Coldfell

Surface Elves, with their naturist and xenophobic lifestyle slowly get out of favor and hurting them in the future, slowly drift away from the world, favoring closed off sections of the earth to themselves. Humans, despite their young age, have dominated the landscape with an alliance with the dwarves and Drow, which have slowly crept out of the Underdark due to the general disdain of the elves of yonder years, have found a distrusted but comfortable hole in civilization. The dwarves, with their general inventiveness and ingenuity involving steel and other underground riches, were a definite ally to the humans as the surface Elves fell out of favor from their "old ways" mentality. Strongholds, from humans, dwarves, and the newly established Drow, have popped up on every part of the lands, ranging from small and tidy villages, isolated from civilization to massive states of power. With the combined power of the master smiths of the dwarves, cunning of the humans, and the almost forbidden magical knowledge of the Drow, any force in the way of the three-race-alliance, called the Crimson Talon, an Oligarchy federation ruled by the founders of the alliance: Grotan Firehand, a brash but stoic dwarven ruler who united the dwarves under one banner, the Golden Forged. Ferris Malkova, a legendary general of grand renown of the Old Times, grew as an ruler of men and grew the empire of the name Axe of the North. The Drow, slowly growing more tolerant of the other races that they once reviled with a burning passion, grew into the Surface, creating the kingdoms of the Hushed Empire. The other races, such as the orcs, kobolds, and other fantastical creatures, found themselves in true trouble. They either join the alliance and try to integrate to their society, quietly isolate themselves like the elves of yonder times, or try to fight the growth of the modern age. Orcs, from their combined barbaric nature and pride, split in to a minor civil war between each other, with some choosing to fight and others trying to integrate. The goblins, too disorganized, chose as individuals whatever they wanted to, leading to small populations spotted about the alliance and anti-alliance camp. Kobolds, with their majority following their nature of following powerful creatures, chose to join the Crimson Talon, both due to general fear and the growing extinction and disappearances of dragons, the consensus was unanimous.