natural and alien forms of life, others are perversions of this same process, while others exist beyond the safety of the material and their influence manifests as creatures terrible to behold.

Pretty much everywhere as the seed of all oceans began to rise the various islands sank beneath it along with their complacent and decadent gods. Ba'iile is pretty much the last place to be, so monsters wash up there often. Most of them werent born as horrors from the deep, but being so separated from their natural homes and the light of their creators twists them into greedy and malicious things.

They're either inhabitants of another dimension, having slid through the cracks between worlds, or otherwise corrupted humans who fell to emotions of all consuming hatred, despair, etc.

Under the bed.

Dig yourself as deep as you want user, but don't say I didn't warn you.

The deepest darkest cave OP's asshole

>llamas
>Normal birth
U FUCKING ASPERGERS.


Llamas are born from throwing normal goats into firepits. But only spanish firepits.

Mostly out of immoral biological experiments done by extremely stupid people in the government.
>let's make mutant zombies!
>dude, we already have nukes, what do we need zombies for?
>fuck you! you aren't my mom, i do whatever i want

Exclusively from humans fucking around with magic in ways they shouldn't be.

They are punishment from God for our sins, and our sins are plentiful.

Fun concept, I have trouble running it though because of a crisis of faith so I may stop.

>God
hate to break the news user...but there are many gods

But where did they come from as a species?

Mutations from magic oversaturation, weird wizards, twisted spirits of nature fucking around...

They weren't monsters until we decided they were.

Magical pollution mutating apex animals with hereditary abilities. Experimentation via forces mortals weren't supposed to tamper with. Demigod creatures breeding with beasts or people and leaving a lineage of spawn. And finally, things that just find a way into the world via doors and cracks in the foundation of reality and finding their niche in a new place. And the worst things of all just spontaneously spawn from the remains of slain "immortal" creatures no one disposed of properly once they were killed.

lazy and unoriginal

From the fears and assumptions in the hearts of mortalkind

remnant and surviving magical experiments of the second civilization.

Or those plus normal things horribly warped and mutated by the blood of a god-eating monster.

'Corruption' from the Age of Sin. That said, the Age of Sin was just when the world was riding high on its own steam until science went a little too far to control, so one could assume that all races save humans of my setting came from Corruption to some degree. Some creatures exhibit it much more regularly than others do though.

Children's imagination gives them form and through child's fear they manifest

Reality is shaped by the dreams of the Old Ones

Humanity is a newborn Old One

Humanity, like most children, is scared of the dark and has an active imagination.

I was just about to hit submit before your post popped up. You're my nigga

The exact same place as they come from IRL, Scunthorpe.

>Dat centaur
Got any other cool things like that?

The Blood Lake.

Essentially, all monstrous creatures and abominations that escape the northern continent's military after emerging through the lake, go on to spawn more monsters by yet undetermined means. All other more civilized creatures (elf, dwarf, goblin, orc, dragons, etc) were already a part of the world as early as history can record, and treat one another with traditional respect, caution, racism, and kindness as npc and PC persons tend to do.

Holy shit cool your jets sport
>inb4 more retarded shit
Not even him, you're just being a fag

Most "true" monsters (outsiders) come from the dimensional tear in the center of the continent of Tryndameria where the Blood War spilled out onto the material plane or they're native species to the outer realms.

Um, duh. The moon?

next thing you'll be telling me your DMPC is contained in an amulet that overwrites the consciousness of whoever wears it.

or maybe some asshole with a shotgun and a perpetually obscured face who may or may not be satan

1: They're just regular creatures, like bears
2: They're regular creatures with their souls fucked up by magical residue in the same way that nuclear radiation fucks up our dna. Ancient fallen civilisations are a common cause of this
3: Spawn of the gods.

Don't know those ones. Some SCP stuff is fun, but only the Blood Lake really inspired me to include it in my world as an ever present threat. Though I really only used the concept of an eternal one-way portal to "somewhere" in the shape of something commonplace.

so people fight their nightmares and phobias?

Drs Bright (963) and Clef, the most widely known and arguably marysueish author avatars on the site. In fairness, if you deflanderised most of the AAs they would make fairly decent PCs

In a way. It works similar to the Mages from World of Darkness.

Humanity being a collective consciousness of sorts, only well known myths and monsters become real. It only takes a hundred people or so to start spawning nightmares, and the more people know about it, the more monsters spawn. It's a terrible self-perpetuating cycle.

The myths eventually mutate due to ages of retelling, language mistranslated, or exaggeration, which is often how the monsters get so bad in the first place. A story about a hunter fighting off a massive ravenous wolf, narrowly escaping with his life, is much more interesting than the real story about the regular hunter scaring off a regular wolf. And the wolf only gets bigger with each retelling. Eventually it's common knowledge that a giant monster-wolf prowls the area, and evidence of the wolf's presence shows up not too long after.

Either way, non of the PCs I've DM'd for have really questioned the lake as the only thing they really care about is loot and levels over lore.

You know that concept is a kind of monster in itself
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egregore

Academia

They are either native to the hostile alien world the players one day get teleported to, or they are teleported to said world from somewhere else throughout space and time

Most corporeal monsters are just part of the environment, those that aren't are either magically altered or the result of reality alteration by the pantheistic being that composes the whole conceivable existence.

Strong wills, a conflux of strange events, henious sins against nature, dark curses borne on the wind from far away lands, ancient powers that slumber in the earth, eggs. It varies from monster to monster

From the human heart

When mommy monster and daddy monster love each other very very much..

purge heretics

Mirages that connect to the other realm, mostly

It is an argument AGAINST bestiality.

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they were there before us, we descend from them, but then we killed most of them because they are unpure, uncivilized etc.
Some survived because of they managed to bargain with us ( we give you gold, you let us live), because they hid themselves or because they are so strong that it isnt worth the risk. Sure, a dragon destroys a city from time to time, but fighting him may make it worse.

Sometimes the gods are dicks and create Monsters or transform people into them, but usually that doesnt happen, since the gods are usually to preoccupied doing other stuff. In my setting gods created the world, but aprox. 1000 years ago they lost interest in it and leave it to its fate. Most people know that because the gods told them that they are bored. Most gods still check in earth every few years, perform some miracles and then leave.

In the past people who created monsters were punished by the gods, but the gods stopped doing that, so that alchemists can create chimeras and necromancy is the hottest new trend among wizards around the world.

so, monsters are memes that became reality ?
>extremely stupid people in the government.
do you mean the regular government ?

Same place as everybody else, another dimension. Shit just ends up here.

Also, it's rude to call the ones that can talk 'monsters' nowadays.

Maybe some kind of prince can save them.

You're both stupid, the joke wasn't funny and the other guy overreacted, just shut the fuck up and post about monsters.

A person whose relationships have decayed to the point they're impossible to recuperate. Every burnt bridge brings with it incredible power, at the cost of their humanity

Tunnels deep underground exist in between worlds, and by taking the right path one can find the inside-out mirror world of Midnight, where there is no sun and it is lit by the eternal full moon in the center of the sky.
On one side of Midnight sleeps Father Wyrm, pinned to the ground by six massive spears. If any of them are moved he would stir from his slumber and awaken to devour the world from the inside out. From his blood all dragons are born. His dark aura seeps through to the true world analogous to his location in Midnight, and twists aspects of it into evil beings.

On the opposite side of Midnight there is The Firebird, mad with rage as it is unable to take flight while its wings are soaked from the lake of boiling lead it was thrown into in antiquity. It still does not realize that if it had the patience to calm down and quell its flame the metal would harden and it could easily break free to gain vengeance against the gods that trapped it there. The feathers that are torn off in its struggle contain a spark of life that creates malevolent elementals and spirits.

To the north of them both is the sinister Leviathan, frozen in the glaciers. One of her heads is free, and she speaks through it lies and temptations to any of weak will or greedy heart. She will look into the minds of the innocent and give them their greatest desires for the smallest and most harmless of favors, but they all serve to further her goals. Her machinations are far reaching and complex, for she knows that there is all of eternity for her to orchestrate the escape of herself and her siblings. Each day brings the final result closer, and soon she will gladly see everything fall.

Some come from other planes,were created by powerful magic-users in centuries past, or are the direct creation of gods, but most of them are the byproduct of a divine-scale war fought among the gods of my setting some 2000 years before the setting's "present time"; basically the world was once ruled by an almost almighty, supreme chaos god. The lesser gods where like puppets for his entertainment,but they managed to uncover some secrets beyond the chaos god's gaze. With those secrets they re-opened a long lost and forgotten system of portals to a pocket universe where the primordial gods (original creators of the Universe and parents to the chaos god) had stored away the Pulse,the primorial energy of creation. Wielding this power,the lesser gods defeated their oppressor and brought balance to Creation,but on the process they spilled Pulse all over the Universe,involuntarily creating all manner of mutant monsters, eldritch shit and undead abominations.

In short,it's my own not!Chaos.

During creation some parts of the world failed to form, now monsters pour forth from the chaotic shroud of eternity that is the edge of the world.

Someone pricked reality, and the Other Place bled through.