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Originally Posted by Astromancer
The Fires of Spring
This is a science fantasy setting magical elements are freely mixed in with Planetary Romance and steampunk elements.
. If you read The Dying Earth and other works in the same setting by Vance you'll get the right mood and style. Wolf's Book of the New Sun should suggest some bio-tech ideas.
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Basically, the elder Wizards of Adocentyn dabbled in bio-technology. Certain creatures are left over from these experiments.
Of importance to the PCs are the
Destriers named for ancient war horses. These creatures can run at high speeds for longer than most types of wolves. In battle these steeds can charge at 100 mph. However they must be well fed to be in peak physical condition, and that includes meat. Sometime, hungry Destriers seek their own meat sources. This can be serious trouble.
Look at Wolf's
The Castle of the Otter for details and ideas on the Destriers.
The Greatbats, which combine DNA from bats,
Pterosaurs and stranger beasts by far, allow men to ride living beasts into the air. A healthy greatbat can carry as much as a camel at up to 80 mph.
There are many other strange beasts. Some are useful, others were meant as traps to snare the unwary. Some make no sense at all. They seem simply to be terrors.
An example of these last are strange fell hyena-like beasts that have a sinister trick. They dig up the bodies of the newly dead and after eating their brains seem to have the memories and voices of the dead people they ate. One of the favorite games of these demon things is to go to the door of a grieving mother and call out in her dead child's voice to be let in. Many a tale of horror is now punctuated with "
Help me mommy."
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