[Torg] the lands below

[Kansas Jim]

Crabshtick wrote:

>                  thanx for all the pointers its gonna help quite a bit. 
> however by basing other realms landbelow on portions of the core earth 
> land below arnt i in danger of just photo copying chunks of an existing 
> realm and thus taking away some of what makes the core earths landbelow 
> different?

I wouldn't think so, the tunnels beneath the invading realms are places
where the invading reality has been laid over the Land Below's reality
(p13) so the tunnels called Inferno are of Cyberpapal reality, not CE.
Even if the domed world follows the same themes as the tunnels beneath
the realm, the primitive axioms and different World Laws should give it
quite a different feel even if it has similar thematic elements.

>                  the aysle land below that i had envisaged ( maze world) 
> was going to be more about the reality warping and traps rather than the 
> monsters. monsters and characters were going to be few and far between 
> but very colourful when they turned up. in your opinion is this still 
> too cliched?

Do you mean reality warps as in the ones mentioned in the Land Below
book (p11) or something else? A domed world should be stable enough
that it wouldn't have the kind of reality warps that the book talks
about (those are basically the underground reality storms along the
realm boundaries.) Although I suppose the domed world could have a WL
which created similar effects.

>                  still since you reminded me that land below axioms are 
> the same for all lands below im kinda stuck for tharkold now gonna have 
> too keep on thinking about that one. i really liked the screamers idea! :-(

Magical golems instead of robots? Though the Magic axiom isn't high
enough for that.

>                actually on another thought, do all lands below link? i 
> always thought on them as being separate but if they all link then your 
> points make a huge ammount of sence and will certainly chrystalise my 
> thinking.

The cave network created does connect to all of the invading realms and
places in Core Earth. I remember seeing an Infiniverse dispatch about
Ayslish (I think?) monsters being seen in the Grand Canyon, they'd
gotten there by entering the caverns beneath Aysle and wandered through
them until they came out in the southwestern US.

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