The World of Cheos: Sketches for my stories

The World of Cheos

Long ago I created Cheos, a world for a Dungeons and Dragons game. It's a different take on the typical fantasy world. The mythical cratures are all half animal, half human. The monsters are all genetic nightmares. There is magic and science in this world. I decided to put it online here for help building it into a real, breathing, dynamic world. I got the idea from the World of Korio blog for my teacher's anthology class. Here's the deal. It is a shared world. Anybody can create within the guidelines I will post there. But I am the final arbiter of what is "real" on Cheos. Anybody can use the stuff from the world for thier games. I intend to write stories based on Cheos. If you post an idea on the blog, then you are accepting that it is OK for me to use it in a book. So if you are willing to help, let's create a world.

Here is the concept of the World of Cheos.

Millinea ago, there was a great war between wizard kings that destroyed the world. These wizards and thier minions created warriors by blending humans with animals. There were thousands of types of of these "blendings" but only a few have survived. The war devestated humanity, barely 20,000 true humans were left. Some of the blended races survived and eventually thrived. The rest could not sustain thier populations and died off. Thousands of years passed before the world healed itself from the destruction of the war. Now there are new civilizations and new wonders. All D&D realms have humans. In other D&D worlds humans are the most prolific of the races. That is not the case here. Since all the races are descended from humans they breed and die at the same rate (unless war, disease and famine take thier toll). The other races are all specific human-animal hybrids. There are Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Ogres, Orcs, Goblins, Kobolds, Gnomes, Merfolk and Pixies. I am open to other races, but these are what I started with.

Friday, February 20, 2009

Sketches for my stories

Demon Dragon Serpent

Hideously deformed man

War Golem

Arigos the Archimage, a 7,000 year old sorcerer

Amitar Fortress. An ancient fortress perched on an island in the middle of very large waterfalls fed by a glacial lake. Kind of like Niagara Falls, but with higher falls and more water.

The Hideously Deformed Man revealed. He is willingly possessed by scores of demons. He is evil incarnate.

Zaranos - A Demon Lord who has been planning the take over of Cheos for thousands of years. He is supremely powerful in dark magics but is almost helpless physically.

Malacos- Evil sorcerer. He summoned Zaranos but was instead possessed and subborned by the evil Demon Lord. Zaranos now exists as a soul stealing Vampyir.

Abboleth - Demon Hands. Severed hands that are now the home of minor demons. The hands are in various states of decomposition. The hands move super fast and when attacking attach the feeder tentacles into their victims. Removing the demons cause severe damage.