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| − | '''Premise:''' Over the last few decades, some of the most important ideas of the age have been formulated into a series of iconic images and illuminated texts. At a remote abbey, a site for pilgrimage, they are to be bound into a codex and then copied, to be distributed by pilgrims around the | + | '''Premise:''' Over the last few decades, some of the most important ideas of the age have been formulated into a series of iconic images and illuminated texts. At a remote abbey, a site for pilgrimage, they are to be bound into a codex and then copied, to be distributed by pilgrims around the Pashnaar Empire. However, the past two years have brought increasingly rapacious incursions of western barbarians. As the spring snows melt and the mountain paths open, an armed group of pilgrims arrives at the abbey asking for refuge. As always, the abbey opens its gates. But an ancient saying is remembered: ''When the spring snow melts, Death knocks at the gate.'' |
'''Setting & Feel:''' The main inspirations (no more than that) are Europe in the Dark or early Middle Ages, the relation between East and West and in particular religious conflicts such as those over iconography. Invasions of barbarian hordes, usually invited to invade by political factions. The interplay between religious devotion and political expediency. Illiteracy is predominant, and knowledge is in the hands of a few. True Good and Evil do exist, but are very infrequently encountered; no temporal power has a monopoly over either. | '''Setting & Feel:''' The main inspirations (no more than that) are Europe in the Dark or early Middle Ages, the relation between East and West and in particular religious conflicts such as those over iconography. Invasions of barbarian hordes, usually invited to invade by political factions. The interplay between religious devotion and political expediency. Illiteracy is predominant, and knowledge is in the hands of a few. True Good and Evil do exist, but are very infrequently encountered; no temporal power has a monopoly over either. | ||
