#My30DayWorld Second Attempt: Day 2: World Name and What it means to Me?

Day 2: World Name and what it means. 

Below is my answer to why my setting is named the way it is along with Lore reasons from within the Campaign. A little out there and a long one (sorry for the length), but It is info I wish to share.

Name

Kraina Smoków is a polish phrase when translated back to English means “Dragon-land” or in my mind “Land of Dragons”.

Reasoning behind it

The reason why it is called this is mainly due to me wanting to have a setting about Dragonborn, Dragons and anything else related to the Draconic parts of the 5th edition of the Greatest Roleplaying Game. More often than not, it seems Dragonborn are often a player option shunted off to the side or played by only one or two people at a given table (often not at the same time) while the other player races are doubled up or often tripled up at the table. The same could be said when it comes to NPCs with Dragonborn either being simply left out or being given a major role in the story with little in between (in my mind).

When looking at the name from an in-game perceptive of the Named and Unnamed NPCs of the world. The name “Kraina Smoków” to the Dragonborn is there stamp on the world. When Spelljammer Captains look at their maps and see the region of the Cosmos and the Disc-world labeled “Kraina Smoków” they know that that is the place the Dragonborn call home. It is the place you go if you want to see how the Draconic creatures and people dwell and live. To the Dragonborn, Kobolds, and Dragons who live on Kraina Smoków, it is there home among the stars. It is the place they found among the stars away from their old slave masters and the Evil Gods that sponsor and give them the divine right to enslave the Draconic creatures of the Cosmos.

An Exert from an NPC

Taken from the journal of Homor the Red -a Cosmic Explorer and adventurer -;

"The Dragonborn, Kobolds, and Dragons who dwell on Kraina Smoków are of a different breed. Having freed themselves from the bonds of slavery, they sought no yearning to tie one another back into the chains of Slavery. The Dragons have lost their greed for gold and lust for power freed their Kobold minions while the Dragonborn leveled the field with one another and sought each one equal regardless of past actions or Clannish ties. The Kobolds -seeing that neither group sought to punish or enslave them anymore- began to lay down the basic building blocks for their own clans and societies seeking to dwell alongside both the Dragonborn and Dragons as equals. Many members of the other Races thought our Draconic Union would end with one group slaughter the others but it hasn't. Kobolds help build and maintain our roads and tunnels, the Dragonborn forms the bustling traders, workmen, and common citizen that drives society forward and the Dragons protect our most valuable resources and the Union from both internal and external threats. Each Creature from the Stars has their place here on Kraina Smoków and each member treated as equals to one another.

Now 500 years after the foundation of our Great Union, it is still that same case. I just hope it can weather the approaching storm."

This has been my resubmission for Day 2 of #My30DayWorld. 

#My30DayWorld Second Attempt; Day 1: Elevator Pitch

In short, below is an elevator pitch for a Campaign World that I have had an idea for a few months now. Originally this began alongside Absolute Tabletop's Dragongrin Setting Kick-starter, but due to life I was unable to follow it through all the way to completion. So I am starting over with the intention of completing it.

To say the least, It won't likely be done in the 30-day time span, but I will make sure to write content for each prompt and have it posted here alongside other thoughts and ideas I come up with that will appear on this blog. Some of these Posts will be repeats of content that I posted to the Facebook Group Absolute Tabletop, while the rest of the content posted will be of original creation with the older content being edited with newer content spliced in.   

Now onward to Adventuring!

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Kraina Smoków -the home of the Dragonborn. Wrapped and wrecked by sandstorms and beaten down by the harsh sun; the Disk World is a small paradise in the middle of the Celestial Sea. Freed from the bondage of slavery some half a eon ago, peace prevails over the desert world. With mountains reaching high to grace the sky and with waters clear as the air, it is paradise.

But darkness pushes in on the edges of the disc-world and old enemies begin to move out from the shadow. Clerics, Oracles, Soothsayers and Mystics scream out in pain as images of blood, darkness and warfare are sere into their minds as thunder and lightning role across the skies. The Dragons are restless and the Darkness is coming again; few can stop it.

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