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==Brief History and General Overview==
==Brief History and General Overview==
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Futuristic Modern era civilization filled with magic and magitech. The people live in scattered city states on a great Pangaea. Early in this land's civilization about 2500 years ago, its people were brought to the brink of extinction and collapse, a cosmic horror from beyond space and time descended upon the world and corrupted the land and nature itself. The magical flora and fauna grew, mutated and evolved rapidly and became deadly and toxic to eat. Diseases and infertility plagues culled and sterilized two thirds of the population. But the people persevered, survivors and mountain hermits developed a way of life that incorporated fitness, health, mental discipline and fortitude as well as magic into a martial life philosophy known as The Path of the Enduring Mountain, or simply shortened to The Path
, and
developed methods to cleanse diseases, fight off the monsters, cancerous vegetation and horrible aberrations at their doorsteps, purify the water, flora and fauna of the cosmic horror's taint so it is made safe for consumption and even
find way
to partially remedy infertility. The first muscle wizard masters after centuries of struggle eventually subdued the cosmic horror and imprisoned it underneath an enormous mystical mountain; Mount Megalodon. Yet its madness continues seeps into the land and its wild and savage malice still threatens to consume civilization.
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Futuristic Modern era civilization filled with magic and magitech. The people live in scattered city states on a great Pangaea. Early in this land's civilization about 2500 years ago, its people were brought to the brink of extinction and collapse, a cosmic horror from beyond space and time descended upon the world and corrupted the land and nature itself. The magical flora and fauna grew, mutated and evolved rapidly and became deadly and toxic to eat. Diseases and infertility plagues culled and sterilized two thirds of the population. But the people persevered, survivors and mountain hermits developed a way of life that incorporated fitness, health, mental discipline and fortitude as well as magic into a martial life philosophy known as The Path of the Enduring Mountain, or simply shortened to The Path
. They
developed methods to cleanse diseases, fight off the monsters, cancerous vegetation and horrible aberrations at their doorsteps, purify the water, flora and fauna of the cosmic horror's taint so it is made safe for
domestication and
consumption and even
found ways
to partially remedy infertility. The first
true
muscle wizard masters after centuries of struggle
,
eventually subdued the cosmic horror and imprisoned it underneath an enormous mystical mountain; Mount Megalodon. Yet its madness continues seeps into the land and its wild and savage malice still threatens to consume civilization.
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Megalodonia's distant past is mired in myth and fables, most modern Megalodonians understand their past through allegories of muscle magic philosophy, parables and epics that have been passed down in oral tradition, with each retelling adding on more and more cryptic layers of fiction and half-truths. Actual historical records that stretch to the days of the cosmic horror is fragmented and undecipherable, and
most
exist in barely recognizable ancient ruins littered around Mount Megalodon’s base.
Many whisper more
complete records and secrets of Megalodonia's past
sit
idly in the ever shifting and transforming labyrinths and catacombs nestled in the dark shadowy quarantined zones contaminated heavily with the cosmic horror's lingering malice
, where
living tendrils of pitch blackness, static gray nightmares and other horrendous evil spirits roam
there
confines. Few dare to venture into those dark depths and even fewer return alive or with their sanity unscathed.
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Megalodonia's distant past is mired in myth and fables, most modern Megalodonians understand their past through allegories of muscle magic philosophy, parables and epics that have been passed down in oral tradition, with each retelling adding on more and more cryptic layers of fiction and half-truths. Actual historical records that stretch to the days of the cosmic horror is fragmented and undecipherable, and exist in barely recognizable ancient ruins littered around Mount Megalodon’s base.
Rumors and hushed whispers speak of
complete records and secrets of Megalodonia's past
sitting
idly in the ever shifting and transforming labyrinths and catacombs nestled in the dark shadowy quarantined zones
,
contaminated heavily with the cosmic horror's lingering malice
. Where
living tendrils of pitch blackness, static gray nightmares and other horrendous evil spirits roam
those non-euclidean
confines. Few dare to venture into those dark depths and even fewer return alive or with their sanity unscathed.
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Fast forward to the present day, over two millennia of forced natural selection, adaptation and immunization to the horrors of this deadly land, as well as staunch adherence to the guiding teachings of the Path, has made the people super-humanly strong and large of stature. The average female stands 7-9 feet tall, whilst the average males stand head and shoulders even above
their
fairer gender counterparts at around 9-12 feet tall. Unfortunately, the lingering effects of male infertility persist to this day and modern Megalodonian societies are cursed with highly skewed 90% female demographics. All adult males are accomplished muscle wizards that guide, teach and govern the people living in scattered city states too numerous to count, separated by vast death jungles and civilization devouring wilderness. Each city state has its own flare of customs and traditions, but overall universally themed around a meritocratic warrior-scholar culture and system of governance, adhering to the principles of muscle magic and the Path of the Enduring Mountain, where strength, skill and courage is acknowledged beyond all else, and chivalry and honor is upheld by every citizen, lest society breaks down and the ravenous and malicious nature reclaims back the land.
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Fast forward to the present day, over two millennia of forced natural selection, adaptation and immunization to the horrors of this deadly land, as well as staunch adherence to the guiding teachings of the Path, has made the people super-humanly strong and large of stature. The average female stands 7-9 feet tall, whilst the average males stand head and shoulders even above
the
fairer gender counterparts at around 9-12 feet tall. Unfortunately, the lingering effects of male infertility persist to this day and modern Megalodonian societies are cursed with highly skewed 90% female demographics. All adult males are accomplished muscle wizards that guide, teach and govern the people living in scattered city states too numerous to count, separated by vast death jungles and civilization devouring wilderness. Each city state has its own flare of customs and traditions, but overall universally themed around a meritocratic warrior-scholar culture and system of governance, adhering to the principles of muscle magic and the Path of the Enduring Mountain, where strength, skill and courage is acknowledged beyond all else, and chivalry and honor is upheld by every citizen, lest society breaks down and the ravenous and malicious nature reclaims back the land.
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Daily life in Megalodonia is thrilling
and
work is abundant
,
there is much to do, from fighting back the violent nature that encroaches upon the cities, to ferrying and transporting enormous armored cargo and trade caravans through the horrendously dangerous badlands, to setting out on great expeditions to uncover the secrets of this wild land or to establish new city states. Many
still
spend their lifetimes honing the ancient martial spell casting art of muscle wizardry to the level of a grand master and beyond or becoming
mountain
guardians ensuring the cosmic horror never escapes its prison. Regardless of profession, social status or wealth, pulp fiction adventures and
Jolly Corporation
awaits for each Megalodonian.
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Daily life in Megalodonia is thrilling
,
work is abundant
and
there is much to do, from fighting back the violent nature that encroaches upon the cities, to ferrying and transporting enormous armored cargo and trade caravans through the horrendously dangerous badlands, to setting out on great expeditions to uncover the secrets of this wild land
, for fun and profit
or to establish new city states. Many
more
spend their lifetimes honing the ancient martial spell casting art of muscle wizardry to the level of a grand master and beyond or becoming guardians
of the mountain,
ensuring the cosmic horror never escapes its prison. Regardless of profession, social status or wealth, pulp fiction adventures and
jolly corporation
awaits for each Megalodonian.
==Landscape and Biomes==
==Landscape and Biomes==
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The greatest strength of its military lies in the magic, strength and skills of its muscle wizards and their companies of highly trained apprentices, and although their use is made forbidden by the eldest and most influential of muscle wizard leaders, its arsenal of biological WMDs fired from stonehenge artillery guns; safely sealed away amalgamations of genetically and magically engineered strains of super viruses, bacteria, parasites, cancerous and instantaneously growing flora and fauna, that can potentially destroy entire biospheres, snuff out all native, artificial and magical life and replacing it with Megalodonian ecology, developed from the space expedition program’s terraforming warheads.
The greatest strength of its military lies in the magic, strength and skills of its muscle wizards and their companies of highly trained apprentices, and although their use is made forbidden by the eldest and most influential of muscle wizard leaders, its arsenal of biological WMDs fired from stonehenge artillery guns; safely sealed away amalgamations of genetically and magically engineered strains of super viruses, bacteria, parasites, cancerous and instantaneously growing flora and fauna, that can potentially destroy entire biospheres, snuff out all native, artificial and magical life and replacing it with Megalodonian ecology, developed from the space expedition program’s terraforming warheads.
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The next generation of Megalodonian superweapons lies in project Gungnir. The premise of this project is to create a few hundred 20 foot long, 1 foot diameter rods, made entirely of the sacred Mountain's indestructible and immutable obsidian shards, each one embedded with dual runic portaling modules made of the same substance. The primed warheads are continually cycled through two looping portals via a massive electromagnetic vertical drop, accelerating to light speed.
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'''Project Gungnir:'''
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The next generation of Megalodonian superweapons lies in project Gungnir. The premise of this project is to create a few hundred 20 foot long, 1 foot diameter rods, made entirely of the sacred Mountain's indestructible and immutable obsidian shards, each one embedded with dual runic portaling modules made of the same substance. The primed warheads are continually cycled through two looping portals via a massive electromagnetic vertical drop, accelerating
very close
to light speed.
Numerous experimental warheads have underwent trials, every new warhead version adding incremental improved performance, thus project Gungnir's clandestine development is expected to reach full maturity in a matter of years.
Numerous experimental warheads have underwent trials, every new warhead version adding incremental improved performance, thus project Gungnir's clandestine development is expected to reach full maturity in a matter of years.
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Project Gungnir's activation involves an coordinate input by a highly encrypted alchemic interface and leyline connection. The rods will then automatically port itself to those coordinates, completely obliterate the target and then port back to its holding facility, re-accelerating
to light speed
and going back to its primed and ready state.
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Project Gungnir's activation involves an coordinate input by a highly encrypted alchemic interface and leyline connection. The rods will then automatically port itself to those coordinates, completely obliterate the target and then port back to its holding facility, re-accelerating and going back to its primed and ready state.
The holding actual facility is in a hidden cavern underneath mount Megalodon, the drop site itself is a straight path down to the cosmic horror; the new super weapon is proposed to act as the final fail-safe as well as for its preemptive strike capability.
The holding actual facility is in a hidden cavern underneath mount Megalodon, the drop site itself is a straight path down to the cosmic horror; the new super weapon is proposed to act as the final fail-safe as well as for its preemptive strike capability.
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Strings of coordinates can be sent to a Gungnir warhead anywhere in the multiverse and they will strike and continue to strike indefinitely and instantaneously until the target is destroyed or if on the Megalodonian High Command's orders.These warheads are
able
to break through the strongest magical, technological and nullifying force fields, armor and barriers given enough time and impacts.
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Strings of coordinates can be sent to a Gungnir warhead anywhere in the multiverse and they will strike and continue to strike indefinitely and instantaneously until the target is destroyed or if on the Megalodonian High Command's orders.These warheads are
designed
to break through the strongest magical, technological and nullifying force fields, armor and barriers given enough time and impacts.
'''Firearms:'''
'''Firearms:'''