History TabletopGame / ScarredLands

* CompleteImmortality: Basically the schtick of the Titans. BUT, they can be defeated so utterly it borders on ResurrectiveImmortality. Example: Mesos. And almost all the other titans, but especially Mesos.

* {{Unperson}}: You may be asking yourself why the setting doesn't technically have a TrueNeutral god, with the Titan Denev fulfilling that role instead. Well, it did. His name was Urkanthus (son of Denev and Thulkas), and he was the only god who objected to the Divine War, foreseeing the damage it would cause. While most of the gods were willing to continue the debate, the evil gods... weren't. After murdering him, they destroyed his writings, his temples and all memories of him. This was also the fate of Gulaben, because her pleasure-inducing powers would've been too tempting for others to try to release her.[[invoked]]

** The mother of Enkili's daughter Drendari, the demigoddess of shadows, was supposedly a mortal siren. Only a handful of beings (including Drendari herself but not Enkili) know that the siren was actually Belsameth in disguise.
** Belsameth herself was tricked into conceiving Erias, the demigod of dreams, by her father Mesos.

* EternalEnglish: Justified in regards to Titanspeech. The Titans developed the language as a way to communicate with their followers, but they weren't interested in keeping up with changes so their worshippers were ordered to keep it the same.

In the end, the world (what was left of it) belonged to what has since then been known as The Nine Victors, each representing one of the nine character alignments. This is now the ruling pantheon of the world, consisting of the eight main Gods and the only remaining Titan, Denev the Earth Mother, a CaptainErsatz for Gaia who sided against her more destructive brethren. Ever since the Titanswar ended, she has been sleeping inside the earth, trying to heal the land from the damage caused by the war. There are also numerous demigods, either born from the central gods or with undocumented origins.

Most of the setting resolves around Ghelspad, the most civilized continent on Scarn. Later, the setting began detailing Termana, an untamed continent where civilization struggles to survive. The desert continent of Asherak, the Asian-themed Dragon Lands and the icy realm of Ferilik have also been mentioned.

* BodyHorror: Quite a few of the monsters, and some of the spells as well. In particular is Gormoth and his cult called The Twisted. Gormoth was known as the Shaper, and was the first Titan to create sapient life. But after the other Titans poisoned him, imprisoned him and stole his secrets, he was driven insane, and began to use his powers to take out his anger on mortal beings. His Twisted continue this tradition, although partially for experimentation and sacrifices instead of just fun.

* EveryoneHasStandards: [[ViceCity Shelzar]] is widely renowned throughout the world for its devotion to decadence and hedonism, earning it the in-universe moniker of "The City of Sin". But its {{source}} for the first edition of the setting makes it clear that whilst Shelzar may have lax morals by some standards, what with the casual sex and open acceptance of drug use and prostitution, it has plenty of ''standards'':

* PowerTattoo: Tattoo magic (introduced in the Relics and Rituals sourcebooks) allows useful tattoos to be implanted into the user's skin and activated as needed. They include Chardun's Might (+4 to Strength and Dexterity), Coreans' Forge (Stoneskin spell on user) and Dragon (gain a dragon's breath weapon attack).

The second great war was all of the Gods and one Titan together, picking off the rest of the Titans one by one. It is heavily implied that the Gods and their mortal followers would never have had a chance if the Titans had ever truly united against the threat.

* TheStarscream: One of the villains is a being called Momus, AKA the Jack of Tears, who rules over the Carnival of Shadows in Blood Bayou. He has four lieutenants, and all but one of them is planning to usurp him and betray each other. Momus is well aware of this, but he lets them continue their machinations just because it amuses him.

* HeteronormativeCrusader: The Lawful Neutral God Hedrada and Lawful Evil God Chardun are both merciless bastards with harsh and arbitrary laws condemning love, sexuality, and, well, positive emotions in general. Hedrada is the one most prone to discriminate against homosexuals and promiscuous people. The laws of Hedrada's holy city Hedrad consider homosexual love and heterosexual promiscuity to be crimes punishable by death. It even has strict punishments for public hugging. Granted, this city also kills monogamous heterosexuals who enter relationships without getting the blessing of the church first. However, as a monogamous heterosexual, you CAN get the blessing of the church, while homosexuals and promiscuous people can not. Storytelling-wise, the blatantly homophobic etc. laws of Hedrad are used to highlight that the God Hedrada is in fact NOT a ''good'' God.

* HeWhoMustNotBeNamed: The fallen god of the forsaken elves is refered to as "That Which Abides". But it's not that people are afraid to speak his name, it's that they ''can't'' remember his name. Chern erased knowledge of his name from the world as one final "screw you" before he was killed. [[spoiler:It's Jandaveos]].

** The big difference between gods and titans. While the titans do have cults of worshippers, they don't derive power from them but rather from the planet itself and can wipe out the races who worship them without suffering any ill effects (which they've done, repeatedly, throughout history). As such, the titans do not grant divine magic to their followers and are served by druids rather than clerics.

** The big difference between gods and titans. While the titans do have cults of worshippers, they don't derive power from them but rather from the planet itself and can wipe out the races who worship them without suffering any ill effects (which they've done, repeatedly, throughout history). Also a main motivation for most of the major conflicts in the world, from the Titanswar itself to the powerhunger of the evil gods: they need worship just as much as the good gods do, but mortals are more inclined to worship the good gods since these have more positive energy (healings, blessings, etc.) to offer. The evil gods are often prayed to in order to prevent being harmed by their associated bad things, but sometimes to bless some activity that falls in their purview (praying to Belsameth for success moving unseen at night, for example), regardless of one's alignment.

* {{Plaguemaster}}: Chern, of course. His sorcerers and druids as well. Vangal, as the son of Chern, is the god of pestilence. However, his preferred method of killing is a bit less... subtle.

** The 2nd edition of the Scarred Lands saw several titanspawn races abandon their AbusiveProgenitors and become allies with the humanoids, namely the [[SnakePeople Asaatthi]], a Sutak (horse-people) breakaway culture called the "Ironbred", and the [[RatMen Slitherin]]. Also the [[CatFolk Manticora]], who were created by the evil god Vangal.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The setting is a fair amount darker than any of the mainstream D&D settings (with the possible exception of ''TabletopGame/DarkSun'')

In the end, the world (what was left of it) belonged to what has since then been known as The Nine Victors, each representing one of the nine character alignments. This is now the ruling pantheon of the world, consisting of the eight main Gods and the only remaining Titan, Denev the Earthmother, a CaptainErsatz for Gaia who sided against her more destructive brethren. Ever since the Titanswar ended, she has been sleeping inside the earth, trying to heal the land from the damage caused by the war. There are also numerous demigods, either born from the central gods or with undocumented origins.

* Mormo, Mother of Serpents

* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Chardun, who was conceived by Mormo and Gormoth so that they could test the limits of divine endurance.

In the end, the world (what was left of it) belonged to what has since then been known as The Nine Victors, each representing one of the nine character alignments. This is now the ruling pantheon of the world, consisting of the eight main Gods and the only remaining Titan, Denev the Earthmother, a CaptainErsatz for Gaia. Ever since the war she has been sleeping inside the earth, trying to heal the land from the damage caused by the war.

** Colaxis is said to have the personality of a storytale knight, being witty and courteous even in battle. The weird thing? He's a giant spider who's the champion of Sethris, the demi-goddess of revenge.

* EthicalSlut: The goddess Idra and her followers. Idra's mother Tanil may have been this, before her rape at the hands of her father and the scarring of the land.

* TheGrimReaper: This is one interpretation of the god of death, Nemorga. It's not necessarily his true form, but it's how most common people visualize him.

In this world, the Titans created pretty much everything, including the Gods. But just like they created everything, they also destroyed everything -- thus making room for new creations. The Gods, who depended on the prayers of mortals for their own sustenance, could not easily accept the wanton slaughter of their followers.

For a while, the Gods and Titans coexisted. They even fought the first great war together, united against psionic extradimensional invaders.

The second war was all of the Gods together, picking off the Titans one by one. It is heavily implied that the Gods and their mortal followers would never have had a chance if the Titans had ever truly united against the threat.

** The big difference between gods and Titans. Also a main motivation for most of the major conflicts in the world, from the Titanswar itself to the powerhunger of the evil Gods: they need worship just as much as the good gods do, but mortals are more inclined to worship the good Gods since these have more positive energy (healings, blessings, etc.) to offer. The evil gods are often prayed to in order to prevent being harmed by their associated bad things, but sometimes to bless some activity that falls in their purview (praying to Belsameth for success moving unseen at night, for example), regardless of one's alignment.

* DontYouDarePityMe: Some theology claims that Chardun became the EvilOverlord he is due to having some of the absolute worst treatment by his parents out of all the gods. Said theology is never hawked by Chardun's church by his own demand, while it's true that he was abused by Mormo and Gormoth and hates them, he claims he was ''[[EnfanteTerrible always]]'' a greedy, ambitious deity by nature and the Titans were right to fear him.

* DontYouDarePityMe: Some theology claims that Chardun became the EvilOverlord he is due to having some of the absolute worst treatment out of all the gods. Said theology is never hawked by Chardun's church by his own demand, he claims he was ''[[EnfanteTerrible always]]'' a greedy, ambitious deity by nature and the Titans were right to fear him.

* EvilTwin: The goddesses of Good and Evil are twins. With Madriel being the good twin and Belsameth being the evil twin. They often impersonate each other. Especially with Belsameth impersonating Madriel, but the reverse also happens sometimes.

In the end, the world (what was left of it) belonged to what has since then been known as The Nine Victors. This is now the ruling pantheon of the world, consisting of the eight main Gods and the only remaining Titan, Denev the Earthmother, a CaptainErsatz for Gaia. Ever since the war she has been sleeping inside the earth, trying to heal the land from the damage caused by the war.

** Not that it doesn't happen, mind-see WasOnceAMan.

* {{Unperson}}: You may be asking yourself why the setting doesn't technically have a god of neutrality. Well, it did. His name was Urkanthus (son of Denev and Thulkas), and he was the only god who objected to the Divine War, foreseeing the damage it would cause. While most of the gods were willing to continue the debate, the evil gods... weren't. After murdering him, they destroyed his writings, his temples and all memories of him. This was also the fate of Gulaben, because her pleasure-inducing powers would've been too tempting for others to try to release her.

* {{Expy}}: Erias, the demigod of dreams, is quite similar in both looks and personality to Dream/Morpheus from Creator/NeilGaiman's [[ComicBook/TheSandman Sandman comics]].

* TheMagocracy: Several, including Hollowfaust the City of Necromancers (largely neutral-aligned and not a bad place to live despite the security forces being undead), and its rival city-state Glivid Autel (the one that ''does'' fulfill all the evil necromancer stereotypes).

* TheMagocracy: Several, including Hollowfaust the City of Necromancers, and its rival city-state Glivid Autel.

** Also the Blood Maidens: After the gods won the war against their parent Titans, they sealed them since they could never be killed. One of the Titans, Kadum the Mountain Shaker, was chained and flung into the deepest oceans, where the sea now runs red from his constantly bleeding wound where his heart was cut out. As a result of the exposure, all nearby sea life became tainted by the Titan's blood. Among the resulting monsters were the Blood Maidens, who look like beautiful women with long black hair and pale skin. When seeing their faces, the creature's monstrous nature becomes clear. Instead of a normal face, the Blood Maiden has only a giant circular, eyeless maw, like a lamprey.

* LackOfEmpathy: The main difference between the Titans and the gods, even the Evil gods, who are at least capable of [[NobleDemon honor]] and [[VillainousFriendship kinship]]. All the titans minus Denev and Golthain were simply incapable of considering the emotions or agency of others.

** [[OurElvesAreBetter Elves]] are divided into Wood Elves (standard elves, save for the love of tattooing as a racial art form), Dark Elves (mysterious black-skinned conquerors from the underworld at war with the mountain dwarves), and Forsaken Elves, who were left a DyingRace after their patron god Jandeveos was slain in a battle with the Titan Chern. Half-elves are largely born of experiments by the forsaken elves to get around their racial sterility curse; whilst successful, their racist progenitors also hold their human blood agaisnt them, causing many to flee the forsaken elf homelands in Termana to seek shelter in Ghelspad.

** Sintaurs are "sex constructs" found in Shelzar, which are [[FrankensteinsMonster flesh golems]] made to a centaur-like body plan as living sex toys. A sintaur consists of a human body with a second lower torso attached to the base of its spine to create a horse-like lower torso, with a set of genitalia between both the "forelimbs" and the "hindlimbs". The legs are replaced with arms ending in supple, dextrous, long-fingered hands. Sintaurs modeled from female bodies are given [[MultiBoobage four or six]] [[BuxomIsBetter huge]] breasts. Wealthy Shelzari keep them as status symbols, sometimes keeping whole ''stables'' of the things, and they are often decorated and paraded during the Shelzari festival known as the Night of Masks.

* FantasticRacism: There is a fair amount between the "divine races" (those following the gods) and the "titanspawn" (those associated with the Titans). That said, all of the standard D&D player races like humans, elves, dwarves and halflings were also created by the Titans before turning ''en masse'' to worshiping the gods (though fanatics have destroyed the records of which Titans created them); only a few races like the manticora were actually created by gods. One book points out that the gods ''themselves'' were created by the titans, meaning [[BoomerangBigot everyone is technically titanspawn]].

** The 2nd edition of the Scarred Lands saw several titanspawn races abandon their AbusiveProgenitors and become allies with the humanoids, namely the [[SnakePeople Asaatthi]], a Sutak (horse-people) breakaway culture called the "Ironbred", the [[CatFolk Manticora]], and the [[RatMen Slitherin]]).