Palladium (universe of fiction)

The world of Palladium is a Medieval-fantastic world , which is used as framework with the Roleplay Palladium Fantasy RPG .

Universe of the Palladium world

The Palladium world and the Megaverse

The Palladium world is related to other worlds to form the Megaverse ®, which one could translate by Mégavers (contraction of Méga and Univers). Doors open between the worlds when the magic concentration of energy is important, in particular with the nexii , the nodes of the meridian lines of magic energy (the ley line nexus points ).

Two universes have an particular importance for the Palladium world: the dimension of Hadès, from which the demons come, and the dimension of Dyval, from which the dyables (deevils) come .

The world of Hadès is in some kinds the Palladium reverse. It consists of a continent having the same form, but water and fire are reversed; the oceans and rivers are filled with lava while water leaves the volcanos. North is under the domination of the Gargouille S, the South under that of the princes demons, and the West is the refuge of the other kinds of demons.

Dyval is a covered world of forest, on which the dyable built cities étincelantes. Its capital is Hel.

Geography

The Palladium world is composed of a continent with two inland seas, and several islands. The principal areas are:

Western Empire ( Western Worsens ): it is oldest (6 000 years) and one of the greatest human empires; it is the most powerful empire, with the hegemonic, but by certain sides most declining and dépravé tendencies; they do not hesitate to pass from alliances with demon S and the Cyclops S;
the kingdom of Timiro : the second older kingdom human after the Western Empire, it is the most important shopping mall; the human ones colonized it and pacified by pushing back the tribes autochtones orcs, goblins and Kobold S, and built a feudal company organized around a code of the knighthood; this prosperous nation is with its apogee, near to its collapse: the chivalrous spirit is nothing any more but one distance memory, and more 40 % of the population is made up slaves (orcs, goblins, kobolds), who represent the true lifeblood of the nation;
the archipelago of Floenry : these fourteen islands do not present any strategic interest nor richness; some were colonized by the Country of the four winds, others by the kingdom of Timiro, the Western Empire carried out excavations but of it is not involved; with the climate tropical, subjected to tropical storms and surrounded by infested water of watches sailors, these islands are refuges of pirates and places of safaris for the imperial aristocracy and timirienne; certain islands conceal vestiges of cities going back to before civilizations elf and dwarf, they are probably constructions dating from the Age from chaos; it is supposed that this civilization was destroyed at the time of the war against the Old ones, unless it did not regress and did not become the grimbors, people of giant monkeys populating the islands;
Eastern Territories ( Eastern Territories ): it is the largest human territory; it is composed of a multitude of independent states, and is the object of frequent incursions of man-wolves ( wolfen );
the insular kingdom of Byzantium : young human kingdom, having the most powerful human fleet (they are the only navigators with being able to cross the sea of Despair); its prosperity is primarily based on the maritime trade, directed by families of ship-owners; the king has a limited capacity, it cannot indeed raise new tax without the agreement of all the families of ship-owners, and has in fact recourse to loans near these families; when the debts are too important, the family is put in forfeiture during a few years, which causes to erase the debt; on the other hand, each family must provide ships armed and maintained by their care to the royal army;
Phi and Lopan : human kingdoms independent of one of the two inland seas, they have prosperous ports;
meadows of Ophid : a large plane tundra, populated wandering tribes the human ones, goblins, kobolds, orcs… This country carries the mark of the dyables, one claims that a nexus created there a fault towards their dimension;
the mount Nimro : it is a volcano of the Old kingdom whose neighborhoods are inhabited by giant ;
the Old kingdom : Ex-new kingdom of the Golden age of the Elf S; since the end of the nano-elfique War (there is approximately 8 000 years), it is a primarily populated territory of monsters and goblins, kobolds, orcs… it is a moor strewn with sparse forests, where one meets the ruins of the old cities elves and the dwarf caves, like some fortresses elves still in activity;
jungles of Yin-Sloth : cradle of the mankind, it is now a virgin forest inhabited by monstrous creatures;
the desolation of Baalgor : old territory of the New kingdom elf devastated at the time of the nano-elfique War, it is a rocky desert populated of wandering tribes the human ones, goblins, kobolds, orcs…
the Great septentrional extent : it is a forest and covered with snow area, primarily populated man-wolf ( wolfen ); they are organized mainly in scattered tribes, but twelve tribes gathered to form an empire; the Empire of the man-wolves extends and aspires to dominate a great part of the world of Palladium, but with the manner of the Roman Empire: while passing from alliances, and by integrating the populations rather than by subjecting them (it rebuild the cities, make it possible to practice the religion freely and reign with justice); they are the large competitors of the empires and human kingdoms;
the Island of the cyclops : populated Cyclops S, people of giant in only one eye which one suspects of having served the Old ones and to have fought for them; they make primarily trade with the Western Empire, providing them the terrible sticks of the lightning;
Country of damnés : isolated from the remainder of the continent by mountains, one knows of it only little thing, primarily legends and rumors worrying; there would be a city called the Citadel where the nécromancie would be practiced, and the country would be inhabited monsters, dragon S, goblins, kobolds, orcs…

History

The chronology is indicated in the royal calendar of Timiro. The works describe the Palladium world such as it is in year 1782 of this calendar. In the play, the majority of the old story are known thanks to the Chronicles of Tristine, however, these chronicles being an assembly of writings written at various times, it is difficult to separate truth from fictionalized, the facts of the parabolas.

several million years ago: the Age of malefic chaos
Of the beings and surpuissants occupy the Palladium world, probably come from another world, even from another dimension. One knows them under the name of the Old ones ( the Old Ones ). They subject native-born people and probably bring slaves of other worlds. The people of the Palladium world link and fight the Old ones. The Xy, Large Old ( the Great Old One ), most powerful from Old, disappears; some claim that, victim of one of its magic experiments or betrays by Old Ya-blik and Year-cheap, it is transformed into Thoth, the god of the light, and fights the Old ones at the sides of the people autochtones. During this war, twelve people are completely decimated, among the survivors, one counts the Elfe S, the dwarf , the changelins, the Rahu men, the Titan S and the dragon S; the Old ones cannot be destroyed but are buried in the depths of Palladium, in a sleep without dream; the dwarves claim that the mountains of the Old kingdom are in fact the spinal column of Xy.
-100 000: the Age of the light
the defeat of Old marks the beginning of the Age of the light.

-90 000: the Battle of the gods
people, ancestor of human, develops in the jungles of Yin-Sloth; the god Styphon dragon corrupts these people which start to submit the other people and to ransack the jungle. This causes a war between the gods who were adored by these people. The jungle becomes again wild and pre-human civilization declines and turns over to the Stone Age.
-70 000: the Age of thousand magics
the practice of the magic develops, and it is said that there exist thousand schools of magic.
-68 000: the arrival of the demons
the demons arrive of Hadès by a dimensional fault ( rift ); they start to corrupt the people and to divert them gods to make their admirers of them.
-18 000: the arrival of the dyables
the dyables arrive of Dyval by a dimensional fault; they are opposed to the demons which work towards the same end: the tender of the Palladium people.

-16 000: the Age of the elves
the elves constitute the New kingdom (now called the Old kingdom). This kingdom develops and gains in power, marking the Golden age of the elves (- 14 000 with -10 000); in parallel, the dwarves develop their kingdom under the mountains as well as the runic magic. The elves behave in an increasingly arrogant way towards the other people, and become soon of cruel colonizers. The competition between the elves and the dwarves goes up.
-8 000: War nano-elfique
the war bursts between the elves and the dwarves. Increasingly powerful magic forces are called upon, causing the destruction of the town of Baalgor and its area. The magic forces released by the dwarves break out and the people - dwarves, elves, Kobold S… - are linked to destroy these forces.
-6 000: millenium of the purification
After the end of the nano-elfique War, elves and dwarves endeavor, during thousand years, to destroy any trace of the magic surpuissante, burning the black books, destroying or hiding the artefacts. The dwarves, nauseated by the horror whom they caused, give up the magic forever.
-2 500 : whereas the goblin S and the Orc S invaded the Old kingdom (ex-New kingdom of the elves), the myths bring back the foundation by the human ones of a kingdom in the mountain of the Old kingdom, governs by the kings de Prestida (no trace was found).
-4 200: the Age of the men
human civilization develops and founds the Western Empire towards -4000.

-1000 : foundation of the kingdom of Timiro.
-572 : discovered canine people, man-wolves ( wolfen ) and man-coyotes ( coyles ), which are captured and reduced in slavery.
1202 : armies of man-wolves and man-coyotes make their first incursions into the human kingdoms.
1715 : twelve tribes of man-wolves are linked to form an empire.

Roleplays

Palladium Fantasy RPG ®

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