Information about Chavest
Storyline/history

Chavest is scrublands that lead to a treacherous volcanic range. The people here are ruled by a harsh tyrannical dictator G'reil Tvoul. He is the child of a demon and an angel. He leads a group of people who worship the prophetic teachings of old Chavest. The teachings state that "our suffering and confusion continues due to infidelity to the laws" and that "our suffering will be ended when the world dies and the phoenix fire extinguishes". The sad, torn and repentant demons and angels that live in this land follow these teachings to a misinterpreted T. Much how many religions may. They all worship the phoenixes that live in the volcano and are careful not to break the laws of their people. Because they take the laws so seriously, a new class, Judge, will be put in place. Judges are like those of judge dread but in the dark ages. they are judge, jury, and executioner. Punishment here is always harsh but just in the eyes of the inhabitants, eye for an eye mentality. Because they misinterpret the prophecies they think that their suffering will end and that they will be reborn like the phoenix, what the prophecy really means is that when the world ends and even the phoenix die forever, then all suffering will end. Because they think that the whole ending is best to end suffering, they seek to destroy Andora and break it apart as well as anything that stands in their way. They have only loyalty to their laws and cause of world destruction. I like mixing the structured hierarchy of W/B church themes plus the demon idea as well. The notion that this plane consists of repentant (or lying) demons that believe they need to bring forth the apocalypse for the greater good and the worshipers (suckers) that uphold these beliefs. This is the tuff-stuff plane. Hard, concise and serious name.

The Chavest history begins in chaos. Humans, Demons, Angels, Phoenixes, and Orcs roam the shard scavenging and surviving as best they can. All wondering why they are there, plague and destruction all around them. The nation of Erous destroys all that they find, but without a society find nothing to subjugate and because of that find it difficult to have a true hold on the shard. Out of the chaos, come a succession of prophets through the years. The prophets travel around Chavest preaching their visions of a future with no suffering. Atst is the first of the prophets and begins to write his prophecies in what will later be called the Book of Chav. The book is passed down to Sadan, then to Fa’ador who continue the tradition of preaching and writing the prophecies of a better future. The teaching begin to take hold of the people of Chavest. Even demons and Orcs begin to follow the teaching. The teachings of Chav become the way of the land. Cities are built and laws are put in place based on the teachings of Chav. Clerics travel to all expanses of Chavest to set up monistaries, monuments, and temples to the growing religion. Society starts with a tyrant G’reil Tvoul. His reign brought forth the introduction of the judges and written laws. The judges are Chavest emissaries that travel throughout the shard policing the behaviors of believer and non-believer alike. If a law is broken according to a judge, then they will take the appropriate actions against the perpetrator. While this happens G’riel Tvoul has his scholars work on finding a way to this future time of no suffering. The scholars determin that if the entire plane is destroyed, then it will rise again from the ashes like the phoenix and will end all the suffering of Chavest. This unfortunately is a gross misinterpretation of the book. Regardless, this discovery starts G’riel Tvoul to call for a crusade to end existence for a better future. The denizens of Chavest see the logic and follow.

Themes
Creature Types

The creature types of Chavest are:

1. Demons - bound to Chavest by an unknown being Demons are generally humanoid but with massively muscular bodies, twisted, horned faces, clawed limbs, and in many cases leathery wings, demons embody the suffering and evil desires of ordinary races.
2. Angels - also bound to Chavest by an unknown being, Angels have an extremely strong sense of justice and often devote their lives - and their deaths - to its cause, whatever it may be.
3. Humans - Tough minded, hearty and adaptable.
4. Imps - imps are barely-sentient, feral pests.
5. Viashino - The Viashino are intelligent humanoids with lean, muscular builds. These Lizard-Folk are descended from dragons. Quick, agile, and vicious when required.
6. Pheonix - rare and special, the pheonix embodies the driving force of the current, all encompassing Chavest faith, Redemption through destruction.

Note : We are allowing creatures to be Angels and Demons at the same time.
Subtypes include: knight, cleric, judge, barbarian/berserker, rogue.

Themes/Mechanics

Chavest Mechanic

Cleave X (whenever this creature deals combat damage to a blocking creature it deals X damage to that creatures controller.)

Others
The mechanics of course include the evergreen keywords (deathtouch, defender, double strike, enchant, equip, first strike, flash, flying, haste, indestructible, intimidate, landwalk, lifelink, protection, reach, regenerate, shroud, trample, and vigilance) and Cleave.
The general themes according to the voting are: land destruction, sweepers, burn, creature removal, Life Gain/Drain, anti-land, and sacrifice.