Geography
I picture a rain-shadow desert with the Kreen on the desert side and the Pterrans on the forested side. The Aaracora (I could never spell them right) are nested in the mountains. All Tolken-esque influences such as elves, dwarves etc. will be gone from this land. Humans are not living here and can only come from other lands.
Flora
Only primative trees and plants here. No grasses, no wheat, decidious trees or flowers. The only things for the vegitarian are leaves and roots such as primative potatoes and yams etc.
Fauna
Only the non-magical monsters are here. That means kanks, inixes, Erdlues etc. No creatures as rampagers or other magical creatres. I am thinking of included Athasian Tree Sloths. Thought they are mammals, they do fit into ancient life.
Role-Playing
Characters can either be part of this region and be non-humanoid or they can be from the Tyr region and have to survive in this land. They can be a lost slave tribe, dune traders, nomads or explores. Their biggest concern would probably not to be eaten by something....or someone.
What is here is just a collection of my thought. I have nothing more but ideas for a map.
Here is an image of the Permian Period. Doesn't it look Dark Sun?
http://www.palaeos.com/Paleozoic/Permian/Images/Inostrancevia_and_Scutosaurus.jpg
This one is a Kreen Mound. The Kreen live out in the desert in tribal mounds. They are at constant war with each other. Not for food, though that sometimes happens, but for power. Each tribe wants to control other tribes and vice versa. Every once and awhile, one tribe will become so large it can conquer other tribes and a Kreen Empire emerges. What one from the Tyr Region would not understand is this has been going on for thousands and thousands of years. Note, there is no hive mentality here. Ant and bee haves here on Earth have only been around since near the end of the dinosaurs. That's about 1/4 the age of insects.
The mound itself is made up of excavated dirt from tunnels below it, which are much cooler. The holes provide air and some light.
This one is a Pterran step- pyramid that dwells in the raintrap jungle. The Pterrans are tribal like the Kreen and live in small villages scattered through out the jungle, however, they are not always at war with each other. Sometimes, a tribe will grow so much that a civilization will emerge. A city, and supporting towns will slowly grow and prosper until that civilization collaspses and the Pterrans go back to living in villages again.
Compared to the Kreen, the Pterrans are newcomers to the region. They migrated here thousands of years ago and slowly replaced the Lizard Men, who were living in the jungle at that time. The Pterrans slowly out-competed the Lizard Men and they either left the jungle or became extinct.
The Pterrans, though very constuctive when they are in a civilization, are not complex builders. Their structures tend to be simple as to what they worship. The step pyramid below is dedicated to fire with a ramp to tend the flames.
The Pterrans will follow the path of the native Americans. Every once and a while, a civilization will emerge than collapse after a few centuries or so. That is what happens to civilizations in isolation such as theirs. They by no means will have a culture similar to meso-Americans, but rather, a pterran one.
I was thinking of creating a new Dark Sun region that was Triassic in nature. That is, it is ancient with ancient life and ideas. During the Carbobfiberous period, there two types of creatures on land, reptiles (amphibians) & insects. In Dark Sun, they would be the Kreen representing the insects and the Pterrans representing the reptiles. They have there own societies and territories and rarely do they mingle. In fact, there are almost in a constant state of war. It is not a war humans can understand. The war is not for wealth, power or glory, but rather, for survival. It is not a constant war, but rather, a war of necessity. When the need arises, such as a drought or famine, a war starts and ends as soon as one side is fed.
Geography
I picture a rain-shadow desert with the Kreen on the desert side and the Pterrans on the forested side. The Aaracora (I could never spell them right) are nested in the mountains. All Tolken-esque influences such as elves, dwarves etc. will be gone from this land. Humans are not living here and can only come from other lands.
Flora
Only primative trees and plants here. No grasses, no wheat, decidious trees or flowers. The only things for the vegitarian are leaves and roots such as primative potatoes and yams etc.
Fauna
Only the non-magical monsters are here. That means kanks, inixes, Erdlues etc. No creatures as rampagers or other magical creatres. I am thinking of included Athasian Tree Sloths. Thought they are mammals, they do fit into ancient life.
Role-Playing
Characters can either be part of this region and be non-humanoid or they can be from the Tyr region and have to survive in this land. They can be a lost slave tribe, dune traders, nomads or explores. Their biggest concern would probably not to be eaten by something....or someone.
What is here is just a collection of my thought. I have nothing more but ideas for a map.
Very Impressive, Mind if I use it?
Very Impressive, Mind if I use it?
Go right ahead.
Excuse the lateness of my reply.