planes and other other gods. However, the Thune system focuses mainly on one ultimate creator and one destroyer who wanted to end everything even for the fiends that served him this destroyer wanted to end everything.
For your faerun themed game, you might call this being The Chained Oblivion, but for simplicity, let’s just call him the destroyer.
Another core element of Thune is that it takes place after the blood war ended (or if you don’t want to do a faerune themed campaign, we can simply call it war for the obsidian throne)
This war was won by the lawful evil forces of the pit. Yous see sins like greed and lust dont sound like they would be based. Nice things, but greed is routed in desire, and so is love. Greed is also routed in math, so it has elements of truth to it.
Love and truth unlocked a powerful combination of rune based powers that allowed the devils to do what they do best to make deals and contracts. With these new deals, they received acess to magical blue prints for their war if they would, in turn, become producers and manufacturers of weapons for others who are also having problems fighting demons.
Typicaly fiends may want to be ungodly in certain ways because their angry at God but the demons ( the chaotic evil forces) wanted to be stupid because God is intelligent, disgusting because God is dignified, and completly unreliable for anything because God never fails. The demons also wanted to be completly cowardly and nonsensical all because they saw God as strong and honorable.
The demons had numbers on their side, but that was most of their advantage. Many of the devils (lawful evil fiends ) were so disgusted by their oposition that they decided to simply take the throne of darkness for themselves and while the devils didnt like the forces of traditional goodness they still had some respect for the strength honor and courage they exhibited.
Some perhaps even a respectable portion of the devils had Grace restored to them because while they didn’t like many humanoid races, they did like some folks, and they would be gurdian angels for those folks.
As for the other folks, some found ways of manifesting in the world as mortals so they could worship and serve God in that form as a way to reclaim some measure of grace. (Typically as a tiefling of some variety)
Other devils found arcane secrets among the court of the golden queen and became “monstrosities”so that they could guard reliquaries for impoverished paladins and other adventurers.Many of which are sphinxes and medusas.
If you had to count the number of devils granted licence to repent on the condition that they use their ability to help save the world. You would be dazed by the numbers typically they go the name the red chess pieces. Or the blood pieces.
As chess players they believe the world is meant to be made more into a proper game of Chess with everyone agreeing to the same rules, everyone getting the same pieces, reason alon being used to govern the winner, and everything happening above board one move at a time.
The demons, on the other hand, broke out into a civil war. There were some like the night bags who’s conflict over certain issues split them down the center some of them also go promoted by the creator to help do one thing and one thing alone make sure the destroyer never escapes and to this end they created the black cards this group believed that in the natural state of thing the world slanted towards chaos destruction and torment but with the right amount of effort, courage, and risk a bad hand of cards can win the whole pot. These card players believed that death and destruction should be balanced by a proportional amount of creation, renewal, and rebirth proportional to to what a planet and a population can endure well enough to have continued life and death cycles.
Many other black cards wanted just places to live and something to do with someone.
Othe black cards that worded with fear and terror believed that fear had a healthy place as force that wards others away from doing what was foolishly destructive
And still other black cards believed things like power had to be earned and deserved or it should be stolen and taken away
All the black cards wanted the life on the planet to be healthy and survive and they would give up anything to ensure that had someplace to hang out and share their ideas, and they were willing to give up on evil itself to ensure their survival and the survival of others
However the tome keeper now isolated sided with the Heirophant even though the heirophant would eventually destroy that night hag for wanting to live in a magical world also the tome keeper wanted what she felt should be justified revenge.
Of coarse nobody could believe that a license would be handed out to help save the world so blood pieces and black cards all adorned fanciful white porcelain masks to contain all their magic and power during the day when they were human so that at night they could do their job of ensuring the destroyer never escapes again and all his agents join him.
To this day, the idea of black cards and blood pieces is still heavily contentious, but ask yourself this. What would you give up to save the world, knowing that you would suffer horribly with the world if it died.
Could you love a philosophy or creed even more than your own right to exist. Not many beings could, and not many did.
If you want to ever meet a backhanded player ( either a blood piece or black card) to simply challenge you to teach you and instruct you in a safe, controlled manner. Who do I need to talk to that wants to convince of their position-
-and can I look them in the eyes to hear what they have to say.
The back handedly players will never do you any permanent injury and only attacks in self-defense, so a friendly challenger is always there to help you grow. That is until you make their list
If somebody does become a global threat to world stability or even a national threat, a number of masked players may start an adventuring party to deal with them
Because God has forbidden them from dealing with their foes directly for as long they you live. And untill that moment most of what they do is teach, but occasionally they are allowed to fight back directly as well as long as they give up 95% percent of their original power and allow themselves to be adventurers also for a season.
Also in Thune:
some folks call Halloween all saints day that was untill they realized many saints met bloody violent endings and that many of these saints still remember how to return as bloody angry ghosts. All those poor saints were brutalized to death for their heretical beliefs
Some called Halloween Sam hein or they did at least untill they realized that many of the druids who started the original Halloween wanted to protect nature and keep the natural forces well off those ghostly druids still whisper share many secrets to other druids and animals about all the stuff they learned when they were alive.
In advance from the realm of Thune…
Happy Halloween
