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The Land of Avenir and the City of Sybarus

Avenir & Genesis

Avenir was created in the Summer of 1993 with the intention of expanding upon the Dark Elf/Underdark sub-theme of the domain Terel. It has long since evolved far beyond the expectations of its creators. Together, the members of Avenir have worked to develop a Domain whose theme(s) are both coherent and based primarily upon imagination and small borrowings from ancient cultures, rather than falling upon traditional AD&D lore or fantasy literature.

Once again, Avenir is NOT based upon any work of fiction, so asking for the titles and authors of books is useless. If you are widely read in religion, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, mythology and art, you may be familiar with some of the sources we have drawn upon to create Avenir. The most obvious example: Sybarus is the city-state of this Domain, and it derives its name and some of its reputation from the greek city of Sybaris.

While Avenir is the creative brain-child and endeavor of its wizards, and meant to fit fairly seamlessly into the general medieval theme of Genesis, it is also intended as a social experiment of sorts, a role-playing environment that recognizes and explores the superstitious roots of good and evil within man, rather than one that resorts to or relies upon fairy-tale, story-book (and obviously pretend) versions of good and evil.

Sybarus is a land whose people follow two commandments:
Serve the Will of the Gods, and, Pleasure and Happiness are the Ultimate Good.

At present, the Domain Avenir consists primarily of Utterdark tunnels and the City of Sybarus, about which you can read more by following the links below.

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