And that is a year of #Matea!

#Lore24

Biologically, each of the races of #Matea go through adolescence, except the Gnomes, who are born fully mature and the Warforged, Plasmoids, and Autognomes, who are created rather than born. As for the specific “teenage” mindset, the lineage of Goblins have a strict child/adult delineation, which carries on through the bloodline. With those exceptions mentioned, “teenagers” exist in the other heritages across the world.

#December #Lore24 31/12/24

I would ask what is Wizardly Magic if not Folk Magic that’s been written down and then practiced over and over? They each draw from Mother’s Weave; the arcane web that makes contact with every aspect of #Matea, and which was Her contribution to the creation of the world. I think the biggest differential factor is scale. Folk Magic, I believe, works mostly on mundane or small things. Conversely, Scholar Magic concerns itself with the grander aspects.

#December #Lore24 30/12/24

#Matea started as a vague image of what would be the Citadels falling from the sky as calamity rained down. D&D 5th Edition provides a good skeleton to build from, but I feel that “sword & sorcery” is a little too limiting. So I borrowed elements of the aesthetics from the formative RPGs of my youth: Final Fantasy 6-9. The advanced society of Esthar from 8 fits pre-Fall Matea, while Lindblum and Vector fit the most advanced levels afterwards.

#December #Lore24 29/12/24

Of the two, the Divinities of #Matea better resemble the Greek pantheon than the Roman, but it’s still lacking as a comparison. Students of religion typically agree that the universe existed before Father’s arrival to the space where He would start his work, but the world did not. After several failed attempts, Mother came to offer aid, resulting in the current incarnation of the world. So in a sense, it is both Creatio ex nihilo and Creatio ex materia simultaneously.

#December #Lore24 27/12/24

Farmstones is about the closest comparison, though it much more resembles Go than Chess. Originating from a child not realising the stones on a rough map were for marking property boundaries and planting furrows, the game slowly caught on among the working folk until it was popularised by the nobility, viewed as an aspirational skill. During #Matea’s height, people shared (with little success) their ideas of customisation and variant rules via wireless communities.

#December #Lore24 26/12/24

One of the first design ideas for this challenge was actually trying to transpose the published campaigns into #Matea for ease of DM usage.

With that in mind:
•Hoard of the Dragon Queen/The Rise of Tiamat - Paana-Dûl
•Princes of the Apocalypse/Out of the Abyss - Gunsul
•Curse of Strahd - Prison Island of Dosoga
•Storm King’s Thunder - Junalla
•Tales from the Yawning Portal - Dun
•Tomb of Annihilation - Pobari Desert

#December #Lore24 22/12/24
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