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« on: December 17, 2006, 01:24:43 AM »

So, who would like to give us English speakers a short primer on the setting?
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« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2006, 07:27:04 PM »

I dont´t understand what you really mind... do you want a general view of the world?I think so.

So i try to resume it as well as i can.The fisrt parragrpah is a translation of the fisrt parragraph about Gaia, from there i resume the world storyfollowing teh same titles as the original one.

And the man forget.
Nobody is capable of saying that it happened, not since.Maybe a natural phenomenon erased our memory, maybe we were punished for an unknown and ancient power.Or perhaps, just we do it to ourself.
Like childrens or animals, we walk for centuries over the world, while our civiliaztion crushes.All was turn into ruins.Ruins was turn into dust.And the dust was blown away.
In that age the world had another name.
But nobody stays to remind it


The Arrival
Those who walked among us
Then some ancient race arrive to the world, and inspiring in our ancestral memory and in ourselves, they create some new races. The first were the Duk´zarist, but soon come the Sylvain, Daimah, D´Anjayni, Jayan and Ebudan races.

War in Heavens
After this the ancient race(gods maybe)goes war, and in seconds or years it doesn´t matter really the war ended, and only two entyties rise up: C´iel and Gaira.The one represents teh light and the Other the dark(not law or chaos, not good or evil only the two sides of the same coin)they rise up with seven disciples teh Beryls of C´iel and the Shajads of Gaira. Since this moment only they of the ancient race remain in the world, since then called Gaia.

The Gaia´s born
After the War, there was a age of cultural brillaince, standing out the races of Sylvain( guided by teh Beryls) and the Duk´zarist(guided by the Sajhads).Soon teh Duk´zrist Imperium led by Ghestalt Noah Orbatos(it´s one of my favorites characters) march to war against all over the world.
The Darkness War
The Duk´zarist armies conquer almost the whole world, (this doesn´t pleasure teh shajads that dislike the xenophobic attitude of their "sons").
Was in that moment when an anonimous person led all the races and cultures against the Duk´zarist, given teh war an unexpected turn.The Duk´zarist lose teh war.
Then Ghestalt claimes a duel with Gayra... the result of the duel was obvius
The Chaos Age
There was another time of chaos, all races were terribly affected by the war.
That was a strange age in which some persons adquire power  as demigods.
The human were the kin less damaged by teh war and so there was the human kingdoms those who goberned all over the land.But in this progress age was our flaw, we war each against other,growings empires from night to day, some of there have been forgotten, others like Solomon still remind in our memory

The Cross Shadow
From the ashes of our wars a mesiah comes to us their name was Christ and teh religion taht he founded was basicly identical to the real Christianism, he was near to submit all the world under his flag but one of his  twelve apostols called Iscariote betrayed him fr 30 Black Coins.
He was cruxified that night at the walls of the city of Salomon, but he dies teh earth did´nt crumble, not havens were open , Simply he died.
The Eleven Sacred Kingdoms
From that moment their apostols divided his Realm in 11 kingdoms.
The magic was forbidden and other races was persecuted near to extiction.
With the tiem teh kingdoms goes war other time,ones against otehrs for political influence.
In the northern seas Rah, last descendent of Iscariote formed a new kingdom and decides that it´s time to act.
The War of God
Rah declare war againts the Christian world helped by teh duk´zarist(after teh kidanp of the young Empress Ark Noah)
The rah armies goes unvincible all over the land.
But one Human called Zhorne Giovanni (one of teh princes of teh kingdoms)joined under his flag all the races against rah, but that wasn´t sufficient.
Meanwhile one Duk´zarist called Larvae rescue alone the young empress, turning teh balance of teh war into an adventage for Zhorne.
Rah was conscient of his soon lost, so he activated his most lethal arm, one machina capable of destruct the world if he doesn´t conquer teh world he woulkd destroy it.
He was very near of do it, but Cíel and Gayra decided to intervine, taht was the last tiem they do this, and when they do it there was late to save teh world like there was before teh activation of the machine.
Rah was erased from the face of the world by his machine...


The Rupture

The Saint-sacred Imperium of Abel
The last emperor
And now...

PS:More tomorrow if I can Huh, I expect you enjoyed, and if somenone want to start with the Organizations, and the Powers in the Shadow
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« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2006, 10:19:42 AM »

Well, that was a nice wetting of the appetite. Thanks! I can't wait to see some more.
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« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2006, 11:48:14 AM »

Some tidbits about the organizations present in the core book (we know that there are more coming in Gaïa: Beyond Dreams):
  • The Church: The Vaticine Church, the most important organization, created by Christ years before his death in the walls of Solomon. Nowadays, faces new conflicts with the principalities that have parted from the Empire and, therefore, from the Faith. Basically, think in medieval church. And of course that means...
  • The Inquisition: Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! (the book is spanish, so the inquisition too, and that let's me write the line Smiley ). The Inquisition in Gaïa has a sacred mission: to eliminate every antinatural being in the world. As Christ said, magic is blasfemous, and must be eliminated. Of course, the most important inquisitors have great powers, but they say the their powers come directly from God.
  • The Templars of Tol Rauko: This is a very interesting organization. Created at the same time as the Inquisition, by the same Emperor, their objectives are completely opposed: Tol Rauko seeks to protect all things Strange, to conservate at least an specimen from every magical being, and to recover and study magical artifacts. Tol Rauko and the Inquisition have an agreement: when there is something interesting to both organizations, finders keepers. If a new magical beast is discovered, and the Inquisition is the first to get to the creature, then the Inquisitor is free to slay the beast. But if a Templar arrives there first, then he can capture and study the being, and the Inquistion cannot interfere.
  • Heaven's Order: Empress Private Army, with some of the greatest warriors known.
  • Samael: With the Inquisition, Tol Rauko, and the general hate from the people, these are hard times to the magical beings. So some of them have organized a network to help eachothers, called Samael.
  • Black Sun: The Black Sun is an international group of merchants interested in magical items. They look for them, retrieve them, and sell them in the black market.
  • Wissenschaft: Literally, "Science". A secret organization created by one of the greatest (if not the greatest) minds of Gaïa: Lucanor Giovanni. Wissenschaft is like an I+D group, with investigation branchs about science, magic, magical beings, technology, etc...
  • Selene: An all-female sect of killers. All his members are women of great beauty and supernatural abilities. They are mercs that kill anyone, if their employer pays enough.

I have told very little, but maybe it's enough to let you have an idea.
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« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2006, 07:16:00 PM »

More info of teh setting has been edited in teh first post... sorry for my english, but it´s harder to translate from spanish to english, than english to spanish^__^
PS: of course if i can write more tomorrow i´ll do it
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« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2006, 10:16:26 AM »

Thanks guys.  Shocked JESUS IS PART OF THIS GAME?! HOLY CRAP! LITERALLY! Those orginizations sound really cool. This is gonna be so awesome.
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« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2006, 10:30:48 AM »

Not Jesus: Christ.

A man who preached about the Only God, and against the supernatural beings. A man who reunited an army of twelve followers. A man who died in the walls of Solomon, betrayed by one of his followers, who received thirty black metal coins in exchange. A man whose death inspired his followers to conquer the world in his name.

[SPOILER AHEAD]
A man created by the Powers in the Shadow as an attempt to bring some order and peace to the world, inspired by an ancient story of a man who did that a long, long, long time ago, much before the World Forgot...
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« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2006, 10:35:46 AM »


[SPOILER AHEAD]
A man created by the Powers in the Shadow as an attempt to bring some order and peace to the world, inspired by an ancient story of a man who did that a long, long, long time ago, much before the World Forgot...

That is not exactly true; none said that they used such old story.
It may be true, or may be not.
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« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2006, 10:39:08 AM »

That is not exactly true; none said that they used such old story.
It may be true, or may be not.

My memory serves me bad Smiley

I'll re-read that part when I get home from work.
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« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2006, 07:24:09 PM »

First post edited again...
Tomorrow the final aproach...
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« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2006, 08:56:39 PM »

I think that the general setting is kinda neat, and has room for alot of side-conflicts for module creation, I can't wait to start playing god, I mean writing modules.
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« Reply #11 on: December 19, 2006, 09:44:00 PM »

I know what you mean, Gutz. You are doing fine, Adamsemeth; don't worry about it too terribly much. Thanks for that bit, again, William. Well, maybe they didn't base it on an old story, but it certainly sounds like a neat plot twist if they did! Who are these men in the shadows, BTW?
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« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2006, 05:46:51 AM »

The Powers in the Shadow (The Powers Among the Shadow? The Shadow Powers? I think "in" is the better translation) are three organizations that took on their mantle protect the world at all costs. Imperium protects Gaïa, the Technocracy protects the Sylvain world, and the Illuminati protects the Duk'Zarist world.

Their power level is inimaginable. They kill gods. They destroy dimensions. They created Christ and Christiandom in Gaïa. They divided the world in three worlds, reality in three realities.
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« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2006, 11:59:41 AM »

hmm, sounds like one heck of an epic struggle idea, I wonder how one would go about killing god killers.
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« Reply #14 on: December 20, 2006, 06:22:40 PM »

hmm, sounds like one heck of an epic struggle idea, I wonder how one would go about killing god killers.
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