The Steamshaft Chronicles
This world setting will house players in a broken underground structure, the remnant of a divine plan to survive a great threat to all surface life, a plan that worked just as it failed. Three great steam shafts were built by an alliance of mortal races (according to the design of the gods) to serve as their safe haven into the new age. While the mortal races laboured the god-made runics forged the intricate life-support system that would house the slumbering forms of three new gods. Even as this great work progressed the shadow loomed and dragon god after dragon god was forced to battle against the shadow until one day the fires of destruction silenced the surface and sent the ripples of darkness through the great structural legacies of their hope.
The core setting focuses on one shaft in particular (GMs are welcome to redefine the internal situation to reflect the other two, but I will eventually create booklets about them.) which has spiralled into the superstitious grip of near-dystopia, the internal workings have begun to decay and collapse or have fallen to the encroaching tendrils of evil and the races that served the dragon gods fight a losing battle to survive even as the slumbering god at the heart of the structure stirs towards its destiny as their wakeful saviour.
Will the steam shaft slide into ruin or will it survive to usher in an age of renewal, rediscovering the long forgotten surface world under the guidance of a new god?
The Steamshaft Chronicles
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