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7 hours ago, NinthMusketeer said:

Hm, "Tridentcrests" seems incomplete to me, though I cannot put my finger on why. What if it were along the lines of "Tridentcrest Guard" or the like? 

Or it could just be me.

If they are astral Templars then that could be the name of their warrior chamber

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Eltharion is gonna be crazy good

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Why not call it dreamwine but I feel like that might be ripping off asoiaf a little.  That walking scrimshaw line had me laughing.

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We could either have them ima hidden crypt complex underneath the city(something Nagash did as part of his go fund me page) or the city could be subjected to the tithe. 
 

I would like to do something about my Tzeentch cabal once I feel I have enough to write something.  Maybe from their perspective.

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https://ageofsigmar.lexicanum.com/wiki/Heart_of_Winter_(novella)
 

this is a good read for corsairs.  It really helps bring them to life in AoS with more relatable motives than they did as dark elves.  They are almost integrated in cities like Excelsis or Anvilgard

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i would love if sylvaneth were present.  I like the idea of the kurnothi protecting vineyards.  Maybe we could go full Greek and have little large scale farming with mostly pastoral tracts across the valley.  

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Sea life would be the greatest resource so from the megalithic monsters to whatever gets brought up in nets and trawls.  The scourge privateers could hunt giant monsters on whatever crazy stormwracked liquid metal seas that would pass for deep ocean in Chamon like they do in Ghur.  
 

whatever races we end up putting in the setting really would determine that kind of stuff.   Like any coastal town they would export what they get from the sea that people further inland can’t get.  I.e. fish and apparently magic vineyards on the landward side of the city.  I hope that wine would make you hallucinate as well as get you drunk.

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Welcome aboard I think the whole point is that anyone can contribute in any way they want.  
If you want to create that stormhost you are more than welcome to and I’m sure folks will help you along if you need it.  

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If anything it could be a humorous quip someone says when they see them.  

they wouldn’t be much for a secret police but they would definitely be noticed like the guys from hamilcar that had glass armor and weapons.  
the stormhost is definitely something that I can’t figure yet.  Perhaps celestial vindicators since most stories about stormcast externals that take place in Chamon have been about them.  They have an edgy vibe like the knights excelsior so I could see them getting unhinged and going on pogroms.  A good stormcast main character would be a lord veritant for sure.  
perhaps we could set it up that there are so many secret police forces, gangs and cults that the between good and evil or right and wrong could be distorted so any way you look at it your faction of choice is just doing what they think is right or in their best interests.  Like in old cop shows there are always people who have the ability to do what is right but take a selfish or easier route that makes them no better than the people they oppose.   Like Khainites making blood sacrifices of Khorne worshipers.

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the start of the duardin turf war 

I wonder if they used the scales of larger fish to make coats of scale mail for the elite guards if they would stink like a wharf.  

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Anything by Josh Reynolds is good.  For me his stories really sold me on the stormcasts as protagonists with Gardus.  Like many have said city of secrets, Gloomspite, any of the chaos short story anthologies, the sylvaneth anthology, the eight lamentations are really cool how he ties his characters together with especially the 99 CRow guys.  My favorite stories are the early ones that establish how the setting works and introduces the stormcasts during the first few years of the game.  Please just catch up on your Hamilcar and you will see they arnt all Uriel Ventris riding a dragon.

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Counterfeiting fish scales 🤣🤣

I could see scourge privateers being big players n town.  

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Do you think the fish in Chamon would have metal scales or bones?

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Everything that @JPjrwrote includes everything we have brain stormed on here.  The supernatural caldera is a cool idea and still keeps the godbeast we want.  

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I always imagined the vampires as the ones who spread the cults but them being separate kinds of vampires working at the same time would be cool.  
I was just wondering what do these people do to eat, then that got me thinking how do they survive with so much intriguing and shadow murder wars.  There has to be something that they all want other than food and water for a complex society to exist here.   If your familiar with Excelsis think of the prophecy chips they use as currency and you get what I mean.  
I think if they have a large complex agricultural system That is well established like serfdom or large plantations there would be enough commerce and trade to give rise to this many illicit organizations.  The human population kept downtrodden to produce food for the city of mixed races.

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I like that the shadow war.  We can’t forget the khainites and random smatterings of skaven and moonclan grots living in the literal calcified bowels of the city.

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So like the city is built within, around, and upon the remains of a gargantuan drake-like godbeast within the realms of Shadows where like celestial bodies from Chamon come through the sky causing things to change alchemically and in the mouth of the skull is a realmgate to the realm of Death.  Underneath of the city is a warren of catacombs as well. 

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I feel as though sticking the city in Shyish is like putting a huge bullseyes on them.  I could understand if the realmgate in the skull led there but actually in Shyish and in the habitable parts is right in the prime area of the OBR expansions.  I vote we put the city in a realm other than Shyish as Nagash is pretty ruthless against enemies in his domain and I also feel that using him like they did in Warhammer fantasy as a seducing evil that worms it’s way in like a demon(i.e. Azhag the Slaughterer).  If it’s a stable society we are trying to write up they we don’t want to doom having over them right away.  The threats can be overt like with roving hordes but I feel it leaves more for the dramatic and suspense if we leave the greater threats as something trying to make its way in and gain control subversively as opposed to crushing oppression like they showed in Aqshy during the realmgate wars.   I would vote either Ghyran or Ghur as either of those two have plentiful foodstuffs for the ol’ Inter-Realm trade.   Though Chamon would be really cool as there haven’t really been a lot of lore written about it there.  There are even places in one realm where the magic of another flows into like an animal graveyard in ghur or an ever active volcano in Ghyran.  We could make a place in Ulgu influences by the ever changing ways of Chamon or a corner of Ashy where the life giving powers of Ghyran overflows an a mad jungle that constantly grows has popped up.  The way they constructed this setting really does boggle the mind in its possibilities.   

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What kind of creature is the godbeast? I feel like that would give us a good visualization of how the landscape would form around such a huge skeleton.  Depending on how many ribs are on the skeleton we decide on we could use that to determine how many magic users we would need for our ruling council.  
Another thing that got me thinking is the Ossaiarch Bonereapers.  A place like this made of bone and magic out the wazzu would be a prime target for them.  All I can think of is it is just too far from Shyish for them to have gotten there yet or the skeleton isn’t made from bone in the first place .  Maybe a form of stone but then there are the petrifex elite guys who use fossils.  We could opt for it to be made of some magical stone that defies logic just to make it unappealing to the Ossiarchs.  
 

I just want to put it out there that I think one of the stable human shanty towns shanty towns should be called “Bone Town”.

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I’m not sure about pocket realms hurdling through the realm of chaos.  Maybe a hidden realm gate leads there and chaos cults use it to move in reinforcements or flee if need be.

 

i was thinking more on the duality if the Azyrite faiths versus those that we considered heresy to build on my earlier post with vampire covens masquerading as nobles and Nagasaki death cults preying on the downtrodden using them as will vessels of sacrifice to fuel the power of the necromantic cabals.  You could have slanneshi pleasure cults, Nurgle plague congregations, Tzeentch cabal meetings as much as hidden Khornate gladiatorial fight clubs .  
 

Maybe separate the city by segregation based on class instead of race so the rich have the best defensive parts of town alll the duardin, aellves, and oomgi ass have to dwell in close confines.

question is do the dominate the landscape around their city with outposts and free guild forts all over the place.  
 

one thing I think we should all do is try and write from the perspective of the characters or armies you would prefer to be canon there like how there are shameless plugs for all the new kits in the BL literature that comes out with a release.  It’s a good technique to try and narratively make a mediocre or bad unit you like seem awesome in the lore. Sell your arguments you know.   

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What realm should this take place in?  Should there be a situation like Hammerhal where trade is from the realmgate or like Excelsis where trade is done based on a magic substance like a realmstone?  I think if we stick with a realm they have talked about a lot then it would give us a better framework to build on as well as providing how the laws of physics function there.  
What type of god beast are we talking here? Like an Ignax level power or something more like the squig one that burned up in the sun.  I think something like the lodestone griffin from Chamon would be cool where it is so powerful on its magical nature that it warps reality around it. 

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i think we should just start coming up with ideas and once there are a bunch you start the voting.  
 

I vote a Tzeentch cult rooted deep in the city with all that entails.  Maybe Nagash Worshippers corrupting people to necromancy resulting in gang wars between the two

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Has anyone dropped any ideas?

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I would be interested in writing something once you all have it hashed out which way you want the setting to go.  I tried this same exercise and it helped motivate me to paint which is always a good thing.  
I do think posting writing to the forums is the way to go so we can represent TGA.  Maybe that’s the name of the ruling body in the setting.

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I posted on the discussion but I feel like I’ve seen the name Celennar before.  Do you happen to know if I’m just crazy or was it in one of those books?

also with their new name I feel like they are gonna be elven expansionists with a sprinkling of genocide mixed in.