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Discussion X'ogro city of the sands and the gura'dai

would you like a conversion

  • lizardmen conversion

    Votes: 2 28.6%
  • skaven conversion

    Votes: 1 14.3%
  • empire conversion

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • undead conversion

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • dwarf conversion

    Votes: 1 14.3%
  • ork and goblin conversion

    Votes: 3 42.9%

  • Total voters
    7
  • Poll closed .
I tread lightly only because I don't like to offend people =) but the black market is a great idea, really. I do look forward to seeing this develop (as I might shift my own ideas if I catch one that fits in my story haha).

Is this going to end up being the fluff for your host? or will there be a story to this later on as well?
 
I'm glad to hear of another desert dwelling lizardmen off shoot. I have mine allied towards a sort of "Sand Elf" as well, related heavily to wood elves.

In my set of lore, I have these Sand Elves as a nomad band with no buildings of any kind. They wander through a sea of dunes from water spring to water spring, sometimes using magic to entice the water out of the ground. They wander with their walking tree friends who settle into the ground whenever they make a stop at a spring, leaving them vulnerable, and the elves spread out to hide amongst the sand with the help of their illusions. The grandest of their illusions are the mirages that mislead enemies into walking in circles until they die out of exhaustion; they can even hide the true placement of the sun in the sky so that experienced travelers never find their way out. While they take a mostly hands off approach to defense, they are known to be ruthless attackers, peppering targets with more arrows than it really required to take it down. Trade is scarce as they are a defensive peoples with a hermit kingdom attitude, but they have been known to push sand on would-be traders; much like the real world Inuit having multiple words for snow, so too do the sand elves have many words for sand and all the different qualities. While the sands are great for glass blowers, the market is small and they end up killing most of their captives at the "negotiating table" so to speak.

I don't want to muscle in on your Fluff page, but this is what I had; feel free to pick and choose any aspects that you would like to fit into your sand elves =)

That was my first idea for the elves, but I'm kinda bored with GW endless amount of
'There are but 3 of these AMAZING!, AWESOME!, OM(F******)G WHY DO YOU MAKE THIS BADASS THING SO RATE I HATE GW, WHERE IS THE LIVE LONG AND PROSPER AND THE OH THERE ARE LOAD OF THESE BUT THEIR HIDDEN ATTITUDE'

Sorry had to get that out

But This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the “vox populi(8th edition rememberers)” now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin(yes skaven and GW members), van guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of fantasy.....*rambles on*(v for new rules and new exciting fluff)
Looks a @Y'ttar Scaletail shifty
 
I tread lightly only because I don't like to offend people =) but the black market is a great idea, really. I do look forward to seeing this develop (as I might shift my own ideas if I catch one that fits in my story haha).

Is this going to end up being the fluff for your host? or will there be a story to this later on as well?
I'm writing stories for it would you like to be a part of it?
 
But This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the “vox populi(8th edition rememberers)” now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin(yes skaven and GW members), van guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of fantasy.....*rambles on*(v for new rules and new exciting fluff)
Looks a @Y'ttar Scaletail shifty
Verily, ye vile non-verminous lizard-thing...I mean...er...Kill-slay the superior Skavenkind, for the Horned R...er...Old Ones?
 
but I like to think as the desert elves as having one hub and I like the idea of them basically being the narcotic cartel/drug lords of the old world

That kind of reminds of how Elves were portrayed on the D&D setting of Athas. In Athas you have desert Dwarves, desert Elves, desert Humans. The world is pretty much all desert except for a few secret forests. On Athas, most Elves are traders and merchants and they tend to be scheming disreputable merchants.

You can read Athas's Wikipedia article but the cliff notes version is in Athas most magic comes from plant life. Preservers could tap small amounts of power from plants while Defilers essentially strip mined plants leaving them dead and the soil around them infertile. Greedy magic users turned the planet from a vibrant nice place to live into a hellish desert. Rajaat got the bowl rolling on this defiling much of the world in his genocidal campaigns until his top lieutenants realized that they were also on Rajaat's kill list and they imprisoned him. Then the top lieutenant Borys goes bat skyte crazy and defiles MORE of the planet. Basically the former minions of the Rajaat have set themselves up as sorcerer kings ruling over the few remaining habitable areas. They encourage they citizens to worship them much like a certain North Korean family does. Slavery is widespread, water and food is scarce, metal is so scarce that copper and iron is worth it's weight in gold, metaphorically. Gold is LUDICROUSLY rare. And everything in this setting is dark. Elves being swindling merchants is just one tiny detail.
 
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