====== World Building Agenda ====== ===== History ===== * 10,500 years * * How long ago was the fall from high tech * Maps Maps Maps! What does Arda look like today? * How high had population gotten * * How big a die-back * * How much regrowth, population and civilization  level * * Modern nations / city states * * Modern ethnography ===== What Remains ===== * What kinds of tech remnants * Nothing that works at all or just not properly? * Pollution? * From long ago * Massive constructions * Cuiviénen earth wall * Harshandatt pyramids * Statues at Rauros * Other ruins * Númenórean settlements * Elven settlements * Anything of Saurons * anything in Mordor * Dol Goldur (S. Mirkwood?) * Dwarves: * any surviving except Erebor * old mines/cities? * Any other non-human races? * orcs * trolls * hobbits? * fey races? * fir bolg? * Botanicals as per MERP sources * Animal / monster life ===== The Empire ===== * Religious Orders * Aslan * Aragorn ideas for Kane * Eru and the Valar * Swarmkeepers * Animal friendship with bees * Female priestesses are Melissae? * Eagle Seekers? * Ascetic mountaineers * Devoted to Manwe