#igsbide

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Map of Igsbide

Been working on a map for my Godbound setting. Still not sure if I'll ever get to actually run this campaign, but this has certainly been fun to work on.

I think it's about finished, everything else would have to be added mid-game.

For those interested in the world's lore... well here it goes.

The world is artificial. What reason it was created for, only the head God of that world knows. And he isn't telling. Why? Well, because he was also artificially created by someone else, from the outside. He was a fair arbiter of the world, someone who kept it protected against external threats and served as the ultimate resolver of conflict, along with his army of angels.

That isn't really why he ain't telling. For one reason or another, at a relatively recent point in time, something happened to him. He began fearing that he is losing power. Nobody could tell if it was really the case or not, but he soon started to descend to horrible lengths in order to fight said loss. The splitting point was when he began to drain his own angels for power. That was when the Angelic armies, in an unprecedented turn of events, rebelled.

The Head God did not take it idly, of course. He immediately tried to FORCE his army to obey, in the most direct manner: by using his power to effectively burn out their minds and souls, until they were left as mere extensions of his will. It worked on about half of them. The others stood strong, and fought in a war that shattered an entire continent. And, in the end, they succeeded in locking the Head God away in his own temple.

This war left the rest of the world in chaos. No arbiter, no true leadership, no guardians of peace and prosperity. And so, it slowly but surely descended into petty fiefdoms and infighting. And, more importantly, into seeking a replacement for the top position.

SOPH

Things varied on every continent. The north continent, well… it was shattered. The only lifeforms left there were the two remnant sides of the angels, and the God himself, imprisoned in his island temple.

HEARTLANDS

The central continent got split inbetween three fiefdoms. Two human, and one spirit. The twin kingdoms were lead by brothers with radically different outlooks on the world, whose bond broke apart a long time ago. Meanwhile, the spirit of the forests reigned in nature, establishing strict rules of how they interacted with her domains that everyone had to follow, or face her wrath.

KOVAN

The south was split apart, both literally and metaphorically, inbetween two other siblings. But this time artificial. The humans of this continent, seeking leadership, have crafted mechanical deities of their own. But both of them have soon separated, fought, and ended up splitting yet another continent in two in their rabble, before retreating to their domains, leaving their human followers, yet again, without leadership.

MYRIAD CULTS

The east, well… when the chaos struck, the people of this continent sprung millions of cults to all manner of entities, until one day, someone managed to reach out to something they were not supposed to. An entity of void and hunger, whose first invasion managed to get the myriad cults to unite as one side in a conflict that, eventually, managed to seal the entity away.

AIRUNDA

The jungles of the west continent ended up shattered not literally, but across borders, as each and every town and village chose to abandon their prior connections and isolate. There are few people left willing to try and get the peoples of the continent to keep in contact and help each other, mostly to poor reception, with the exception of one kind and respected soul who, in her old age, began to reverse age, as if by a miracle.

THE VITRIFIED LANDS

And the south west… there is a very good reason it is brought up last, for it was gone the first. Another breakage in the mechanisms of the world lead to something causing the guardian entities of the machinery that runs the realm to spill out, and consider everything that was on the continent as an intrusion, and a mistake. The result was it being glassed to perfection.

And that is the state of the world our heroes, now nascent Godbound themselves, would arrive unto if the campaign would have the chance to actually bloody start.

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Map of Igsbide [WIP]

Been working on my Godbound campaign again. The map of the setting! And also finally nailed down the names for the continents and some other things.