Welcome one and all to the realm of Arath, or as the uneducated masses call it... 'Bugworld.' A realm of swords and sorcery, fantastical beasts and ancient evils...and with all of it being done through the many little eyes of various bugfolk. Moth necromancers, Roach bards, Spider rangers and Mantis monks.Come along and add your ideas and input to the construction of this cozy little resurrected worlduilding project.
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Last thread: (Topic resurrection edition?) Where a whole lot of talking happened and where a whole lot of nothing actually got done.
Someone mentioned making the Roaches who don't live in cities Druids/Shamans
Could work with that
Ian Rogers
I have an idea for Black Widows, I'll link it when I finish up with the details.
Ian Collins
With how intense and aggressive Robber Flies are they'd probably have some nasty stories drifting around to scare young larva and nymphs to stay in their burrows or else the Robbers will get them
Robber Flies are pretty impressive, they will take out dragonflies, wasps, bees, all mid-air while flying. Some will even pluck a spider from its web without fear
Jayden Nelson
Alright boys, my little write-up on Black Widows is done. Anyone want to add to my ideas? Or you could call me a faggot. It's up to you!
I hope you like it. I got huge deja-vu while writing this, I feel like I've seen everything here before.
Asher Ortiz
I definitely like the roaches as a permanently displaced community of gypsies with unusual tenacity and a strong ethnic culture wherever they set up shop in.
Looking at the races section i noticed that there actually is no mention of the pill-bug race outside of there being an antagonistic cult of them running around.
>Woodlouse Sect of Return
>A dangerous trilobite worshipping religious sect who revile the use of higher technology and instead rely on strange magics from their ancient gods. They hope to summon the Great Isopod from the sea to wreak havoc against those they deem to have transgressed against their beliefs.
I don't see why we couldn't use some of 's proposed roach background lore as a general foundation for the pillbugs and as an expansion for the roaches.
With a lore like that i'm thinking that they should put in the strait up antagonists section of the lore. As a whole they seem like an utter menace to socity.
Henry Sanders
If I recall correctly spiderkind had sort of gone through a cultural shift where a female tarantula (I think?) managed to unite various types of spider together and formed a city/civ that started working at repairing and building up diplomatic relations with the other bugs with the laws of never feeding on another intelligent being and relying solely on farm raised/hunted feral creatures.
Now clearly this wouldn't include all spiders since different species/types would still probably stick to whatever their tribe or ancestors did before this "Revelation" but it would help with letting a Spider be a PC without fearing immediate slaughter upon entering most townships
Jeremiah Hernandez
I think the Wasps/Hornets also had something similar where a group broke off and vowed to stop using intelligent beings as incubators since their kind are parasitoids that require a host for their larva to consume.
Wasp-kind would probably view them more harshly than some of the "evil" spiders do their peaceful kin
