Kumari Kandam Wiki

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This is a setting for D&D 5th Edition adventures. It is created through playing the game. During character creation and individual sessions elements of the setting are established and defined.

This is an encyclopedic record of the setting elements that have already been defined. Players and the GM can add to the world as new elements are discovered and defined.

Lemuria
This is a continent that has been the home of a powerful civilization for many years but now it is doomed. They have sent scouting parties to explore a new home for their civilization.

Kumari Kandam
This is a new continent, unexplored by the people of Lemuria, which they hope to make their new home. Nothing is known about this new continent except what the scouting parties have found.

Techno-Arcanic Dimensional Architecture (TADA)
The people of Lemuria developed a combination of magic and technology that relies on moving through and between dimensions. Their technology is rich and diverse but much of it may be lost in the rushed migration to Kumari Kandam.

Scouting Parties
Lemuria has sent heroic teams ahead of their migrating refugees to identify good places to land and to secure the area for camps, settlements, and eventually a renewal of their civilization.

Economic System
To model the Lemurian settlements we have a system. The goal is to allow the players to make interesting choices about how their society grows, but also to give the characters reasons to pursue adventures to accomplish goals for their settlement. 

 Inspiration for this format of world-building:


 * Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić
 * Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges
 * Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

The names of the two continents come from legendary lost continents.


 * Kumari Kandam is the name of a continent supposedly in the Indian Ocean. It is associated with Tamil cultural reivival.
 * Lemuria is the name of a continent supposedly in the Indian or Pacific Ocean. It originally was created to fill in gaps in knowledge that were replaced by the understanding of plate tectonics. Later it was used as a myth in Theosophy.

