Clashing of Ways

Uh, well, I've come up with a setting! And I want to work on it and improve and get feedback and other peoples ideas and stuff, apparently! o_O

Essentially, its about two seperate worlds: two different versions of Earth. One of these is ours, but in the far future.

This world, called Earth, is the homeworld of Humans. 5,000 years from now, the Earth is decaying as the wealthy and powerful members of the human race fled to the stars a few thousand years ago, and although the world is dieing, mankind survives in a world so obsessed with freedom that there's very little in the way of organized nations: most people live by the ideal of 'do what you want', and their advanced technology (most of which is powered by geothermal energy) gives even ordinary individuals great power. It's a smoggy, broken wasteland, home to mutants, bandits, rogue warmachines, cyborgs and pretty much every other kind of post-apocalyptic *thing* there is.

The other world, named Sylanias, is a world of magic. A powerful form of radiation with biomutagenic properties called Aether permeates the entire world, giving the humans who thrive there great physical & mental ability, as well as the ability to channel Aether through their bodies as 'magic'. Long ago, the first humans forged a pact with the great Dragons, and these bonds have lasted for thousands of years. Sylvanias has basically no technology past bronze age levels, and peace is kept through something called 'The Law', which everyone must follow without question. As its main creed goes: 'To seek power is to foster greed and ambition. Knowledge is power. To seek knowledge is to foster greed and ambition.'

Now, a freak break in the fabric of space & time leads to portals springing up across both worlds. As the peoples and ideals of both worlds clash, well...

Tropes list for the setting as a whole:

• Harmony Versus Discipline: Though in a variety of different ways, some of which are Inverted from the usual.
• Magic Versus Science (and The Magic Versus Technology War) as a result.
• Order Versus Chaos

Future Earth...

• After the End
• Earth Is a Battlefield: in the sense that there are scarily large numbers of mutants, bandits, rogue warmachines and all manner of enemy soldiers.
• Humans Are Bastards: Well, the world IS kind of dieing because of them.
• Mecha-Mooks: Some are rogue and attack people on sight, others get reprogrammed en-mass to serve various warlords and other simliar people.

Sylvanias...

• One World Order
• Five Races

Any suggestions? Questions? There are more details, which I'll add here as time goes by.

edited 2nd Oct '10 12:23:51 PM by E.H.Grayson

How are you going to work the Magic Vs Technology that seems to be springing up?

I was thinking that people would react in different ways? So, on our world, small communities team up with splinter factions from the Sylvanias One World Order (the result of free thinking ideas from our world), perhaps resulting in Magitek...?