Draft Two and More!

I've finally completed the second draft of the Akiniwazi History. I'm getting more and more happy with it as I go. Now's time for me to get a second opinion... if my printer haddn't run out of ink so late at night. grrrrr... Oh well, tomorrow. In the mean time, I've also started playing around with logos for the setting as well. No where near Eberron's calibre yet, but we'll get there. Just have to find the right hook.

For those of you curious about Akiniwazi, I can give you a few little bits to what the setting is all about.

From the Introduction:

What is Akiniwazi?

The setting of Akiniwazi began with one question and grew from there:

“What if an isolated culture discovered steam engines but not gunpowder? What would a society that could make steamships and railroads look like without explosives, guns and cannons? What changes would occur in the technology because of a pre-renaissance design aesthetic and philosophy?“

The result of this thought experiment was the beginning of Akiniwazi. The setting then fleshed out based on Native American mythology, Great Lakes Lore, Lumberjack Stories and culture and a Norse/Viking immigrant culture. All these blended together to create the concept we call “Fantasteam”.

Akiniwazi is also a setting of struggle in the temporal as well as spiritual world. A culture of immigrants is struggling to survive against the natives who are bent on destroying them. The Immigrants are trapped and cannot leave and need to forge their own survival against a whole continent that sees them as a threat on the physical as well as spiritual level. Their only defense is their technology and their faith in a God who has commanded them to conquer the Land. As for the natives, their way of life has been terminally interrupted and they must fight tooth and nail to preserve their culture, lives and land from the invaders who ignore the rules of their traditional existence and are directly confronting the gods of their people.

In the Spiritual realm, a war of titanic scale is taking place. Akiniwazi is a demon-infested land. They have ruled for millennia over the natives of this continent without contest to their power. The natives have suffered greatly under their power, and have had their lives warped into backward savagery of blood and violence and sacrifice, keeping them from what they fully could be. But now, God has sent His Church into their midst, and sealed them there. Their goal is to carry the spiritual war for the souls of man to the demons and free the land of Akiniwazi from their evil domination.

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In other news, the Combat System v 0.8.0 is DONE! Yes, in the next week or two I plan to playtest it for the first time and see how she rolls. My partner in crime is working on turning our skill section into an access database right now so we can quickly sort through, trim, edit and fill in through our nearly 2000 different skills. Like I said before, I don't know where it's going to end up, but it's going to be a fun trip getting there.

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