ITT we build a setting, using only pictures.
ITT we build a setting, using only pictures
Thomas Reyes
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Eli Baker
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Ayden Phillips
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Grayson Edwards
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Cameron Hughes
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Colton Perez
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Daniel Torres
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Nathan Price
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Owen Smith
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Michael Ward
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Oliver Murphy
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Blake Jackson
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Adrian Nelson
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Jordan Foster
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Angel Cox
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Jonathan Peterson
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Elijah Smith
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Jayden Smith
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Luis Gray
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Aaron Foster
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Jeremiah Green
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Thomas Cruz
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Ryder Powell
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Lincoln Garcia
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Leo Jones
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Gavin Cook
So this is a setting where people have dance-offs instead of duels?
Christian Young
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Lucas Price
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Leo Kelly
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Tyler Russell
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Brandon Ward
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Jaxon Davis
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Benjamin Turner
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Blake Hughes
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Christopher James
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Jackson Powell
Is that a griffin with a weird llama neck and human boobs?
Hudson Evans
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Jeremiah Cruz
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Gabriel Ortiz
HE POSTED A GUNDALF FIRST, THAT MEANS IT'S FREE GAME FOR ME!
Zachary Morales
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Kevin Lewis
alright, so I'm gonna take a crack at incorporating all of this shit into a setting since this is just an imagedump thread atm and I'm sick of lookin' at it.
World is in the sky. airships are the primary means of conveyance, and some ships are so large they've become cities in and of themselves.
A decree by humanity says the monster races can't dock at human ports. This isolationist policy starts the driving conflicts of the world.
The frog crusades were the first to come, as the frogs declared mankind heretical for denying them trade.
the minotaurs, who relied on humans to fix their aging airship technology, have gotten furious. Many of them are even returning to the arctic ground below the sky world, trying to find ancient airships to start a great viking raid.
The primate men pretended to be humble about the decision, but secretly prepared their militias for infiltration and war.
Atop the tallest mountain, the human capitol sits. Unassailable by traditional airships due to its magical design.
The owl knights and their fieldships benefit, as without humanity they become the number one supplier of grown food, since without mountaintops or magical gardens agriculture is hard in the sky.
Many of these actions do not go unnoticed by humanity, who send ninja infiltrators to keep tabs on their enemies.
Ayden Hall
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Julian Peterson
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Juan Wilson
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Jacob Johnson
Continued...
The isolationism began when the king made a deal with a powerful devil at the bottom of a well in their mountain capitol. The demon poisoned the king's mind, and this isolation is only the beginning of a world war the demon hopes to force humanity into enacting, which would feed hell for a generation.
Several other mountaintop settlements have been invaded from below by the mothmen, who are not a known beast race. Most believe living in the frozen wastes beneath the clouds would be a death sentence, so their appearance has shocked the human empire.
In the world below, many ancient airship gantry walls exist. Some still have airships from the old world docked to them.; The minotaurs hope to capitalize on that.
The world below froze over because of the woods king, who still pervades over the icy forests. This nature god was the first enemy of not just humanity, but all races on the planet. Some believe the mothmen to be his latest children, come to reclaim even the highest mountains for the woods king.
This universe, like others, has vapid prostitutes in it.
The mothmen have cut a swathe of destruction through many mountaintop settlements, ruining the magic that stabilizes and warms the environment and leaving any who survive to freeze before any hope of rescue.
To the south the cloudbloom grows, a plant so massive and resilient that it acts as a city for nonhuman residents...
Many artificial additions have been tacked on to the cloudbloom. Viewing decks and offices with windows are popular among the wealthy.
The cloudbloom is primarily home to the druidic elves, who are hoping to use nature magic to compete with the owls in the food production market.
Cats exist.
Grayson Hernandez
You can choose to ignore my Ayyrab dump, mr story person.
Brandon Richardson
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Kayden Anderson
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Isaiah Gutierrez
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Christopher Parker
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Evan Nguyen
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William Howard
Continued...
Humanity's most stalwart defenders, the steel guardians, were once akin to paladins. now, however, they engage in witch hunts for nonhumans and their sympathizers as the atmosphere in the human empire grows more and more xenophobic.
In an attempt to placate the masses, many dancers and entertainers are promoted by the royal family, giving people something to focus on that isn't looming warfare.
This allows a meeting between a royal heir and a prominent monster princess. Though the king wishes to isolate humanity from now on, she has more open-ended plans and seeks to betray the king, whom she believes has gone mad.
Of course, this is well-hidden, as the public is still focusing on dancers.
The first spark that starts the war is when a number of human legionnaires makes seafall in dual-purpose amphibious airships and assaults the new homeland of the minotaurs, taking some of the land below and stealing their discoveries on how best to fight back the woods king.
This too is kept relatively quiet, as the public focuses more and more on complex dances and the rivalries of the dancers.
During the invasion, the humans also realize that the minotaurs have been raising dragons as an alternative to airships, thought to be extinct.
People who are successful and in the loop realize what's happened to the king. Many turn to demons themselves, hoping for fabulous supernatural power.
Secret rituals are held, and while the humans make meager gains the demons they have sworn to serve live lavishly.
A single legionnaire, however, gets lost and is forced to travel through the cold. When the storm subsides, he finds himself in the ruins of an ancient civilization even the minotaurs haven't touched. He begins to tell others, but only a few true believers come with him through the dangerous cold.
Tyler Rodriguez
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Cameron Sanchez
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William Martinez
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Joseph Green
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Ethan Cruz
>settings entirely as story
Jack Rodriguez
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Gabriel Parker
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Thomas Hernandez
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Nathaniel Thomas
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Logan Howard
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Angel Morgan
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Christian Thompson
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Nathan Perry
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Charles Nelson
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Adam Baker
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Liam Ortiz
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Gavin Richardson
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Isaiah Foster
Shit I'm on the edge of my seat this sounds like a good setting!
Chase Wright
Continued...
Demonic manifestations cause changes in humanity occasionally, now.
The lone legionnaire and his followers take much of this technology and establish their own state, independent of the coming warfare. The woods king does not like this.
The dance spectacle increases in complexity as the human king tries desperately to distract the people.
The people are dancing, prancing idiots who are mostly entertained by this.
Meanwhile, atop an ancient tower, a wizard is told of the lone legionnaire and his new city in the ruins of the old world.
Banished from a proud human city, this wizard saw the abuse of demonic intervention coming and took off.
This wizard began to take stock of technology from this lost place.
...all the while, the leaders of men grew more decadent and entwined with demonic forces. The otherworldly became commonplace in the human empire.
Because of this, the wizard began to teach the lone legionnaire what he could of the weapons they had recovered together.
The dancing, however, doesn't impress everyone...
A new religious movement, rejecting the demons, emerges in mankind. Rumor is they were started by the king's daughter. They are for better relations between humanity and non-humans.
This movement gains traction, as it piggybacks on long-held religious beliefs and the natural aversion of the populace to the demons so wantonly used by the upper echelons of society.
The movement is declared illegal, but that only drives it underground and drives warriors to take up its mantle.
Much of the culture is reliant on old orcish customs, meaning a similar style of dress and similar code of honor regarding duels being evenly-matched.
Others, still, just pack up their homes and leave for the cold of the surface on automated chariots.
Josiah Perez
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Adrian Russell
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Ayden Green
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Liam Roberts
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Elijah Ross
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Austin Brooks
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Joseph Flores
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Isaac Thomas
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Benjamin Campbell
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Andrew Flores
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Zachary Howard
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Noah Johnson
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Jason Sanchez
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Nicholas Robinson
>Cats exist.
DEEPEST LORE
Matthew Gray
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Austin Morales
Continued...
The new religion plots in secret, and is less overt about its meetings. Each swears loyalty to all their brothers and sisters...
...even in death.
A leader rises up, called the prince of purity, and demands publicly that the rich cease this march towards destruction.
He is killed by the guard, who try to treat it as if he were any other religious enemy of the state.
So his sister takes the role of revolutionary. She's a lot less pacifistic about things.
She even drafts a unit of 'pure warrior-maidens' who actively (and illegally) hunt for demons in major cities.
This emboldens many nun humans who had once relied on trade with humanity to make their empires whole. The tengus were particularly willing to assist in this militant movements.
Below, not only had the lone legionnaire and his wizard ally found a means to warm the land, but they had reactivated ancient golems to defend from the woods king and his constant assaults. Since these golems were sacred to many minotaurs, the forces aligned against the human legion, becoming a new movement.
The ever-political bearkin bode their time, trying as hard as possible to stay out of anything and merely observe.
The human empire, sensing a grave threat, send one of their best demonic conjurers to lead the assault on the lone legionnaire.
In the kingdom above, a number of failed assassinations happen. A poisoned dessert is tasted by a serf, who is killed instantly...
A tengu assassin with the finest weapons available is discovered and forced to flee the palace into the night...
...on his motorized war machine...
...but he is spotted on the way out by a loyalist, turning the tengus into the next scapegoat for invasion.
Angel Mitchell
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Daniel Martin
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Noah Torres
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Jaxson Perez
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Jason Lewis
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Parker Rivera
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Jason Adams
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Bentley Price
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Nolan Harris
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Robert Davis
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Samuel Cooper
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Gabriel White
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