The original plan was to write it for Blood & Treasure or Labyrinth Lord, but then I thought that Fantastic Heroes & Witchery would fit much better, with it’s darker themes.
Game wise I’d say like a mix of Warhammer’s Old World, elements of Ravenloft, bits and bobs of Jack Shear’s World Between, and ideas from Mongoose’s excellent but strangely forgotten Deus Vult setting (for RuneQuest II/Legend). And naturally interspersed with a (un)healthy dose of Lovecraftian horror. Literary inspiration could be Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher books or Joe Abercrombie’s First Law books, maybe with a dash of Michael Moorcock here and there. It is a fantasy setting, but of the grimmer and darker kind. This got me thinking about the larger world and as one thing leads to another, soon the bare bones of a setting popped up in my head.
It began as I was working on a new adventure module – Fiery the Angel Fell, where I had to do some background for the area around the adventure location. The contents are scattered among several notebooks and hidden away on my hard drive in OneNote. I have had the ingredients of a new homebrew setting simmering away for a few years now, but never got the time or 100% urge to finish it enough to play.
