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For a world whose very survival depends on magic, to believe the population has developed an aversion to mage's needs to be explained. While the premise is an interesting and challenging undertaking, this "world" violates the very mechanics of planets and world-building concepts. Magic, and very powerful magic at that, was deployed to hold the shards together and to allow life to continue on... there are a large number of normal aspects that have to be accounted for in your world design. I would propose that mages are very much sought after by powerful coalitions that need their magic and abilities to keep things together.

I highly recommend... http://www.world-builders.org/ and http://www.sfwa.org/writing/worldbuilding1.htm

Being very technical, I would like to know the answers to the following questions:

How you propose the atmosphere bubble is maintained? How big is the inside space? What happens when a shard moves too close to the outside?

If each shard has its own gravity, normal influences of bodies with gravity will apply implying some kind of "dance" of shards that needs to be engineered... How do you propose this work?

What determines "up"? There are two ways to interpret shattered... the first is to assume that it is like the Earth system asteroid belt where every shard is a world unto itself and subject to the dangers of collision, etc. The second concept is that the world is shattered but everything still points down towards the original core and the shattered pieces are like continents of Earth separated by gaps instead of oceans.

In either case, what happened to the water? How does it rain? How can crops be grown to feed people?

What you propose is very similar to Integral Trees by Larry Niven (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Integral_Trees) where your shards correspond to the Integral Trees.

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I just had a thought, what if, we used the Bushido as the Dwarven code of honour. Their favoured class could be changed to samurai (Complete Warrior) and Masladh could become Ronin. For Dwarven mages, I could make a "Honour Mage" type class, as well as a Ronin equivalent.

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Hey OwlWizard, what if instead of the corrupt spells being based on the race of the target, it was based on caster level. For example, a higher level caster would be able to create, say, a mind flayer rather than an orc. The spell could also be based on race and caster level. This opens up more flexibility by allowing more monsters in the world.

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I think I may go with 10,000 shards. Still undecied about the Hollow World issue. There are 7 contintent-sized fragments, which would leave 9,994 smaller shards of various sizes, then there will be some gravity-less boulders which technically aren't classified as shards, and finally there are debris fields and debris storms. The repulsion fields set up by the shard-key would keep out everything bigger than a pre-set size (ideas?), but there could still be dust/pebble storms.

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if this is for cleric spells, they have the Moon Domain. check the spell compendium, or forgotten realms.
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this is a good creation myth. It has some of the classical elements and themes, and yet it is a new take on things. I like the weaving/fates things to explain how the universe came to be.

THough it looks like the first part of a trilogy, I would like to know what hte Unraveler is up to.

You might consider though, that they don't need a creation myth like this because their creation myth need only be concerned with how Oramis was shattered.

But, you might also consider tying in the Unraveler into the Shattering Myth. Say that one of the forces was a herald for the Unraveler, and the other was a Knight of the Three Weavers. Their battle broke the planet. (but again, don't mention that they are mages, leave them as unknown forces)

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