For context, the world I’m working on is primarily used for D&D and Pathfinder campaigns.
I think my favorite ones are either:
Dragons aren’t the progenitors to the dragon-shaped-humanoid race (dragonborn, to use the D&D term; vorelthyr to use the term I made up to be lawyer friendly regarding the OGL, etc), but rather the other way around. Dragons, kobolds, and lizardfolk all share the same origin, give or take. They’re all effectively just fleshy robots; kobolds were made for basic tasks, lizardfolk were short-lived footsoldiers, and dragons were living siege weapons. This is literally ancient history and unknown to most folks, though, given that the primary home of the vorelthyr dropped a magical nuke on itself a few thousand years back.
Humans, and all mortals really, were a complete mistake that just spawned out of a one-in-a-billion chance. When the powers that be (cosmic entities) were shaping the world for whatever undefined purpose, they never intended mortals to exist. And it was such a mistake that a good 90% of the prehistoric humans were wiped out, because the cosmic entities decided ‘eh, we can sink this continent and start over’.
For context, the world I’m working on is primarily used for D&D and Pathfinder campaigns.
I think my favorite ones are either:
Dragons aren’t the progenitors to the dragon-shaped-humanoid race (dragonborn, to use the D&D term; vorelthyr to use the term I made up to be lawyer friendly regarding the OGL, etc), but rather the other way around. Dragons, kobolds, and lizardfolk all share the same origin, give or take. They’re all effectively just fleshy robots; kobolds were made for basic tasks, lizardfolk were short-lived footsoldiers, and dragons were living siege weapons. This is literally ancient history and unknown to most folks, though, given that the primary home of the vorelthyr dropped a magical nuke on itself a few thousand years back.
Humans, and all mortals really, were a complete mistake that just spawned out of a one-in-a-billion chance. When the powers that be (cosmic entities) were shaping the world for whatever undefined purpose, they never intended mortals to exist. And it was such a mistake that a good 90% of the prehistoric humans were wiped out, because the cosmic entities decided ‘eh, we can sink this continent and start over’.