Simcharest- Romanian/Carpathian World
I'm wanting to start making a large world based mostly upon Romania and the Carpathian mountains. I've never used CAW before so this will take a lot of practice before I really start the actual world....
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I found a cool way to fit the vault of antiquity into the world.
"In her 1885 article Transylvanian Superstitions, Scottish author Emily Gerard mentioned a peculiar school of magic called ‘Scholomance’ where—according to folk tradition—the Devil himself instructed ten scholars in all of the scientific, magical, and theological arts. Once the courses were finished, the Devil kept one of the scholars to himself as a blood payment. Afterwards, the Devil taught his new apprentice to make thunder and lightning. Gerard reported that the school was located near a fabled lake in the midst of the Carpathian mountains. This legend probably derives from oral retellings about Solomonari—pre-Christian wizards and priests who were said to control the weather and ride on the backs of dragons. Curiously, an area outside of Brasov named ‘Pietrele lui Solomon’ (Solomon’s Rocks) was also historically associated with scholars and solemn oaths. Some authors however, such as Jason Colavito have linked the Scholomance story to cultural memories of the indigenous Dacian religion. You can still see many traces of Ancient Dacia (related to Ancient Thrace) in Romania today, such as the Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains."
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I'll make a small foggy lake in/near the mountains and put the vault by a waterfall with a precarious looking path leading to it. (hopefully)
Would there be a way I could put in a chest filled with dragon eggs too? Though I don't have the black dragons, which would be even more fitting with being near the Vault of antiquity. If I can figure it out maybe I could add a very simple tomb to put them in then hide the key somewhere in the world or even make it require three keys and hide them all around the world.
Maybe i can work in the ruins from Dragon Valley as being Dacian ruins too.
"In her 1885 article Transylvanian Superstitions, Scottish author Emily Gerard mentioned a peculiar school of magic called ‘Scholomance’ where—according to folk tradition—the Devil himself instructed ten scholars in all of the scientific, magical, and theological arts. Once the courses were finished, the Devil kept one of the scholars to himself as a blood payment. Afterwards, the Devil taught his new apprentice to make thunder and lightning. Gerard reported that the school was located near a fabled lake in the midst of the Carpathian mountains. This legend probably derives from oral retellings about Solomonari—pre-Christian wizards and priests who were said to control the weather and ride on the backs of dragons. Curiously, an area outside of Brasov named ‘Pietrele lui Solomon’ (Solomon’s Rocks) was also historically associated with scholars and solemn oaths. Some authors however, such as Jason Colavito have linked the Scholomance story to cultural memories of the indigenous Dacian religion. You can still see many traces of Ancient Dacia (related to Ancient Thrace) in Romania today, such as the Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains."
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I'll make a small foggy lake in/near the mountains and put the vault by a waterfall with a precarious looking path leading to it. (hopefully)
Would there be a way I could put in a chest filled with dragon eggs too? Though I don't have the black dragons, which would be even more fitting with being near the Vault of antiquity. If I can figure it out maybe I could add a very simple tomb to put them in then hide the key somewhere in the world or even make it require three keys and hide them all around the world.
Maybe i can work in the ruins from Dragon Valley as being Dacian ruins too.
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