An attempt to make an Eberron-themed ravenloft city
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:23 pm
If anyone has read my plaines of lost innocence topic, I am trying to make a dark steampunk city of twisted monstrosties and dark charecters.
All under the rule of the trainmaster, who may or may not be a dark lord.
As noted in the last topic, it became distracted from its main theme, so this is an attempt to get back to it.
The city is supposed to be a perversion of the steampunk cities of eberron, and also of sigil. A city that repersents the most darkest aspects of progress, of the caste system, of technology itself.
Taking inspiration from books such as the Dark Tower.
I am looking for suggestions, and any critique to make this fit in ravenloft more.
Description
The city was founded as New Glenwhich, but that was many many a year ago, and little if any of that once prosperus city remains.
What is left is twisted and broken, to lie forver in the shadows of the beast which lies now at the cities centre. The very thing this city now takes its name, the train station, Grand Central.
Some even mockingly call now this city Rune.
It all changed when he came, though some even say he did not exist at all, just the collective name for a group of entrepreneurs. But there fools, and he did.
Marcus Fleeting he was called, though I doubt that name was real. The Planar Consumption Engine he called it, it will change the world he said, and it did. It really did.
The Districts
The Watchtower - Rising from grand central like some foul totem, stands the most prominent feature of Rune. The watchtower, it can be seen from all across the plaines, and even in some of the lands beyond its borders. The central clock is a confusing array of dials and cogs, with arms which tell, second, minute, hour, day, month, year, century, and even millenia. There is also said to be one arm, that has never compleatly rotated, which they say as the rumours tells, only goes round once. Whats its counting down to, no one knows.
The Shackled Gardens- The Lords Ward - Suspended by chains, held in place by the cities walls. Lies the most exlusive section of the city.
The homes of the elites of scoiety, and the cities goverment.
Constructed when the Infection ransacked the city, as an escape for the rich to avoid the diseases of the poor.
Many a time servants are seen dropping from this paradise, due to the employers disatification with there service, or merely for there amusement.
Unamed middle class section - The second level is in the daylight, and is a sprawing metropolis. It is the level most seen by visitors. It is filled with merchants, and workshops.
The Maw - The Hive Ward The lowest level, is a mixture of slums, and factories, and also serves as a water collection basin. It is located just above the sewers, but alot of these open up into this layer, so disease is run rife.
It is the world of the slaves and the lower class, and as such many of the blind grey skinned orcs and morlocks (humans who have devolved over the genertions), with also many mutants and outcasts (there is also a civizilisation of drow down here, who usually live in luxury, and also organise the slaves, and also run alot of the criminal underbelly in grand central).
The main food source down here is a special type of black rice made to grow in darkness, another lynchpin of there diet is fungus bread, made from flour which is composed of the various fungi which grow in this damp underbelly.
Looks akin to a smog and darkness filled venice.
The Trains
The trains will take you anywhere, as long as its not out.
Necropolis Railway - When the graveyards burst there banks, and the dead walked the streets a new way to manage the constant flood of the dead that now rotted in the streets.
So the necropolis railway was devised. Taking the dead across the wastelands, through Necropolis, and then into the elemental plane of Graves.
Mistway Express - Will take you anywhere in the demiplae of dread, just remember to pay your fare.
All under the rule of the trainmaster, who may or may not be a dark lord.
As noted in the last topic, it became distracted from its main theme, so this is an attempt to get back to it.
The city is supposed to be a perversion of the steampunk cities of eberron, and also of sigil. A city that repersents the most darkest aspects of progress, of the caste system, of technology itself.
Taking inspiration from books such as the Dark Tower.
I am looking for suggestions, and any critique to make this fit in ravenloft more.
Description
The city was founded as New Glenwhich, but that was many many a year ago, and little if any of that once prosperus city remains.
What is left is twisted and broken, to lie forver in the shadows of the beast which lies now at the cities centre. The very thing this city now takes its name, the train station, Grand Central.
Some even mockingly call now this city Rune.
It all changed when he came, though some even say he did not exist at all, just the collective name for a group of entrepreneurs. But there fools, and he did.
Marcus Fleeting he was called, though I doubt that name was real. The Planar Consumption Engine he called it, it will change the world he said, and it did. It really did.
The Districts
The Watchtower - Rising from grand central like some foul totem, stands the most prominent feature of Rune. The watchtower, it can be seen from all across the plaines, and even in some of the lands beyond its borders. The central clock is a confusing array of dials and cogs, with arms which tell, second, minute, hour, day, month, year, century, and even millenia. There is also said to be one arm, that has never compleatly rotated, which they say as the rumours tells, only goes round once. Whats its counting down to, no one knows.
The Shackled Gardens- The Lords Ward - Suspended by chains, held in place by the cities walls. Lies the most exlusive section of the city.
The homes of the elites of scoiety, and the cities goverment.
Constructed when the Infection ransacked the city, as an escape for the rich to avoid the diseases of the poor.
Many a time servants are seen dropping from this paradise, due to the employers disatification with there service, or merely for there amusement.
Unamed middle class section - The second level is in the daylight, and is a sprawing metropolis. It is the level most seen by visitors. It is filled with merchants, and workshops.
The Maw - The Hive Ward The lowest level, is a mixture of slums, and factories, and also serves as a water collection basin. It is located just above the sewers, but alot of these open up into this layer, so disease is run rife.
It is the world of the slaves and the lower class, and as such many of the blind grey skinned orcs and morlocks (humans who have devolved over the genertions), with also many mutants and outcasts (there is also a civizilisation of drow down here, who usually live in luxury, and also organise the slaves, and also run alot of the criminal underbelly in grand central).
The main food source down here is a special type of black rice made to grow in darkness, another lynchpin of there diet is fungus bread, made from flour which is composed of the various fungi which grow in this damp underbelly.
Looks akin to a smog and darkness filled venice.
The Trains
The trains will take you anywhere, as long as its not out.
Necropolis Railway - When the graveyards burst there banks, and the dead walked the streets a new way to manage the constant flood of the dead that now rotted in the streets.
So the necropolis railway was devised. Taking the dead across the wastelands, through Necropolis, and then into the elemental plane of Graves.
Mistway Express - Will take you anywhere in the demiplae of dread, just remember to pay your fare.