This article has been written from an out-of-world perspective; most other articles are written from an in-setting viewpoint. This out-of-world style provides some understanding of how the worldbuilder herself imagines the Corive as a planet and a setting base. Usually, the Out-Of-World perspective stuff where the worldbuilder speaks are in boxes like this, so this article is one of the few where there is no distinction.
The World as a Setting
Corive is a world where there is a melding of magic and technology because magic has always been part of the world and has influenced technology. Empires rise, empires fall, and often the advancements decline as knowledge fall out of use or is passed on in incomplete manners. Corive, or more specifically the primary setting of Soplas, is currently at an equivalent period in time similar to the early Renaissance of the 1300s to the 1400s in Western Culture.
There are still wild places to be explored beyond Soplas; however, memories of ancient schemes may be better left remembered than forgotten, lying in wait for someone to act unknowingly. Not everything dead stays that way or was when no one was around to ensure the death.
Soplas, the Former Name of Corive before Soplas Became a Landmass
Soplas is the primary setting region of Corive. It is akin to the Most Remembered Forgotten Realms of Faerun's Sword Coast in the idea of one part of a larger world being the "standard" setting. Soplas is also the original name for the world before further worldbuilding expanded the world from the setting region to the world itself.
Corive "Kor-ihv-eh" for y'all crazy English reading people
IPA - koɾ-ɪv-e
IPA distorted for Americans - koɹ-ɪv-e
It's fiiiiiine - most everyone says it wrong, even me.
TC
Hot damn, that is one hella complete world primer! Nice work!
Lyraine Alei
Thanks! I still need to expand more on Corive as a planet and add more details into the various conflicts and places, but I tried to get as much of the "This is my world as I envision it" information that might not have World Anvil content yet.