Let's Create A Setting

>... if he possesses the will to endure a metamorphosis of ten thousand timeless years graduating up through the lower hellplanes and emerges on the other side sane

>When not besieging the bastions of Man or actively feeding, Elves will spend most of their time "sleeping" in the crevices of the world, only occasionally reaching out into the world to release spores of Dust to spread chaos.

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>The richest man in the setting is the guy who invented the electric oscillating fan.
>...he became an Elf not long after and now works to undo the evil he has brought to his new Elf family.

This elf shit is retarded. This world we have sucks.
Kill it. Slide it. And start over.

No. What we have so far is great, just needs a bit more polish. You just have shit taste in world design.

Ten years ago a race of omnisexual space aliens landed. They loved to cook, had big boobies and did not complain. They were also able to have children with humans. They also brought the technology of the sebot with them. This made women completely obsolete. The remaining women have been cast off into the desert where they live as lesbian canibal shopoholics.

>Within the earth flows the primordial blood of the fallen god
>Rival cabals of wizards fight for control of this black substance

>Rumors speak of a source; a lifeless but still beating "heart" hidden deep within the chasms of the world.

Vetoing this. Don't make the thread sad, user.

>A link between the "blood" and the Elves exists, enabling these sorcerers to enslave the Elves, hereby making them enormous threats to the world.

>The Church condemns such practices but has little to no power in fighting this newly discovered magic

>Of course, as to be expected from maddened fools trying to play with powers beyond their understanding, these wizards have "control" over the Elves in only the loosest sense of the term, with the ungodly horrors regularly disobeying orders or straining against their command.
>Should their control over the "blood" ever falter for even a moment, or should their supply of it dwindle, they shall be utterly consumed by the terrors they think themselves master.

>With the advent of technology and science mankind has vented their passion and efforts into perfecting the arts of "high sorcery", a mixture of physics and magic.

>The Grand Artificers; the highest rank in a growing Magocracy and the descendants of the cabals of old, have recently uncovered ways of forcefully fusing the Elves into engines of war.

>Truthfully mastering the ancient race they once so feared an unstoppable empire has emerged.

>The Elves, hopelessly outmatched turn to "cults" willing to set them free and topple the Magocracy from the inside out.

>The very existence of the Elves strains the fabric of the veil that God created with its death, opening the way for greater terrors to push on through.
>One such terror is The Factory, whose engines bellow black smog, and whose dark heart burns with an ice cold flame that extinguishes all light around it.

>The Imperial Magocracy having finally met an equal power wages war against it.
>The war lasting decades with no foreseeable end.

>Prophecy speaks of a revival of the long lost Church and the foretold discovery of the Heart.
>Both factions seek to uncover to overthrow the other.

>The Factory is actually a parallel to the Magocracy

>The god-corpse exists simultaneously in both realities.

>The "Heart" is the center of this multilayered reality.

>The Heart is not only wanted by the Imperial Magocracy and The Factory, but the other factions of the other realities as well.

>Thirteen realms in total

>The Factory, annoyed that mortal sorcery is able to match it, decides to ally with other realities.

>The Magocracy likewise follows suit

>Most of the other Thirteen Realms are bizarre, demonic hellplanes either filled to the brim with Elves, cultists, and other nightmares, or are in the process of ending up like that.
>Only one realm stands untainted, and it's Great Gates are barred from all darkness beyond.

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>>The world is built upon the shattered remnants of God Himself, who sacrificed Itself in order to safeguard it.
Replace God with gods and that is pretty much just GodTear.

You ever hear of Bionicle?

Soooooooo, you two gonna continue to shitpost and talk about completely unrelated settings (that likely inspired this thread, to be fair), or you gonna contribute?

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>The thirteen realms are based on thirteen parts of the human body, and are themed as such. Magocracy is in the lungs (where elves take the form of smoke), factory is in the bones (because making blood cells and such), elves there take the form of mobile tears into nothing (broken bones?)

Sealed reality is what's left of the mind

>From scurried incursions and wildcat ventures the thirteen bring back great wealth in material and regents used by the great powers.

>Lamplighters never leave home without the everburning belly oils. Occasionally with cloth-of-azoth for when a stubborn spark escapes the candle.

>Chimney-sweeps return their pale bone-wood staves to a chained iron vault each morn. They do not speak much of it.

>When receiving a fancy order the Engravers' and Wood-Cutters' like to sprinkle ocular ink on it to catch the eye. Sometimes literally.

>women have bard-like music manipulating and distorting reality through songs, tales and legends.

>men and women are separate "races"

>The Sun is an ever-shining mass of molten, dripping gold and flame

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Men are similarly capable of manipulating this other plane into magic, but only one "aspect" (school) of it at a time. Using magic is illegal in human realms

>Anyone who has been found delving into the Darker Powers of Magic (that aren't approved for human-use that is), risk incurring the wrath of the mage-hunting Order Of The Eternal Dawn.
>Suffice to say, one's fate shall not be painless in the least should they be caught.

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> The darker powers are blood, bone, and shadow. This means the Magocracy and the Order are in conflict, as the Magocracy use blood.

>In a post-apocalyptic future foretold my the seers of old, the Magocracy triumphs over all others and spreads to other god-corpses spread throughout the universe pillaging for their respective hearts

The Magocratic lords are peerless in power and individually siphon stars for their own inscrutable ends. Capable of annihilating planets with a mere stamping of their staves.

>T. smog elf

>It is suspected that the original Lords Of the Magocracy met their ends long ago when they tried to tear open the divide that was created with God's death in their last for ever more power.
>Now it is said that all that remains now are cold and merciless nightmares that seek to tear down the veil completely and usher in the purest chaos.

>Of course, these are but the thoughts of maddened fools who do not know how blessed they are to live in the light of the Lords, and all such thoughts should be stamped out at the soonest opportunity.

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Wait so what is the timeline here? If the world is built on the remnants of God, what did he sacrifice himself for? Was it a resource problem he was protecting them from or something?

Presumably, it was to protect existence from the cosmic reality-cancer plane described here ;
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Due to oddities in the universal fabric, adventurers braving the dimensions must supplement their rations with a few dog turds.

Then how is the world "built on" those remains? How can the world's existence be predicated on the world's protection from something else? Is there some time- or causality-fuckery at play here? If so, I feel like that's kind of important.

>Then how is the world "built on" those remains?
It could be that the world exists *witihn* the body of God as some mythologies would have it. That certainly isn't too far-fetched.

>How can the world's existence be predicated on the world's protection from something else?
A lot of stories have deities who sacrifice themselves in order to ensure that their creation can be born and that I think shall be protected from encroaching powers of Dark by either granting them weapons and magic in their final moments, or by literally enveloping/encircling their newly birthed Creation within themselves.

So like the Church of the Broken God from the foundation?

Close enough. Though Mekhane only sealed the Flesh away in hopes that it would be bound in his corpse ofrevermore, rather than constructing the world form his own body to lock the darkness outside.