[quote=@Torch]
[@mechOrigins] I think this is a good idea, the guardians things. But the fact that their death results in such devastation is what nags me. I like the idea of Dwarves living above a giant molten giant, that holds the ground up beneath them in its slumber, and the Long Leaf Tree of the elves, much like a LOTR Ent, but much larger, it moves very slowly around its lands, but when provoked it will unleash wooden hell. 

Maybe their deaths have different impacts? 
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	What if they are all sleeping, and whenever one of them wakes up it means some kind of great change is about to occur, weather it's a massive earthquake or a deadly plague that sweeps the land, or even a drought that lasts for a long period of time?

	I can imagine a small town that has become deathly still almost over night, as all the families huddle together inside, waiting for the passing of an event that will mark a new age for this land. The news had just spread that their slumbering god has opened its eyes for the first time since the great flood...