![]() While each culture or people tends to have their own stories, legends, and myths, they generally all have a common theme in that horrors broke through to the 9 th World through whatever is beyond this world and were nigh unstoppable. Each people has stories of great terrors that were unleashed upon an otherwise mundane world, commonly they are referred to as “horrors” as few other words describe them as well. Some eked out an existence, flourished, thrived, and even winked out of existence in their subterranean tombs. Your people believe that that generations ago all hell broke loose and everyone that was able crammed themselves into shelters, cairns as they are called. ![]() Cultures, gods, peoples, societies, technologies and even continents have come and gone, ebbed and flowed that have been lost to time, extinctions, and dark ages. The Earth has seen so many come and go over the last billion years. Those who uncover and master the numenera can unlock the powers and abilities of the ancients and bring new light to a struggling world. But discovery awaits for those brave enough to seek out the works of the prior worlds. The people of the Ninth World suffer through a dark age, an era of isolation and struggle in the shadow of the ancient wonders crafted by advanced civilizations now millennia gone. Set a billion years in our future, Numenera is a tabletop roleplaying game about exploration and discovery. Some call these magic, but the wise know that these are our legacy. But their works remain, in the places and devices that still contain some germ of their original function. The people of the prior worlds are gone-scattered, disappeared, or transcended. They built cities and machines that have since crumbled to dust, leaving only their barest remnants. They spoke to the stars, reshaped the creatures of the world, and mastered form and essence. ![]() Eight times the people of this Earth, over vast millennia, built their civilizations, reaching heights we cannot even fully imagine now. They say there have been eight worlds before ours.
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