Ebreon A Sword and Sorcery, Medieval High Fantasy setting, with moral ambiguity and a touch of political intrigue.

A series of deities from a world long since forgotten were exiled by their creations. Upon drifting the endless void of space, these deities decided to start from scratch on a new world. These creator gods were divided into four groups. The Midgardian Gods ruled over the Tempest and War domains. The Talamite Gods ruled over the Nature and Life domains. The Olympian Gods ruled over the Knowledge and Trickery domains. And the Gebbian Gods ruled over the Light and Death domains.   With the domains of divinity separated thusly, the Creator Gods set to creation. They shaped for themselves three continents, filling them with all manner of terrain and flora. The first continent they named Koplesh, mixing in temperate climates, tall mountains, arid deserts, wet swamps, lush forests, and beautiful grasslands. The second was called Edos, a continent overflowing with jungles, rivers, lakes, and rainforests. Lastly, the gods created the continent of Zikrath. While beautiful in its own right, Zikrath was far more barren and desolate. The mountains rose high. The forests were dark. While foreboding, the beauty of the barren clay earth stretching for miles was undeniable to the gods.     Lastly, they began the creation of beasts and intelligent life. The elves were first, gifted with the lush lands of Edos. Second came the dwarves, a race designed to truly appreciate the rocky beauty of Zikrath. Koplesh was given to the giants, a noble race imbued with the power of the elements and of the power of creation itself. The gods created more races such as gnomes, dragons, various beasts and the like. The gods then put to the creation of humans, a fragile, yet ambitious species. In these early days, while far from a perfectly peaceful world, Ebreon was as close to paradise as it has ever been. Magic was plentiful and powerful, with most intelligent creatures capable of manipulating the weave and the most powerful of such able to create and destroy mountains with concentrated effort.   The humans were placed on Koplesh, alongside the giants. Over time, the humans began to take from the giants, with the help of various other races. Some of the gods themselves grew bored with the state of things and began to create abominations - gnolls, orcs, goblins, and the like. These gods led their followers astray into darker practices and as such came to be known as the Deceiver Gods. Additionally, the most ambitious and least compassionate of humans (and other races) began to amass such great power as to defeat death itself, becoming something else altogether - demons and even undead tyrants.   Chaos began to enter a once law-filled world as the Creator Gods now were challenged in some way by the union of the Deceiver Gods, their abominations, and the gods' own creations - these new demons and undead, as well as simply evil giants, men, elves, dwarves, and the like. To help combat some of these threats, the gods created the celestials - angelic creatures tasked with warring against demons - to potentially eliminate one of the oncoming threats.     As the decades went by, this fight was fought mostly on the material plane. Eventually, a high general of the celestials by the name of Asmodeus saw an opportunity to take the fight to the demons directly. While the gods warned him, he convinced half the celestial army to follow him as he traveled across planes into the Abyss - the home of the demons. Asmodeus and his army fought the demons of the Abyss for centuries. Each day they spent in the Abyss began to eat at their souls, until eventually, they had lost all semblance of goodness they had once claimed. This now lawful evil army became the first devils, Asmodeus chief among them to this day.   As the war between the devils and demons raged on, a great force of energy was unleashed in the Abyss, splitting it in two. This event formed a new plane of existence - one which came to be known as Baator, or the Nine Hells. The planar barrier between the Nine Hells and the Abyss has always been incredibly weak, as the two were once one plane. To this day, countless devils and demons die and are reborn on the endless battle between the two planes.     This event had a greater impact on the world of Ebreon as a whole, however, as the impact of such immense energy and disruption in the multiverse cannot go without further repercussions. Portions of the Abyss snuck into the material plane, scarring part of Zikrath and some of the surrounding islands. Creatures made of the worst fears and deepest hate imaginable began to crawl out from these tainted lands, giving birth to some of the more bizarre monstrosities known today. The fabric of magic was torn such that the common lifeform no longer had any connection to the weave, though elves and some other races retained some of their connection. This event was known to history as the First Great Collapse.   To maintain the power of the weave, the gods pulled back arcane power from the world, regulating what normal people had access to, and limiting the maximum power a mortal can have to manipulate the arcane or divine. Pressing forward, many kingdoms and empires rose and fell, most notably being the Sinog Empire, an empire which spanned the entire globe. Even the Sinog Empire eventually fell, due to agents from within working towards its downfall coupled with a demonic event, spurring on what was known as the Second Great Collapse.   Following the Second Great Collapse, civilization began once again, this time in the Fourth Age, as we are now in. Kingdoms have arisen once again. The battle between good and evil, chaos and law, devils, demons, angels, undead, mortals, beasts, and monstrosities rages on. It is in this time that most of our adventures take place...