Concordia

A powerful human royal family is shattered by a raid. The younger children and a servant child are kidnapped, the elder siblings are scattered, corrupted, and transformed. Their search and the fallout from that night ignite: Civil wars within the human kingdoms Continental wars between races Religious and mythic crises tied to the gods and their beasts No “purely good” side. Gods, kings, vampires, pirates, and peasants are all operating inside blurry, morally compromised systems. Devotion to a god is not moral correctness; it’s allegiance to a dangerous cosmic personality.

Seven major lands (analogous to Westeros regions or LotR realms). Each land: Has a central ruler / power structure, but is internally fractured into: Houses, clans, courts, packs, tribes, guilds, etc. Has a dominant race (e.g. Orc heavy, Vampire heavy, Human heavy) with minorities / conflicts. Has religion everywhere, but local customs look bizarre to outsiders. Has a landscape that reflects its dominant god’s traits (e.g. harsh warlike steppes, decadent vampire courts, drowned pirate isles).

Humans Vampires Werewolves Fae High Fae Pirates (culturally distinct human or mixed communities) Warlocks (more a class than a race) Goblins Orcs Sirens Centaurs Undead The last remaining Dwarves warforged

Cosmology & Magic 2.1 Structure of power Magic and power are organised into three main tiers: Divine Power Granted by gods, channelled through: God Beasts (massive, named mythical creatures tied to aspects like Death, Wrath, Abundance, etc.) Relics (weapons, artefacts, objects holding a god’s authority) Strongest tier. Bonding with a God Beast or wielding a true relic can completely change a mortal’s destiny. Arcane Power Learned: study, ritual, guilds, cults, warlocks, forbidden grimoires. Powerful but fundamentally “hacked” systems, not full access to the gods. Natural Power Innate talents and lesser magics that manifest organically. Can be subtle (sensitivity to emotions, minor elemental tricks) or, rarely, frighteningly strong. Bonding with a God Beast tends to awaken and supercharge this. There are lesser spontaneous magics as well: small gifts that show up unpredictably in ordinary people and are used in day-to-day life, not just war. Central source: some kind of ether / primordial energy. First branching: Life / Death / Rebirth. Elemental layer: Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Light, Shadow, Order, Chaos. Shadow is explicitly tied to Death. Fire is explicitly tied to Wrath. Outer ring: the Seven Deadly Sins, Seven Virtues, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Four Horsemen of Salvation. Hybrid powers (e.g. fire + earth = magma) exist as logical fusions, though they’re not yet systematically mapped. This map is both a design skeleton for your magic and a possible in-world philosophy / occult diagram scholars, cults, and mages might fight over. The Pantheon of Seven Gods You’ve locked in this canonical structure: There are 7 gods. Each god combines 3–4 traits chosen from: 7 Sins 7 Virtues 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse 4 Horsemen of Salvation That gives 22 total aspects. Each aspect has: One God Beast One Relic A unique bonding/test requirement 3.1 Canonical trait clusters You confirmed the trait clusters like this: God 1: Diligence, Pride, Death, Peace God 2: Patience, Greed, Prosperity (Salvation aspect) God 3: Gratitude, Gluttony, Famine God 4: Humility, Wrath, War God 5: Temperance, Sloth, Pestilence God 6: Charity, Lust, Abundance God 7: Chastity, Envy, Rebirth Across the pantheon: God Beasts: Massive, unique mythical animals or monsters. Each one: Embodies one aspect (e.g. Death, War, Abundance) Can bond with a mortal – a telepathic, soul-deep link. Grants powers that make sense for that aspect (e.g. fire for Wrath, shadow/entropy for Death, growth/harvest for Abundance). They’re feared like living natural disasters and revered like minor gods. Relics: Physical embodiments of an aspect: blades, shields, staves, crowns, etc. Can be: Found in dungeons/ruins Won from trials Inherited through bloodlines Often interchangeable with beasts in function: beast = living contract; relic = crystallised contract. Bonding Rituals: You’ve defined the idea that each beast has: A specific ritual requirement A spiritual/moral condition (e.g. face your deepest fear, turn away from glory, accept your own death) These rituals are still being systematically mapped but the framework is fixed. Power Inheritance: Powers can: Be inherited through bloodline Be stolen by killing a bonded bearer Pass on naturally at the bearer’s death This is central to dynastic conflict and the stakes of killing someone bonded to a God Beast.

You’ve outlined how different people learn power: Elite Paths: Formal academies for: Warrior-mages Scholars Priesthoods of particular gods Outlaw Paths: Dark guilds that train assassins, warlocks, and cursed warriors (e.g. the guild that trains the Servant Boy). Pirate covens, vampire circles, underground cults. Occasional Prodigies: Rare mortals with terrifying power without direct divine bond. The world believes a mortal could theoretically kill a god, even if it hasn’t happened… yet.

The world so far is built around a few recurring obsessions: Destiny vs. Self-Determination Prophecy exists (e.g. chaos prophecy around Angel of Death). But characters repeatedly either: Misinterpret it Try to outrun it Or weaponise it politically. Power & Corruption Divine beasts and relics are nuclear weapons with emotions. Every bond is a bargain; every blessing has a cost. Corruption arcs (Alric, the Servant Boy, Grace) are central. Blurred Morality Horsemen of Salvation and Apocalypse live inside the same gods. Virtue and sin are not opposites but co-habiting traits. Regions judge gods differently based on lived experience, not absolute truth. Family & Found Family The King’s policy of taking enemy heirs creates: A house of rival bloodlines, half-siblings and adopted siblings. The pirate crew, vampire courts, and outlaw guilds all function as alternative “families” with their own twisted loyalty structures. Myth Echoing Mortal Stories Mortal arcs mirror gods’ old myths: Tragic love. Betrayal leading to death. Jealousy causing cataclysm. Some folk tales are propaganda; some are true; some are divine gaslighting.