Welcome to the Valt. This blog is intended to provide background information for the fantasy world of Valt, created by Jim Stearns for use in fantasy gaming. For those unfamiliar with my work, Valt is a world both alike and unalike to any you have seen before.
Valt was never intended to support life. The gods who came to Valt were renegades and runaways, who brought life to this place without realizing its true nature. Those who live in Valt, however, cannot help but feel the presence of the malignant entity which resided here first, and whose foul touch pervades every corner of the world.
But the races of humanoids cannot command the gods, and since they have no recourse but to make the best of their lives in this world, they have done exactly that. By this time, several thousand years since gods and man first came to Valt, the humanoid races have spread across the globe, forming empires, dominating the world around them, and building their societies up in their efforts to survive in a world that can never truly be mastered.
This is Valt. Where things older than the gods went to slumber. Where the renegades and the outcasts of a thousand worlds made their home. Where the goodly races are united by a single dream, a dream they all share: to survive one more day. Welcome to Valt.
Can’t wait for more.
How long have you been working on this particular Homebrew World?
I started laying the foundations of Valt in 2007, and ran the first game in 2008. I have written a fair amount of additional material for my own world, and discarded a fair amount of that as extraneous. I have a complete deities list, and have written about half of my own supplement for those deities. I haven’t finished working on the world, because I have been mainly focused on a single hemisphere. (But hey, Forgotten Realms was the same way, so I dont feel guilty.) But work continues, since I really enjoy having my own way in my own little planet that I can play God in.