Some lore from a fantasy setting I’m making called Menhir. Menhir has no set time period, and is basically a vessel for me to create weird cultures, creatures, and then explore how the march of technology affects them over the course of thousands of years. Find out more at r/MenhirWorld !.
It’s inevitable that we lose some things along the march of progress.This young kobold has been seized by bitterness and nostalgia for an idealized past. He longs for that mythic world, where he could be free to breathe the fresh mountain air, away from the clang of machines and the shouts of overseers. But for now, there is only soot, and work that needs doing.
As sapiens (humans and dwarves) imperialism spread its tendrils across the world, it became harder and harder for kobolds, famously stubborn and independent, to remain so. But if they would not come to progress, progress would come to them. What he knows of his culture’s past is fragmented and filtered through many sources, but that romantic, inaccurate image of the past remains. Proud. Independent. Strong. “How could we come to this?” he wonders.
This growing trend of ethnic nationalism and class rebellion was the result of the many injustices which characterized high imperial times.
Oh, boy, I hope this disenfranchised underclass’ frustration, fascination with a mythologized past, and disdain for people who they may believe robbed them of this glory doesn’t get exploited by a charismatic leader to overturn society and create a totalitarian nightmare where the in-group gets smaller and smaller for the systems’ need for an enemy to hate and fear while it lashes out at everyone else!
Ha ha now that's just crazy talk, it's not like some kind of disastrous world event could turn the general public against the establishment and create perfect fertile ground for those radical elements to gain mass support! What next, global war? Pffft we're too civilized for that!
Even if there was a global war, technology has advanced so far that surely that means it will simply be finished sooner with fewer total casualties. I bet it will be all wrapped up by Solstice.
Hmmm there seems to be a rising political group known as the National Socialist Kobold Workers' Party (Kozi for short). Hope they don't cause any trouble.
Oh yes I've heard of that fellow, smooth talker that guy. He has some wacky ideas but I'm sure he won't let personal bias affect how he handles that group.
Yeah Sci-fi bounces between the Main Races early days of Space travel after the Exodus from their homeworld and modern stuff. New project considering having it where its In the worlds 1940s and goes into its 2000s
Me got Idea. War?, so like a Socialists Republic Across the Sea, of Koblods who went to that Land and Ended up Doing alot and such making many Nations, Pushing out the Natives, and such. and The Reason for war is that they are Trying to Free their Long Lost Brothers-in-Arms. or Something.
And it's go, boys, go, they'll time your every breath
And every day you're in this place, you're 2 days nearer death
But you go
Well a Process Man am I and I'm tellin' you no lie
I work and breathe among the fumes that trail across the sky
There's thunder all around me and there's poison in the air
There's a lousy smell that smacks of hell and dust all in me hair
It's an amazing song and that's how vividly this bit of world building hit me. You've managed to create something truly striking here.
I'm really glad you like it! I had aspirations of being a writer before deciding to focus on drawing. I enjoy spicing up what would otherwise be dry context.
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u/Maggot-Milk Menhir Sep 01 '24
Some lore from a fantasy setting I’m making called Menhir. Menhir has no set time period, and is basically a vessel for me to create weird cultures, creatures, and then explore how the march of technology affects them over the course of thousands of years. Find out more at r/MenhirWorld !.
It’s inevitable that we lose some things along the march of progress.This young kobold has been seized by bitterness and nostalgia for an idealized past. He longs for that mythic world, where he could be free to breathe the fresh mountain air, away from the clang of machines and the shouts of overseers. But for now, there is only soot, and work that needs doing.
As sapiens (humans and dwarves) imperialism spread its tendrils across the world, it became harder and harder for kobolds, famously stubborn and independent, to remain so. But if they would not come to progress, progress would come to them. What he knows of his culture’s past is fragmented and filtered through many sources, but that romantic, inaccurate image of the past remains. Proud. Independent. Strong. “How could we come to this?” he wonders.
This growing trend of ethnic nationalism and class rebellion was the result of the many injustices which characterized high imperial times.