Re: [2E] Fire Elementalists at the North Pole?

tussock <scrub@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Kurt wrote:

Or, am I looking at this wrong?

That's a far too modern outlook. In ye olde terms, the poles are
frozen because Ice Wizards long ago centered their learnings there,
attracting the elemental forces of cold, and scaring away the spririts of
summer.
In response, the heat-loving creatures left, and the ice-loving
creatures congregated. The Ice Wizards learnt to control many of the
common ones and made minions of them, enjoying the isolation of the
endless tundra and the weak nature of the White Dragons and such who
remain to oppose them.

Vulcanos? Overuse of fire magic caused them, and the Fire Wizards and
the Red Dragons they attract killed everything not immune to fire in the
same locales. See also deserts with lightning, swamps with acid, and
forests with poison gas.

This works for me. Just remember to apply it accordingly and it should
work out fine.

In fact, it ties well with some of the other things I've worked with.
Temples and other major sites IMC often have 'planar traits' such as you
might find on the elemental or outer planes. Usually *mildly* at most
(and weaker than that, a lot of the time) but in places of power the
Rules Are Different.

Now, is it because someone planted a temple here and the power grew
around it as a result? Or because this was already a place of power
that suited the temple, so one was put here? Or perhaps a combination,
a place of power (so a good place for a temple), and the temple ended up
causing the power to be shaped in a particular way?

Lots of options and choices here.


Keith
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