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The link to the detailed world map. If you are interested, it could be worth looking into it. (Attention: It is a 4000x2000 PNG file, when zooming in, it will take its time to load)
Hey there folks!
Today I had an idea. Yea, great start, I know,
I decided to make a custom Plane for the MtG Multiverse and called it Garic. (It has nothing to do with the Planeswalker Garruk Wildspeaker, I simply liked the name.)
In Garic there are a lot of the races available in the MtG Multiverse. Amongst them are Humans, Dwarves, Gnomes, Elves (of different kind, reaching from Wood Elf to Drow), Orcs, Demons, Angels and several others. It is an entire planet, I will release cards to that in packs of around 5, 10 or 20. (Fucking Upload Restrictions will make me stick to a low number)
Garic is controlled by three Human Empires, one major Dwarven state (amongst some minor ones) and a relatively big, but in comparison to the Human Kingdoms quite small Elven Kingdom. Some races, like the Gnomes, some Dragon colors, or Angels, are allied with the three main races, some like the Goblins, some more intelligent Treefolk and the High Elves (The Kingdom of the Elves is ruled by a Wood Elven King) stand neutral to them, and some, like the Drow, the Undead, the Orcs, the Ogres or the Demons, are in bigger or smaller wars with the dominating races. It is the year 192 post Genesis (pG, happenings before Uther are bG).
Distribution of the World: Who rules where?
The three human Kingdoms rule in the far West, mainly around the Imperial Gulf and the Sea of Hope, the far East, stretching from the Port of Uther in the North to Liberty Anchor in the South, and the far South, controlling nearly all settlements at the Southern Channel. The Wood Elves rule in the Southwest (you can see Elven names by their human translation beneath or above them). The Dwarfs took the center of the map, the main Kingdom of the Silverhammer Clan namely the 4 mountain areas called High Glaciers, Iron Mountains, Eastern Mountains and Silverbacks.
There are some settlements that are not controlled by the main races, though: A town called Safestay at the northern end of the Western Morass in the Southern Human Kingdom is controlled by Gnomes. A town called Panther Rock calls itself the neutral safety for anyone, being ruled by Dragons and former druids of the High Elves. Farin in the far Northwest of Garic is controlled by the Elves that rather live on flat grasslands than in forests, the High Elves. The Fortress of Seasoul on the Soul Island near the South East of Garic is actually ruled by the Undead and the last major settlement of enemies of the three main races.
History of the Races: What made them what they are today? What are their virtues? What are their targets?
Human Kingdoms in General
The decisive point of the human history was the birth of a man that would later determine the number of the year the world is in: Uther Goldenblade, later called Uther the Great. Until his birth, the humans were one of many nomadic races and they were threatened by aggressive neighbours, the most powerful and painbringing amongst them being the Blackskull Orc Clan. When he was seventeen, Uther who barely knew how to read or write, joined the army of the only city state up to this date, Alexarius. He killed dozens, hundreds, then thousands of Orcs and other evil races. While men to all sides of him fell in combat, there was something about Uther making him unkillable. He became an officer of the army at the age of eighteen, he became general when he was twenty and supreme commander when he was twenty-four.
Until that point, his risky and brave manouvers that never costed any enemy civilian their lives had quadrupled the size of Alexarius. His motto, "Honor and Valor", would later define the two most important words for the armies of three Kingdoms that all on their own are around twohundred times bigger than Alexarius when Uther joined the army. After finally defeating and enslaving the Blackskulls, he went home. He met up with Sylvia, princess and third child, younger sister to two princes, and she made an offer he couldn't decline.
He threw over the former King, the great-grandson of the name giving city patron Alexar I., Jonathan II., murdered the king, his queen and his two princes. He married Sylvia and became King of Alexarius. From there, he began his onslaught of conquering everything that hadnt capitulated yet. In the next forty years, he conquered a lot of the mosaic of small city states making the world at that point. He renamed Alexarius into Emperor's Throne and stopped the conquering for the last years of his life, knowing that he would never beat those he did not beat yet: Valanar the Great of the Wood Elves, High Chancellor Barim Silverhammer, Lord of the Dwarven Mountain Keeps, Aratdormu, Dragon King of Panther Rock, Gizmo XXII. of Safestay and the Lich Lord Traka'rak, Lord of Seasoul.
At the age of 76, he died in peace after all these wars. In the following months, his empire broke into several parts.
The Empire
The Western Kingdom, claiming to still be the empire of Uther, is ruled by Empress Sylvia, widow of Uther, who uses black magic to stay immortal and in power. The Empire is still ruled from her city of decendance, Emperor's Throne, the former Alexarius. The farmers and workers of the empire are unhappy people because of the tyranny with which her empress rules. The army is not much more than a bunch of hungering soldiers with sticks for weapons, the main reason the Empire is not invading because of its power hunger. The Empire consists of the cities Ironfist's Refuge, Amarica, Seashore, Hope Town, Uther's Hand, Itak, Garnae, Lorc, Westend, Port Valor and the former Navy Commanding Post that became a vivid Port Town, Navy Heart.
The Southern Alliance
The Southern Kingdom is not really that but a strong pact of city states, led by the Capital City, Thorium. Amongst the major settlements of the Southern Alliance are the Southern Merchant Post, Port Honor, Long Coast and Morass Watch. Even the fortress called Argent Keep joined the Southern Alliance, mainly to get rid of the influence of the Empire. The Southern Alliance is a pact of Merchants that is willing to trade anything from anyone to anyone. The black markets of Thorium and Port Honor are the biggest salehouses for goods there are in the entirety of Garic.
The Kingdom of Dargaha
The Eastern Kingdom was the result of a fleet of settlers simply sailing west from the Sea of Hope. They arrived at an Island and called it after their King: Uther Island. They built their name-giving Capital City, Dargaha, onto that island. Ruled by the General of their Armies, the first being General Timotheus Bravesword who fled from the Empire disgusted by what Sylvia did to become Queen and then to become the immortal Empress, the Kingdom of Dargaha was always a strong military state, until the conflict called the Long War. From 92 to 108 the Demonic Hordes, allied with the Undead of Soul Island, attacked targets in the Kingdom of Dargaha, mainly the big ports Farshire and Liberty Anchor. But after stabilizing the situation there, King Timotheus fell for a trap: While he was sending huge armies from Uther Island's West Shore to the continent, a huge demonic army came from the East. Critically weakened, Dargaha City fell to the onslaught. King Timotheus sacrificed himself to give a mage the time to teleport to Liberty Anchor to bring the message of the defeat. A huge keep, called East End Fortress, was built in record time and helped defeating the demonic hordes at the battle of East End in February 108, ending the war with a very bloody victory for Dargaha.
The Republic of the Silverhammer Clan
The only democracy of the five states, the Dwarfs of the Silverhammer Clan (also inoffically called the Fourmountains Clan, after how many different mountain areas they control) are the most advanced civilization in both social and military standards. While the Humans move in Troops of 10, Regiments of 200 and Legions of 6000 and the Elves do not even have divisions of their armies like that, the Dwarfs move in Units of 10, 10 Units forming a Batallion of 100, 10 Batallions forming a Division of 1000 and 10 Divisions forming an Army of 10,000. Those military instances that are centrally commanded by one commander who has to listen to his supreme commander from the next higher military instance allow the Dwarfs to move their Tanks, Infantry, Cavalry, Aircraft and Navy (The Republic Navy is only a small office in the ministry of defense, as a race living in the mountains is not really in the position to build armored ships and go to war with them.)
They fought war with Uther the Great, his widow and two kings of the East and their Armored Vehicles (humans tend to call them Tanks) always left the battlefield with hundreds of more infantryman skulls crushed by their main cannons, by their side machine guns or simply by them driving over the troop of humans. The Clan Leader since 40 bG (Dwarfs tend to live around 170 to 240 years) is Barim Silverhammer, the High King. That is the official name for the chancellor and Barim stands with his name that he never faked elections and won all leader elections except the one from 32 pG, during the first war against Uther the Great. In 36 pG, the Dwarfs were nearly defeated, so they put their hope into Barim again.
He lifted things up and let them drop directly into some humans face: The battle at a small mountain fortress was won because Mountain Giants, the opposite but even though befriended race to the dwarfs, coming down from a lonely mountain and ran over the human army. Since then, the mountain is called "The Titan" and the fortress "Gate of the Titans". Uther tried again in 41, beginning the second war against the dwarfs (Officially called the first and second imperial war by the dwarfs) and losing and retreating in late 41 against a new invention that redefine the way of militarily fighting, invented by gnomes, built and used by dwarves, feared by humans: Motorized Aircrafts.
Regnum Dryadalum (The Wood Elf Kingdom)
Regnum Dryadalum (OOC: Latin for Kingdom of the Elves, the Elven language is latin to show that the dwarfs and the humans speak a different but similar to each other language (called common), that descended from the rough language of titans (represented by German) and the at that time very powerful Wood and High Elves (represented by Latin)) is the Kingdom of the Wood Elves, the Kingdom of the High Elves (Regnum Alterum) and the Kingdom of the Drow (Regnum Sinisterum) having smallered to a city state or collapsed completely, respectively. The Elves. who live around 900 to 1200 years, have their supreme leader Valanar the Great since 760 bG. Since then, their kingdom, mainly located in the Peaceful Forest and in the west of it, has been going well in social, financial and educational point of view, even though they are not considered the most advanced race anymore since the invention of Motorized Aircraft by the Gnomes and Dwarves.
The Free People of Panther Rock
Panther Rock once was a village in the western end of the Eastern Humans, before the later Dragon King Aratdormu fell in love with a human girl and, to be united with her, granted her one wish. She wanted her parents, farmers that were nearly enslaved by the laws and taxes, to be free. Aratdormu, a high General of the Red Dragonswarm, gathered his troops and conquered Panther Rock. The Life Span of a Dragon makes them nearly immortal, so the threaten that the Red Dragons would come to destroy their kingdom kept the Eastern Humans off the young democracy of Panther Rock. Aratdormu, in his human disguise known as Arator Silverstaff, a human mage from the Southern Alliance, used this disguise to be united with his beloved girl as she declined to be part of a ritual that would enable her to become a dragon (her sould would have been transferred into a Dragon's dead body, so she would have very restricted magic and fire breath). Panther Rock is a refuge for all political exilants, even accepting criminals. Their law number one is: "A man, woman or child is free from slavery and all crimes they may have commited once he or she enters the city's gate - but he and she has to accept and follow the laws the Free People of Panther Rock decided that are best for them."
The Gnomes of Safestay
The greatest inventors, the small cousins of the dwarfs, the only other civilized race with a Life Span like the humans (70 to 90 years). The Gnomes are the inventor of armored warships, tanks, motorized aircraft, fully automatic weapons, but also peaceful things like electricity and under that cooling machines, lightbulbs and a gnome named Colin Olav Magarath Puter invented a digit calculator machine called after his initials plus his last name: "C.O.M.PUTER". The gnomes are no direct democracy, but a king can be faced against a court that will rate his actions and, if necessary, take his crown off. The gnomes are no military nation and require the military aid of the Southern Alliance they joined because of this reason. In exchange, they taught the humans how to build ships of steel and how to have an automated protection against aggressive tides and storms.
The Lich Kingdom of Seasoul
The last evil kingdom that still stands today, the Lich Kingdom of Seasoul, ruled by a Drow Arcanist called Traka'rak who is not more then a hovering skeleton - with a lot of magic in it. Soul Island is the Kingdom of the Undead, also offering shelter to some Orc clans and some Drow. From time to time, they invade Garic, mainly the land around the city Liberty Anchor to find graveyards to resurrect and bones to gnaw on.
The Drow
The Kingdom of the Drow (Regnum Sinisterum) once stretched from the Uldarac Mountains to the Port of Uther. It got destroyed by three main wars: One against Uther the Great, one against Barim Silverhammer and one against the later allies, the Demonic Hordes. There is no official ruler of the Drow remaining, most of them, living on Soul Island, listen to their undead brother Traka'rak the Lich as their new supreme commander. Some live on the peninsula called The End of the World. Those Drow listen to the whispers of an so far unknown evil.
The Demonic Hordes
Last but CERTAINLY not least, the Demonic Hordes of Garic are a clash of races from space, sent by a high evil to take over Garic as they took over many other worlds. The Demonic Hordes' supreme commander, the Dread Lord called Kara'nathran (Demonic for Immortal Evil), resides in the ruins of Dargaha. The Demons' army has been destroyed during the battle of East End, but their infiltrators certainly are doing their job yet. Also, they allied with the Drow, some Orc clans and the Undead of Soul Island to aechieve their goal of conquering their world even faster.
Gameplay: What will play like what?
The Empire shows love to liberty and justice to the outside, but is a huge mess, everyone enslaved by the Empress. The Main Colors will be Colorless, White, Red and Black. The main idea will be that Soldiers buff each other and a lot of other cards have Tap abilities to help their soldiers in combat.
The Kingdom of Dargaha is purged of all evil nobles since their capital got ran over. Now there is only the will to survive and protect each other until the comeback is possible. The Main Colors will be white and blue. The white side will focus on creatures with Defender, spells that can remove Defender from own minions to gain an advantage, buffs that mostly will rise toughness and Enchantments that make all creatures stronger determined of how many there are. The blue side will mainly focus on dealing direct damage and drawing cards, sometimes at the cost of discard.
The Southern Alliance is a pact of free merchants, protected by brave soldiers and populated by all kinds of people, some even students or members of the Wood Elven race. Colors will be all but Black. Colorless will focus on soldiers that buff each other. Red will focus on creatures with Haste or creatures dealing damage once they enter play. Blue will focus on permanents with tap abilities to deal damage to players that have special effects when dealt against oneself, Green on bigger creatures and Enchantments that buff green creatures a lot and debuff everything else. I have not made up my mind about White yet.
Rest coming soon.
The big heroes (Barim Silverhammer, Uther the Great, Valanar etc) will be Planeswalkers. A lot of creatures will be featured I can foretell. Because I like creatures.
Soooo, any feedback on the idea so far? Is it interesting? is this even the right place to post this? Or is boredom resulting in a creative burnout boring again?