Shandaria - Magical Realms CYOA

Magical Realms CYOA

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Points 190

Demiplanes (9)

Area Increase 5 (Five times the size of Earth at 3,000,000,000 km2) 9


Planar Features (17)

Gateways 2 (500, any grouping or placement) 3
Division (separate plane into sections) 2
Transient (fluid location) 3
Protection 2 (Fixed State of environment) 6
Assimilation (all things can be "terraformed" to fit in it) 3


Population 8 (40,000,000,000) (16)


Inhabitants (14)

Attitude Adjustment (Personalities change but they have free will) 1
Culture and Customs (Define the Norms, does not define enjoyment) 2
Pretty Population (the beautiful people) 2
Population Demographics (customize male/female ratio, ethnic makeup) 2
Population Longevity (Great health, immortality) 3
Extrahuman Population (Monster girls, elves, demons) 4


Tech Upgrade 4 (Modern Digital Age) (4)


Magic Upgrade 4 (8)

Society (15) TC: 71

Aesthetics 2
Public Education 1
University (lots of colleges) 2
Wealthy 2
Industrial 3
Infrastructure 2
Sanitation 1
Secure 1


Culture (17)
Music 1
Theatre 1
Animation 1
Art 1
Literature 1
Intellectual 1
Gaming 1
Gambling 1
Warfare 1
Religious 1
Occult 1
Nature 1
Mechanical 1
Alcohol 1
Food 1
Sexual 1
Festival 1


Environment (9)

Fertile (farmland) 1
Rich (Mineral Ore) 2
Exceptional Materials 3
Fauna and Flora 2 (biologically possible beasts and plants) 3


Adventure (18)

Dungeons 3 (changing dunegons, refilled) 5
Spirits (ghosts spirits) 2
Afterlife (Paradise Reincarnation Rebirth) 3
Pantheon (4)
Theme (4)


Capital (16)

Lifestyle Upgrade 3 (Kings envy your CITY, your personal quarters) 5
Automatons 2 (enough to provide menial labor across the realm) 5
Influence 3 (Authority of a God) 6


Personal (22)

Immortality 2
Spirit Walk (persist after death) 3
Shape Shift 2 (shapeshift at will) 5
Tongues (Understand all language) 1
Memory 2
Awareness (All Senses increase) 2
Peak Condition (top physical form) 2
Superhuman Body (Magically enhanced stamina speed and strength) 3
Blessing (Satisfying life) 2


Powers (14)

Geas (manipulation) 2
Glamour (illusions) 2
Healing 2
Conjuration (Summoning creatures) 2
Scrying (Divining, predicting future, seeing past) 3
Nullification (nullify magic) 3


Companions (12)

Friendship 2 (anyone, even fictional) 3
Waifu 2 (Polygamist waifury) 4
Harem (you draw preferred members to you) 2
Familiar (a piece of your soul which cannot die) 3


Ascendance (4) TC: 190

Guidance 1 (a book that helps you in all things divine) 4


DRAWBACKS Total +90
40points - BOUND (Your word is your law, and you may never knowingly break your word or allow it to be broken.)
25 points - BENEVOLENT (Sustaining your life requires the granting of boons to others, but not tricking them through wording.)
25 points - NIGHTMARE (Your realm has summoned something... else... it is an unspeakable abomination, and your realm must seek its destruction or be destroyed.)



The Pyramidic Realm of Shandaria

A plane of existence split into nine levels. The upper levels are fantastic paradises, while the lower levels are the bowels of hell, and the middle levels embody a balance of good and evil.
Citizens of the lower realms, through a process of refining the spirit and cleansing themselves of sin and wicked thought, can Ascend to higher planes, but only if they are judged worthy by the Automata, the agents of the High Chancellor. They exist on every level, providing the basis of menial labor.
The exact size of all total planes comes to 3 billion square kilometers, with a population of 40 billion. As one moves higher, the population becomes less dense.
There is much adventure to be found within Shandaria, whether dueling with other mages or crawling through dungeons. Likewise, the culture, theology, and standards of living allow one to find their purpose in Shandaria.
It's leader is politically known as the Grand Chancellor, though he is immortal and will not resign from his position.  Attempted coups and Rebellions will be fought fire with fire. The Grand Chancellor rules from his captial city, Ambrosia, on the ninth plane. He is the ultimate authority and the ultimate judge of Shandaria's peoples.
Still, the Grand Chancellor is neither the strongest nor the most magically adept. The citizens of Shandaria are proud adventurers, philosophers, magicians, and cultural keystones.
Shandaria is the place where you can make a legend of yourself, where you can refine the heaven within to reach the heaven without. Join us, friends. Ascension awaits.


The Nine Planes of Shandaria:

9 - Rapture. The Realm of the Grand Chancellor's City. The smallest plane, and the top of the heavens.
8 - Splendor. The Realm of the Divinities. Gods, demigods, and the worthy inhabit the middle of heaven.
7 - Candor.  The Realm of Greater Joy. The worthy reach this place, a sampling of the what awaits in the Utopia above. The lowest of the Heavens.
6 - Enlightenment. The Realm of the chastened. Many who make it here will find themselves in a heaven of their own right. The top most plane of Neutrality.
5 - Reflection. The most neutral of the neutrals.
4 - Awareness. The start of goodness, coming here from hell is a point of commendation. The lowest of the Neutrals.
3 - Pride. The realm of the proud, where superiority and inferiority are removed. The top of the Hells.
2 - Foolishness. Those who wish to better themselves may start here. The middle of the hells.
1 - Ignorance.  A place where those uninterested in refinement, or unable to better themselves. The most populous and largest plane, the very root of the hells.

The White One
We don't know where it came from, we don't know when it arrived. But when the High Chancellor entered the realm, something WRONG followed on his heels.
It appears to most people as a puff of white mist, though within some have said they see a three legged dog, or a crying woman, or a large spider. Reports and witness accounts are conflicting and varied.
Sightings of the White One are always either preceeded or suceeded by calamity. It appeared before a great fire took three city blocks in Pride. It appeared after the flooding of Enlightenment. Curiously, the White One seems to appear on a pattern. He appears before a disaster once, and then after it, and then before again.
It is unknown whether the White One is the cause of these calamities, or if he is merely a symptom of them. However, since his first appearance, there have been more and more natural disasters. Many believe he is at fault.