Fantasy Setting Proposal

1. Core Ethos Sentence.

Celestials stripped of their power and banished from the Upper Planes struggle to regain their status and return to their homes.

2. Who are the heroes?

The heroes are The Fallen—once mighty celestials, now barely more powerful than mortals. Cast from the celestial planes for various crimes, they struggle with their new mortal existence while seeking to regain their lost status.

3. What do they do?

The Fallen pursue many methods to recover the celestial status: some seek to prove themselves through heroic quests and acts of kindness, while others seek to storm the heavenly gates to seize their lost glory.

4. Threats, Conflicts, Villains

The Fallen face opposition from every imaginable quarter. Demons and devils lure them toward evil, offering them an approximation of their lost power if they will surrender their goodness entirely. The traditional array of fantastic monsters hope to gain great power by killing the Fallen and absorbing what remains of their divine spark. Celestials who remain pure and unfallen bar their re-entry to the upper planes or even seek to kill the Fallen abominations.

5. Nature of magic

The Fallen are gifted with significant magical power by virtue of their celestial nature. At the same time, they can acquire magical power in the same ways that mortals can, though they must beware of magic that carries the taint of evil, which would prevent them from ever achieving their goal.

6. What's new? What's different?

The Fallen is a campaign of superheroic proportion and epic scope. The heroes have powers at their command—or at least within their reach—that far outstrip what mere mortals can accomplish. It is a high-powered setting where characters must use their tremendous might for the purest reasons, while avoiding the temptation to abuse that power for evil ends.