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Shadow of the Past

Solo game based on the following premise:

In an age of myth long vanished, mighty heroes, sorcerers, and villains achieved power beyond mortal ken. In this time, a powerful Witch Queen (inspired more by Tasha/Iggwilv or Liliana Vess) has been trapped inside a magical mirror for several thousand years. The wheel of ages continued to turn, however, and one-by-one the great powers vanished from the world, dying, ascending, or simply dwindling away.

Now, she awakes into a world much changed as foolhardy adventurers release her, thoroughly unprepared for what they'll find within. Many of her relics have already been plundered or lost, her servants crumbled to dust, but her own mystical might remains.

I'm thinking of a setting that it very fallen, much like Godbound describes. It can be large and quite diverse, encompassing numerous cultures, but with a general high-middle-ages or early renaissance feel. It might be a slightly idealized low fantasy world. Magic a monsters do exist, but these are not as high a concern for the everyday man as bandits and harvest/trade. Sorcerers coming through a village are certainly big news, but not completely unheard of, and larger cities will certainly have several, even full-on associations of them or other groups like mercenary/adventuring companies.

In short, it's a typical d&d fantasy world, if a bit low-powered. Most adventurers range somewhere in the single digits in level with only the cream of the crop reaching the top of that power scale or breaching into the teens. By contrast, characters in Godbound (and by extension, my character) are basically the equivalent of epic level characters, capable of dispatching hordes of lesser foes at a time. It would be a story about political machinations, building up resources, infrastructure, and shadowy power, with intermittent demonstrations of raw sorcerous might when an adventurer is crushed. I'm excited by the idea of hunting up my own (and others) lost relics of divine power, plundering the minds of lesser mages for the arcane secrets of this new world, and building my own empire by slowly overtaking the free peoples of the world.

Anyway, something like that, anyway . . .